Arrival Day  -  Monday 21^st May 2007

On Arrival

Registration at Ghion & King’s Hotels

Day 1:   Tuesday, 22^nd May 2007      -      MORNING Sessions

Time

Presentation Title

Speaker/s

8:30 – 9:00

Registration at Congress Venue

9:00 – 10:00

Opening Ceremony            -            (Venue: Plenary Hall)

9:00 – 9:20

Welcome statements

·      Prof. Bahru Zewde, 

Chairperson, National Organizing Committee

·      Prof. Andreas Eshete,

President, Addis Ababa University

·      Prof. Doulaye Konate,

President, Association of African Historians

9:20 – 9:30

Statement by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission

His Excellency Professor Alpha Oumar Konaré

9:30 – 9:40

Opening Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

His Excellency

Ato Seyoum Mesfin

9:40 – 10:00

Tribute to Prof. Joseph Ki-Zerbo

10:00 –10:30

Group photo & Coffee/Tea break

10.30 – 11:30           

Parallel Session I

Group I:  Heritage and Identity           -        (Venue: Plenary Hall)

o     Chair: Doulaye Konate (Mali)

o     Rapporteur: José Mvuezolo Bazonzi (DRC)

·      Intangible Heritage: African Museums and  Living Cultures[*]

Adame Ba Konaré         (Mali)

·         Cinema, Identity and Urban Cultures in Africa*

Georg Odile

(France)

·       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)

·       Heritage Management for Africa in the 21^st Century

Kassaye Begashaw (Ethiopia)

Group II: Colonialism and identity    -    (Venue: Committee Room 1)

o     Chair: Issiaka Mandé (Burkina Faso)

o     Rapporteur: Ridha Tlili (Tunisia)

·       French Style Colonialism and the Role of Vichy*

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

(France)

·     The Colonial Perception of the African and the  Construction of Racial Attitude in Europe*

Sofiane Bouhdiba

(Tunisia)

·     “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)

·     Africa and the Transformation of Historical and Political Identities: From Nationalism to Institutional Transnationalism in Cape Verde*   

Maria R..Turano            (Italy)

11:30 –12:30

Group Discussions

12:30 – 1:30

LUNCH BREAK

Day 1:   Tuesday, 22^nd May 2007       -       AFTERNOON Sessions

1:30 – 2:30

Parallel Session II

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)

·       The Pan-African Movement in the XXth  century* 

Lazare Ki-Zerbo (France/Burkina Faso)

·       Pan-Africanism: Cultural Nationalism or Afrokitsch

Agbenyega Adedze

 (USA)

·       Transnational African Identities: History, Representation and Agency

Abiyi Ford & Metasebia Woldemariam       

(Ethiopia)

·       Interculturality and political stakes in municipalities in Africa*

Doti Bruno Sanou

Group II:   Conceptions of the nation-state and identity                    (Venue: Committee Room 1)

o     Chair: Tekeste Negash (Sweden)

o     Rapporteur: Kenneth N. Akali (Nigeria)

·      The Steps Of Identity Construction in Nigeria of the  XXth Century :  The Case  of  Yoruba

Jean-Luc Martineau (France)

·      The Supposed Identity of Ethiopians According to a Letter of 1625*

Vittorio Morabito          (Italy)

·      The Ethnic Self and the National Other: The Anywaa Identity Politics in Reference to the Ethiopian State System

Dereje Feyissa       (Ethiopia)

·      Issues of Territoriality in the Problematic of   Pre-Colonial  State  Administration :  The Case of the Medieval Empires of Western Sudan*

Modibo Diakité             (Mali)

2:30 – 3:30

Group Discussions

3:30 – 4:00

Coffee/Tea break

4:00 – 5:00

Parallel Session III

Group I:  Colonialism and identity            -         (Venue: Plenary Hall)

o     Chair: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (France)

o     Rapporteur: John Gasu (Ghana)

·      Towards Historicizing the Ossification of Colonial Identities in Africa: The Anglophone/Francophone Divide in Postcolonial Cameroon

Nicodemus Fru Awasom (The Gambia)

·      The Contexts of Colonialism and Ethnicity in Indigene – Settler Relations: Comparative Historical Evidence from Social (Dis)order in Two Nigerian Cities

Akachi Odoemene         (Nigeria)

·      ‘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)

·      Colonialism and Bangala Identity in Central Africa*

Mumbanza mwa Bawele Jérôme-Emilien        

(DRC)

Group II:   Conceptions of the nation-state and identity                     (Venue: Committee Room 1)

o     Chair: Lily Mafela (Botswana)

o     Rapporteur: Sofiane Bouhdiba (Tunisia)

·      Reclaiming the Bakassi Kingdom: The Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria Border

Molem Sama Christopher & Debora Johnson-Ross

(Cameroon)

·      The Dilemma of Colonial Boundaries in Contemporary Africa: The Bakassi Peninsula in Nigeria-Cameroon Border Relations

Geoffrey I. Nwaka        (Nigeria)

·      The African Experience of European Border Making: The Kivu/Rwandan Border Region, 1910-1916  

Jeanick Vangansbeke (Belgium)

·         Magendo and Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations and Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border, 1962-1980

Peter Wafula Wekesa (Kenya)

5:00 – 6:00

Group Discussions

6:30 – 8.30

Reception (hosted by the National Organizing Committee)

Day 2:    Wednesday, 23^rd May 2007      -      MORNING  Sessions

9:00 – 10:00

Parallel Session IV

Group I:  Colonialism and identity           -        (Venue: Plenary Hall)

o     Chair: Ibrahima Thioub (Burkina Faso)

o     Rapporteur: Blaise-Jacques Nkene (Cameroon)

·      Race and Imprisonment in Colonial Senegal:  Evidence from the Prison of Saint-Louis (1860-1940)

Ibra Sene

(USA)

·      From the Colonial Vision of   «  Black Muslim » to Senegalese Islam : Lost Identities, Living  Identities*

Mamadou Karfa Sané & Hélène Grandhomme

(Senegal)

·      Post- independence, Political Paradigm And Geopolitical Imperatives*

Ridha Tlili

(Tunisia)

·      Ottoman-Abyssinian Relations Faced with European Colonialism*

Ahmet Kavas

(Turkey)

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)

·      Hausa Identity :  Social Marks ,Colonial Deconstruction and Resistance to Acculturation*

Mahaman Alio          (Niger)

·      Citizenship, Identity and Social Inequality:  Revisiting Mungiki Appraisal in Kenya

Mwangi Joseph Macharia (Kenya)

·      The Northern Factor in Malawi’s Contemporary Politics: A Historical Introspection

Blessings Chinsinga (Malawi)

·      Searching for National Identities in the Post-Colonial States: Malaysia’s Experience

Saadon Awang           (Malaysia)

10:00 –10:45

Group Discussions

10:45 –11:05

Coffee/Tea break

11:05 –12:05

Parallel Session V

Group I: Identity-based conflicts            -         (Venue: Plenary Hall)

o     Chair: Philemon Muamba Mumbunda (DRC)

o     Rapporteur: Bundjoko Banyata (DRC)

·      Power and  Particular Identities: The Case of the Crisis in the Côte d’Ivoire (2002-2007)*

Seydou Camara         

(Mali)

·      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)

·      The Causes of the Current Ethnic Violence in  the Great Lakes Africa: An Historical and Socio- Political Analysis*

Joseph Gahama         (Rwanda)

·      Identity and Power in Rwanda: The Grand Narrative of Ethnicity Unraveled

Petra Vervust              (Belgium)

·      Slave Trade  and  Identity Withdrawal  in the Senegambia: The Case of  Sereer of the North -West*

Ismaila Ciss              (Senegal)

Group II: Federalism and devolution   -   (Venue: Committee Room 1)

o     Chair: Irma Taddia (Italy)

o     Rapporteur: Dereje Feyissa (Ethiopia)

·      Ethiopian Federalism's Problem Child: The Gambella Region (1991-2003)

Berouk Mesfin            (Ethiopia)

·      Federalism and Devolution:  Challenges Facing African Countries to Nurture Democracy:  The Case of Kenya

Julius Simiyu Nabende (Kenya)

·      Discourse on Decentralisation  and Decentralising Practices in the Political History of the Democratic Republic of Congo*

Jacques Tshibwabwa Kuditshini

(DRC)

·      Defending Regional Autonomy: The Case of Nekemte and Kelem

Tessema Ta’a             (Ethiopia)

12:05 –12:50

Group discussions

12:50 – 2:00

LUNCH BREAK

Day 2:   Wednesday, 23^rd May 2007       -       AFTERNOON Sessions

2:00 – 3:00                               

Parallel Session VI

Group I:  Conceptions of the nation-state and identity                      (Venue: Plenary Hall)

o     Chairperson: Bahru Zewde (Ethiopia)

o     Rapporteur: Mwangi Joseph Macharia (Kenya)

·      The Dilemma of Eritrean Identity and Its Future Trajectories

Tekeste Negash

(Sweden)

·      Better Said Than Done: Haile Sellassie's Efforts to Construct Secular Nationalism

Shiferaw Bekele

   (Ethiopia)

·      The State, Identity and New Forms of Conflicts in the Niger Delta

Kenneth N. Akali

(Nigeria)

·      For the Nation to Live, the Tribe Must Die? The State, Ndebele Identity and Belonging in Zimbabwe

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni                         (South Africa)

Group II:   Identity-based conflicts                                                   (Venue: Committee Room 1)

o     Chair: Nicodemus Fru Awasom (The Gambia)

o     Rapporteur: Akachi Odoemene (Nigeria)

·      Not Yet Uhuru? Rural Development Discourses in Luoland, 1888-2005

E. S. Atieno Odhiambo (USA)

·      Colonial Legacy, Secessionism and State Intervention: Paradoxical National Identities of the Ogaden and Ishaq Clans in Ethiopia

Samuel Negash          (Ethiopia)

·      Contested Histories at the End/s of Apartheid

Leslie Witz                        (South Africa)

·      Swedish and Zulu Nationalism Played Out in the Course of the 1906 Bambatha Uprising in South Africa

Lars Berge                  (Sweden)

3:00 – 3:45

Group Discussions

3:45 – 4:05

Coffee/Tea break

4:05 – 5:05

Parallel Session VII

Group I:   Migration and acculturation         

(Venue: Plenary Hall)

o    Chair: Moussa Willy Bantenga  (Burkina Faso)

o     Rapporteur: Ismaila Ciss (Senegal)

·       The Emigration of Moroccan  Jews: Impoverishment of a NationalIdentity*

Jamaâ Baida             (Morocco)

·       Being a Student in the Metropolitan Country  at the Time of Accession to Independence: The Association of Students of Malagasy Origin from 1947 to  1960*

Faranirina Rajaonah              (Malagasy/France)

·       The Impact of the Peules’ Migrations on the Handicraft and Traditional Architecture Models  in Northern Cameroon*

Hamadou             (Cameroon)

·       Migrations, Identity and State Building in the Sahel Region of Niger: The Experience of Damargu’s Pre-colonial Populations (Niger Republic) *

Malam Issa Mahaman (Niger)

Group II:   Evolving identities               

(Venue: Committee Room 1)

o     Chair: Giampaolo Calchi Novati (Italy)

o     Rapporteur: Mahaman Alio (Niger)

·      Rethinking the Discourse on Identity in Contemporary Ethiopia

Shimelis Bonsa            (Ethiopia)

·      Creation of One’s Identity: The Case of Ethiopian Occupational Groups

Teclehaimanot Gebresellassie         (Ethiopia)

·      The Problematic of  Pre-Colonial Identities in Lower-Kasai in the DRC *

Bundjoko Banyata         (DRC)

·      The Autonomus Status of South-Kasaï or  the Over-Ethnicization of Urban Centres in the DRC *

Philémon Muamba Mumbunda                 (DRC)

5:05 – 5:50

Group Discussions

Day 3:  Thursday, 24^th May 2007       -        MORNING  Sessions

9:00 –10:00

Parallel Session VIII

Group I:   Identity-based conflicts           -        (Venue: Plenary Hall)

o     Chair: Anthony Asiwaju (Nigeria)

o     Rapporteur: Julius Simiyu Nabende (Kenya)

·      Identity-Based Conflicts in Africa: The Case of Ife-Modakeke, Nigeria

Olajide Olayemi Akanji (Nigeria)

·      Representations  of Atrocities  and the Aftermath of Massacres among the Igbo  of the Diaspora  (Nigeria-Cameroon) *

Blaise-Jacques Nkene (Cameroon)

·      Identity Politics and Resource Control Conflict in Nigeria’s Niger Delta

C.B.N. Ogbogbo           (Nigeria)

·      Identity Crisis and Inter-Ethnic Conflicts in Northern Ghana

John Gasu                    (Ghana)

Group II: Migration and acculturation -  (Venue: Committee Room 1)

o     Chair: Geoffrey I. Nwaka  (Nigeria)

o     Rapporteur: Blessings Chinsinga (Malawi)

·      Migrant Chewa Identities and Their Construction through Gule Wamkulu/Nyau Dances in Zimbabwe

Anusa Daimon    (Zimbabwe)

·      Gender and Migration in Botswana during the Colonial and Post-Colonial Times, c.1860-c.1980

Lily Mafela            (Botswana)

·      Acculturation and Botswana Migrant Miners in South Africa, 1930 – 1980

Wazha G. Morapedi (Botswana)

·      Migration and  Identity: The  Mande of the Present- day Northern  Côte d’Ivoire*

Mohamed Ould Sidi Aly (Mali)

10:00 –10:45

Group Discussions

10:45 – 11:05

Coffee/Tea break

11:05 – 12:05

Parallel Session IX

Group I: Lessons of regional integration     -    (Venue: Plenary Hall)

o     Chair: E. S. Atieno Odhiambo (Kenya)

o     Rapporteur: Peter Wafula Wekesa (Kenya)

·        Fast Tracking East African Federation: Have the Countries of the Region Learnt from History?

Kasaija Phillip Apuuli (Uganda)

·        Composite Memories,  «  National Constructions »  and  the Challenge of Regional Integration in West Africa*

Doulaye Konate      

 (Mali)

·      The OCEAC: A Regional Cooperation Organism for Health in Central Africa (1963-2005)*

Pierre Fadibo

(France)

·      Integration in the  CEDEAO  Region: Stakes and Perspectives in  the Commercial Sphere*

Issa Sacko                    (Mali)

·       Security As a Critical Lesson for the New East African Community

Pontian G. Okoth             (Kenya)

Group II:  Identity & Historiography  -  (Venue: Committee Room 1)

o     Chair: Jamaâ Baida (Morocco)

o     Rapporteur: Shimelis Bonsa (Ethiopia)

·       From Dahomey to Benin: Exorcising the Ghosts of Memory in a West African State

Anselme Guezo              (Benin)

·       Pre-colonial Periods without Terminus a Quo in Recent African Historiography  (1965-2005): An Archaeological Approach*

Obaré Bagodo

(Benin)

·       History and Identity References Of  Lower-Saalum Populations*

Rokhaya Fall              (Senegal)

·       From Collective Leadership to Presidentialism: I.B. Tabata, Authorship and the Biographic Threshold

Ciraj Rassool                (South Africa)

12:05 –12:50

Group Discussions

12:50 – 2:00

LUNCH BREAK

Day 3:  Thursday, 24^th May 2007       -       AFTERNOON Session

2:00 – 6:00

General Assembly of the Association of African Historians   (Venue: Com. Room 1)

o     Chair: Doulaye Konate (Mali)

o     Rapporteur: Ali Diabiguile (Mali)

2:00 – 3:45

Business session of AAH (as per agenda)

3:45 – 4:05

Coffee/Tea break

4:05 – 5:30

Business session of AAH (cont’d)

5:30  –  6:10

Closing ceremony

6:10 – 6:25

Bus trip to Addis Ababa City Hall to see an Ethiopian historical drama

6.30 –  7.30

Staging of  historical drama

8.00 – 

Reception (hosted by Addis Ababa University)