“Society, State & Identity in African History”
4th Congress of the Association of African Historians
(African Union Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, 22nd-24th May 2007)
PROGRAM
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Arrival Day - Monday 21st May 2007 |
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On Arrival |
Registration at Ghion & King’s Hotels |
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Day 1: Tuesday, 22nd May 2007 - MORNING Sessions |
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Speaker/s |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration at Congress Venue |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Opening Ceremony - (Venue: Plenary Hall) |
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9:00 – 9:20 |
Welcome statements
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· Prof. Bahru Zewde, Chairperson, National Organizing Committee · Prof. Andreas Eshete, President, Addis Ababa University · Prof. Doulaye Konate, President, Association of African Historians |
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9:20 – 9:30 |
Statement by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission |
His Excellency Professor Alpha Oumar Konaré |
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9:30 – 9:40 |
Opening Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
His Excellency Ato Seyoum Mesfin |
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9:40 – 10:00 |
Tribute to Prof. Joseph Ki-Zerbo |
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10:00 –10:30 |
Group photo & Coffee/Tea break |
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10.30 – 11:30
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Parallel Session I |
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Group I: Heritage and Identity - (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Doulaye Konate (Mali) o Rapporteur: José Mvuezolo Bazonzi (DRC) |
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· Intangible Heritage: African Museums and Living Cultures[*] |
Adame Ba Konaré (Mali) |
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· Cinema, Identity and Urban Cultures in Africa* |
Georg Odile (France) |
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· Between the Clothing and the Nakedness of the Woman: Example of clothing habits among the farming populations in present day Burkina Faso (end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries)* |
Moussa Willy Bantenga (Burkina Faso) |
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· Heritage Management for Africa in the 21st Century |
Kassaye Begashaw (Ethiopia) |
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Group II: Colonialism and identity - (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Issiaka Mandé (Burkina Faso) o Rapporteur: Ridha Tlili (Tunisia) |
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· French Style Colonialism and the Role of Vichy* |
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (France) |
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· The Colonial Perception of the African and the Construction of Racial Attitude in Europe* |
Sofiane Bouhdiba (Tunisia) |
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· “Toubabesses” (White Women ) or “ soeurs de race “ (Racial Sisters )? African Midwives in a Colonial Situation and Feminine Identity Shifts between the Twenties and the Sixties* |
Pascale Barthélémy & Anne Hugon (France) |
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· Africa and the Transformation of Historical and Political Identities: From Nationalism to Institutional Transnationalism in Cape Verde* |
Maria R..Turano (Italy) |
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11:30 –12:30 |
Group Discussions |
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12:30 – 1:30 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Day 1: Tuesday, 22nd May 2007 - AFTERNOON Sessions |
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1:30 – 2:30 |
Parallel Session II |
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Group I: The challenge of creating a pan-African identity (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Pontian G. Okoth (Kenya) o Rapporteur: C.B.N. Ogbogbo (Nigeria) |
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· The Pan-African Movement in the XXth century* |
Lazare Ki-Zerbo (France/Burkina Faso) |
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· Pan-Africanism: Cultural Nationalism or Afrokitsch |
Agbenyega Adedze (USA) |
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· Transnational African Identities: History, Representation and Agency |
Abiyi Ford & Metasebia Woldemariam (Ethiopia) |
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· Interculturality and political stakes in municipalities in Africa* |
Doti Bruno Sanou
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Group II: Conceptions of the nation-state and identity (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Tekeste Negash (Sweden) o Rapporteur: Kenneth N. Akali (Nigeria) |
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· The Steps Of Identity Construction in Nigeria of the XXth Century : The Case of Yoruba |
Jean-Luc Martineau (France) |
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· The Supposed Identity of Ethiopians According to a Letter of 1625* |
Vittorio Morabito (Italy) |
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· The Ethnic Self and the National Other: The Anywaa Identity Politics in Reference to the Ethiopian State System |
Dereje Feyissa (Ethiopia) |
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· Issues of Territoriality in the Problematic of Pre-Colonial State Administration : The Case of the Medieval Empires of Western Sudan* |
Modibo Diakité (Mali) |
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2:30 – 3:30 |
Group Discussions |
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3:30 – 4:00 |
Coffee/Tea break |
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4:00 – 5:00 |
Parallel Session III |
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Group I: Colonialism and identity - (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (France) o Rapporteur: John Gasu (Ghana) |
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· Towards Historicizing the Ossification of Colonial Identities in Africa: The Anglophone/Francophone Divide in Postcolonial Cameroon |
Nicodemus Fru Awasom (The Gambia) |
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· The Contexts of Colonialism and Ethnicity in Indigene – Settler Relations: Comparative Historical Evidence from Social (Dis)order in Two Nigerian Cities |
Akachi Odoemene (Nigeria) |
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· ‘This Is Our School’: The Development of an Education System among the BaSotho in the Dewure Purchase Areas in Gutu, 1937-1960 |
Joseph Mujere (Zimbabwe) |
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· Colonialism and Bangala Identity in Central Africa* |
Mumbanza mwa Bawele Jérôme-Emilien (DRC) |
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Group II: Conceptions of the nation-state and identity (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Lily Mafela (Botswana) o Rapporteur: Sofiane Bouhdiba (Tunisia) |
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· Reclaiming the Bakassi Kingdom: The Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria Border |
Molem Sama Christopher & Debora Johnson-Ross (Cameroon) |
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· The Dilemma of Colonial Boundaries in Contemporary Africa: The Bakassi Peninsula in Nigeria-Cameroon Border Relations |
Geoffrey I. Nwaka (Nigeria) |
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· The African Experience of European Border Making: The Kivu/Rwandan Border Region, 1910-1916 |
Jeanick Vangansbeke (Belgium) |
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· Magendo and Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations and Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border, 1962-1980 |
Peter Wafula Wekesa (Kenya)
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5:00 – 6:00 |
Group Discussions |
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6:30 – 8.30 |
Reception (hosted by the National Organizing Committee) |
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Day 2: Wednesday, 23rd May 2007 - MORNING Sessions |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Parallel Session IV |
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Group I: Colonialism and identity - (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Ibrahima Thioub (Burkina Faso) o Rapporteur: Blaise-Jacques Nkene (Cameroon) |
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· Race and Imprisonment in Colonial Senegal: Evidence from the Prison of Saint-Louis (1860-1940) |
Ibra Sene (USA) |
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· From the Colonial Vision of « Black Muslim » to Senegalese Islam : Lost Identities, Living Identities* |
Mamadou Karfa Sané & Hélène Grandhomme (Senegal) |
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· Post- independence, Political Paradigm And Geopolitical Imperatives* |
Ridha Tlili (Tunisia) |
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· Ottoman-Abyssinian Relations Faced with European Colonialism* |
Ahmet Kavas (Turkey)
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Group II: Conceptions of the nation-state and identity (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Kasaija Phillip Apuuli (Uganda) o Rapporteur: Olajide Olayemi Akanji (Nigeria) |
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· Hausa Identity : Social Marks ,Colonial Deconstruction and Resistance to Acculturation* |
Mahaman Alio (Niger) |
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· Citizenship, Identity and Social Inequality: Revisiting Mungiki Appraisal in Kenya |
Mwangi Joseph Macharia (Kenya) |
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· The Northern Factor in Malawi’s Contemporary Politics: A Historical Introspection |
Blessings Chinsinga (Malawi) |
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· Searching for National Identities in the Post-Colonial States: Malaysia’s Experience |
Saadon Awang (Malaysia) |
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10:00 –10:45 |
Group Discussions |
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10:45 –11:05 |
Coffee/Tea break |
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11:05 –12:05 |
Parallel Session V |
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Group I: Identity-based conflicts - (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Philemon Muamba Mumbunda (DRC) o Rapporteur: Bundjoko Banyata (DRC) |
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· Power and Particular Identities: The Case of the Crisis in the Côte d’Ivoire (2002-2007)* |
Seydou Camara (Mali) |
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· Identity Crisis and Struggle for Leadership in the Great Lakes Region: Reading of Major Land Ownership and Armed Conflicts of Kivu (1900-2005)* |
José Mvuezolo Bazonzi (DRC) |
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· The Causes of the Current Ethnic Violence in the Great Lakes Africa: An Historical and Socio- Political Analysis* |
Joseph Gahama (Rwanda) |
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· Identity and Power in Rwanda: The Grand Narrative of Ethnicity Unraveled |
Petra Vervust (Belgium) |
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· Slave Trade and Identity Withdrawal in the Senegambia: The Case of Sereer of the North -West* |
Ismaila Ciss (Senegal) |
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Group II: Federalism and devolution - (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Irma Taddia (Italy) o Rapporteur: Dereje Feyissa (Ethiopia) |
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· Ethiopian Federalism's Problem Child: The Gambella Region (1991-2003) |
Berouk Mesfin (Ethiopia) |
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· Federalism and Devolution: Challenges Facing African Countries to Nurture Democracy: The Case of Kenya |
Julius Simiyu Nabende (Kenya) |
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· Discourse on Decentralisation and Decentralising Practices in the Political History of the Democratic Republic of Congo* |
Jacques Tshibwabwa Kuditshini (DRC) |
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· Defending Regional Autonomy: The Case of Nekemte and Kelem |
Tessema Ta’a (Ethiopia) |
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12:05 –12:50 |
Group discussions |
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12:50 – 2:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Day 2: Wednesday, 23rd May 2007 - AFTERNOON Sessions |
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2:00 – 3:00
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Parallel Session VI |
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Group I: Conceptions of the nation-state and identity (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chairperson: Bahru Zewde (Ethiopia) o Rapporteur: Mwangi Joseph Macharia (Kenya) |
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· The Dilemma of Eritrean Identity and Its Future Trajectories |
Tekeste Negash (Sweden) |
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· Better Said Than Done: Haile Sellassie's Efforts to Construct Secular Nationalism |
Shiferaw Bekele (Ethiopia) |
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