Centre of African Studies, University of London Annual Review 2014

Centre of African Studies University of London

Issue 5

2013 - 2014

Annual Review

Contents

About the Centre of African Studies

Welcome

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Current Projects & Research Schemes

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CAS Events 2013 - 2014

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Collaborations

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Members’ Activities

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In Memorium

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Research Students

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Scholarships & Fellowships

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African Studies Resources

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Welcome Welcome to the Centre of African Studies, University of London’s Annual Review for the academic year 2013-2014. In this issue you will find information and articles about our activities, events, collaborations, awards and the research of the Centre members who are drawn from across the University of London and beyond. You will also find information about our upcoming events for the academic year 2014-2015.

The University of London’s Centre of African Studies is the largest centre of expertise on Africa outside Africa. Founded in 1965 at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) where its administration is still based, the Centre has since 1991 assumed formal responsibility for co-ordinating, stimulating and promoting interdisciplinary study, research and discussion on Africa within the University; and promoting a wider awareness of African issues.

The Centre’s present membership is in excess of 200 scholars, including over 100 Members from the lecturing staff of the University of London, as well as Professorial Research Associates, Senior Research Associates, Research Associates and Associate Members, drawn from media, business, finance, politics, government, and academic scholarship outside London.

Letter from the Chairman

Editorial Team Michael Jennings CAS Chairman Angelica Baschiera CAS Manager

Caitlin Pearson CAS Executive Officer

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This year, we sadly saw the passing of three members of the Centre of African Studies: Patrick Chabal, Colin Murray and Kaye Whiteman, all of whom will be missed not just by CAS and its members, but by the wider Africanist community. All made an immense contribution in their respective fields to knowledge and understanding of the continent, did so much in academia and in journalism respectively to counter the negative and misleading myths perpetuated

about Africa, and were fearless in their representation of the continent.

Their legacy seems particularly appropriate as this letter is being written, when the news on Africa is dominated by the ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. For seasoned watchers of the ways in which Africa is represented in the media, there will have been few surprises: yet again, Africa (and in some reporting, there has been little apparent recognition that it is a sub-region rather than the whole of the continent that has been affected) is represented as a passive victim of strange ‘tropical’ diseases; the unwillingness of people to accept to the advice to remain isolated and report cases is ascribed to ignorance and / or superstition; and discussions have taken place about the erection of barriers to the movement of people from this region into fortress Europe, ostensibly to avoid the epidemic spreading.

However, there has also been another side to the story: the selfless caring by doctors, nurses and other health workers who have put themselves at risk (sometimes with fatal consequences) to care for those infected.

Images of Africa in the UK, Europe and global North more generally are being increasingly challenged by a more globally-aware generation, but still there is a sense that African remains both under-reported, and poorly reported. In a year where it appeared more journalists were sent to cover the minutiae of the Oscar Pistorius trial in South Africa (the colour of his tie, or the way in which the chief prosecutor plays with his glasses during cross-examination), than cover the rest of the continent, it remains a necessary duty of our members to help challenge the myths and easy clichés of the ways in which Africa is perceived in the UK. CAS will be engaging with this area in detail at an upcoming conference looking at media and representation, to be held at SOAS on the 20th February 2015.

As CAS comes up to its 50th anniversary (to be followed closely by SOAS’ centenary in 2016), the Centre has continued in its mission to promote African studies within the University of London and to a wider public audience. Through our regular programme of seminars across the colleges of the University of London, our work with external organisations, and events to promote African arts and culture, we have endeavoured to make a positive contribution to debates on and in Africa, and to enhance public understanding of Africa within the UK and beyond.

As usual, CAS-run events have taken place almost every week of the past year, and there are too many to do more than give a brief flavour here of our activities. Our annual lecture this year was given by Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Dr Kumi Naidoo. His topic, ‘civil disobedience and non-violent direct action’ was particularly appropriate in the context of current global politics, and was well received by the large audience who came to listen to him speak. Our Africa Business Group series saw a number interesting and wellattended seminars, opening with a talk by Sir Gordon Conway on food security in Africa. We continued our work with the African diaspora in the UK, working with AFFORD, and hosting a number of seminars exploring issues of interest to diaspora groups. The Talking Eritrea series generated fierce debates during the seminars, reflecting the seriousness of the topics under discussion. We have sponsored a large number of book launches, and welcomed a large number of high profile speakers to SOAS. Outside of London, our work on governance and development in Africa, funded by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, has continued to thrive, with this year’s annual residential school on governance and development in Africa held in Mauritius, reflecting the international year of small island development states. Thanks to the foundation, we have been able to fund three taught MSc scholars - Samuel Bbosa, Nigisty Gebrechristos Gebreegziabher and Gertrude Kitongo - and a PhD student, Nimrod Zalk.

Through the generous support of the Leventis Foundation, CAS was able to fund two Nigerian scholars to come to London to undertake research, Dr Eyo Mensah and Dr Abubakar Aliyu Liman.

As usual, I would like to thank the members of CAS for their continued and ongoing collaboration and support, without which the Centre could not be the success that it is. I would especially like to thank the core CAS team, the Centre Manager Angelica Baschiera, and Executive Officer Caitlin Pearson, for all their hard work and dedication. Thanks to them, CAS remains one of the largest and most recognised of UK centres for African Studies.

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Current Projects and Research Schemes Governance for Development in Africa Initiative The Centre of African Studies at SOAS, University of London, is pleased to announce the extension of the Governance for Development in Africa Initiative, funded by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, for another five years, from 2013 to 2018. The focus of the project remains the same in terms of creating a dedicated environment to support African citizens to study the socio-economic, political, and legal links between governance and development.

Current Projects & Research Schemes

The continuing support of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation aims to enable African citizens to improve the quality of governance in their countries by building their skills within an expert academic environment.

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s £1.5 million gift funds four dedicated programmes at SOAS that run on an annual basis: 3 MSc scholarships; 1 PhD scholarship; 1 Residential School in Africa; and the Governance Conversations media and dissemination programme.

The Mo Ibrahim scholarship gave me a great opportunity to pursue an MSc in Development Studies at one of the world’s leading universities. The program not only fits well with my career ambitions but it is also very relevant to understanding the development challenges of my region in Africa.

The program is enriching both intellectually and professionally as it offers students a chance to explore a wide range of topical issues that relate to the development in the global south. The knowledge acquired in the program inspired me to write a dissertation on rural producer organisations and their impact on poverty, with a focus on Uganda.

This being one of the dominant approaches among recent rural development models in Africa, it gave me a chance to examine how rural production and poverty are understood by mainstream approaches, and what such models mean for poverty reduction. I leave SOAS a better researcher with a sober mind to return home and contribute to the development of my country.

Sam Bbosa, MSc Development Studies

It has been an experience of a lifetime. My favourite place of all was the library, it’s almost impossible to get enough of it. Also, the variety of people from all walks of life - this dynamism made my experience here even more adventurous and enlightening.

For my research I am exploring and possibly examining the implications of Brazilian interest in subSaharan Africa in comparison with that of China. The main reason for selecting this topic was to provide African private and public sector with a document analysis parallel to recent expansion of the global South. To this effect, African stakeholders and especially relevant policy makers could adopt a sense of urgency and perhaps develop some form of African strategy focused on a win-win engagement, especially in this moment when all roads lead to Africa.

I hope upon completion to return home, and work in the capacity of a researcher, so I am able to provide tangible and relevant information for policy building on our continent. I saw my vision to enter into policy space and influence change as just a dream, but now it’s quickly unfolding into reality. I am looking to do another masters in Political Science and International relations and follow after with doctoral research on indigenous forms of governance for the development of Africa.

Gertude Kitongo, MSc Development Studies

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I am incredibly humbled by how much I’ve matured and developed in the last three years at SOAS. Although I experienced all the existential trappings of PhD life—alienation, frustration, and anxiety—I have to thank my family, friends, supervisor, and close associates for keeping me grounded. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation provided much needed financial support to see me through, and for that I am grateful. After submitting my thesis and completing the viva by the end of the year, I plan to delve into research, writing, teaching, and policy work in Liberia, the US, UK, and wherever else they’ll have me.

Robtel Neajai Pailey, Department of Development Studies Thesis Title: The Love of Liberty Divided Us Here? Factors Leading to the Introduction (and Postponement) of Proposed Dual Citizenship Legislation in Liberia

Our incoming MSc scholars in 2014 are: • Barkha Mossae (Mauritius) MSc Environment, Politics and Development • Fensuah Nehemiah (Liberia) MSc Development Economics • Thabani Mutambasere (Zimbabwe) MSc Development Studies And our PhD award has been given to: Mohammed Mossallem (Egypt) ‘Odious Obligations? Debt and Bilateral Trade Agreements for Countries in Transition’ Supervisor: Professor Jane Harrigan For information about how to apply for the programmes contact: Angelica Baschiera, CAS Manager Email: ab17 soas.ac.uk or visit: www.soas.ac.uk/gdai Deadline for 2015 Residential School applications: 31st December 2014 Deadline for scholarship applications: 30th April 2015

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Current Projects & Research Schemes

GDAI 2014 Residential School in Le Morne, Mauritius Organised by the Centre of African Studies at SOAS, University of London, the 2014 Residential School was held in association with the Business School, University of Mauritius and the University of Mauritius Trust, and was supported by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.

Between 31st March and 4th April 2014, the participants and speakers met to discuss and debate at Le Paradis Hotel, Le Morne, in the south west corner of the island.

Now in its sixth year, the residential school initiative continues to explore issues of governance and development in Africa through an intensive programme of lectures, seminars and workshops. More than twenty participants from different African countries were in attendance – including policy makers, academics, government officials and civil society representatives. The programme was devised and delivered by the SOAS academic

‘The variety of presentations helped me broaden my understand of governance. I especially enjoyed the fact that it wasn’t only about theories, and the fact that we had practitioners and practical research outputs was wonderful’. committee that oversees the programme, along with other invited speakers from Mauritius, France and the UK. One participant commented, ‘I rate the programme highly because of the plurality of views brought by the different backgrounds of the participants and facilitators alike’.

Adhering to the original aims of the initiative, the residential school programme continues to build skills, develop talent and enable citizens to improve the quality of governance in their countries. The selected participants benefitted from the knowledge and research presented by the speakers, and brought their own diverse experiences of development, civil service and academic study to contribute to the lively atmosphere of debate that characterised the five day event.

‘It has definitely increased my knowledge of these issues and has prepared me to face the governance challenges in my country’.

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Speakers  Salmana Ahmed - Mo Ibrahim Foundation  Nouria Brikci - Oxford Policy Management  Carlos Chirinos - SOAS Radio  Christopher Cramer - Department of

Development Studies, SOAS

 Chris de Neubourg - University of Mauritius  Jonathan di John - Department of

Development Studies, SOAS

 Laura Hammond - Department of

Development Studies, SOAS

 Michael Jennings - Department of

Development Studies, SOAS

 Raj Makoon - Head of the Joint Economic

Council, Mauritius

 Nicolas Meisel - Agence Française de

Développement (AFD)

 Carlos Oya - Department of Development

Studies, SOAS CAS thanks Koomatee Fowdur, Matthew Lamport, Raja Bhadain and Jay Matadeen from the University of Mauritius Trust for their assistance and hospitality in Mauritius.

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Mauritius 2014 - videos and resources available on www.governanceinafrica.org What is Governance?

Michael Jennings 61 mins

Governance of Agricultural Exports Christopher Cramer 88 mins

Introduction to the 2013 Ibrahim Index of African Governance Salmana Ahmed 37 mins

The Private Sector Perspective on Governance in Mauritius Raj Makoon 31 mins

Current Projects & Research Schemes

Governance and Health Service Delivery in Africa Nouria Brikci 37 mins Is there really a ‘Resource Curse’?

Jonathan Di John 68 mins

Governance Conversations website relaunched

CAS in partnership with SOAS Radio is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Governance Conversations website with a new design and interface. This site contains over 160 videos and audio recordings of inspired thinkers, academics, policy makers and experts discussing the issue of governance in Africa, and its relationship to economic development.

Many of these resources have been gathered from the residential schools which take place

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Interviews with conference participants 22 videos

Powerpoint presentations from the conference lectures

in a different African country each year. You can also find Powerpoint slides from presentations delivered by the residential school speakers, and interviews with the school participants.

The aim of the interviews is to contribute to the debate on governance and development in Africa, and answer some of the questions that are important for a better understanding of governance: what does ‘good governance’ mean? Is the relationship between governance and development outcomes (economic growth, poverty reduction, improved health, greater freedom, etc) beyond question? Which governance changes make the most difference to people’s well-being and to structural change in Africa? What are the lessons of governance reforms across different African countries?

The ‘Conversations’ section of the website includes interviews with a range of experts on these subjects. Recent interviews which have been added to the collection are the following:

www.governanceinafrica.org

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International In this podcast, Dr Naidoo talks about natural resources governance in Africa, and the effects of climate change.

Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor, Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) In this podcast, Siakor reflects on Liberia’s successes and challenges in natural resources governance.

Governance For Beginners - Youth Engagement Workshops in Ghana During 2013 and 2014, the Centre of African Studies worked with a youth-led online community radio station in Jamestown, Accra called JT LIVE RADIO, GHANA to run a series of workshops with youth groups. This was part of the dissemination work that brings the Governance in Africa Conversations media content to audiences beyond an academic context. SOAS Radio delivered training to the young facilitators who coordinated and carried out the workshops using the Governance in Africa Conversations audio content.

The Governance For Beginners workshop series involved the planning and delivery of 7 workshops in Accra, and the participants consisted of 2 community facilitators, 4 teachers, and 598 young people.

The project aims to engage young people and community members in governance issues across Africa, examining both the legal aspects of governance and the relationship between governance and economic development.

The workshops involved participants listening to one of the Governance in Africa Conversations, which was then followed by a discussion on governance-related topics. The workshops were run by a small group of facilitators from JT LIVE RADIO who played a key role in being able to relate the issues from the podcasts to the lives of young people in Ghana. Since the first iteration of the project, there has been increased interested from youth groups, many of whom have requested training in order to deliver a similar series of workshops in other areas of Ghana. Working on behalf of CAS, Nii Kwartey Owoo (JT LIVE RADIO) and Mary Thackary (SOAS Radio) responded to this interest by launching the second iteration of the project in August 2014.

www.governanceinafrica.org/youth-engagement

A series of podcasts have been produced by the youth groups in response to the Governance in Africa Conversations.

To listen to them, visit the website.

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Leventis Fellowship

The Centre of African Studies of the University of London invites applications from Nigerian academics to take part in a scheme of collaborative research funded by the Leventis Foundation.

Current Projects & Research Schemes

The Leventis Research Co-operation Programme is devised to assist younger scholars develop their research interests in collaboration with their counterparts in London. Applicants are invited to apply to spend three months as visitors of the Centre of African Studies in order to pursue their research in libraries and archives and to participate in the intellectual life of the Centre. The scheme might be particularly appropriate for scholars working up a PhD thesis into publishable form.

For information about how to apply for the Leventis Fellowship contact Caitlin Pearson, CAS Executive Officer cp40@ soas.ac.uk or visit www.soas.ac.uk/cas/sponsorship/leventis Deadline for applications: 31st March 2015

2013-2014 Fellows Dr Eyo Mensah, Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State.

Topic: Frog, where are you?: Ethnopragmatic and structural analysis of Ibibio death prevention names.

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My work investigates death prevention names among the Ibibio in Southeastern Nigeria from the ethnographic, pragmatic and structural perspectives. Ibibio death prevention names can generate and maintain some level of assurance and security that is vital for a child’s survival given the implicit assumption that some kind of spiritual forces are at work. These names are believed to link the name bearer to his/ her past, ancestors and spirituality. The paper argues that these names are not just ordinary labels or markers of identity but are of immense supernatural relevance, influencing among other things the notion of personhood, ethnocentrism and celestial events. They are also structurally versatile, representing the various types and functions of sentences in the Ibibio language.

The study aims to enrich ongoing dialogue on ethnicity and identity and illuminate the place of onomastics within a broad interdisciplinary spectrum.

During my stay in London I was assigned a primary supervisor in the person of Dr. Akin Oyebode.

I also encountered Prof. Murray Last whom l consulted and collaborated with throughout my stay in London. I presented my postdoctoral seminar on November 13, 2013. The seminar was chaired by Dr. Akin Oyebade and well-attended by Staff and Students of Department of Languages and Cultures of Africa as well as the Department of Linguistics, SOAS. Interested members of the public also attended the seminar presentation, and the paper was highly dissected and reviewed by the audience. Based on the remarks and suggestions by the audience, my work was divided into two components for submission to journals. I also used the opportunity of the Fellowship to conduct other individual researches such as Linguistic creativity in Nigerian Pidgin advertising (with Roseline Ndimele, Accepted for publication in Sociolinguistic Studies), The adaptation of English consonants by Efik learners of English (with Eyamba Mensah, accepted for publication in English Language Teaching) and All I want is your waist: The use of sexual metaphors by youth in Calabar Metropolis (with Idom Inyabri, submitted for publication in Sexuality and Culture).

Finally, I appreciate the Leventis Foundation for the offer and opportunity of the Fellowship.

It was an intellectual eye-opener for me and a stepping stone in the quest to improve

myself professionally. The Fellowship provided opportunities for me to acquire books and e-books which are wonderful teaching and learning resources from which my students and colleagues in Nigeria will benefit tremendously.

2014-2015 Fellows Dr Titus Olusegun Stephen

Dr Abubakar Aliyu Liman, Senior lecturer, Department of English and Literary Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Topic: Structure, Function and Text of Ìrègún music in Yagbaland, Kogi State, Nigeria Seminar: Monday 17th November 2014 Room 4429, SOAS Topic: Islam, Power and Popular Culture in Northern Nigeria: A study of continuity and change in Contemporary Hausa lyrical expression On arrival at SOAS, I was assigned three distinguished Professors (Professors Graham Furniss, Murray Last and Philip Jagger) to supervise the development of my manuscript for publication, to interact with me and to guide me through on how best to handle the research work.

Professor Graham Furniss who happened to be a specialist in Hausa literature and popular culture ensured that, despite his crowded schedules, he met with me at least for one hour per week for the twelve weeks of my stay in London. He indeed opened my eyes to the labyrinth of manuscript development through his expert suggestions, motivation and encouragement. He also guided me through in deciding a tentative topic of the manuscript, the drawing up of the possible chapter outline and how best to go about producing a draft of the manuscript.

Within the three months of my stay in London, the facilities at SOAS library have contributed immensely to giving shape and direction to the draft of three chapters that I succeeded in developing. But the highpoint of my stay at SOAS was the understanding reached with Professor Graham Furniss to tap from his vast knowledge and experience in the field of Hausa cultural studies.

Dr Babajide Ololajulo

Topic: Oil and Rural Infrastructure Development: Discourses, Methodologies, and Outcomes of Intervention in Oil Communities of Nigeria.

Seminar: Monday 27th October 2014 Room 4429, SOAS The fellows will also be delivering seminars at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham, as part of the ‘Africa Talks’ programme: Dr Titus Olusegun Stephen on 12th November, and Dr Babajide Ololajulo on 22nd October.

For further details, visit the website www. birmingham.ac.uk/schools/historycultures/ departments/dasa/events/index.aspx

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CAS Events 2013-2014: Highlights

CAS Events

The Centre’s activities are diverse and many.

The majority of its members are lecturers of the University of London, contributing to the teaching of undergraduate and Masters degrees and the supervision of Doctoral research within the humanities, social sciences and sciences. One of the most important functions of the Centre is to act as a forum for regional and interdisciplinary co-operation within the University of London, which is predominantly organised through membership of disciplinary departments.

The academic year 2013-2014 saw a wide range of public lectures, seminars and exhibitions spanning disciplinary fields and geographical regions. We had an important series of seminars on Eritrea, a one-day conference to celebrate and debate 20 years of democracy in South Africa, as well as several seminars organised in collaboration with Africa-UK about the relationship between diaspora and development. The following pages contain articles about some of the event highlights, and further information about all our events can be found on our website.

www.soas.ac.uk/cas/events

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Rwanda under the RPF: Assessing Twenty Years of Post-Conflict Governance 4th-5th October 2013. Organised by CAS, the Royal African Society, Department of Politics and International Studies (SOAS), and the Journal of East African Studies This two day conference brought together a broad spectrum of commentators to debate the nature of Rwandan politics under the RPF, and its impact on the post-genocide reconstruction process, regional relations and the wellbeing of everyday Rwandans. Rather than simply commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the genocide, the conference and special issue of the Journal of East African Studies aimed to analyse the nature and effects of the RPF’s particular brand of governance, including in shaping Rwanda’s future political, social and economic trajectories.

Words Magnus Taylor, African Arguments Editor The organisers of this conference were keen for the events to be off-the-record, in order to allow for a free and frank exchange of views

and avoid the possibility of journalists halfreporting the contents of an academic paper and misrepresenting its contents. This was perhaps the first indication of how tense debates on Rwandan governance can be. A selection of the papers presented have been compiled into a special edition of the Journal of Eastern African Studies (Volume 8, Issue 2, 2014).

Consequently, I won’t say much about the detail of the various papers. But generally speaking all contributions were of a high quality. Scholars of different backgrounds, visions and generations shared their thoughts and the results of empirical research. The different panels showcased speakers ranging from the very loyal to the very critical towards the RPF government and for most presenters, their position on this spectrum is clear due to earlier academic work.

The most high profile academic speaker was the Belgian Professor Fillip Reyntjens – a well-known critic of Rwanda’s tightly controlled political space.

On Al Jazeera’s Inside Story of September 15th 2013 (available online) one can see him making what are fairly commonly heard arguments with 2 other conference participants; Anastase Shyaka, CEO of the Rwanda Governance Board, and a regular contributor to African Arguments; Kris Berwouts.

Reyntjens’ contribution to the conference was a paper entitled ‘The Consolidation of Authoritarianism Under the Guise of Elections’. In it he argues that Rwandan elections are not really exercises in democracy; they are highly-managed affairs in which the result (overwhelming victory for the RPF) is assured.

This kind of argument invites debate. And to the credit of the conference organizers, Anastase Shyaka presented a paper on the same panel, in which he argued that what Rwanda has invented is a ‘consensual’ model of politics, a necessary product of its recent and explosive political history. So far, no surprises.

And perhaps I should have been surprised by the audience response to Reyntjens (who will have been well-aware of what was coming.) However, I did at least expect some engagement with his basic arguments, rather than a clumsy hatchet-job delivered by RPF stalwart and former Secretary General of the party, Tito Rutaremara, who was

flown in for the conference. This rather set the tone for the rest of the day’s Q&A sessions.

Whilst, to some extent, Reyntjens, the ‘Antwerp radical’, is fair game, the same cannot be said to many of the other researchers presenting their work. And this is where I see a fundamental ‘gap’ between those who attended in order to defend Rwanda’s post-genocide system of governance and those who are seeking to study it. The majority of the latter are not seeking to attack the RPF regime, but are rather trying to understand it. They are overtly a-political and continually assert their lack of a position in this regard.

But Bert Ingelaere, for example, whose work ‘What’s on a peasant’s mind?’ tracks the kinds of things that occupy the thoughts of Rwanda’s rural population, without any particular value judgment placed on them, was reduced to defending his academic credentials and qualification to carry out this kind of work. Such poor attempts to play the man rather than the ball do no one any credit.

So, what does this reveal about the nature of debate on Rwanda? I’ll leave it to Kris Berwouts, who posted on Facebook: “I was happy to be at the Rwanda Conference.

But the international Rwanda debate has been sterile for many years between believers and non-believers. This conference couldn’t bring it beyond this point either. But some of the contributions were great. I learned a lot.”

However, only a handful of the conference presenters really fit in to either of these schools.

They are mostly situated somewhere in the middle. But the polarization of ‘believers’ and ‘non-believers’ – evident not only in academia, but in journalism and policy circles too – means the moderates don’t get much of a look in.

The conference also illustrated just how vigilant the Rwandan government is regarding any attempts to complicate the country’s official narrative. Its reaction, even in the fairly controlled environment of an academic conference, can also be quite intimidating.

First published in African Arguments 8th October 2013

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World Radio Day 2014: Gender Equality & Empowerment of Women Through Radio

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© Children’s Radio Foundation, South Africa

13th February 2014. Hosted by SOAS Radio and CAS at SOAS & supported by UNESCO Words Carlos Chirinos, SOAS Radio Images © Children’s Radio Foundation The Centre of African Studies and SOAS Radio presented the third edition of World Radio Day, an event that included a panel discussion, lightning talks and a Radio and Communication Trade Fair, promoted and supported by UNESCO. Celebrated on 13th February every year, WRD is an opportunity for people worldwide to understand the role of community radio in participatory development, governance and freedom of speech. The 2014 edition was dedicated to Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women through Radio, focussing on the following areas:

© Children’s Radio Foundation, DRC

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• Sensitising radio station owners, executives, journalists, and governments to develop gender-related policies and strategies for radio • Eliminating stereotypes and promoting multidimensional portrayal in radio • Building radio skills for youth radio production, with a focus on girls as producers, hosts, reporters • Promoting safety of women radio journalists The event at SOAS was marked by a high-profile panel discussion with experts in Development Communication, Radio and Africa discussing issues of women’s access to radio and the media in Africa. The Communication for Development Trade Fair provided an opportunity for media and development organisations and technology providers including Frontline SMS, London International Development Centre (LIDC), Sourcefabric, RadioActive and Lifeline Energy to showcase their work to students, academics and Communication and Development professionals.

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Talking Eritrea Seminar Series February – March 2014. Held in collaboration with Justice Africa As part of a new collaboration, CAS worked with Justice Africa to convene a series of events about the most pressing themes affecting the people of Eritrea, concluding with a panel discussion by eminent academics and civil society activists.

While there exists an extensive body of literature on Eritrean history and affairs, forums raising awareness and fostering dialogue on ways to ameliorate the burning issues remain few and far between; namely, the reasons behind Eritrea being the largest migrant and refugee producing nation; national conscription and its implications; the refugee situation in neighbouring countries; human trafficking and torture, amongst many other key issues. Space for such debate has been absolutely closed down domestically, with Eritrea finishing last in the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Freedom of Information Index, ranking beneath even North Korea. This makes opening up space for discussions in the diaspora all the more important.

Seminars Eritreans: Migrants or Migrating Refugees 3rd February 2014 Dan Connell On National Service and its Impacts on the Social Fabric of Eritrean Society 17th February 2014 Prof. Gaim Kibreab On Sinai Human Trafficking & Torture 3rd March 2014 Meron Estefanos Panel Discussion: Limits on Research and Reporting in Eritrea: The Implications for Peace and Rights 17th March 2014 Michela Wrong, Sarah Ogbay, Dawit Mesfin, Laura Hammond, John Campbell Supporting the series as chairs and discussants were Rachel Ibrek, Martin Plaut, Jason Mosely and David Styan.

This series of events aimed to contribute towards awareness-raising on critical issue areas as defined by long-standing researchers, activists, academics and authors, as well as to promote dialogue among relevant stakeholders - for instance, various generations of the diaspora and region, academics, students, activists, and professionals working in development about the complicated questions of nation formation, sovereignty, governance, and human rights in Eritrea. Ultimately the ‘Talking Eritrea’ series was designed to encourage discussion on a range of often inter-twining issues pertinent to Eritrea and add to depth to the existing understanding of key issues while contributing to peace initiatives.

‘Reflecting on the limits of ‘Talking Eritrea’ both inside and outside the country’ Words Harry Duncan, Justice Africa It is no secret that there are limits on criticism of the government inside Eritrea, but the idea that you are either for the government or against the nation is being promoted internationally too; this is a substantial barrier to dialogue and progress. Our ‘Talking Eritrea’ Series convened with Centre of African Studies (SOAS) highlighted the problem and demonstrated the need for new spaces for public deliberation and exchanges between government and opposition supporters.

What was striking throughout the series was that for some Eritreans in the diaspora, ostensibly Young Peoples Front for Democracy and Justice (YPFDJ) members, any view critical toward the current situation in Eritrea made the proponent of that view innately anti-government. This fervent nationalism and patriotism to Eritrea – undoubtedly partly emanating from the immensely unifying effect of Eritrea’s thirty year war of independence and subsequent border war – has become such that one cannot criticise any part of the government without being called anti-Eritrean or not Eritrean at all – as one speaker, Prof. Gaim Kibreab, was labelled. There appears a need to divorce the government from the nation, enabling one to be a good citizen and still think and speak critically. Criticism of the

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current social and political dispensation tends to be misinterpreted by government supporters as an insult to Eritrea and the Eritrean people.

Might this reluctance to engage opposing views come from a default leadership position of political militarism, which in turn is a legacy of the hard fought liberation struggle? One of the speakers, Dr Sarah Ogbay, a former lecturer at the University of Asmara, argues the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) political culture during the struggle did not tolerate dissent and that this trend has carried into the postindependence era. Liberation movements are served by a strict hierarchical discipline structure; however once in power, such style of leadership is not conducive to an open and participatory society. As Justice Africa warned some years ago, revolutionary regimes must engage in a process of ‘Demilitarizing the Mind’, published in 2002.

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The range of topics chosen by the guest speakers – the refugee question, the National Service programme and human trafficking and torture in the Sinai – was itself indicative of the limitations to engaging internal issues to Eritrea.

A number of attendees were frustrated that the border issue – meaning Ethiopia’s refusal to implement the 2002 ruling of the Eritrean Ethiopian Boundary Commission, which entails the return of Badme, the contested border town which triggered the 1998-2000 border war, to Eritrea – was not selected as a seminar topic, and in response all speakers questioned on this point agreed with the high importance of the border issue and, to varying degrees, noted their engagement of the issue in their other writings and research. At a broader level, throughout the series there was a general perception that all pressing issues facing Eritrea today could be adequately addressed by the four forty-five minute presentations making up the series, which of course would be an impossible task.

Rather, Justice Africa and CAS plan to convene a series in the future comprised of topics not focused on in this series.

Current spaces for dialogue?

Regarding spaces for dialogue inside Eritrea, there have been next to none since 2001, when six privately owned newspapers were shut

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down and their directors, editors and journalists as well as key government officials, known as the G-15, were imprisoned never to be seen again.

In terms of press freedoms and the freedom of information, Eritrea has ranked bottom in the World Press Freedom Index (180th/180) for the last six years running, as panellist Michela Wrong has observed. That said, there is not a total information blackout, since members of the diaspora communicate with family members back home via telephone and email and get a sense of how life is, as Meron Estefanos’ presentation focused on the Sinai human trafficking situation illustrated.

As forums for discussion on political matters amongst citizens are not allowed within the country and there are limits on the freedom of association, citizens who want to register their resistance to the current regime internally have been doing so via the ‘Freedom Friday’ (Arbi Harnet) campaign, run by Eritrean volunteers in the diaspora since 11/11/11 which, according to an activity report, encourages the public to: 1) think communally to create a sense of common identity and (2) consider viable communal acts of public resistance, for instance by staying at home from 6pm on Fridays – a busy time of the week – and boycotting state newspapers. The campaign is communicated via one-to-one phone calls or automated calls and posters. It is difficult to ascertain the campaign’s impact and the degree of resonance among citizens for obvious reasons. The organiser’s view is that: “Overall, the feedback has been great…we have received very supporting and motivating words from many of our fellow country men and women…whom we spoke over the phone to promote the campaign.

Some said we should not give up…Interestingly what we haven’t had much of, is an outright rejection of our ideas, like the comments you get from diaspora supporters of the regime”.

Beyond Eritrea’s borders, public information exchange and dialogue seems to be most often constrained to government, pro-government, anti-government and opposition group websites, and community radio stations. Most often debate is restricted to the comments section of these websites where the polarisation of Eritrean politics (pro-government vs. anti-government) is further accentuated. Debate rarely centres on issues themselves and, on the whole, more closely resembles a session of Prime Minister’s

Questions, where point scoring and belittling one’s opponent is the name of the game. In this faceless cyber arena ‘debate’ often degenerates into virtual tit for tat skirmishes.

Another significant barrier to dialogue is a reluctance to view research as objective; for instance both Professor Gaim and Meron Estefanos’ research was considered sub-standard, personally-biased and thus non-academic by some attendees. In Meron’s case, her qualitative research interviewing formerly trafficked persons was considered illegitimate, because it entailed talking to the persons directly. It is unclear however, how research would be undertaken without such interaction. On the issue of the objectivity of research, in relation to filing asylum applications, Dr John Campbell noted the rigour needed in order to persuade an immigration judge and that his own research – along with the

work of Prof. Gaim Kibreab, Prof. Mirjam van Reisen, Dr Conny Rijken and Meron Estefanos – is invaluable in compiling successful asylum seeker applications in the absence of other reliable sources to call upon.

Clearly, face to face discussions are needed; in this social setting attendees were less inclined to launch into verbal assaults on people and more inclined to listen, especially in the tea break afterward. More often than not it was in these informal moments, away from the high octane Q&A-come-debate, where the series brought significant value. It is time to open up public spaces and opportunities to talk constructively about how to protect and improve the lives of ordinary Eritreans, inside the country and internationally.

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History on Film: Slavery & the African Diaspora from a Global Perspective February – March 2014. Organised in collaboration with the Department of History and the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS.

This series of films and panel discussions with the filmmakers aimed to forefront the presence of people of African descent across the world. By including films from the Indian Ocean World (Sri Lanka) and Africa (Mali and Benin), the convenors hoped to throw light on slavery in the African continent as well as its eastwards dimension. Slavery has all too often been studied in isolation from Africa, and focus has mainly been on the North Atlantic World. Indeed, the cultural dimension of diasporas has long been observed in the North Atlantic World, but it has received only scant attention within the historical context of emancipated slave communities elsewhere.

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The films and the discussion panels were designed to question the biases in studying slavery. They examined the processes of integration and assimilation in the different African diasporas, and how these communities produce diasporic cultural spheres which today constitute memoryscapes of the history of slavery. The series was organised by CAS, Dr Marie Rodet (SOAS), Dr Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) and Dr Parvathy Raman (SOAS).

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Memorializing a Traumatic Past: West African Slavery on Film

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20th February 2014 Keynote Speaker: Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University) ‘Public Memory and Legacies of Slavery from a Global Perspective’ Film: The Diambourou: Slavery and Emancipation in Kayes (Mali)(2014) dir. Marie Rodet (SOAS) Discussion: Professor Kevin MacDonald (UCL London) & , Dr Marie Rodet (SOAS)

Cultural Heritage of the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean: Musical and Linguistic Traditions of Afro-Asians on Film

27th February 2014 Film: Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants (2014) dir. Dr Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Discussion: Professor Parvati Nair (Queen Mary University, London) & Professor Tope Omoniyi (Roehampton University)

Making Heritage from Atlantic Slavery: What and how to remember?

6th March 2014 Film: Mémoire promise (Promised Memories) (2013) dir. Gaetano Ciarcia (Montpellier University) & Jean-Christophe Monferran (Cnrs Paris) Discussion: Dr Toby Green (Kings College), Professor Robin Law (Stirling) & Professor Andrew Apter (UCLA) An accompanying exhibition of photographs by Fanny Challier entitled ‘Malian Landscapes of Freedom’ was displayed in the Wolfson Gallery, SOAS Library, between 24th February and 21st March 2014.

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South Africa @20 15th March 2014. Held in collaboration with Canon Collins Trust and the Royal African Society

Words Caitlin Pearson, CAS Marking 20 years since South Africa’s first democratic elections, CAS and Canon Collins Trust held a one day interdisciplinary conference, bringing together leading experts to celebrate and debate 20 years of democracy in the country. The conference was introduced by keynote speaker Janet Love (Legal Resources Centre & SA Human Rights Commission) who spoke about the constitution.

The first panel addressed Governance and Political Economy, with speakers John Sender (SOAS); Hein Marais (Writer / Political analyst); Richard Meeran (Leigh Day & Co); Andrew Feinstein (Writer / Campaigner) and was chaired

by Deborah Johnston (SOAS). The discussion was centred on economic growth in the past 20 years, in particular looking at the decline of the country’s agricultural industry (as presented by John Sender) and the relationship between the state, large corporations and the unions in the mining industry. This panel presented a fairly bleak outlook of South Africa’s future, and one member of the audience implored the speakers not to forget the country’s achievements since the end of apartheid.

The second panel was characterised by lively debate, and focussed on at Foreign Policy and International Relations, with speakers Onyekachi Wambu (AFFORD); Chris Trott (British Consul General in Cape Town); Lord Paul Boateng; Tom Lodge (University of Limerick) and chaired by Lanre Akinola (This is

Africa). The panel discussed South Africa’s role in the African Union, and the government’s position on military intervention, security and peacekeeping on the continent, with reference to Mali and the Central African Republic.

The third looked at Contemporary Society, with speakers Siphamandla Goge (SABC & Canon Collins); Beverley Naidoo (Author); Sarah-Jane Cooper-Knock (LSE); Sello Thornton (Kudu Marketing) and was chaired by Jo Beall (British Council). The discussion covered several key areas, including education, freedom of the press, service delivery and the role of civil society (as in other panels, the example of Abahlali baseMjondolo was often cited).

The final panel focussed on Arts and Culture, and took the form of a conversation between academics and practitioners Nadia Davids (Queen Mary University); Khulekani Zondi (Filmmaker / Cinematographer); Wendy Willems (LSE); Leeto Thale (Poet & Writer) and Lindiwe Dovey (SOAS) looking at recent work, the role of funding bodies and new media.

The panel discussed how the ability to offer a negative critique through art was not only a point to celebrate, but a freedom that can be seen as an act of patriotism in itself.

‘Emerging from the event was a complex picture. One got a sense of a nation that has made remarkable progress in certain areas since the end of institutionalised racism, but one that continues to face serious challenges especially of inequality.’

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African Development Forum: Creative Africa 15th March 2014, SOAS The SOAS African Development Forum is an innovative, student-driven platform for championing African development. Their aim is to promote international interaction, generate lively thought-provoking discussion and challenge assumptions surrounding development in Africa. Each year, ten postgraduate students from SOAS work together with CAS to produce the African Development Forum. Since its inception in 2012, this annual event has been the pioneering forum of its kind for the debate and discussion of development in Africa. It has grown from strength to strength, attracting an array of accomplished speakers and an ever-growing audience.

Words Angelica Johnson, co-Chair, ADF

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Creativity in all its shapes and forms took centre stage at the 2014 African Development Forum held at the Brunei Gallery on the 15th March.

The open theme of ‘Creative Africa’ was chosen for its ability to touch on a range of issues and industries and more importantly, to host a diverse range of voices from artists to business owners under one roof.

The half-day conference was hosted by former City lawyer turned comedian and satirist, Ikenna Azuike. The conference was split into three panels, each addressing a different angle of the idea of creativity. The first panel was entitled ‘Creative Africa: Driving Economic Growth’. Panelists assessed the financial opportunity that the creative arts presents on the continent as well as the difficulty that many face in harnessing capital and training to bring their products, whether they be fashion or film,

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to market. An underlying question put forward by panelists and audience members alike was how policy makers should view these opportunities whether they are solely financial or in recognition of ‘art for art’s sake’ - especially in governments with limited resources and pressing infrastructure or security issues.

The second panel ‘Creative Africa: Celebrating Cultural Heritage’ opened up the most heated and passionate debate of the afternoon. At the centre of the argument: who speaks for the culture of a country and how do the creative industries - especially those who aim to export overseas - work to add much needed nuance to the understanding of individual cultures? Or, on the flipside, add to the tired, lazy view of what ‘Africa’ - the monolithic, fictitious entity is?

Looking inwards, how do those on the continent define themselves?

The third and final panel was entitled ‘Creative Africa: Challenging the Political Landscape’.

Panelists whose experience crossed over journalism, theatre, filmmaking and writing shared personal experiences of the power and indeed the limitations of challenging the status quo through the creative arts.

The afternoon was marked by the energetic

engagement of panelists and audience members and the range of opinions and ideas drawn out by each question. The caveat in all engagements under the banner of African Development is, of course, acknowledging the unique and changing circumstances of each country and region on the continent. Similarly, talking about creative arts requires an understanding of the range of challenges facing each individual industry or genre. Because of this, it was noted that the discussions in the 2014 ADF forum should not be seen as a definitive guide to the current

situation but as an invitation to build on and expand the debates and apply them practically, whether as artists, academics, policy makers or indeed consumers of African creative arts.

The 2014 ADF panellists were: Ikenna Azuike, Kiran Yoliswa, Alae Ismail, Mathilde Dongala, Helen Jennings, Dr. Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Isabel Moura Mendes, Adebayo Oke-Lawal, Minna Salami, Musa Okwonga, Anthony Abuah, David Cecil, and Belinda Otas.

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Africa Research Students Network (AfNet) - Africa Research Day 17th March 2014, UCL This research day acted as a forum for graduate students to discuss research practices, facilitate dialogue across disciplines and bridge the gap between theory and practice. Open to graduate students across the University of London and all disciplines/research backgrounds, the event was organised around three panel themes: Politics, Peace and Conflict; Representation, Identity and Gender and Resources, Finance and Development. The keynote speech was delivered by Dr. Funmi Olonisakin (Director, African Leadership Centre, King’s College London) AfNet was created in October 2012 to facilitate greater dialogue between research students focused on Africa from across the University of London. Each institution within the university attracts talented research students using innovative methodologies from multidisciplinary backgrounds: development, economics, politics, history, linguistics, geography etc.

The network provides an opportunity for students with a similar geographical, methodological and thematic focus to exchange ideas and form collaborative projects in the future. It is the first time research students from across the University of London who are studying Africa will be formally connected in such a way.

The research experience can often be daunting and isolating for many students. The network provides a platform for students to learn about one another’s work. It provides an opportunity for research students to support each other and learn from each other’s experiences in the field. It provides a forum for students to discuss their research as it evolves, while also providing a forum for presenting finished work. Through establishing ourselves as a formal network, we also provide the capacity to link with research bodies, think tanks, publishers etc. who would be interested in the diverse range of our research. Finally, as the UK Higher Education system evolves, the network will enable our members to understand the opportunities available to us as we research a dynamic continent, while remaining aware of the challenging professional environment that awaits us.

AfNet 2013-2014 Coordinators: Simi Dosekun (King’s College London) Aidan Mosselson (University College London) ThienVinh Nguyen (University College London) Robtel Neajai Pailey (School of Oriental and African Studies) AfNet are looking for new coordinators for the 2014/2015 academic year. If you are interested in volunteering as a coordinator please contact Aidan Mosselson at afnetlondon@gmail.com

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Exhibition Opening - The Spiritual Highway: Religious World Making in Megacity Lagos 1st May 2014, Brunei Gallery, SOAS

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The 120-kilometre long Lagos-Ibadan Expressway that connects Nigeria’s economic hub Lagos with the city of Ibadan – the third largest metropolitan area in the country – is considered the most important and busiest road in Nigeria. It was opened to traffic in 1979 at the peak of the oil boom, a period often described as ‘paradise on wheels’. As from the 1990s deterioration set in. Resulting from the fact that it has become one of the most accidentprone highways in Nigeria, a popular label for the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is ‘Highway of Death’. While it has failed as the artery linking the north and the south of Nigeria, the LagosIbadan Expressway has succeeded as a stage for the performance of public religiosity to the extent that it can be described as a ‘Spiritual Highway’. It owes this name to the fact that since the late 1980s numerous Christian and Muslim movements have cropped up along the highway.

This exhibition is a result of the work that Akintunde and Marloes produced during the summer of 2013, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, as part of a project to explore and record these centres of religion that have become known as ‘prayer cities’. They concentrated on two of these: The Christian Mountain of

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Fire and Miracles Ministries or MFM Prayer City and the Muslim Nasrul-Lahi-Fatih Society of Nigeria, which translates as ‘There is no help except from Allah’ and is abbreviated to NASFAT. These prayer cities are huge in scale with congregations of tens of thousands, competing with each other for new converts by offering a range of facilities and services ranging from faith healing, to education and health care. Challenging conventional assumptions of Christianity and Islam as bounded and distinct traditions, this project focuses instead on the convergence between the two religious traditions, thereby crossing boundaries and blurring sharp distinctions. The convergence of Pentecostal Christianity and revivalist Islam in the ways religion articulates with urbanity makes the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway a true crossroads.

Akintunde Akinleye is the first Nigerian photographer to have been awarded a prize in the prestigious World Press Photo, Netherlands in 2007; an award fellow of the National Geographic Society; in 2012 Akintunde was nominated for the Prix Pictet Photography award and he has exhibited in Washington, Los Angeles, New Mexico, Lagos, Amsterdam, Graz, Bamako, Madrid, Munich and Pordenone in Italy.

Dr Marloes Janson is a lecturer in anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London with her special area of interest in the intersection of anthropology and religion in West Africa, and author of the monograph Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jamaʻat (Cambridge University Press/International African Institute, 2013)

The Spiritual Highway: Religious World Making in Megacity Lagos - Catalogue is available online at Amazon or from the SOAS bookshop.

The 3rd Annual Igbo Conference Igbo Heritage: Production, Diffusion and Legacy 2nd – 3rd May 2014, SOAS Words Louisa Uchum Egbunike, SOAS The Igbo Conference, in partnership with CAS provides a forum for discovering the Igbo culture, language and heritage. The annual conference aims to promote the study of Igbo language and culture within the UK and seeks to bring academics and members of the Igbo community together for the purpose of knowledge sharing and exchange.

The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Igbo Heritage ’, which focused on the contributions of Igbo culture and heritage to the social, political and cultural production in Igboland and abroad. The two day conference included plenary panels, Igbo cultural performances and workshops.

Our keynote speaker, Douglas B. Chambers, associate professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi, spoke on ‘The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade: Historical and Cultural Connections’. Our panels included

‘Igbo Heritage and the Arts’, ‘Igbo Heritage, Cultural Production and Vocation’ and ‘Igbo Spirituality and the Igbo Worldview’ whilst our roundtables explored ‘Compiling Igbo Dictionaries’ and ‘Food, Diet and Lifestyle’.

We also hosted two successful workshops on natural hair care and an introduction to the Igbo language. The conference screened the Igbo language film Onye Ozi by the award winning director Obi Emelonye and featured a masquerade performance accompanied by a live oja music (Igbo flute) as well as dancing by the Igbo dance troupe Egwu Oganiru.

The ultimate goal of the Igbo conference organisers is to eventually establish an Igbo Centre in London which will act as a hub for anyone interested in research in the field of Igbo Studies (through a library, archives and study space), as well as providing a resource for members of the public to learn more about Igbo culture (through artefacts and interactive resources).

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The fourth annual Igbo Conference will take place at SOAS on 17th - 18th April 2015 with the conference theme of ‘Igbo Womanhood’.

www.igboconference.com Researching Southern Africa: A Postgraduate Workshop 2nd June 2014, Senate House Words Caitlin Pearson, CAS On a warm spring day in Senate House, the Southern African Seminar series held a postgraduate workshop to facilitate discussion and dissemination of recent research amongst a broad range of PhD students from the University of London. The workshop was organised by the network members Dr Rebekah Lee (Goldsmiths), Dr Kai Easton and Dr Lizzie Hull (SOAS), who were also assisted by several of the presenters. Adhering to the research network’s aim of interdisciplinary dialogue, there were papers presented from a variety of approaches, grouped into these themes: Political and Economic Transition and the State Creativity, Production and Reproduction Land and dispossession Migration, exile and internationalism

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The annual Igbo Conference is convened

by Louisa Uchum Egbunike, Yvonne Mbanefo and Ndu Anike.

Many of the papers focussed on Zimbabwe and South Africa, and there was also extensive discussion about migrant communities and the experience of travel within the continent and beyond.

Professor David Simon and Dr Hilary Sapire presented a special panel on junior scholars and first-time publishing, which was a valuable opportunity for the participants to think about their own work and strategies for publication.

The panellists drew on the knowledge gained from their involvement in journal editorial boards and their own early career experience to encourage the research students to think carefully about which kind of journals they submitted to and at which stage of their research. In order to make research accessible and relevant, David Simon emphasised that researchers should not overlook the importance of publishing in the country of their field research.

About the Southern African Seminar series This research network aims to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of new

This seminar looked at how growing interaction between African and Chinese investment and trade is an opportunity for British expertise to develop third party partnerships and assist bridge Chinese resources and African demand.

Looking to the future, joint Anglo-Chinese commerce has more potential to combine China’s and Britain’s comparative advantages when doing business. Can objectives from both sides be married to offer a more sustainable package for African business development?

and recent research in the humanities and social sciences as it relates to the region. The research interests of the convenors lie in the disciplines of History, Geography, Literature and Anthropology, and our approach is an interdisciplinary one.

The seminar takes the form of one workshop each academic term and typically sees the presentation of four papers around a common theme. The seminar is kindly funded by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies; the Centre for African Studies, SOAS; the Department of History, Birkbeck College; the Environment, Politics and Development Group, King’s College; the Department of History, Goldsmiths College; the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway; the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen Mary University of London; the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics. We look forward to welcoming all interested parties.

For information on upcoming seminars, visit

www.soas.ac.uk/cas/networks ABG Seminar: Britain, China and Africa doing Business 10th June 2014, SOAS. Africa Business Group in collaboration with Business Council for Africa

Business Council for Africa and the Africa Business Group run by CAS welcomed a panel of expert speakers to shed light on the future of this business landscape from the perspectives of academic research, partnership case studies and those with experience of African state policy towards Chinese interventions.

The speakers were John O’Mulloy (Managing Director Standard Bank) and Geoffrey Mills (China Country Representative – Institution of Civil Engineers), and the seminar was chaired

by Prof Stephen (Professor of International Relations, SOAS).

The presentations all addressed the fact that the African investment landscape is becoming increasingly complex. China is but one recent entrant, driven by a desire to secure strategic raw materials. A key driver of China’s engagement in Africa is a desire to ensure security of supply of raw materials and foodstuffs, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an increasingly important tool to enable China to protect its commercial investments across the continent.

While China is often criticised because its investment programme has not generated significant new employment opportunities, the Chinese have been active in rehabilitating defunct African parastatal companies in order to help build capacity. African governments are

Words Julian Metcalfe Chinese investment in Africa has gained widespread attention. The role of Chinese activity on the continent is often portrayed in Western economies as dubious ethical practices and an influx of Chinese labour. What is the present situation, and what role can British business play?

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rapidly acquiring the capacity and skills to enable them to negotiate better deals from Chinese companies, albeit alongside the challenges of differences in culture and business ethics.

Another important point raised was the increasing activity of Chinese banks on the continent. Their business models are invariably very different from western financial institutions given that they are often riding on the back of Chinese government backed projects, and their ability to provide long-term finance is constrained by fluctuating levels of liquidity in China itself. Contributions given by the speakers and the audience, however, confirmed the likelihood the activity of Chinese banks will continue to increase in Africa, and could significantly impact the finance landscape of the continent in the near future.

Upcoming ABG events

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Cutting Edge Community Based Tourism in East Africa - Dr Mulugeta Feseha (former Dean of College of Development Studies, University of Addis Ababa) - Minister of Tourism, Ethiopia - His Excellency Ambassador Berhanu Kebede (Ambassador of Ethiopia) - Jacinta Nzokia (President, Kenya Tourism Board) - Minister of Tourism, Somaliland - Chaired by Professor Tom Selwyn (SOAS) 3rd November 2014, 4429, SOAS

The Africa Business Group was founded in 1995 as a forum for the discussion of African affairs as they affect business, commerce, and finance across the continent. The programme of events is run by the Centre of African Studies in association with our partners, including the Business Council for Africa (BCA) and African Foundation for Development (AFFORD). It brings together business people, journalists, diplomats and NGO professionals with academics and scholars who all share an interest in and expertise on Africa.

Taking the form of lively lunch discussions and extended partnered events, the ABG programme draws on the input of members and academics to tackle the latest issues, developments and research affecting business in Africa.

www.soas.ac.uk/cas/events/abg Fair Trade, Fair Wage? Research evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda Professor Christopher Cramer, Dr Deborah Johnston & Dr Carlos Oya (SOAS) February 2015 (date TBC)

CAS 2014 Annual Lecture: Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action 10th June 2014, SOAS. Lecture delivered by Dr Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace Words Caitlin Pearson, CAS CAS was honoured to welcome Dr Kumi Naidoo to deliver the Centre’s 2014 annual lecture. In addition to leading Greenpeace International to critical campaign victories and augmenting its influence in international political negotiations, Kumi has been responsible for promoting considerable growth and activity by Greenpeace in the Global South.

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further cooperation between Greenpeace and many diverse parts of civil society in the fight to avert catastrophic climate change and promote environmental justice. During the lecture, Kumi gave a broad overview of the social and political moment we find ourselves in, and why non-direct action is essential to bringing about the necessary change to halt the progress of climate change and encourage movements of social justice on a global level.

Kumi began by addressing the subject of democracy, and the increase of nations that are holding democratic elections. He argued that despite this apparent progress, we are in a time where global governance institutions (such as the UN, IMF and World Bank) that are tasked with addressing some of the biggest challenges to society at large, are unable to tackle these problems because they are stuck in the geopolitics of 1945. These institutions, with which Kumi has interacted in many different ways over time, he sees as suffering from a democratic, compliance, coherence and coherence deficit.

In the centres of global power where climate change needs to be seriously addressed, there is a crisis of governance.

What’s more, a deep sense of social exclusion for the majority of the world’s population and rising inequality begs the question, who is ‘democracy’ really serving? When those in power refuse to take action to protect the most vulnerable communities from the effects of climate change, despite all the scientific evidence being laid out on the table, we can see that these business and political leaders are suffering from a case of cognitive dissonance. What is at stake, is the future of humanity and its coexistence with nature for centuries to come. Kumi argued that unless we do something radical at this critical historical moment, we will have failed ourselves and future generations. He stated that, ‘one of the things I don’t want to be any longer is realistic, if ‘being realistic’ means backing the status quo, irrespective of whether it is just or sustainable.

Kumi described the current effects of climate change on the continent, and talked about the ‘double tragedy’ for Africa: while the continent feeling the worst impacts of climate change already, these are not the kind of cataclysmic, catastrophic events like hurricanes or cyclones that create a big media moment. Africa is experiencing mainly climate-induced drought, the manifestation of which is a slow and steady catastrophe, rather than an immediate spectacle.

Looking at the wider history of direct action, Kumi demonstrated the hypocrisy of the structures of power – where people like Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Wangari Mathai - who were once vilified, are now memorialised. He identified the key aspects of direct action that made the

campaigns of these figures successful: direction action characterised by a deep sense of conscientiousness; adherence to non-violence’ and strategic methods of communication to deliver their message to those in power and the wider society. This approach, Kumi argued, has historically been used as a successful trigger to get those in power to the negotiating table.

Keeping these historical examples in mind, Kumi emphasised the need to recognise that there has been no struggle in the history of humanity more important than the struggle to avert catastrophic climate change. These iconic figures were all fighting on behalf of a particular group affected by an injustice, always a section of the population. But with climate change, the effects have an impact on every human being and every life that walks this planet. Bringing the lecture to close, Kumi asserted that we can turn this situation around. If we get serious about shifting the source of our energy from fossil to green energy, we can generate millions of jobs in an inclusive green economy, bring down our carbon emissions, and address the very serious threat of climate change. Kumi ended by encouraging the audience to find a way in which they can contribute, however small. He suggested a concrete and immediate action: to join the SOAS Fossil Free Campaign, a student run group that is campaigning for the university to divest from fossil fuels.

Find out more about the SOAS Fossil Free Campaign www.facebook.com/FossilFreeSOAS • View the lecture video • Listen to the lecture audio • View or listen to the Governance Conversations interview

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Collaborations AFFORD

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Since 2011, the Centre of African Studies has collaborated with African Foundation for Development (AFFORD-UK), an African diaspora NGO based in the UK which conducts lobbying and advocacy on the role of the African Diaspora in Africa’s development, and also runs social enterprise and business support programmes in West Africa through its sister organisation in Sierra Leone (AFFORD-SL). AFRICA-UK was one of AFFORD’s projects during the past year – a programme which supports UK-based Africans to influence policy and practice affecting Africa’s development.

AFRICA-UK encourages effective dialogue between the diaspora and decision makers; challenges policy perspectives that neglect realities on the ground; and recognises the crucial role that the diaspora plays in Africa’s development.

CAS have continued in their collaboration with AFFORD on the Africa-UK programme during the past year, leading the communications of the project and delivering a series of four successful seminars across the UK: in London, Cardiff, Birmingham and Edinburgh. The AfricaUK programme is a national programme of advocacy and capacity-building for African diaspora organisations involved in development, and aims to improve the ability of African diasapora practitioners to influence and engage policy and other decision-makers.

The programme and four seminars were delivered by AFFORD in partnership with regional delivery partners in Scotland (African Council Scotland) and Wales (Sub-Saharan Advisory Panel), and with associate partners in the English regions: Mifumi in the south west, Global Native in the north, Himilo Relief

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and Development Association (HIRDA) in the Midlands, and Norfolk African Community Association (NACA) in the east.

As part of the project, CAS programmed, developed and ran research seminars over the academic year, with the aim of strengthening collaboration between the academic institution and the diaspora sector. From the proceedings of each seminar, a policy paper was produced in order to contribute to Africa-UK learning, outputs and outcomes into current research and debates on migration and development (these documents are available to download from the website www. africa-uk.org). Details of each seminar can be found on the following pages (extracted from the seminar reports by Caitlin Pearson, CAS)

Africa-UK: Research Seminars

Exploring effective collaboration between the diaspora and the academic community 26th October 2013, SOAS, London Speakers: Dr Laura Hammond (SOAS), Dr Akin Oyetade (SOAS), Dr Ben Page (UCL), Mr Fahran Hassan (IOE), Mr Onyekachi Wambu (AFFORD), Ms Robtel Neajai Pailey (SOAS), Dr Beacon Mbiba (Oxford Brookes/ADAN) Words Kassiani Lythrangomitis, Africa-UK The first of the four events took the form of a daylong workshop, held at SOAS, and was introduced

by Dr Laura Hammond of SOAS and Onyekachi Wambu of AFFORD. SOAS PhD student and Mo

Ibrahim Scholar Robtel Neajai Pailey provided an initial overview of diaspora and development research and mentioned some of the challenges as well as opportunities relating to the terms ‘diaspora’ and ‘development’. She addressed the potential of remittances for affecting political and social development, and emphasised that while it is important to identify the knowledge and skills of the diaspora which can be of use in African countries, this cannot replace the responsibility of the state to drive development.

Farhan Hassan (Director of the Somali Heritage Academic Network), gave a presentation on his finding from mapping the Somali diaspora in England and Wales and mentioned some of the key outcomes of this research: that that ‘brain drain’ should be recast as ‘brain circulation’, recommending that the diaspora should not be limited to just monetary contributions.

The research found that the majority of the participants of the research report are eager and ready to partake in both short and long-term knowledge and skills transfer projects. Thus, there needs to be a pool of such schemes readily available. Hassan noted that AFFORD should serve as a model for all diaspora organisations as well as institutions that generate knowledge.

During the panel discussion, the issue of engaging civil society structures arose, and it was noted that African governments have started to develop diaspora departments. These institutions provide a structure with which the diaspora can engage in African countries. Onyekachi Wambu said, ‘We are not saying the diaspora have all the answers.

We’re not the silver bullet, but we are part of the answer, and how we become part of the answer must be included in policy frameworks.

It’s about disseminating information and sharing knowledge.’

Dr Beacon Mbiba, from Oxford Brooks University and the African Diaspora Academic Network (ADAN) spoke of some of the challenges diaspora Academics face here in the UK as well as back home, including issues of trust within diaspora communities that hampers research. He also noted that the way the West views African academics is an issue and said that African academics in the diaspora are not reimbursed on par with their counterparts from the West. He said diaspora academics where often outsiders in the UK and also in their local communities in Africa. He said,

‘We are outsiders from an academic point of view, outsiders to our communities in England as well as our home countries where we came from. This leads to a situation of poverty and powerlessness.’ Dr Mbiba ended his presentation with the question ‘when will we get an African vice chancellor in the UK?’ Dr Ben Page of UCL gave a presentation on his research tracking development in Africa through Hometown Associations in Cameroon.

He noted that engagement becomes articulated through friendships, he also made an important observation about the many competing agendas to development and identified some of the development work that UK and US Africa Diaspora work are undertaking in Africa, which are generally not high profile projects, such as sending computer equipment, supplying public libraries, participating in health fairs and so on. It was noted that these were generally useful in terms of development but not always appropriate. Page also noted in his new research that though there are more middle-income households, the ‘new African middle class’ does not exist as a class, but class formation is occurring through practices like house-building.

During his talk on the Nigerian Yoruba diaspora Dr Akin Oyetade of SOAS, focused on the challenges facing 2nd generation diaspora and emphasized the importance of teaching children about their language, culture and connection to their country of origin. He also made an important point on integration saying; ‘The more settled you are the more able you will be to make contributions back home. Integration is a positive thing’.

Some of the key suggestions from attendees were that a forum be established where each of the different diaspora groups can share knowledge and that a framework outlining how knowledge can be shared be developed.

There was also a request for continuous faceto-face meetings and the importance of forums such as this to meet and engage with people who are interested in the diaspora and Africa’s development.

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Enterprise as the Driving Force for African Development 8th February 2014, Edinburgh University Business School, Scotland Speakers: Dr Kenneth Amaeshi (Edinburgh University Business School); Chimezie Umeh (Baseline 360 Ltd); Chief Chebe (African Farmers’ Co-operative); Heather Muthari (Famous Rainbow Productions); Mukami McCrum (African Council’s International Development Forum); Seraphin Kamdem (SOAS); Ms Robtel Neajai Pailey (SOAS) Words Seraphin Kamdem, CAS Images Aubrey Fagon

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This conference was a collaborative event between CAS, the Edinburgh Business School (Edinburgh University); the African Council’s International Development Forum (ACIDF); and NIDOS (Network of International Development Organisations in Scotland); in partnership with AFFORD. The conference aimed at discussing the contributions that Scotland-based African Diaspora academics and businesses make to African’s economic growth and poverty alleviation; the role played by the African Diaspora in Scotland in creating sustainable jobs in their countries of origin; and the value that the Scottish Government and International Non-Governmental Organisations can add to the enterprises created by the African Diaspora in their countries of origin.

Among the participants were around 30 Scotland-based African Diaspora entrepreneurs who are using their entrepreneurial skills to add-value to their remittances by creating jobs

and supporting social services in their countries of origin. Dr Kenneth Amaeshi began the proceedings with a discussion of ‘Africapitalism’: a new concept and approach to African capitalism, where a strong social and human dimension must be attached to capitalist entrepreneurism, and where African firms must be endowed with a new role as development actors. Three case studies followed, each presented by a different entrepreneur, who explained the position of their enterprises in relation to the public and private sectors, and in relation to African and diaspora communities. Out of these presentations, and the lively question and answer session that followed, a number of key points emerged: • The need for a diaspora bank or fund from which practitioners can access capital with which to develop projects and enterprises • The need for pilot studies in specific areas where diaspora practitioners are facing challenges in order to develop programmes for capacity-building and skills development • Trust must be built and strengthened between members of the diaspora (practitioners, academics and entrepreneurs) in order to set new foundations for collaboration and partnership • Discussions between these groups should continue and grow, in the form of regular meetings and online conversations.

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Agricultural Development and the Role of the African Diaspora 19th March 2014, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham Speakers: Perez Ochieng, Dr Andrew Coulson & Professor Ben Bennett Words Caitlin Pearson, CAS This seminar was organised as part of the ‘Africa Talks’ series at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (DASA), and welcomed an audience of around 25 people, including staff and students from DASA and the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham, associates of AFFORD and AfricaUK and those affiliated to HIRDA, Africa-UK’s partner organisation in the Midlands. The event was introduced by Benedetta Rossi (DASA) and chaired by Dr Andrew Coulson (UoB & Britain Tanzania Society).

The first speaker was Professor Ben Bennet from the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Greenwich, who presented from the European Union funded research project ‘African Food Tradition Revisited by Research’ (AFTER) about ‘re-engineering’ traditional African foods for international markets. He described the overall objective of AFTER as bringing together businesses, practitioners and researchers to ‘improve traditional African products in the light of combined and/or new technologies for mutual benefits for the consumers, the companies and the producers of Africa and Europe’. Professor Bennet stressed that the diaspora market in the EU was not large enough to sustain nonmainstream African products, and that this market is gradually shrinking as tastes of secondand third-generation groups change. The role for diasporans in this situation could be as investors rather than simply as consumers.

Perez Ochieng then gave a presentation about her organisation Sacoma, which began as an advisory service to members of the diaspora community in the UK, but then became more

involved with small holder farmers in East Africa as numbers of returnees started to increase. She spoke about a broad range of challenges facing these farmers, including product transportation, storage, value addition, and traceability requirements set by the EU. One of the most significant challenges is how farmers themselves perceive the export chain: Mrs Ochieng said that farmers find it difficult to imagine the end consumer of their products, and Sacoma is working to develop understanding and the decision-making process amongst farmers about whether to focus on local, regional or international markets. Mrs Ochieng and Professor Bennet agreed that, from their experience and research, pursuing local rather than international markets is often a more viable route for small-holder farmers.

Stringent EU requirements have a significant impact on the percentage of consignments that actually get through.

During the discussion, Mrs Ochieng and a member of the audience from Zimbabwe raised the issue of changing generational attitudes. Mrs Ochieng explained how children of first generation immigrants to the UK don’t have the same attitudes as their parents towards African foods. The audience member brought in a perspective from the continent, pointing out that children of farmers may now have other employment opportunities available to them, and are increasingly uninterested in becoming farmers themselves. The discussion also touched on the success of immigrant communities from other places, such as Turkey and Pakistan, and how the African diaspora network for food distribution and sales compared.

In the concluding remarks, Professor Bennet said that the AFTER project was hoping to engage more with diaspora organisations for dissemination purposes, and so the seminar had been useful in this respect. Mrs Ochieng concluded by encouraging the diaspora to become active and regular consumers of African products, but also to move more towards adopting the role of investors and retailers.

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Remittances and the Role of the African Diaspora in the UK 25th March 2014, Temple of Peace, Cardiff, Wales Speakers: Audrey Lenoël (School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol) & Idil Osman (Cardiff University) Words Fadhili Maghiya, SSAP Image Audrey Lenoël, University of Bristol The final seminar in the series was held in collaboration with the Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel (SSAP), and was aimed at exploring how remittances impacts development in Africa, specifically looking at Somali and Moroccan diasporas.

Collaboration

Audrey Lenoël began with a presentation drawn from her ESRC-funded PhD research examining the impact of migration and remittances on women left behind in Morocco. She explained how remittances have increased over the past 15 years and noted that in some countries remittances are far more important than Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). She classified development impacts caused by remittance to be at macro-, meso- and micro- levels. The failure to capture actual statistics of remittance flow is seen as a hindrance in knowing the exact amount of remittances sent to Africa. Estimates of what we see or hear are underestimated as most informal remittances are not counted for e.g. giving money to friends to take back home or money left/spent during visits etc.

Given these limitations, Audrey went on to give a breakdown of the definition of ‘remittances’ and describe the various categories by which they can be analysed.

Idil Osman, who is a journalist and PhD researcher at Cardiff University, gave a presentation on the Somali conflict and the role of diasporic media facilitated by remittances. Idil highlighted that

prior to the conflict, Somalia had one television and two radio stations which were state run.

When the conflict started, the number of media outlets increased due to different reasons e.g. spreading agendas about the conflict and lack of mechanisms to regulate media outlets.

Somali diasporas have played a significant role in establishing such outlets that support these stations through remittances, as well as funding stations in other countries. Idil claimed that the media represent a particular fragmentation of the conflict which is partly attributed to the diasporic media. She identified that the lack of professionalism and impartiality from the diasporic media on the conflict tends to exacerbate the situation rather than helping to solve it. The issue of media and diaspora is highly contentious as some diaspora media owners have vested interest in conflicts such as in Somalia, and their terms of remit are not always for the benefits of local people.

The question and answer session that ensued touched on a range of issues related to the presentations and included examples from other countries and diasporic communities such as Zimbabwe, Sudan and Somaliland.

The concluding remarks were focused on the importance of social remittance, i.e. transfer of skills, and on the views of young people in the diaspora who see Africa as a place of opportunity, and are keen to play a part in the continent’s development.

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Royal African Society CAS continues its longstanding partnership with the Royal African Society (RAS), collaborating on events and festivals throughout the year. This page gives an overview of the two biggest annual events organised by RAS and supported by CAS – Film Africa and Africa Writes.

Film Africa 2013 Launched in 2011, Film Africa has become one of the UK’s largest and most important festivals of African cinema and culture. With the remit of promoting a better understanding of Africa through film, Film Africa presents an opportunity for diverse London audiences to engage with new narratives stemming from the continent, presenting alternative views about Africa’s past, present and future. At the heart of the festival’s success is the focus on curating a diverse and high quality programme and engaging the most dynamic, relevant and innovative filmmakers from the continent and the diaspora.

Film Africa 2013 once again celebrated the finest new and classic African cinema. The film programme consisted of 60 titles in total, including 33 narrative features, 12 documentaries and a bold collection of 15 shorts, which were organised thematically. The opening film, the banned then unbanned and now multi award-winning Of Good Report by selftaught South African director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, was a controversial choice which elicited debate and public attention. The first ever African film noir, shot in the minority Xhosa language and set in rural South Africa, Of Good Report has gone on to garner international

acclaim. The closing film Grisgris by the esteemed Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, formed part of the new 3x3 programming strand, featuring three films from three major names in African cinema – Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Alain Gomis and Mati Diop.

The selection of classics included the cult road movie Touki Bouki by the legendary Djibril Diop Mambety, screened on its 40th anniversary year, and Ousmane Sembene’s La noire de… (Black Girl) and Borom Sarret, considered to be the first film directed by a black African.

The world’s second most prolific film industry, Nollywood, turned twenty-one in 2013. Film Africa celebrated this significant coming of age moment with a special programme of screenings, talks and Nigerian food at the South London Gallery, including classics Osuofia in London and Living in Bondage.

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Other programme strands in 2013 included Bonfires & Revolutions, a series of screenings falling on Bonfire night dealing with politics and protest in Africa as told through cinema, and Colonial Visions: Britain’s African empire on film, which screened rarely seen colonialera footage from British archives as part of the Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire project.

The festival included a total of 23 postscreening Q&As and panel discussions, contextualising the films and adding depth to the programme. Alongside the schedule of film screenings were a series of educational

workshops, live music performances, and a daylong industry forum which brought together filmmakers, producers, distributors and film industry experts from Africa, the UK and Europe to discuss the existing film markets in the continent.

Attended by 3,400 people in 2014 in a variety of venues across London, with 70% of audiences attending for the first time, the festival continues to grow and reach new audiences.

www.filmafrica.org

Africa Writes 2014

Collaboration ©Yves Salmon

The Royal African Society’s annual literature festival Africa Writes took place at the British Library from 11th–13th July. The festival brought together 57 contributors, including poets, academics, critics, playwrights and novelists.

Among the highlights of the festival was an evening of conversation with Ama Ata Aidoo, the leading Ghanaian writer, and former minister of Education on Saturday 12th July (a video recording of which is available on youtube www.youtube.com/user/royafrisoc/ ). Other events that took place during the festival were

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panels on the publishing industry in Africa, featuring major publishers working on the continent, four book launches, as well as creative writing workshops for young people. The festival closed with a packed out panel on Africa In 2064: Afro Futures, Sci Fi & Technology.

Attended by over 1000 people in 2014, the festival attracts new audiences each year, broadening the knowledge of Africa and African writing in the UK.

www.africawrites.org

New partnerships 2013-2014 Canon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust works in the areas of higher education; public

interest law, particularly on behalf of poor people; and research into law and legal systems. The Trust’s vision for southern Africa is of an open and just society free from discrimination, where all people can meet their needs and realise their potential.

Their programmes include:  Scholarships for postgraduate study in the UK

and in southern Africa

 The production and dissemination of legal

research

 Public advocacy for and by poor and

marginalised communities

 Specific projects with partners in public

interest law and education Key principles of their partnerships include a commitment to widen access to education at all levels; to apply academic research to development issues; and to foster and support future leaders across the region.

CAS works with Canon Collins Trust on events relating to southern Africa: • South Africa @20 A one day interdisciplinary conference to celebrate and debate 20 years of democracy in South Africa, bringing together leading experts to discuss Political Economy and Governance, South African Foreign Policy, Contemporary Society and Arts and Culture.

March 2014 (see page 20 for more details) • Book Launch: Death of an Idealist: in Search of Neil Aggett by Beverley Naidoo Speakers: Beverley Naidoo (Author) Dr Jonny Steinberg (Lecturer in African Studies, Oxford University), Siphamandla Goge (Journalist & broadcaster, SABC Radio News & Ukhozi Current Affairs) Shula Marks (Professor Emeritus, SOAS) October 2013

Justice Africa is an independent non-

governmental organisation which began as an advocacy organisation and research institute in 1999, and has become a platform to amplify the voices of Africa’s civic activists and to foster solidarity between them. The organisation advocates for citizen participation in decisionmaking on issues of peace, justice and democracy. Justice Africa undertakes research and design process-oriented programmes based on consultation with affected communities and partnerships with like-minded organisations.

In February & March 2014 CAS collaborated with Justice Africa on a series of seminars called Talking Eritrea. The series aimed to contribute towards awareness-raising on critical issue areas as defined by long-standing researchers, activists, academics and authors, as well as to promote dialogue among relevant stakeholders. Further information about the series can be found on pages 16-18.

Other partnerships

Other institutions that CAS collaborates with: • Aegis • Africa Confidential • African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) • Anglo-Ethiopian Society • Britain-Tanzania Society • Business Council for Africa • Film Africa • Igbo Conference • LIDC • Mo Ibrahim Foundation • Royal African Society • Africa Writes The Centre welcomes proposals for collaboration as well as donations from people and organisations wishing to support its activities. If you are interested, you may wish to consider funding MA or PhD studentships, or events hosted by the Centre such as workshops, lectures or conferences. Please contact the Centre manager to discuss any possibilities further.

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Members’ Activities

Members’ Activities

Dr Paul Basu, UCL

Dr John R Campbell, SOAS

Publications

Publications

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with Modest, Wayne (eds). 2014. Museums, Heritage and International Development. New York: Routledge.

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2013. Nationalism, Law and Statelessness. Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa.

Routledge: Oxford.

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with Zetterstrom-Sharp, Johanna. 2014.

‘Complicating Culture for Development: Negotiating “Dysfunctional Heritage” in Sierra Leone’. In Paul Basu and Wayne Modest (eds) Museums, Heritage and International Development. New York: Routledge.

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2013. ‘Language Analysis in the United Kingdom’s Refugee Status Determination System: Seeing through policy claims about ‘Expert’ Knowledge’, Ethnic & Racial Studies 36, 4: 670-690 (also at:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0 1419870.2011.634506)

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2013. ‘Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Curatorship, Knowledge Networks and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone’. In Annie Coombes and Ruth Phillips (eds) Museum Transformations. Oxford: Blackwell.

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2013. with H. Yaron & Nurit HashimshonyYaffe. “Infiltrators’ or refugees? An analysis of Israel’s policies toward African asylumseekers”, International Migration 51, 4: 144 157 (doi:10.1111/ imig.12070)

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2013. ‘Recasting the National Narrative: Postcolonial Pastiche and the New Sierra Leone Peace and Cultural Monument’, African Arts 46(3): 10-25.

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2013. ‘Memoryscapes and Multi-Sited Methods: Researching Cultural Memory in Sierra Leone’. In E. Keightley and M. Pickering (eds)Research Methods for Memory Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

2013. ‘Eritrean Extortion’ (3 June), in Open Canada.

Available at: http://opencanada.org/features/the-think-tank/comments/eritreanextortion/

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Exhibitions Basu, Paul and Hudson, Julie (curators). 2013.

‘Sowei Mask: Spirit of Sierra Leone’, British Museum.

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April 2013, Fieldwork, Sierra Leone

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2013/4. ‘An anthropologist among the filmmakers: a cautionary tale’. Anthropology Today part 1 December 2013, part 2, Feb. 2014.

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2013. ‘Changing Swahili cultures and identities in a globalising world: an approach from anthropology’ Swahili Forum vol. 20: 31-47.

Grants British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, 201314: ‘Archives, Histories, Landscapes: Surveying Sierra Leone’s Cultural Memoryscape’ Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2014-15: ‘Reassembling N.W. Thomas’s Anthropological Mission to Sierra Leone, 1914-15’

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Nairobi, Kenya. As a Resource Person/Moderation at the Nansen Initiative ‘Regional Consultation on Natural Hazards, Climate Change and Cross-Border Displacement in the Greater Horn of Africa: Protecting People on the Move’ (21-23 May 2014).

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2014. ‘Mules in the “English world”: cultural rejection versus practical utility’, in Andrew Flack, ed., Gallery 8: Animals and empire exhibition, Animal History Museum, Los Angeles, California. http:// animalhistorymuseum.org/?page_id=4439 2013. ‘Islamic abolitionism in the western Indian Ocean from c. 1800,’ in Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon, and David W. Blight, eds.,Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 81-97

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2013. ‘Debt and the coercion of labour in the Islamic legal tradition,’ in Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani, eds., Bonded labour and debt in the Indian Ocean World, London: Pickering & Chatto, pp. 21-30.

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2013. ‘The battle for rubber in the Second World War: cooperation and resistance,’ in Jonathan Curry-Machado, ed., Global histories, imperial commodities, local interactions, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 204-23. (revised version of 2009 electronic publication)

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2013. ‘Rubber cultivation in Indonesia and the Congo from the 1910s to the 1950s: divergent paths,’ in Ewout Frankema and Frans Buelens, eds., Colonial exploitation and economic development: the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies compared, London: Routledge, pp. 193-210.

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2013. ‘The historical spread of Trypanosoma evansi (surra) in camels: a factor in the weakening of Islam?’ in Ed Emery, ed., Selected papers from the first international conference, ‘Camel cultures: historical traditions, present threats and future prospects’, London: RN Books, pp.

87-94.

Elsbeth Joyce Court, SOAS Publications -

forthcoming, 2014. Art in eastern Africa.

For Oxford Bibliographies Online.

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2014. Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle (Exhibition Review), African Arts, Summer 247, pp 86-90.

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2013. Edward Samuel Njenga’s “Human Art”. In Edward Njenga A Son’s Dedication (1962-2013). Exhibition catalogue. Nairobi National Museum, pp 4-6.

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2013. HASSAN MUSA Talking about Calligraphy. In Hassan Musa: Contemporary Calligraphy. Exhibition catalogue. London: Gallery of African Art, pp 1-8. Also on-line at www.saffronbooks. cm/index.php (excerpt from ‘Hassan Musa: Performance and Persona’. In Artists and Art Education in Africa).

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Dakar, Senegal (26-28 June 2014) Presentation: ‘Alternative kinds of [effective] art education in Kenya’ for the conference ‘Artistic Education in Africa’, convened by Raw Material Company with the Ecole National des Beaux Arts.

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New York, NY (18-22 March 2014) 16th Triennial Symposium, Arts Council ASA (USA). Convenor: Uhuru @50 - Emergence of contemporary visual art in Kenya; panelists: Kiprop Lagat, Kwame Labi, Pierre-Nicolas Bournakoff; discussant Joy Mboya. Grants: IFCELS (SOAS), ACASA Awards (Labi, Lagat), British Museum (Lagat), UN Habitat (Mboya).

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Nairobi, Kenya (Dec 2013 – Jan 2014) for fiftieth anniversary art events and ongoing research with artists and art organizations; visits to the Nairobi National Museum, NMK Nairobi Gallery; Kenya Institute of Education, Gikomba Akamba Carving Cooperative, Kuona Art Trust, Godown Arts Centre, Tangaza College amongst others.

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Professor Richard Fardon, SOAS Publications -

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2014. with Boyd, Raymond ‘Naming powers: Hausa tsafi and Tiv tsav.’ Journal of African Cultural Studies, 26 (1). pp. 33-55.

Co-Curator of Nigerian Centenary Photgraphy Exhibition. Taffeta Gallery, July 2014.

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The Smithsonian, February 2013.

2012. With Berns, Marla, eds. Nigeria: arts de la vallee de la Benoue. Paris: Musee du Quai Branly.

Dr David Harris, SOAS / University of Bradford Publications

Professor Ben Fine, SOAS

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2013. Sierra Leone: A Political History. London: Hurst & Co

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2013. with Conteh, Felix Marco ‘Swings and Roundabouts: the Vagaries of Democratic Consolidation and ‘Electoral Rituals’ in Sierra Leone’. Critical African Studies. 6/1, pp.57-70

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Members’ Activities

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2013. ‘Consumption Matters’, Ephemera, vol 13, no 2, 2013, pp.217-48, http:// www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/ consumption-matters

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2013. ‘Neo-Liberalism, Varieties of Capitalism, and the Shifting Contours of South Africa’s Financial System’, with S. Ashman, Transformation, no 81/82, pp.145-78.

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(forthcoming) Money From Nothing: indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa.

Stanford University Press: Stanford

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2013. ‘The Meaning of Marikana’, New Agenda, with S. Ashman, no 51, pp. 27-30.

2014 “‘Deeper into a hole’: borrowing and lending in South Africa”. special issue eds N Besnier and S Narotzky “Crisis, Value, Hope: Rethinking the Economy”, Current Anthropology. 55 (S9).

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2013. ‘A Paradigm Shift that Never Was: Justin Lin’s New Structural Economics’, with E. Van Waeyenberge, Competition and Change, vol 17, no 4, pp.355-71.

2013 “Citizenship and land in South Africa: from rights to responsibilities” Critique of Anthropology 33(1):26-46.

Research Visits

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2013. ‘Economics: Unfit for Purpose’, Review of Social Economy, vol LXXI, no 3, pp.373-89.

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2013. ‘Beyond the Developmental State’, African Communist, no 186, pp.4054.

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Dr Charles Gore, SOAS Publication - 2013. ‘Neils Walwin Holm: Radicalising the Image in Lagos Colony, West Africa.’ History of Photography, 37 (3). pp. 283-300.

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Professor Deborah James, LSE

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Ten-week visit as Mellon distinguished fellow, Depts of Anthropology and History, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (May – July 2014)

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Two-week visit to Dept of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver, Canada (September 2014).

Professor Trevor Marchand, SOAS

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(forthcoming) ‘It’s in Our Blood: Mali’s griots and skilled musical performance’, in Africa, the journal of the IAI.

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2014. ‘For the Love of Masonry: Djenne craftsmen in turbulent times’, in Journal of African Cultural Studies, 26(2):155-72.

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2013. ‘The Djenne Mosque: world heritage and social renewal in a West African town’, in Oskar Verkaaik (ed) Religious Architecture: anthropological approaches. Amsterdam University Press/Chicago University Press: 117-148.

Documentary Films Marchand, Trevor H.J. (Director) with Mary Jo Arnoldi (Executive Producer) 2013. Masons of Djenne. 22 minute documentary produced for the Smithsonian Institution. Bamanankan, with English subtitles. French subtitled version also available. Public viewing at http://www.mnh. si.edu/exhibits/mud-masons/meet-mud-masons. html Exhibition Marchand, Trevor H.J. and Mary-Jo Arnoldi (cocurators) 2013 - 2015. Mud Masons of Mali, at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Visit http://www.mnh.si.edu/ exhibits/mud-masons/index.html

Professor Lutz Marten, SOAS

Grant Leverhulme Research Project Grant of £249,613, from 1st Sept 2014 – 31st Dec 2017.

Includes a post-doctoral Research Assistant and a Project PhD Student.

Abstract: Similarities between languages are often indicative of their common origin and genetic relatedness. However, similarity of language structure may also arise through language contact in multilingual situations.

The project investigates similarities within a sample of Bantu languages, a group of about 450 languages spoken in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa which constitute an ideal testing ground for language comparison.

The project aims to demonstrate how the structures of different Bantu languages have been shaped by the interaction of processes of historical innovation, language contact, and universal functions of human language. This will help to further understand language relationships more generally.

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2014 (forthcoming). General Editor (with Pamela Maseko), Publications of The Opland Collection of Xhosa Literature to be published by University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.

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2014 (forthcoming). William Wellington Gqoba, Isizwe esinembali: Xhosa histories and poems, 1873-1888 (ed and trans Jeff Opland, Wandile Kuse and Pamela Maseko), Publications of The Opland Collection of Xhosa Literature volume 1, to be published by University of KwaZuluNatal Press 2014

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2014 (forthcoming). D.L.P. YaliManisi, Iimbali zamanyange: historical poems (ed and trans Jeff Opland and Pamela Maseko), Publications of The Opland Collection of Xhosa Literature volume 2, to be published by

Publication 2014. with Nancy C. Kula. ‘Benefactive and substitutive applicatives in Bemba’. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 35(1): 1-44.

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Mellon Visiting Fellow, Centre for African Language Diversity, University of Cape Town (July-Sept 2014)

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Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki (May 2014)

Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg (April 2014)

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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2014 Research visit - School of Languages, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (July-September 2013)

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2013, ‘Modernism and Modernity in African Art’, in G Salami & M B Visona (eds), A Companion to Modern African Art, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, pp 311-329.

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2012, ‘West Africa: the Lower Niger Region’, in David Ekserdjian (ed), Bronze, London: Royal Academy of Arts, pp 62-68.

Dr Martin Orwin, SOAS Publications

Dr Deborah Potts, KCL

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Publications

2013. with Christine Howes & Ruth Kempson (eds). Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications

Members’ Activities

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2013. with Christine Howes & Ruth Kempson. 2013. ‘Preface’. In Martin Orwin, Christine Howes & Ruth Kempson (eds).

2013. Language, Music and Interaction.

London: College Publications, pp. 1-14.

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2013. ‘Dynamic syntax as a basis for modelling meaning in music?’ in Martin Orwin, Christine Howes & Ruth Kempson (eds). 2013. Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications, pp. 51-65.

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2013. With Kempson, Ruth’ Language and music as mechanisms for interaction’ In Martin Orwin, Christine Howes & Ruth Kempson (eds). 2013. Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications, pp. 133-169.

Professor John Picton, SOAS

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Colin Poulton, SOAS Publications

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2014. ‘Democratization and the Political Incentives for Agricultural Policy in Africa’, Development Policy Review

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2014. with Chinsinga B ‘Beyond Technocratic Debates: The Significance and Transience of Political Incentives in the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP)’, Development Policy Review

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2014. with Berhanu K ‘The Political Economy of Agricultural Extension Policy in Ethiopia: economic growth and political control’, Development Policy Review

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2014. with Kanyinga K ‘The Politics of Revitalising Agriculture in Kenya’, Development Policy Review

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2013, ‘To see or not to see! That is the question’, originally published 2010, reproduced in Stuart Hall, Jessica Evans & Sean Nixon (editors), Representation, 2nd edition, London: Sage publications, for the Open University, pp 211-214.

2013, ‹Paris, New York, Kumasi: a tale of three cities›, Foreword to Atta Kwami, Kumasi Realism 1951-2007, an African Modernism, London: Hurst, pp 7-18.

2014. ‘Urbanization levels versus urban population growth: understanding the trends and contributory factors’. In UN Habitat, The State of African Cities 2014: Re-imagining sustainable urban transitions, Nairobi, UN Habitat. Pp 22-23.

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University of Ghana, Legon, (June 2014) research exploring the political economy of recent agricultural policy in Ghana.

Southern Africa, in The State of African Cities 2014: re-imagining sustainable urban transitions. Nairobi: UN-HABITAT, pp.222261.

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2013. with Mondain Nathalie, Alioune Diagne, ‘Migration and intergenerational responsibilities: implications for the transition to adulthood of young Senegalese migrants’. Issue edited by Fatima Juarez Carcano.The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 648, pp. 204 - 217.

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2013. with Ernestina Coast, Natacha Compaore, Philippe Antoine “The power of the interviewer” Demographic Research 2827 763-792 http://www.demographicresearch.org/volumes/vol28/27/

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2013. with Leck, Hayley 2013 ‘Cities, human security and global environmental change’, Chapter 15 in L. Sygna, K. O’Brien and J. Wolf (eds) A Changing Environment for Human Security: Transformative approaches to research, policy and action.

Earthscan from Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 170-180.

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2013. ‘The environmental determinants of human security in the context of climate change’, Chapter 5 in M. R. Redclift and M. Grasso (eds) Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton, MA, pp. 113-136. http:// www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main. lasso?currency=UK&id=14660.

Professor David Simon, Royal Holloway Publications Edited issues 2014. with Leck, Hayley (eds) Urban Adaptation to Climate/Environmental Change: Governance, policy and planning, special issue of Urban Climate, Vol 7.

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2014. with Leck, Hayley. ‘Understanding Urban Adaptation Challenges in Diverse Contexts: Editors’ Introduction’, Urban Adaptation to Climate/Environmental Change: Governance, policy and planning’, special issue of Urban Climate vol. 7, pp.1-5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. uclim.2014.02.005.

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2014. with Lwasa, Shuaib, Mugagga, Frank, Wahab, Bolanle, Connors, John. and Griffith, Corrie. ‘Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry: transcending poverty alleviation to climate change mitigation and adaptation’, special issue of Urban Climate Vol 7, pp. 92106, on ‘Urban Adaptation to Climate/ Environmental Change: Governance, policy and planning’, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. uclim.2013.10.007.

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2014. ‘Viewpoint: New evidence and thinking on urban environmental change challenges’, International Development Planning Review 36(2), pp. v-xi, doi:10.3828/idpr.2014.9.

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2014. with Parnell, Susan ‘National urbanization and urban strategies: necessary but absent policy instruments in Africa’, Chapter 13 in S. Parnell and E. Pieterse (eds) Africa’s Urban Revolution. Zed Books, London, for African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, pp. 237-256.

2014. with Leck, Hayley ‘Urban dynamics and the challenges of global environmental change in the South’, Chapter 50, pp. 613627 in S. Parnell and S. Oldfield (eds) A Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South. Routledge, Abingdon and New York. http://www.routledge.com/books/ details/9780415818650/

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2014. ‘Postmodernism and development’, pp.

142-146 in V. Desai and R.B. Potter (eds) The Companion to Development Studies 3rd edn.

Routledge, Abingdon and New York.

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theory to policy and implementation’, pp. 505-506,and Carr, Edward R. and Simon, David, ‘Conclusions – Engaging Critical Perspectives in Development Policy and Implementation’, pp. 524-527 in Edward R. Carr and D. Simon (eds) ‘Development Geography: Can critical perspectives exist in policy and implementation?’ Third World Quarterly 40(3).

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ICG. 2013. Somalia: Puntland’s Punted Polls ((Africa Briefing).). Nairobi/ Brussels: International Crisis Group (ICG).

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2013. with Kibble, Steve. Swerves on the Road: Report by International Election Observers on the 2012 Local Elections in Somaliland. London: Progressio.

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2013. ‘Women’s political participation in Somaliland’. In Journeys from exclusion to inclusion: Marginalised women’s successes in overcoming political exclusion. Stockholm: International IDEA, pp. 164-197.

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2013. with Lucia Knight, Vicky Hosegood. ‘The South African disability grant: influence on HIV treatment outcomes and household well-being in KwaZulu-Natal’. Development Southern Africa2013, 30, 135-147. doi: 10.1080/0376835X.2013.755767 2013. With Sandile Simelane. and Thabo Letsoalo. ‘Poverty, race, and children’s progress at school in South Africa’. Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49, 270284. doi:10.1080/00220388.2012.693168

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Centre for Actuarial Research, University of Cape Town (April-May, July 2013).

Dr Michael Walls, UCL

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College of Business and Economics, Mekelle University, Mekele, Ethiopia (May 2014)

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2014. with Obadare, Ebenezer (eds.), Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century. Oxford: James Currey, ISBN: 9781847010865.

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2014. ‘Producing loyal citizens and entertaining volatile subjects: imagining audience agency in colonial Rhodesia and post-colonial Zimbabwe’. In Sonia Livingstone and Richard Butch, Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses. London: Routledge, pp. 80-96.

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2013. ‘Zimbabwe will never be a colony again’: changing celebratory styles and meanings of independence. Anthropology Southern Africa 36(1&2): 22-33. 2013.

Participation – In what? Radio, convergence and the corporate logic of audience input through new media in Zambia. In: Telematics and Informatics 30(3): 223–231.

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2013. ‘Theorising media as/and resistance in Africa’. In Ebenezer Obadare, The Handbook

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2013. with Kibble, Steve. ‘Identity, Stability and the Somali State: Indigenous Forms and External Interventions’. In E. Leonard, G. Ramsay (Eds.), Globalizing Somalia: Multilateral, international, and transnational repercussions of conflict. London & New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, pp. 253-277.

2013. ‘Postscript: Reflections of an International (Election) Observer’. In E. Paice, H. Gibson (Eds.), After Borama: Consensus, representation and parliament in Somaliland. London: Africa Research Institute, pp. 37-39.

of Civil Society in Africa. New York: Springer Publishing, pp. 43-59.

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2013. ‘Zimbabwe’s cultural revolution and the “melodic press release”: mediated national imaginaries in an age of neoliberalism’. In Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Finex Ndhlovu, Nationalism and National Projects in Southern Africa: New Critical Reflections. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, pp. 158-175.

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2013. ‘Large classes, participation and the potential of educational blogging: personal reflections on the exPress imPress project’. In David Hornsby, Ruksana Osman and Jacqueline De Matos Ala, Large-Class Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Quality Higher Education. Stellenbosch: SUN Press, pp. 113-134.

Research Associates Research Associates of CAS are long-term collaborators in the Centre activities, pursuing common programmes of research or other activities with Centre Members. They are granted certain staff privileges at SOAS which are recognised at other London universities. Research associateship is granted for two years in the first instance.

Dr Michael Amoah Dr Michael Amoah specialises in the International Politics of Africa, and has expertise in Foreign Policy Analysis, International Political Economy, African Politics, and Ghana. His publications include ‘Nationalism, Globalization, and Africa’ and ‘Reconstructing the Nation in Africa’. He is also a political analyst on current and international affairs with mainstream international television. ma124@soas.ac.uk

Paul Asquith Paul is Engagement & Policy Manager at the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD), a leading diaspora development organisation, where he leads on diaspora policy and engagement in the EU and Africa, and advises policy-makers

on migration and development issues. His background is in research and international development in North Africa and Ethiopia, as well as managing public health services in the UK for vulnerable groups such as street sex-workers and drug addicts. His research interests include diasporas, migration, and development; Islamic models of development; Islamic education and development in North Africa and the Horn; and culture and health. paul@afford-uk.org

Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford Gus Casely-Hayford is a curator and art historian. He is the former Executive Director of Arts Strategy for Arts Council England. He was previously director of inIVA (Institute of International Visual Art), a London-based arts organization with a particular emphasis on international practice, which collaborates with partner venues throughout the UK and worldwide. Prior to this he was director of Africa 05, the largest African arts season ever hosted in Britain. He has worked for television and radio and was the presenter of the BBC ‘Lost Kingdoms of Africa’ series. gus.casely-hayford@soas.ac.uk

Elsbeth Joyce Court, Subject Lecturer, SOAS IFCELS Elsbeth Court is a specialist in African art and art education, whose research focuses on eastern Africa, particularly Kenya, and more widely on the growth of modern and contemporary practices of art. Her ongoing projects involve the Akamba carving movement and editing (and up-dating) the volume ‘Artists and Art Education in Africa’ in which African artists address the conditions and complexities of becoming an artist in and out of Africa; her most recent publications are catalogue essays for Peterson Kamwathi (2011, Ed Cross Fine Art) and Edward Njenga (2013, Nairobi National Museum). She drafted and maintains ‘’Art and Art Education in East Africa_ A Working Bibliography” (available from the CAS website) ec6@soas.ac.uk

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Professor Murray Last, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, UCL

Members’ Activities

Professor Murray Last (Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, UCL). Professor Last’s current research programme largely centres around publishing the various materials he and his various Nigerian colleagues have collected on health and social issues in contemporary Kano over the last decade. But the major task is to write up the ethnographic data he has collected over the last thirty years on one large compound of Maguzawa (non-Muslim Hausa) (they have subsequently converted to Islam) in southern Katsina. Meanwhile there is also a work of filial piety to do - putting M G Smith’s 1000-page typescripts of Sokoto history onto disk and then into print (funding has been promised). But there are several other projects in mind, such as publishing obscure, short but key documents written in arabic in the 19th century jihadi history and contemporary northern Nigerian society. Professor Last expects to continue visiting northern Nigeria at least once a year. m.last@ucl.ac.uk

Dr Roy Love Dr Love is currently an independent researcher and consultant with long-term interest in Ethiopia and Eritrea. He previously lectured in economics at universities of Botswana, Lesotho and Addis Ababa.

He is conducting a research on the “Economic roots of conflict in the Horn of Africa”, for a book which will bring together the interconnectedness of the economic roots of conflict across the Horn, examining how the nature of conflict in the region in the 21st century has been shaped by overlapping domestic and international economic drivers at certain key periods between the late 19th century and the present, with continuing implications for the resolution of contemporary conflict and its amelioration and prevention. rl18@soas.ac.uk

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Dr Arkebe Oqubay Metiku Minister and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia conducting research projects on industrialisation, political economy of infrastructure and development of technological capabilities and economic leadership.

Working towards a forthcoming publication: Industrialisation and Development in Africa: Making Industrial Policy Work in Ethiopia.

562774@soas.ac.uk

Associate Members Associate Membership of CAS is granted to applicants proposed by full Centre Members at the discretion of the Chair who may seek the advice of the Management Committee.

Associateship recognises a commonality of aims with other Centre Members and is granted for a fixed term, one month, six months or one year, and includes reference access to SOAS library.

Associate Members from 2013-2014 were:

Giovanni Lazzari, from the University of Bologna, Italy, conducted research on Tanzanian Politics with reference to Julius Nyerere.

Jamilla Hamidu, Mo Ibrahim Foundation alumni and researcher at Bordeaux University. She conducted research on West African diaspora in London.

Rajarshi Mitra provided the following report about his time at CAS:

Rajarshi Mitra, from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation, conducted research on ‘a multicountry cointegration and causal analysis of the determinants of FDI for 35 individual African economies’

Following an invitation from Professor Michael Jennings I joined the Centre of African Studies, University of London as a Visiting Scholar this summer. My study is a multi-country cointegration and causal analysis of the determinants of FDI for 35 individual African economies. My motivation for this research stems from the inward-oriented FDI-policy framework increasingly implemented by many African countries especially during the last four decades in order to attain sustainable economic growth and development.

Although the impact of FDI on economic growth of developing economies has been largely positive, due to sample selection and research methodology, however, there is mixed and inconclusive evidence of both the direction and significance of impact of changes in each of the determinants of FDI. In light of both mixed evidence in previous studies and the importance of the coefficient estimates for long-run effectiveness of monetary policy, in this paper I estimate the widely used vector error correction model (VECM) and identify the determinants of FDI for 35 African countries. The African countries under study are Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritiana, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The period of study is 1974-2009. The variables included in the model as potential determinants of FDI are trade openness, domestic investment, market size (measured by per-capita real GDP), long-term external debt and government spending.

In this paper I examine both short-run and long-run relationships between FDI and its potential determinants. I also examine bidirectional and unidirectional causal effects between the variables. I then use the cointegrating VECMs to generate out-of-sample forecasts and propose a macroeconomic policy framework aimed at attracting FDI for attaining sustainable economic growth and development in the 35 African economies covered in this study.

I would like to thank Professor Michael Jennings for the invitation and giving me this opportunity to be a part of CAS. I would also like to thank the SOAS faculty for their helpful comments, Ms. Angelica Baschiera and Ms. Caitlin Pearson for their administrative support, and the SOAS library for the essential resources that I needed for my research.

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International African Institute Publications June 2013-14

Books

International African Library series (IAI/Cambridge Univ. Press)

Members’ Activities

Van Wyk, Ilana. 2014.

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa: a church of strangers.

New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the IAI, 300pp.

Cabrita, Joel. 2014.

Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church.

New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the IAI, 400pp.

African Arguments series (IAI/Zed Books) Deibert, Michael.

2013.

Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair.

Zed Books for the International African Institute, 176pp.

Cotula, Lorenzo.

2014.

The Great African Land Grab?

Agricultural Investments and the Global Food System.

Zed Books for the International African Institute, 256pp.

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Janson, Marloes. 2013.

Islam, Youth and Modernity in the Gambia. The Tablighi Jama’at.

New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the IAI, 255pp.

Honwana, Alcinda.

Youth and Revolution in Tunisia.

Zed Books for the International African Institute, 160pp.

Epprecht, Marc.

2013.

Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa.

Zed Books for the International African Institute, 208pp.

Journals/serial products

Africa 84(4), November 2013

Africa Bibliography 2013 Published annually print and online (November 2013), c.440pp; africabibliography.cambridge.org/

Introduction: sustaining the life of the polis P. Wenzel Geissler, Ann H. Kelly, John Manton, Ruth J. Prince, Noémi Tousignant

Africa Journal of the International African Institute Published quarterly print and online: February, May, August, November, c.720pp per annum; journals.cambridge.org/action/ displayJournal?jid=AFR

Articles Africa 83(3), August 2013 Introduction: the perils and possibilities of African roads Gabriel Klaeger

Speed governors: road safety and infrastructural overload in post-colonial Kenya, c. 1963–2013 Mark Lamont

Ethnography on the road: infrastructural vision and the unruly present in contemporary Dakar Caroline Melly Heroes of the road: race, gender and the politics of mobility in twentieth century Tanzania Joshua Grace Roadside comforts: truck stops on the Forty Days Road in western Sudan Kurt Beck

Dwelling on the road: routines, rituals and roadblocks in southern Ghana Gabriel Klaeger

Teatime: boredom and the temporalities of young men in Niger Adeline Masquelier

Envisioning governance: expectations and estrangements of transformed rule in Glendale, South Africa Bernard Dubbeld

Stuck in ruins, or up and coming? The shifting geography of urban public health research in Kisumu, Kenya P. Wenzel Geissler

Pharmacy, money and public health in Dakar Noémi Tousignant

‘Tarmacking’ in the millennium city: spatial and temporal trajectories of empowerment and development in Kisumu, Kenya Ruth J. Prince

‘Environmental Akalism’ and the war on filth: the personification of sanitation in urban Nigeria John Manton

The dynamics of fieldwork among the Talensi: Meyer Fortes in northern Ghana, 1934–7 John Parker

The impact of Chinese business on market entry in Ghana and Senegal Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel

Review article Zambia at 50: the rediscovery of liberalism Harri Englund Africa 84(1), February 2014

Urban football performances: playing for the neighbourhood in Senegal, 1950s–2000s Susann Baller Choreographic performance, generations and the art of life in post-colonial Dakar Hélène Neveu Kringelbach ‘Create your space!’ locating contemporary dance in Ouagadougou Nadine Sieveking A snapshot of happiness: photo albums, respectability and economic uncertainty in Dakar Beth Buggenhagen

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Joking market women: critiquing and negotiating gender and social hierarchy in Kankossa, Mauritania Katherine Ann Wiley

In Memorium The Centre of African Studies marks the passing of the following members and associates:

Transcending dual economies: reflections on ‘popular economies in South Africa’ Ralph Callebert Taking disadvantage seriously: the ‘underclass’ in post-apartheid South Africa Jeremy Seekings Transcending the economic Maxim Bolt Gains and losses in the margins of time: from west and equatorial history to present-day South Africa, and back Jane I. Guyer

Colin Murray, Anthropologist of South Africa.

Born 3rd April 1948; died 14th October 2013.

Members’ Activities

Review article Marikana and the limits of biopolitics: themes in the recent scholarship of South African mining Keith Breckenridge

Africa 84(2), May 2014 An introduction to the letters of Isaiah Moteka: the correspondence of a twentieth-century South African Zionist minister Joel Cabrita

Patrick Chabal, Historian and Political Scientist of Africa. Born 29th April 1951; died 16th January 2014.

Rethinking political rhetoric and authority during Rwanda’s first and second republics Marie-Eve Desrosiers Welcoming the ‘fon of fons’: anglophone elites and the politics of hosting Cameroon’s head of state Rogers Tabe Egbe Orock On representation and power: portrait of a vodun leader in present-day Benin Emmanuelle Kadya Tall Who owns the diamonds? The occult eco-nomy of diamond mining in Sierra Leone Lorenzo D’Angelo

Komla Dumor, Journalist.

Born 3rd October 1972; died 18th January 2014.

Spiritual border crossings: childbirth, postpartum seclusion and religious alterity in Amhara, Ethiopia Anita Hannig I took an allegiance to secrecy: complexities of conducting ethnographic research at home Keletso Gaone Setlhabi

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Kaye Whiteman, Journalist and Editor.

Born 9th March 1936; died 17th May 2014.

Research Students Samer Abdelnour, LSE Postwar peace-building, development, and humanitarian interventions through the lenses of institutional theory and social enterprise Supervisors: Harry Barkema (LSE) and Jannis Kallinikos (LSE) Caroline Ackley, UCL Intimate Relationships and Telephone “Games” in Somaliland Supervisor: Prof. Sara Randall (UCL) Ayanleh Aden, KCL The making of a hazard: a social-environmental explanation of vulnerability to drought in Djibouti Supervisor: Dr Deborah Potts (KCL)

Karin Ahlberg, SOAS Mediating the nation, making markets: productions and circulations of Egypt in international networks Supervisor: Prof. Trevor Marchand Jamal Abiola Akinade, DPU, UCL An ‘Islamic developmental state’ in Northern Nigeria as a vehicle for governance of development?

Supervisor: Dr Michael Walls (UCL) Nimo–Ilhan Ali, SOAS Political Economy of Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Higher Education Expansion in Somaliland (2000-2010) Supervisor: Laura Hammond (SOAS) Alicia Altorfer-Ong, LSE Independence, Dependence and Third World Solidarity: Sino-Tanzanian Relations from 19641975 Supervisor: Joanna Lewis (LSE), Antony Best (LSE) Clementina Amankwaah, UCL Continuity and Change in the making of Elites: University Students in Post War Sierra Leone

Alexandra Antohin, UCL An Ethnography of Orthodox Christianity and Religious Pluralism in Wollo, Ethiopia Supervisor: Charles Stewart (UCL) Maryam Awal, DPU, UCL The Impact of Mobile Money for the Unbanked on Rural Livelihoods- A Case of Northern Nigeria Supervisor: Dr Michael Walls (UCL) Aden Ayanleh, KCL The making of a hazard: a social-environmental explanation of vulnerability to drought in Djibouti Supervisor: Dr Deborah Potts (KCL) Jonathan Bashi, SOAS OHADA, a regional legal system to support the creation of an internal market in Africa Supervisor: Prof. Diamond Ashiagbor (SOAS) Neha Batura, SOAS Long-Term Impact of Child Malnutrition on Adulthood: Evidence from Rural Tanzania Supervisor: Deborah Johnston (SOAS) Goetz Bechtolsheimer, LSE The United States’ Intervention in the Congo and the Rise of Mobutu from 1964 to 1967 Supervisor: Odd Arne Westad (LSE)

Research Students

Michelle Afrifah, KCL Diaspora tourism and homeland development: exploring the impacts of African American tourists on the livelihoods of local traders in southern Ghana Supervisor: Dr Deborah Potts (KCL)

Supervisor: Barrie Sharpe (UCL)

Claire Bedelian, UCL Community conservation in the Maasai Mara in Kenya Supervisor: Katherine Homewood (UCL) Ezi Beedie, Birkbeck Women and Pension Systems Benefit Income Adequacy in Nigeria: the case of civil servants (working title) Supervisors: Dr Penny Vera –Sanso (Birkbeck) and Dr Jasmine Gideon (Birkbeck) Goetz Bechtolsheimer, LSE The United States’ Intervention in the Congo and the Rise of Mobutu from 1964 to 1967 Supervisor: Odd Arne Westad (LSE) Pritish Behuria, SOAS Becoming A Strong State: Kagame’s Rwanda Develops After 1994 Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Cramer (SOAS)

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Stephen Bekoe, Royal Holloway Community Information Centres as vehicles to enhance livelihood and rural development in selected regions of Ghana.

Supervisor: Prof David Simon (Royal Holloway) Nicholas Benequista, LSE A Poverty of Imagination: Development Journalism and Donor Accountability Supervisors: Prof. Robin Mansell (LSE) and Dr Wendy Willems (LSE) Stefano Biagetti, UCL Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoralism in the Acacus Mts (south-western Fezzan, Libya): A Case Study of Kel Tadrart Lineage Supervisor: Kevin MacDonald (UCL)

Research Students

Gary Blank, LSE British Foreign Policy and the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) Supervisor: Joanna Lewis (LSE) Mike Brass, UCL The archaeology of social organisation at Jebel Moya: 5th to 1st millennium BC Supervisor: Kevin MacDonald (UCL) Peter Brett, SOAS The Judicialisation of Politics: some African examples Supervisor: Tom Young (SOAS) Brandon Broll, Birkbeck College History of the Civil Rights League in South Africa (1948-1994) Supervisor: Hilary Sapire (Birkbeck College) Andrew Brooks, Royal Holloway Riches from Rags or Persistent Poverty?

The Transnational Used Clothing Trade in Mozambique (ESRC 1+3; Submission due Sept 2011) Supervisor: David Simon (Royal Holloway) Paula Callus, SOAS Sub-Saharan African animation Supervisor: Dr Charles Gore (SOAS) Marisa Candotti, SOAS Cotton Growing and Textile Production in Northern Nigeria: from Caliphate to Protectorate c. 1804-1914 Supervisor: John Parker (SOAS)

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Fabien Cante, LSE Place-Making Radio? Mediating Urban Proximities in Abidjan Supervisors: Prof. Nick Couldry (LSE) and Dr Wendy Willems (LSE) Christine Carter, UCL Conservation and development; the search for synergies around an MPA on the coast of Kenya Supervisor: Katherine Homewood (UCL) Mhishi Lennon Chido, SOAS Songs of Migration: Experiences of Music, Place Making and Identity Negotiation amongst Zimbabwean Migrants in London Supervisor: Parvathi Raman (SOAS) Niamh Clifford-Collard, SOAS Agotime Weavers in Ghana Supervisor: Prof. Trevor Marchand Felix M. Conteh, SOAS Governance Reforms in Sierra Leone: An Analysis of the Conception, Design and implementation of the Decentralization programme and the Impacts - A Political Economy Approach Supervisor: Tom Young (SOAS) Lucy Corkin, SOAS Uncovering Agency: China’s Role as a Financier in Angola’s Reconstruction Programme Supervisor: Dr Julia C Strauss (SOAS) Malcolm Corrigall, SOAS Histories of Landscape Representation in South African Photography Supervisor: Dr Charles Gore Julie Crooks, SOAS Lisk-Carew and photography in Sierra Leone: Black Modernities Supervisor: Dr Charles Gore (SOAS) Gregory Deacon, SOAS The socio-economic role of Pentecostal Churches in Kibera, Nairobi Supervisor: Paul Gifford (SOAS) Margarita Dimova, SOAS Dealing with the State: The Heroin Trade in Kenya Supervisors: Phil Clark (SOAS), Laleh Khalili (SOAS) David Dobrovoda, SOAS

Czechoslovak-African Political Relations in the 20th Century Supervisor: Alena Rettová, SOAS Sirio Canos Donnay, UCL Imperial Landscapes of Ancient Mali: Settlement patterns and social organisation Supervisor: Kevin MacDonald (UCL) Sarah Duff, Birkbeck College Ways in which ideas about childhood changed as a result of the Dutch Reformed Church’s evangelical movement in the Cape Colony between 1860 and 1902 Supervisor: Hilary Sapire (Birkbeck College) Dariusz Dziewanski, SOAS Institutionalized violence? Examining the role of informal institutions in armed violence in South Africa Supervisors: Dr Zoe Marriage (SOAS), Prof.

Christopher Cramer (SOAS), Prof. Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS) Mostafa Elbeshbeshy, Royal Holloway The transformation of divided Cairo into an integrated city.

Supervisor: Prof David Simon (Royal Holloway) Alice Evans, LSE Exploring the factors that incentivise poor men and women in Zambia to challenge - or comply with - gender hierarchies Supervisor: Diane Perrons (LSE) Carole Enahoro, UCL Land access, satire and cultural resistance in Nigeria.

Supervisor: Prof Jennifer Robinson Edith Eyo, SOAS Contemporary Nigerian artists in London Supervisor: Charles Gore, SOAS Alice Evans, LSE Exploring the factors that incentivise poor men and women in Zambia to challenge - or comply with - gender hierarchies Supervisor: Diane Perrons (LSE) Danielle Faye Tran, SOAS Post-TRC Traumatic Narratives and South Africa’s Literary Recovery Supervisor: Dr Kai Easton (SOAS)

Giulia Ferrari, LSE Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS and gender into microfinance-based poverty alleviation programmes - an economic evaluation Erin Freas-Smith, SOAS Domestic Work in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, A Focus on Durban and Ixopo From 1920-1960 Supervisor: Professor Shula Marks (SOAS), Dr Wayne Dooling (SOAS) Alex Free, LSE ICTs, the internet and Africa: Meeting social, political or economic needs?

Supervisor: Robin Mansell (LSE) Emily Freeman, LSE Older Adults’ Experiences of Ageing and HIV Infection in Rural Malawi Supervisor: Ernestina Coast (LSE), Rebecca Sear (LSE), Tiziana Leone (LSE) Nikolas Gestrich, UCL Tongo Maare Diabal: A Social Archaeology of Settlement in the Gourma Region of Mali, c.AD 800 – 1200 Supervisor: Kevin MacDonald (UCL) Jonas Gjersø, LSE Benevolent Imperialism? Abolition and Legitimate Trade as Principal Elements of British Policy in East Africa 1856-1902 Supervisor: Joanna Lewis (LSE) Jacopo Gnisci, SOAS The Passion of Christ in Ethiopian Iconography Supervisor: Tania Tribe (SOAS) Agnes Hann, LSE An Ethnographic Study of Kinship, Livelihoods and Women’s Everyday Lives in Dakar, Senegal Supervisors: Matthew Engelke (LSE) and Rita Astuti (LSE) Luke Harman, SOAS Voucher subsidy programmes in low-income settings: learning lessons from agriculture and health in Malawi and Tanzania Supervisor: Andrew Dorward Charlotte Heales, KCL Microfinance and governmentality in Malawi Supervisors: Dr Deborah Potts (KCL) and Dr Kate Maclean (Birkbeck)

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Gwendolyn Heaner, SOAS Destroying the Destroyer of Your Destiny: Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity in Post-Conflict Liberia Supervisor: Paul Gifford (SOAS) Phoebe Hirsch, SOAS Masjids in South Africa Supervisor: Dr Charles Gore

Vincent Kienzler, LSE Performance Measurement and Social Accountability in Uganda : Lessons from the ‘Community-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System’ Initiative Supervisors: Nilima Gulrajani (LSE) and David Lewis (LSE)

Luke Houston, SOAS Liberated Zones - Spaces of Art and Desire in New York City 1975-1995 Supervisor: Dr Charles Gore

Gabriel Klaeger, SOAS Speed Matters: An Ethnography of a Ghanaian Highway, its Perils and Potentialities Supervisor: Richard Fardon (SOAS)

Catherine Huser, SOAS The politics of protection at the micro level of armed conflict (working title).

Supervisors: Dr. Stephan Hopgood & Dr. Laura Hammond

Christian Laheij, LSE ‘Culture of Peace’ Revisited. Islam in Mozambique Supervisor: Prof. Deborah James (LSE)

Research Students

Vicki Igglesden, Royal Holloway The Response to Francophone African Immigration in Post-Apartheid South Africa Supervisor: Professor David Simon (Royal Holloway) Richard Itaman, SOAS Interrogating the Finance and Development Nexus in Africa Supervisor: Ben Fine (SOAS)

Megan Laws, LSE Sharing potency: contemporary Khosian, Christian churches and patronage in the Ghanzi district, Botswana Supervisor: Prof. Deborah James (LSE) Jonah Lipton, LSE Navigating Youth: an ethnographic study of taxi drivers in Freetown, Sierra Leone Supervisor: Prof. Deborah James (LSE)

Rob James, SOAS Wilfred Cantwell Smith’s Theory of Scripture Related to the Use of the Bible in African Anglicanism Supervisor: Professor Paul Gifford (SOAS)

Nomalanga Leander Masina, SOAS Minimizing Friction: The role Private Media in the mediation of Zimbabwe’s election politics in 2013.

Supervisors: Dr Lindiwe Dovey, Dr Dina Matar & Prof Annabelle Sreberny (SOAS)

Edwin Johnson, SOAS Contemporary Art and Patronage in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Supervisor: Tania Tribe (SOAS)

Hayley Leck, Royal Holloway Urban global environmental change – Durban, South Africa’ (Submission due Oct/Nov 2011) Supervisor: David Simon (Royal Holloway)

Gunvor Jónsson, SOAS At the End of the Railway Line: female Malian traders in the Senegalese capital Supervisor: Prof. Trevor Marchand

Vincent Leger, UCL Wellbeing amongst the elderly of Ouagadougou Supervisor: Prof. Sara Randall (UCL)

Laila Kassam, SOAS Assessing the contribution of aquaculture to poverty reduction in Ghana.

Supervisor: Andrew Dorward (SOAS) Jessica Kendall, SOAS ‘African Fever’; the politics of race in the international circus arena (working title)

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Supervisor: Dr Lola Martinez (SOAS)

Joanne Lewis, SOAS Women artists in Botswana in the late twentieth century Supervisor: Tania Tribe (SOAS) Bala Liman, SOAS Identity Politics, Citizenship Rights and Conflict in Nigeria Supervisor: Tom Young (SOAS)

Jonah Lipton LSE Navigating Youth: an ethnographic study of taxi drivers in Freetown, Sierra Leone Supervisor: Prof. Deborah James (LSE) Sarah Longair, Birkbeck College The development of historical and cultural representation in museums in Zanzibar from the colonial to the contemporary.

Supervisor: Hilary Sapire (Birkbeck College) Diana Magelhaes, KCL Gender and Development Politics in Mozambique: The Dynamics of the Ministry of Women and Social Action in the Context of Maputo Supervisors: Dr Deborah Potts (KCL) and Dr Kate Maclean (Birkbeck) Charles Majinge, LSE The United Nations, the African Union and the Rule of Law in Southern Sudan Supervisor: Chaloka Beyani (LSE), Christine Chinkin (LSE) Sara Isabella Marzagora, SOAS Theorizing an “acolonial modernity”. The 1896 battle of Adwa and 1936-1941 Italian occupation in Ethiopian literature and political philosophy.

Supervisor: Dr Kai Easton Bakia Mbianyor, Royal Holloway Geopolitics of Mining and Mineral Extraction and its implications for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Cameroon Supervisors: David Simon (Royal Holloway), Klaus Dodds Joshua McNamara Small scale audiovisual production and its relationship with the development and aid sector in Nairobi: an approach toward Kenya’s media environment, from the perspective of practicebased research.

Supervisor: Dr Lindiwe Dovey Nandera Mhando, Goldsmith College Meaning, Gender and Kinship Making Aming the Kuria of Tanzania: Male and Female Agency Janna Miletzki (LSE) Burundian Refugees in Tanzania in a state of uncertainty: exploring citizenship and belonging.

Supervisor: Dr. Claire Mercer, LSE

Langton Miriyoga, Royal Holloway Citizenship beyond borders: illuminating the opportunities and challenges for participation of Zimbabwean diaspora in post-authoritarian state-building processes in their home country.

Supervisors: Prof David Simon, Dr. J. Gallagher and Dr L. Nettelfield (Royal Holloway) Lucía Natalia Morera, SOAS New to the Market: An ethnographical approach to the implantation of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Lagos.

Supervisor: Professor Paul Gifford (SOAS) Caroline Mose, SOAS Kenyan Hiphop: Interrogating Socio-Political Interventions of Popular Youth Culture in Nairobi Supervisor: Dr Chege Githiora (SOAS) Tom Muddimer, SOAS Working for Smallholders and Landlords: Working Conditions and Labour Relations on Cocoa Farms in Southern Ghana.

Supervisor: Carlos Oya (SOAS) Zaahida Nabagereka, SOAS Resistance to ‘linguistic conquest’ in Uganda: A study of African language literature production Supervisor: Prof. Lutz Marten Ronald Naluwairo, SOAS Military Justice, Human Rights and the Law in Uganda Supervisor: Mashood A. Baderin (SOAS) Darryl Nel, SOAS The ‘Tokoloshe’ and cultural identity in South Africa Supervisors: Akin Oyetade (SOAS), Graham Furniss (SOAS), Jeff Opland (SOAS) Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed “I no go gree”: The Everyday Struggles of Paid Domestic Workers in Lagos, Nigeria Supervisor: Sylvia Chant (LSE) Peter Nichols, SOAS A Morpho-semantic Analysis of the Persistive, Alterative and Inceptive Aspects in siSwati Supervisor: Lutz Marten (SOAS) Prince Ndudi Councillor Olokotor, SOAS Recognition and Enforcement of Transnational Commercial Arbitral Award: A Comparative

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Study of the Legal Milieus of England and Wales and Nigeria.

Supervisor: Emilia Onyema (SOAS) Sarah O’Neill, Goldsmiths College Defying the law,negotiating change. The Futanke’s opposition to the national ban on FGM in Senegal Supervisors: Nici Nelson (Goldsmith College) and Sophie Day (Goldsmith College) Miriam Pahl, SOAS Precarious Lives in the Postcolony Contemporary African Literature and the Political Condition of Human Life Supervisor: Alena Rettova (SOAS) Robtel Neajai Pailey, SOAS The Love of Liberty Divided Us Here?

Implications of Dual Citizenship on Liberia’s Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Process Supervisor: Laura Hammond (SOAS)

Research Students

Ruth Payne, Royal Holloway Child-Headed Housheolds in Zambia: Construction, Survival and Change Supervisors: Professor David Simon and Dr Katie Willis (RHUL) Helena Perez-Nino, SOAS Land and law in war to peace transitions in Africa (LIDC studentship, co-supervised with Birkbeck) Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Cramer (SOAS) Eugénia Pires, SOAS Political Economy of Migrants’ Remittances: Evidence from the Angolan Diaspora in Portugal (Working Title) Supervisor: Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS) Teresa Poeta, SOAS Object marking in Swahili and Makhuwa discourse Supervisor: Prof. Lutz Marten Gabriel Pollen, SOAS Zambia: From Total Factor Productivity to Structural Change?

Supervisor: Ben Fine (SOAS) David Poole, SOAS Rwandan Entrepreneurship and SME Sector Development: A Search for the ‘Missing Middle’

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Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Cramer (SOAS) Anna Rader, SOAS Civic Practice, Public Identity and Political Community in Somaliland Supervisor: Prof Stephen Chan (SOAS) Siham Rayale, SOAS Women’s political participation and statebuilding in Somaliland Supervisor: Laura Hammond, SOAS) Anne Reremoi, LSHTM Neonatal mortality in The Gambia Supervisors: Prof. Ian Timæus and Dr. Georges Reniers, LSHTM Rashi Rohatgi, SOAS Abhimanyu Unnuth’s Hindi Poetry in Literary Mauritius and in the World Supervisor: Kai Easton, SOAS Cleo Rose-Innes, SOAS Transport Infrastructure and Regional Integration in Southern Africa Supervisor: Machiko Nissanke (SOAS) Naomi Roux, Birkbeck College Memory in the City: Museums, heritage, and contemporary African urban histories Supervisor: Annie E. Coombes (Birkbeck) Madeleine Rutherford Wright, LSE Evidence-based development policy movement and the utilisation of research to inform reproductive health policy in Ghana Supervisors: Ernestina Coast (LSE), Tiziana Leone (LSE) Nicole Salisbury, UCL International Public Policy - ‘Structural Interventions and HIV Prevention Networks in South Africa Supervisors: David Hudson (UCL) and Graham Hart (UCL) Anselmo Ricardo Augusto Samussone, SOAS Corporate Governance and the Legal Protection of Employee-Shareholders in Mozambique Supervisor: Peter Muchlinski (SOAS) Florian Schaefer, SOAS Agrarian change and agricultural commercialization in the Ethiopian coffee and floricultural sectors Supervisor: Carlos Oya (SOAS)

Aïsha Schmitt, SOAS Beyond Praising the Prophet: Making New Meanings in Zanzibari Qasida Supervisor: Prof Graham Furniss (SOAS)

Feminist Analysis of the Dynamics of Violence in Ethiopian Sex Work Supervisors: Laura Hammond (SOAS), Prof.

Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS), Dr Ruba Salih

Katrin Schulze, SOAS The State and Development of Contemporary Art in Northern Nigeria Supervisor: Charles Gore (SOAS)

Danielle Faye Tran, SOAS Post-TRC South African Writing and the Trauma of Apartheid Supervisor: Kai Easton (SOAS)

Christine Singer ‘Born Free’? Youth and screen media in postapartheid South Africa (1994-2012) Supervisor: Lindiwe Dovey

Stella Wambugu, SOAS Agriculture and health in low income countries - investigating farm household and wider interactions in Malawi Supervisor: Andrew Dorward, SOAS

Lameen Souag, SOAS Grammatical Contact in the Sahara: Arabic, Berber, and Songhay in Tabelbala and Siwa Supervisor: Philip Jaggar (SOAS) Robin Steedman, SOAS Title: Gendering Production/Producing Gender: An Analysis of Contemporary Kenyan Female Filmmakers Supervisor: Lindiwe Dovey (SOAS) Sara Stevano, SOAS Women’s Work and Household Food Behaviour in Northern Mozambique Supervisors: Deborah Johnston (SOAS), Harry West (SOAS) John Paahoni Steven, SOAS A survey of language diversity, use and attitude in Southern Sierra Leone Supervisor: Peter Austin (SOAS) Cristiana Strava, SOAS At Home with Modernity: exploring placemaking on the margins of Casablanca Supervisor: Prof. Trevor Marchand Hagar Taha, SOAS The Local Element of Peace: Role of Indigenous Civil Societies in Intervention and Conflict Resolution - Cases of Darfur (Sudan) and Somaliland (Northern Somalia Supervisor: Prof Stephen Chan (SOAS) Lotta Takala-Greenish, SOAS The role of industrial policy in the decline of the South African textiles and clothing sector Supervisor: Ben Fine (SOAS) Sehin Teferra Ayele Occupational Hazard or Patriarchal Entitlement:

Eliud Wekesa, LSE A new lease of life: sexual and reproductive behaviour among PLWHA in the ART era in Nairobi informal settlements Supervisor: Ernestina Coast (LSE) Laryssa Whittaker, Royal Holloway Challenging Structural Violence Through Music: Theorising the Sustainability of Cultural Initiatives for Positive Social Change in South Africa Supervisor: Tina Ramnarine (Royal Holloway Ursel Widemann, SOAS Clothing and the Construction of Identity among the Tuareg Supervisor: Tania Tribe (SOAS) Michaela Unterbarnscheidt, SOAS A comparative study of transition and social change in early Thai and Amharic novels Supervisor: Martin Orwin (SOAS) Nimrod Zalk, SOAS Linkages and rents along the South African steel production chain – implications for postapartheid efforts to industrialise Supervisor: Mushtaq Khan (SOAS) Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, UCL Encounters of Culture, Heritage and Development in Sierra Leone Supervisor: Paul Basu (UCL) Interested in being involved in the Africa Research Students Network (AfNet)?

See page 22 for details.

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Scholarships & Fellowships For more information on all the following scholarships, bursaries and awards, visit www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships

Governance for Development in Africa Initiative (GDAI) at SOAS • PhD Scholarships • MSc Scholarships • Residential School in Africa (next school to be announced) Applications now open for academic year 2015/2016 Further details on pages 3-8.

Scholarships & Fellowships

Leventis Nigerian Post-Doctoral Fellowship at SOAS The Centre of African Studies of the University of London invites applications from Nigerian academics to take part in a scheme of collaborative research funded by the Leventis Foundation.

Applications now open for academic year 2015/2016.

Further details on pages 9-10.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Studentships for MRes Politics with Language, MSc Research for International Development, MA Anthropological Research Methods, MA Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali

The Canon Collins Scholarships at SOAS – open to Masters students from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe Commonwealth Shared Scholarship for students from African Commonwealth countries applying for: MSc Development Studies, LLM in Law, Development and Governance, MSc Development Economics, MA Social Anthropology of Development, MA Music and Development

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The Culture of Resistance Scholarships for Masters students in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, from the following African countries: Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Ferguson Scholarships for African taught Masters students in African Studies, International Studies and Diplomacy & Social Anthropology of Development Santander Taught Master’s Scholarships for African students from Ghana SOAS Master’s Scholarships - Faculty of Arts & Humanities - (for any full-time taught masters programme in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities) SOAS Master’s Scholarships - Faculty of Language & Cultures (for the full-time MA Postcolonial Studies, MA Cultural Studies, MA Comparative Literature, MA Linguistics, MA Applied Linguistics & Language Pedagogy, MA Language, Documentation and Description, MA Translation Theory and Practice (Asian and African Languages) SOAS Master’s Scholarships - Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (for any full-time master’s programmes in the Department of Development Studies, Economics, Law, Politics, International Studies and Financial & Management Studies, in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy and in the the Centre for Gender Studies) William Ross Murray Scholarship for an LLM student from a developing country

External scholarships

Other Universities

British Institute in Eastern Africa Graduate Attachment Scheme for recent graduates with an interest in further studies in Africa www.biea.ac.uk/study-with-us/graduateattachment-scheme

University of Sheffield West African Merit Scholarships for students from Benin, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Guinea Bissau www.sheffield.ac.uk/international/countries/ africa/west-africa/ghana/scholarships

Chevening Scholarships are the UK government’s global scholarship programme, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations. The programme makes awards to outstanding scholars with leadership potential from around the world to study postgraduate courses at universities in the UK. The Scholarships are an important element in Britain’s public diplomacy effort and bring young professionals, who have already displayed outstanding leadership talents, to study in the UK. The objective of the Chevening programme is to support foreign policy priorities and achieve FCO objectives by creating lasting positive relationships with future leaders, influencers and decision-makers. www.chevening.org

British Council The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) is an international programme under which member governments offer scholarships and fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries. The CSFP was established at the first Commonwealth education conference in 1959, and over 26,000 individuals have benefited. CSC offers Masters and PhD scholarships as well as Fellowships and distance learning scholarships. www.britishcouncil.org/africa-commonwealthscholarships.htm

University of Bath Steve Huckvale Scholarships for students in Africa – taught masters students from Africa who are intending to study Engineering or Management Bournemouth University UKEAS Nigeria Scholarship for Nigerian nationals on full-time postgraduate courses www.bath.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/taught/ scholarships NEW: Colin Murray Award for Postdoctoral Research in Southern Africa An award of up to £2,500 to support original ‘engaged field research’ on a topic relevant to the diverse interests and work of the late Colin Murray (longstanding Editorial Board member and former editor and chair of the Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS)) Deadline: 30th September 2014.

For more information contact Dr Colin Stoneman jsas@stoneman.karoo.co.uk

Mansion House Scholarships for training and work experience in the United Kingdom’s financial services industry, open to postgraduate Nigerian students. http://www.britishcouncil.org/africa-mansionhouse-scholarship.htm Tullow Group scholarship scheme for postgraduates from Ghana, Uganda and Kenya in subjects related to the oil and gas industries. tullowgroupscholarshipscheme.org

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African Studies Resources at SOAS

African Studies Resources

SOAS Library is one of the world’s most important academic libraries for the study of Africa.

Material on and from Africa has been collected since the foundation of the School (as the School of Oriental Studies) in 1916, although Africa was not included in the name until much later and there was no separate Africa Section in Library until the 1960s.

The Africa collection includes publications on and from the whole continent of Africa, except for Egypt which is covered by the Middle East & Central Asia Section.

The collection covers the fields of languages and cultures, arts and humanities, and law and social sciences. The Library holds an extensive African language collection covering hundreds of languages from the whole continent. It also has an extensive collection of journals for African research, both in print and electronic format.

The Library catalogue is available online at: lib. soas.ac.uk

Special Collections in SOAS Library & Archives Hardyman Madagascar Collection A unique collection on Madagascar, donated in 1991 by Mr and Mrs J.T. Hardyman. While

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reflecting Mr Hardyman’s life and work as a missionary in Madagascar it covers a range of subjects and includes a large number of works in the Malagasy language.

Society for Libyan Studies Collection The Library of this archaeological society is held on permanent loan on Level F (mobile stack area). It covers mainly history and archaeology chiefly in Libya and North Africa and includes books, journals and pamphlets.

African Languages Collection SOAS Library is unique and unparalleled in that all African languages are collected. The range extends from linguistic studies through creative literature to works of scholarship in African vernacular languages.

Onitsha Market Literature Collection Collection of Nigerian popular pamphlets from the 1960s.

Hausa Popular Fiction: Furniss Collection Collection of popular Hausa language fiction donated by Prof. Graham Furniss.

Gifford African Christianity Collection Chiefly English-language local publications on African (especially West African) Christian sects donated by Prof. Paul Gifford.

Swahili Manuscript Database The largest public collection of Swahili manuscripts in Britain

The Special Collections Reading Room located on Level F holds important collections of archives, manuscripts and other primary source materials relating to Africa. Details can be found in the online catalogue: Archives and Special Collections: Africa

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London Extensive collection in the field of international public health and tropical medicine, including Africa. www.lshtm.ac.uk/library

Other libraries & archives in London useful for African Studies

University College London Library, University of London Excellent research library covering all fields. Particularly good for African studies in anthropology, sociology, development, agriculture. www.ucl.ac.uk/Library

British Library The UK’s national library with excellent holdings of material on and from Africa. It has a significant African language collection catalogue.bl.uk They also have an extensive collection of African newspapers www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/africa/africa/ acnewspapers/index.html British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES) at the London School of Economics Specialises in the social sciences, especially politics and economics, finance and business.

Very good on African government publications, and particularly strong on South African politics and economics www.lse.ac.uk/library Institute for Advanced Legal Studies Library University of London Research institute of the University of London with strong holdings in African law, especially for the Anglophone countries and the southern African countries using Roman-Dutch law. ials.sas.ac.uk Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London Research institute of the University of London with strong holdings in political ephemera, such as election material.

Covers all Commonwealth countries but with particularly strong holdings for South and southern Africa. commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/library Institute of Education University of London Extensive collection of educational material at primary and secondary level relating to Africa, especially for the Anglophone countries. www.ioe.ac.uk/services/4389.html

More information on specialist Africanist libraries within the UK and Europe together with information on African studies centres in the UK and directories of African and UK scholars can be found in the Africa Desk www.africadesk.ac.uk/pages/home Bibliographies & Indexes for African Studies On the Library website you can find a list of Bibliographies & Indexes for African Studies - these are compilations of the literature on a certain topic and so are useful starting points.

SOAS Library holds a number of these in online or printed formats.

Online resources: Africa Bibliography Africa Bibliography is an authoritative guide to works in African studies published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984. africabibliography.cambridge.org Africabib.org AfricaBib consists of six bibliographic databases: Africana Periodical literature, African Women, Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa, Islam in Africa, Kenya Coast and Water and Africa. www.africabib.org Africa-Wide Information Contains details about books and articles relating to Africa, especially South Africa, as well as some full text articles. Records have been taken from various institutions› catalogues including SOAS.

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African Studies Centre (ASC) Web dossiers These useful dossiers are compiled by the African Studies Centre Library in Leiden, Netherlands and list print, electronic resources and web-based information on topical issues in African Studies. www.ascleiden.nl/content/webdossiers-year ASA Online provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the ASC library. www.ascleiden.nl/content/asa-online CAMP

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The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP), is a joint effort by research libraries throughout the world and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to promote the preservation of publications and archives concerning Sub-Saharan Africa. CAMP also aims to make these materials in microform available to researchers. SOAS Library subscribes to this project. SOAS staff and students are able to request material from CAMP. Requests should be submitted to SOAS Library’s Interlibrary Loans Section. www.crl.edu/area-studies/camp ilissAfrica The internet library sub-Saharan Africa (ilissAfrica) offers integrated access to information resources on sub-Saharan Africa.

It brings together information that is found on websites, databases or library catalogues in order to facilitate research. www.ilissafrica.de/en Nordic Africa Institute library. Web dossiers Web dossiers on African topical issues compiled by Nordic Africa Institute library staff. www.nai.uu.se/library/resources/dossiers African studies journals This an alphabetical list of e-journals on African studies compiled by several European libraries with links to the journals. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_studies_journals

Print resources: The African section also holds a range of printed regional and subject bibliographies and indexes on Africa. These can be found amongst the African Reference Collection on Level D, stacks 188-193. This collection includes print copies of the International African bibliography and the Africa bibliography.

For more information about the Africa Collection including further resources please see the Africa Subject guide: www.soas.ac.uk/library/subjects/ africa For more information about SOAS Library please visit the website: www.soas.ac.uk/library

Upcoming Events - Autumn Term 2014 For details of all events, please visit our website www.soas.ac.uk/cas Owusu-Ankomah in Conversation

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Fri 26th Sept

‘Towards a Temptation Hypothesis’ - Religion and Masculinities in Africa Keynote Lecture

MAL 417, Birkbeck

Sat 4th Oct

50 Years of ‘Arrow of God’, 100 Years of Nigeria: A Celebration and an Inquest

Djam Lecture Theatre

Sat 18th Oct

Work in Africa workshop with Frances Williams

B102

Mon 13th Oct

The Memory of the Crowd: Exploring the Potential of Digital Media Platforms to Re-imagine a National Narrative in Kenya

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Tues 21st Oct

Ethiopian Dictionary Launch

Brunei Suite

Weds 22nd Oct

Dammed Progress: Hydropower, Modernization and the Politics of Development in Southern Africa

349, Senate House

Mon 3rd Nov

Africa Business Group Seminar: Cutting Edge Community Based Tourism in East Africa

Khalili Lecture Theatre

Mon 27th Oct

Leventis Fellow Seminar: Oil and Rural Infrastructure Development in Nigeria

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Mon 17th Nov

Leventis Fellow Seminar: Structure, Function and Text of Ìrègún music in Yagbaland, Kogi State, Nigeria

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Mon 1st Dec

The African Roots of the New World Banjo with Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta

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Spring Term: save the date As part of our 50th Anniversary events programme, CAS will host two special events at SOAS:

Upcoming Events 2014 - 2015

Mon 22nd Sept

Media Representation and Africa: whose money, whose story?

Friday 20th February 2015

A diverse selection of high-profile speakers drawn from academia and the media industry will address questions of representation, narrative and institutional funding with regards to Africa in the media. This one-day conference aims to take the debate forward beyond the ‘Africa Rising’ vs the ‘desperate continent’ discussion and look at current and future trajectories in commissioning, producing and reporting both outside and within the continent. Bringing together those working in the areas of documentary, news reporting, television drama and fictional film, this event promises to develop angles for debate and provide a range of views from those working in front of and behind the camera.

Programmed in association with Gus Caseley-Hayford and Henry Bonsu.

2015 Annual Lecture by Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) Friday 13th May 2015

Further details to follow on the CAS website.

www.soas.ac.uk/cas/events

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During term time, the Centre of African Studies sends out a fortnightly newsletter containing listings of Africarelated lectures and seminars held at SOAS and other colleges of the University of London. It also contains news and information on events relating to Africa around the world, calls for papers, funding and job opportunities.

To sign up, please email cp40@soas.ac.uk

Centre of African Studies, University of London SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London, WC1H 0XG Tel: (+44) (0)20 7898 4370 Fax: (+44) (0)20 7898 4369

Upcoming Events 2014 - 2015

Africa News

email: cas@soas.ac.uk web: www.soas.ac.uk/cas facebook.com/ CentreofAfricanStudiesSOAS twitter.com/CAS_SOAS

Cover image: Owusu-Ankomah, Microcron Begins No. 16, 2013. Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 280 cm. Photo Š Joachim Fliegner. Courtesy October Gallery

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