Events & Issues
– 1974 Edition of African Studies in Arabic
A generous researcher sent this 1974 Edition of African Studies, which is the oldest African studies publications in Arabic (from the University of Cairo). This edition contains great topics of historical significance.
نسخة مجانية من مجلة الدراسات الافريقية لسنة ١٩٧٤
مرفقة أدناه
– How Liberian Women Delivered Africa’s First Female President
By HELENE COOPERMARCH 5, 2017
MONROVIA, Liberia — Bernice Freeman was chatting with some market women, trying to explain why it was so important that they leave their food stalls to vote for the first woman to be elected president of an African country, when she noticed some boys laughing nearby, waving something white.
It was October 2005, the first presidential election after 15 years of a hideous civil war in Liberia. On the ballot was Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Harvard-educated global technocrat with so much government experience it practically oozed from her pores, and a group of men, most notably the professional soccer player George Weah.
Read the article in this attachment: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/world/africa/liberia-president-ellen-johnson-sirleaf-women-voters.html?_r=3
– Conference
Urgent from Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture
Dear Participant,
Due to the great interest in the Third Cairo International Conference of the Interaction of African Cultures under the title, “Popular Cultures in Africa”, and receiving a great number of good proposals by distinguished scholars in the field of African Studies, the conference steering committee decided to extend the period of the conference to four days, rather than three. To accommodate this change, the Supreme Council of Culture had to take the extremely difficult decision of postponing the conference to September 25- 28, 2017, in order to manage the logistics of this postponement.
Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kindly confirm your attendance in the new dates. Needless to say the Supreme Council for Culture will now cover the travel expenses, in addition to the accommodation for five nights in Cairo, instead of four.
We would also appreciate your sending the full paper by June 1st, to be able to include it in the conference proceedings that will be distributed during the conference. Papers will be 5000- 7000 words, including notes and works cited. All materials are required to be sent in word documents, using Font 14, Times New Roman. The paper will be blindly refereed by at least two referees.
We sincerely appreciate your understanding and we look forward to welcoming you in Cairo.
For more information: Mob: +201008888132 — wael_shalaby74@yahoo.com
Best Regards,
The Head of the Supreme Council of Culture
Head of the Steering Committee
Dr. Hiatham Al-Hajj Ali / Hemi Sharawy
Best Regards
Yours, Wael Hussein Shalaby
Supervisor of The International Conferences
Supreme Council of Culture
mob:+2 01008888132
fax: +2 02 27358084
www.scc.gov.eg
– DECOLONIZING THE MIND
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s lessons for South African students fell on deaf ears
Cape Town: One of Africa’s most celebrated thinkers shared his wisdom with South African students, but they completely missed it.
Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o visited South Africa last week, delivering public lectures at universities in Cape Town and Johannesburg. He visited campuses that were still fraught with the tensions of the Fees Must Fall movement and the ongoing debate on how to decolonize South Africa’s Eurocentric higher education system.
Read more on the story in this link: https://qz.com/925234/ngugi-wa-thiongos-lessons-for-south-african-students-fell-on-deaf-ears/
– Court date set in US genocide lawsuit
February 10, 2017
Kuzeeko Tjitemisa
Windhoek-A court date has been set in a federal lawsuit lodged in a U.S. court against the German government for reparations over the Ovaherero and Nama genocide of 1904-1908. U.S.-based genocide activist and one of the plaintiffs Veraa Katuuo told New Era on Wednesday the court hearing is set for Thursday, March 16 at 10am. The trial is set to take place in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan under the Alien Tort Statute, an 1879 law often invoked in human rights cases.
Read more on the story in this link: https://www.newera.com.na/2017/02/10/court-date-set-in-us-genocide-lawsuit/
NEW BOOKS كتب جديدة
– Québec africaine. Portraits
[مدينة كيبيك الأفريقية: كتاب صور]
Authors: Florence Piron (editor)
Language: French
This book offers concrete answers to questions related to the history and presence of Africans and African immigrants residing in Qubec, Canada. In very engaging and interactive ways, it presents portraits of men and women from sub-Saharan Africa who, for one reason or another, currently live in Quebec City. Some are in the city since 1950s while others are new comers. This book is a dynamic portrayal of diversity, history and the presence of Africans in a multi-society of Quebec while highlighting similarities and differences between the many communities of the city.
Résumé:
Le racisme et la discrimination sont attisés par l’ignorance mutuelle. « Qui sont ces étrangers qui viennent s’installer dans ma ville? », se demandent les habitants qui y sont nés ou qui y ont grandi. « Qui sont ces personnes qui habitent la ville où je souhaite m’établir? », se demandent les immigrantes et immigrants. L’absence de réponse à ces questions peut engendrer la méfiance, le rejet et le repli sur soi et nuire à la construction collective d’un vivre-ensemble harmonieux auquel tous et toutes aspirent.
Ce livre, comme l’ensemble de la série Québec ville ouverte, répond de manière concrète et simple à ce besoin de mieux se connaître et se comprendre. Il propose des portraits d’hommes et de femmes d’Afrique subsaharienne qui, pour une raison ou pour une autre, vivent actuellement à Québec, que ce soit depuis 40 ans ou depuis quelques mois, avec le statut d’immigrant, de réfugié ou d’étudiant. Ces courts portraits, réalisés par des étudiantes et étudiants en communication publique de l’Université Laval, nous montrent à la fois les différences, mais aussi les ressemblances entre les aspirations, les rêves, les manières de vivre et les valeurs de tous les citoyens et citoyennes de Québec, nés ici ou ailleurs. Publisher: Éditions science et bien commun, Quebec, Canada, 2017
– Critique of Black Reason
[النقد لدى المفكرين السود]
Author: Achille Mbembe
Language: English (Tranlated from French by Laurent Dubois)
In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world’s center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, slavery, and contemporary financial and extractive capital. Tracing the conjunction of Blackness with the biological fiction of race, he theorizes Black reason as the collection of discourses and practices that equated Blackness with the nonhuman in order to uphold forms of oppression. Mbembe powerfully argues that this equation of Blackness with the nonhuman will serve as the template for all new forms of exclusion. With Critique of Black Reason, Mbembe offers nothing less than a map of the world as it has been constituted through colonialism and racial thinking while providing the first glimpses of a more just future. Publisher: Duke University Press, 2017
– The White Spaces of Kenyan Settler Writing: A Polemical Bibliography
[الفضاءات البيضاء لدى الكتاب المستوطنين الكينيين: بيبلوغرافيا جدلي]
Author: Terrence Craig,
Language: French
The White Spaces of Kenyan Settler Writing provides an overview of Kenyan literature by white writers in the half-century before Independence in 1964. Such literature has been over-shadowed by that of black writers to the point of critical ostracism. It deserves attention for its own sake, as the expression of a community that hoped for permanence but suffered both disappointment and dispossession. It deserves attention for its articulation of an increasingly desperate colonial and Imperial situation at a time when both were being attacked and abandoned in Africa, as in other colonies elsewhere, and when a counter-discourse was being constructed by writers in Britain as well as in Africa. Kenya was likely the best-known twentieth-century colony, for it attracted publicity for its iconic safaris and its Happy Valley scandals. Yet behind such scenes were settlers who had taken over lands from the native peoples and who were trying to make a future for themselves, based on the labour – willing or forced – of those people. This situation can be seen as a microcosm of one colonial exercise and can illuminate the historical tensions of such times. The bibliography is an attempt to collect the literary resources of white Kenya in this historically significant period. Brill Publications, 2017
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