Events & Issues
– Scholarship: Sacred Urbanism: Entrepreneurial Religion, Infrastructure and the New Urbanism in Nigeria
June 19-23 2017, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
The French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) Nigeria (Ibadan), Sciences Po (Paris) and Columbia University (New York) invite applications for 18 young researchers on our first jointly taught research masterclass, to be held at the University of Ibadan, from June 19 to June 23, 2017.
The masterclass is aimed at PhD students in Social Sciences and Humanities at the beginning of their doctoral studies (1st or 2nd year), who have not yet finished conducting their fieldwork, and also at students finishing a research master’s degree and planning to continue with doctoral studies.
This masterclass will train cohorts of students in intellectual questions, methods, and writing strategies relevant for their future careers. Students will engage in reading seminars and firsthand research with the goal of writing a short analysis, which will be published online. This masterclass focusses on methodology, the topic is not restricted to one urban area, one region or one religion in Nigeria. All students interested in questions of religion and urbanism are encouraged to apply.
More details can be found in this link http://www.ifra-nigeria.org/scientific-events/trainings-workshops/189-research-masterclass-sacred-urbanism-entrepreneurial-religion-infrastructure-and-the-new-urbanism-in-nigeria
– Call for papers: Antropologia
“Racial Questions”: Historical legacies and contemporary dynamics in Africa and the Middle East. Please see attachment.
– Africans and Arabs in the Zanzibar Revolution, A soft copy of the Arabic book
نسخة مجانية من أفارقة و عرب في ثورة زنجبار، أدناه
Professor Helmi Sharaw, director of Arab and African Research Center, Cairo (http://www.aarcegypt.org/) has donned a soft copy of the Arabic book, Africans and Arabs in the Zanzibar Revolution, 2016. The book by Walaa Sabir al-BuSati is prize-winner of Best Egyptian Theses in Africa Studies, 2015. The copy is attached, and the book is also presented in our book section of this newsletter.
– Arabic Translations of African American Classics
Professor Mbaye Lo, Duke University, was the honorary guest of Egypt’s Council of Superior Culture, where he gave the innuargral lecture on African Cultures. The lecture on ‘الأفروالأمركيون وثقافتهم الافرقية: من الجاز الى الهيب هوب’ [African American and African Culture: From Jazz to Hip Hop] provided Arabic translations of many African American classics such as Strange Fruit, written by Abel Meeropol, and performed famously by Billie Holiday, and The Sorrow Songs , the last section in The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois. More detailed discussion of his talk was presented in the leading Egyptian Newspaper Al-Ahram.
Link: http://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/1432769.aspx
– Donald Trump, Lost in Africa
By Alexis Okeowo
The Trump Administration’s budget proposal for next year includes drastic cuts to a myriad of social services and programs, to environmental protection, education, public housing, and the arts and science. But there is something else buried under all of those line items: a call to completely eliminate the African Development Foundation, a government agency that gives grants worth thousands of dollars, in the form of seed capital and technical support, to community enterprises and small businesses on the African continent.
Read the article here: http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-lost-in-africa?mbid=nl_TNY%20Template%20-%20With%20Photo%20%287%29&CNDID=30097472&spMailingID=10717694&spUserID=MTMzMTgzMDc2NDAwS0&spJobID=1122343097&spReportId=MTEyMjM0MzA5NwS2
– Ensuring Somalia remains in conflict: Trump’s expanded ‘war on terror’
The 29 March decision by the administration of US president Donald Trump declaring Somalia an “area of active hostility” will likely ensure an escalation of this already-brutal conflict, with possibly dire consequences for Somalis and the East Africa region. The declaration, consistent with Trump’s intensification of US military operations in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, and his expressed determination to work with dictatorial regimes in Syria and Egypt, will result in more civilian deaths, engendering further anger over US actions in the region. Somali rebel groups al-Shabab will likely point to US actions as an example of the Somali government’s willingness to likely point to US actions as an example of the Somali government’s willingness to allow international powers to influence over Somali politics, and its complicity in civilian casualties, thus hoping to increase support for the movement.
Read more on the story in this link: http://www.amec.org.za/somalia/item/1527-ensuring-somalia-remains-in-conflict-trump-s-expanded-war-on-terror.html
NEW BOOKS كتب جديدة
– Africans and Arabs in the Zanzibar Revolution
[أفارقة و عرب في ثورة زنجبار]
Author: Walaa Sabir al-BuSati; Language: Arabic
This book analyzes the political and social events that preceded and caused the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964, and led to the overthrow of the Arab-led Sultan system and also resulted to the island of Zanzibar joining forces with the main land territory of Tanganyika to form what is currently known as the nation-state of Tanzania. The book analyzes Arab-African relations from historical viewpoints, and how the tense economic imbalances between groups formed the backdrop of the Revolution. The rise of leading political groups such as African Afro-Shiraz Party (ASP), Umma Party as well as the life of the leading political figures of the moments such as John Okello and Abeid Karume are well-detailed in this highly praised book. The author also addresses regional and global environments of the moment, focusing on ideas of Gamal Abdinasir of Egypt, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and how they contributed in shaping the trajectory of the Revolution.
Publisher: Maktabat Jazīrat al-Ward, Egypt, Cairo, 2016
Website: http://raffy.ws/publisher/3152/
– Human Trafficking and Trauma in the Digital Era: The Ongoing Tragedy of the Trade in Refugees from Eritrea
[الاتجار بالبشر وآثاره النفسية في عصر الشبكة العنكبوتية: المأساة المستمرة للتجارةالبشرية في اللاجئين من اريتريا]
Authors: Munyaradzi Mawere and Mirjam van Reisen
This ethnographic research book revisits the human trafficking crisis that emerged at the end of 2008, when many young Eritrean refugees were abducted from Eritrea, Sudan or elsewhere and trafficked to the Sinai. In 2012, Antonio Guterres, the then-High Commissioner for Refugees, warned that thousands of Eritreans were leaving their country each month, despite a shoot-to-kill policy at the border. Guterres called for more protection in the refugee camp of Shagarab in eastern Sudan and identified that refugees were being kidnapped and taken to the Sinai. Human rights activist and radio presenter, Meron Estefanos, aired numerous interviews on radio, in which she spoke about the victims of human trafficking for ransom who were held in captivity, tortured and killed in the Sinai Desert. Sr Azezet and campaigners in Israel published the findings of thousands of interviews with patients in the clinic of Physicians for Human Rights, where former hostages came to seek help.
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon, 2017
Website: http://www.langaa-rpcig.net/
– East African Community Law: Institutional, Substantive and Comparative EU Aspects
[قوانين الحكم المحلي في شرق أفريقيا: الجوانب المؤسسية والموضوعية مقارنة بقوانين الاتحاد الأوروبي]
Author: Emmanuel Ugirashebuja (Editor); Language: English
Edited by Emmanuel Ugirashebuja, East African Court of Justice; John Ruhangisa, High Court of Tanzania; Tom Ottervanger, University of Leiden; and Armin Cuyvers, University of Leiden
East African Community Law provides a comprehensive and open-access text book on EAC law. Written by leading experts, including the president of the EACJ, national judges, academics and practitioners, it provides the most complete overview to date of this increasingly important field. Uniquely, the book also provides a systematic comparison with EU law. EU companion chapters provide concise overviews of EU law and its development, offering valuable inspiration for the application and further development of EAC law.
The book has been written for all practitioners, judges, civil servants, academics and students faced with questions of EAC law. It discusses institutional, substantive and jurisdictional issues, including the nature of EAC law, free movement and competition law as well as the reception of EAC law in Partner States.
Brill Publications, 2017
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