Dear members of RA
The RA team would like to extend its greetings and appreciation to each one of you. Without your support, insightful comments and suggestions RA would not have gained success and popularity in 2016. We are delighted to note that there are currently more than 500 subscribers and members in RA mailing list, most of them reside in Africa and North America; there are also other members in Western Europe. It is among our top priorities in 2017 to institutionalize RA within Africa’s academic institutions, while capturing stakeholders in North America.
RA Advisory Board:
We have updated RA Website with RA Advisory Board Members. Their names are listed below. We hope to update the site with the names of more Board members who are currently serving as top administrators in Africa’s institutions of higher learning.
Bruce S. Hall
Associate Professor
Department of History
Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Tel. 919-660-3197
Cheikh A Babou, Ph.D (Associate professor of African Studies)
Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
PA, USA
Tel: 215 898 2188/8452
Fax 215 573 2089
John Bartlett, PhD, MD (Chair of the Board)
Professor, Medicine and Global Health
Co-director, the Center for Aids Research
Associate Director for Research, Duke Global Health Institute
School of Medicine. Medicine: Infectious Diseases
Duke University,
NC, USA
(919) 681-8043
Muhammad Haron,
Research Associate, the University of Johannesburg
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
The University of Botswana
Capetown, South Africa
Tel: + 27 (0)11 559 3259
Fax: + 27 (0) 11 559 3858
Moshood Mahmood Jimba, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Arabic,
Director, Centre for Ilorin Manuscripts and Culture
Department of Languages and literary Studies,
Kwara State University, Malete,
Ilorin, Kwara State,
Nigeria.
Tel: +234-8033574382www.kwasu.edu.ng
Benjamin Orbach
Director and Founder
America’s Unofficial Ambassadors
Creative Learning
www.unofficialambassadors.org
www.creativelearning.org
Washington, DC, USA
Tel. 202 247 5184
Events & Issus
Duke University:
‘Africa In Conversation: “Birth of the First Pan–African Television Network: PanAfrican News.”
Stephen Smith
Launched in April of 2016, AfricaNews (link is external) is the first Pan-African and multilingual 24/7multi-platform news provider in Africa. Learn more about its inception and launch from Professor Stephen Smith (Duke University), an AfricaNews (link is external) Editorial Advisor, who has been on-board with the project since it began in 2013.
Time: January 24, 2017 –
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Place, Duke University, Perkins 218
Interesting Issue
-The continent with the world’s oldest university now has too few for its fast growing population
Abdi Latif Dahir/Jan 5, 2017
Universities and higher education institutions were always part and parcel of Africa’s modern and past history. The Univerisity of Al Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco, which opened in 859 AD, is considered the oldest existing and continually operating university in the world. Al-Azhar University in Egypt, part of the larger complex of institutions associated with Al-Azhar mosque and which currently enrolls two million students, is dubbed the world’s most prestigious Islamic university.
But that important legacy is being tested as universities across Africa face a myriad of challenges related to the progress and management of their education systems.
Read more on the story in this link
https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/flip.it%2FOHHB-u-the-continent-with-the-worlds-oldest-un/f-68032383f3%2Fqz.com
Interesting Issue
-While Turkey is home to many ethnic minorities, this community often attracts immediate attention, particularly in the wake of the recent refugee crisis.
By Alev Scott/ 8 September 2016
In the sleepy village of Naime, 60km southeast of the Aegean port of Izmir, a woman who claims to be 106 years old was trying to remember the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Dressed in baggy shalvar trousers, Hatice was huddled on a bench under the vine-covered veranda of her tiny house, her movements slow in the intense June heat. She squinted into the middle distance: “Yes, lots of drumming and trumpets.”
Read more on the story in this link
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160829-turkeys-little-known-africans?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook
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NEW BOOKS كتب جديدة
The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer:
The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania
[أوهام انتقال المعرفة:
نفوذ وتأثير خبراء المساعدات الخارجية على عملية صنع القرارالسياسي في أفريقيا: جنوب أفريقيا وتنزانيا (حالات دراسية)]
Author: Susanne Koch and Peter Weingart (editors)
This book reveals fundamental problems of expert advice in the context of aid that concern issues of power and legitimacy rather than merely flaws of implementation. Based on empirical evidence from South Africa and Tanzania, the authors show that aid-related advisory processes are inevitably obstructed by colliding interests, political pressures and hierarchical relations that impede knowledge transfer and mutual learning.
Publisher: African Minds Publishers, South Africa, 2016
http://www.africanminds.co.za/
Dual Religiosity in Northern Malawi:
Ngonde Christians and African Traditional Religion
[التدين المزدوج في شمال ملاوي:
جماعة انكوندي المسيحيين و الدين الأفريقي التقليدي]
Author: Joyce Mlenga
Over a century much of Africa south of the Sahara embraced the Christian religion. Malawi, where 80% of the population identify as Christian is no exception, nor are the Ngonde at its northern border with Tanzania. While it is difficult to find someone who does not claim to be a Christian, African traditional religion is by no means dead and often practiced by many. While the two religions are not “mixed”, but they are both realities in many a Christians life, though realities of a different kind. The author explores the intricate and often varied relationship between the two and considers factors which increase or decrease dual religiosity.
Publisher: Mzuni Press, Malawi, 2016
http://mzunipress.luviri.net/mzuni_books.html
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth;
[مصانع الانتهاب: أمراء الحرب، الأوليكارشيون والشركاتوالمهربون، وسرقة الثروات في أفريقيا]
Author: Tom Burgis
In The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it’s a mirage. The oil, copper, diamonds, gold and coltan deposits attract a global network of traders, bankers, corporate extractors and investors who combine with venal political cabals to loot the states’ value. And the vagaries of resource-dependent economies could pitch Africa’s new middle class back into destitution just as quickly as they climbed out of it. The ground beneath their feet is as precarious as a Congolese mine shaft; their prosperity could spill away like crude from a busted pipeline.
Publisher: Public Affairs, USA, 2016
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