FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
– Sponsor: West African Research Association (WARA)/ Amount: $2,500USD
The internship will provide round trip travel to a West African country and a stipend of $2,500 to cover the cost of living for 6 to 8 weeks during the summer of 2016. The West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar,… more »
Applicant Type: Graduate Student
Citizenship or Residency: United States
Abstract: The competition is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and is intended to enable a graduate student to pursue an internship in a West African country in a field of activity suitable to his or her… more »
Eligibility: The competition is open to U.S. citizens who are enrolled in the M.A. program of an accredited college or university in the United States. The WARA strongly encourages students from historically black colleges
– University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Institute/ Amount: $26,000USD
The award carries an annual stipend of $26,000, and the Institute offers research funds to support the fellow’s research. All Fellows receive office space in the Institute, full access to the University’s facilities, and opportunities to interact and collaborate with scholars relevant to their projects within the University. Fellows must be in full-time residence during the tenure of their awards and they are required to be engaged in scholarly activity on a full-time basis.
http://www.sas.rochester.edu/aas/fellowships/external.html
ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
– Rising CO2 Threatens Coral and People Who Use Reefs
Duke University A new analysis in the journal Plos One, led by Duke University and the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, suggests that by 2050, Western Mexico, Micronesia, Indonesia, parts of Australia and Southeast Asia will bear the brunt of rising temperatures. Reef damage will result in lost fish habitats and shoreline protection, jeopardizing the lives and economic prosperity of people who depend on reefs for tourism and food.
https://today.duke.edu/2016/11/rising-co2-threatens-coral-and-people-who-use-reefs
– Ramadan in Khartoum
by Steve Howard
Africa Is a country – November 15, 2016
– Developments of the African Political Landscape
This is a bi-monthly report on African issues published by the Egyptian Center for Political and Strategical Studies. This is an interesting reports as it reflects Egyptian viewpoint on many ongoing political and economic issues in Subsaharan Africa. Egypt’s hectic relationship with its neighbors in the Nile Valley basin takes most key elements of the report. Full report is available in the link below.
تطورات المشهد الإفريقي، تقرير نصف شهري، يصدر عن إدارة الرصد والتوثيق بالمعهد المصري للدراسات السياسية والاستراتيجية، يتضمن رصداً لأهم تطورات المشهد الافريقي، سواء فيما يتعلق بدول القارة وتفاعلاتها البينية أو علاقاتها الدولية، وتداعيات هذه التطورات على الأوضاع السياسية والاقتصادية والأمنية في القارة، مع التركيز على انعكاساتها على القضايا المصرية وتفاعلاتها الأفريقية، وذلك خلال الفترة من 1 إلى 15 أغسطس 2016.
http://www.eipss-eg.org/%D8%AA%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A-16-%D8%A3%D8%BA%D8%B3%D8%B7%D8%B3-2016/2/0/999
– Mapping movements of arms and weapons in the African Sahel
This is an interesting report by CAR (Conflict Armament Research), based in London, on the circulation of arms and weapons across countries in the African Sahel. CAR conducted research in more than 10 countries to develop this cartographic map that can actually enrich the imagination of researchers and scholars who are interested in conflict and violence in the Sub-African region. The Report is in the link below.
(Un rapport cartographie la circulation des armes dans le Sahel)
http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20161116-rapport-cartographie-circulation-armes-le-sahel
ACADEMIC EVENTS
– International Symposium, Cheikh Anta Diop University
Professor Ibrahima Thioub
Theme: Centennial of History: Celebration of Sheikhna Sheikh Saad Bouh’s Work and Legacy (1848-1917)
The centennial of Cheikhna Cheikh Saad Bouh (1848-1917) offers specialists and researchers a great opportunity to revisit this crucial period in the history of West Africa. In one hand, the end of the 19th century witnessed the rise of the European colonial conquest and established administrations throughout Africa. In another, there was also the upsurge of many vigorous movements in searching of answers to this colonial conquest. These movements offered different and diverse forms of resistance extending from published treatises, Muslim religious viewpoints on jihad to physical resistance against the French. Cheikh Saad Bouh represents leading intellectual figure whose scholarly work contributed in enriching the Muslim discourse about Western colonial occupation. This International Symposium is about revising this era, Cheikh Saad Bouh’s work, and the role of Sufi orders such as Qadiriya regarding French military expansion, and the extent to which Sheikh Saad Bouh’s message in this regard. The symposium will also examine how Cheikh Saad Bouh’s work had continued to shape the current discourse of Islam. More details on the conference are in the link below. Abstract must be submitted before January 15, 2017.
Place: Cheikh Anta Diop University
Time: March 23rd and 24th, 2017
Email Contact: colloquecentenaire@ucad.edu.sn
Organizers: Event led by the University Rector:
Association Sadikhina Wa Sadikhate & Département Histoire: Cheikh Anta Diop University
Centenaire du rappel à Dieu de Cheikhna Cheikh Saad Bouh (1848-1917)
Le centenaire du rappel à Dieu de Cheikhna Cheikh Saad Bouh offre aux spécialistes des sciences sociales, aux historiens en particulier, l’opportunité de revisiter cette période de rupture majeure dans l’histoire de la Sénégambie qu’est la fin du XIXe et le début du XXe siècle, marquée par l’accélération et l’achèvement de la conquête coloniale de l’Afrique. Les lettrés musulmans, confrontés à cette situation, ont eu à répondre à deux brûlantes questions : quelles lectures faire et quelles attitudes adopter face à l’extension de la mainmise des puissances impérialistes européennes sur les sociétés africaines en général et musulmanes en particulier ?
https://researchafrica.duke.edu/files/2016/11/Appel-a-communication-Centenaire-Cheikhna-Cheikh-Saad-Bouh.pdf
CALL FOR PAPERS
– The African Union and African Economic Community: Territorial and economic arrangements for peace in Africa?
Concerned with the plight of especially women and children as major victims of wars, civil conflicts, human rights violations, humanitarian disasters, gender-based violence and violent conflicts, and genocide, the African Union (AU) has committed to speeding-up actions that will “silence the guns by 2020” in its Agenda 2063, in order to make peace a reality for all people in Africa. Against this background and in this CFP, we invite papers that interrogate these themes as well as topics including, but not limited to:
How does obsessive regard for territorial sovereignty impact the readiness and the extent to which the supranational AU, the AU Commission (AUC) and respective member states can intervene in domestic conflicts occurring in African states? Does the absence of war guarantee a peace that ensures distribution, location and spatial organization of economic activities leading to successful regional integration?
Practically, how can ambitions to establish a single geo-political and economic space from Africa’s tapestry of states, economies, cultures and customs by the AU be translated into a mosaic of grassroots, meso- and macro- level actors committed to peaceful coexistence?
An abstract of no more than 250 words in English or Spanish should be sent to csnzed@gmail.com and minnoxa@yahoo.com and geographiesforpeace@gmail.com on or before 1 December 2016.
Contact Info: Dr. Christopher Changwe Nshimbi (University of Pretoria, South Africa). Dr. Inocent Moyo (University of Zululand, South Africa)
Contact Email: csnzed@gmail.com/ URL: http://governanceinnovation.org/
– Session on Youth, Race, and Culture in Afro-Europe: At the Sixth Biennial Conference
Afroeuropeans: Black Culture and Identities in Europe Tampere, Finland: July 6-8, 2017
Keynote speakers include Paul Gilroy and Elisa Joy White, among others. More information about the conference and other sessions can be found here: https://www.uta.fi/yky/en/6thafroeuropeans/index_en.html.
Paper proposals are due February 25 and can be submitted here:http://www.uta.fi/yky/en/6thafroeuropeans/callforpapers.html.
NEW BOOKS
– Missionary Archives from Lesotho, 1832 – 2006
Missionary Archives from Lesotho, 1832-2006 contains both the ethnographic and historical archives of the first missionary in Lesotho, D.F. Ellenberger, as well as the complete run of the bi-weekly magazine, the Leselinyana, from 1863 till 2006. The collection also includes historical maps, church archives, personal registers (birth, baptism, and marriage), missionaries’ correspondence, and it features the first written documents from the region. The collection is an important source for historians, theologians, anthropologists, ethnographers and linguists, working on Southern Africa or with an interest in Southern Africa. Publisher: Brill
http://www.brill.com/products/online-resources/missionary-archives-lesotho-1832-2006-online
– Muslims Beyond the Arab world: The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya
The book deals with the vibrant tradition of writing African languages with the Arabic script called ʿAjamī and the rise of the Murīdiyya Ṣūfī order of Senegal, West Africa founded by Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba Mbakke (1853–1927). The book demonstrates that the development of the ʿAjamī literary tradition and the flourishing of the Murīdiyya as one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most powerful and dynamic Ṣūfī organizations are entwined.
Author: Fallou Ngom.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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