Research Africa News: November 22, 2019
Academic Opportunities
1. Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions. Offered by IIE in collaboration with the United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa), the program is funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY). A total of 395 African Diaspora Fellowships have been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013. CADFP exemplifies CCNY’s enduring commitment to higher education in Africa. IIE manages and administers the program, including applications, project requests and fellowships. USIU-Africa provides strategic direction through the Advisory Council.
Read the details in this link here
2. CFP: ‘The Home in Modern History and Culture’
University of Nottingham 27 January 2020, Council Room, Trent Building
Keynote speaker: Professor Jane Hamlett, Royal Holloway
CFP deadline: 22 November 2019
The University of Nottingham’s AHRC-funded project ‘Florence Nightingale Comes Home for 2020’ (see www.florencenightingale.org) is arranging the second of a series of three thematic project workshops. Following the first successful event on nineteenth-century healthcare, this second workshop seeks to examine, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the broad theme of ‘Home’ and its applicability as a prism through which to understand historical change.
For more details, visit the website:
Website: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Conference/fac-arts/Humanities/History/The-Home-in-History/index.aspx.aspx
Email: nightingale2020@nottingham.ac.uk
3. The American University in Cairo (AUC)
The 15th EURECA Conference takes place on April 5-9, 2020, under the umbrella of the AUC Research and Creativity Convention (RCC). EURECA is an opportunity for students of different disciplines to present their original research and creative work to their peers, faculty and the public. Participating in the conference is an excellent way for students to practice scholarly argument and presentation skills. This year EURECA is inviting students from international universities to participate as well, so the interaction and networking promises to be worthwhile and great fun.
The deadline for application is December 10, 2019. As the students complete their final research papers for Fall 2019, please encourage (perhaps require) them to participate as presenters in EURECA, under the appropriate activity:
• RHET first year students participate in FYRE – the First Year Research Experience oral presentations
• RHET upper division students participate in the Research Excellence across the Disciplines oral presentations
• RHET students in the Creative track of the Writing Minor participate in – Creatopia: Literary Salon
• ELI students participate in ELI Explorers
ALI/CASA students participate in the Research Excellence across the Disciplines oral presentations
Here is the conference website and application link
If students have inquiries, email eureca@aucegypt.edu
News
African Union Tells U.K. to Withdraw From Chagos Islands After Deadline Passes
By Pauline Bax November 22, 2019
The African Union urged the U.K. to comply with a United Nations resolution calling for it to withdraw from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, which is considered part of Mauritius. The U.K. is under increased international pressure to give up its last territory in Africa since the International Court of Justice ruled that the 1965 excision of the islands from Mauritius had been unlawful. The UN General Assembly affirmed the ruling in May and set a six-month deadline that expired Friday.
Read the details in this link
NEW BOOKS كتب جديدة
Karafu: A Freed Slave
[ كارافو: الرقيق المحرّر]
Author: Nahida Esmail
In 1838, 14-year old Samuel, a domestic worker in the United States, is excited to accompany his boss, Mr Wilson, on a voyage to East Africa. Mr Wilson plans to search for the source of the river Nile. During the long voyage, many unexplained events turn Samuel’s life upside down. On his arrival in Zanzibar, Samuel is horrified to be sold into slavery. He faces many challenges, which he records in his diary, and applies his wits and education to overcome them. Follow Samuel’s ordeal as he struggles to obtain his freedom.
Publisher:Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania, 2019
The Kenya Socialist No. 1 2019
[كينيا الاشتراكية]
Author/ Editor: Shiraz Durrani, Kimani Waweru
The study of class remains one such topic and Kimani Waweru’s article, Class and Class Struggle in Kenya, fills this gap. Waweru also contributes a briefing on ideology as a weapon of oppression or liberation. He will continue his theoretical explorations in the next issue with an article on gender and women’s oppression and liberation. History is never far from any liberation struggle. Nicholas Mwangi looks at Mau Mau and the origin and meaning of the term ‘Mau Mau’. Njoki Wamai’s contribution is her presentation at the All African Peoples’ Conference in Accra in 2018. Linking up with the launch of the Ukombozi Library, the question arises, ‘What is the role of information in liberation?’ Shiraz Durrani answers some question from Julian Jaravata on various aspects of information. Finally, Durrani looks at the challenge by Wakamba wood carvers to the information embargo under President Moi.
Publisher: Vita Books, Kenya, 2019
Mobile Africa: Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide
[موبايل أفريقيا: الاتجار بالبشر والفجوة الرقمية]
Author: (Editor): Mirjam van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher
What happens at the nexus of the digital divide and human trafficking? This book examines the impact of the introduction of new digital information and communication technology (ICT) – as well as lack of access to digital connectivity – on human trafficking. The different studies presented in the chapters show the realities for people moving along the Central Mediterranean route from the Horn of Africa through Libya to Europe. The authors warn against an over-optimistic view of innovation as a solution and highlight the relationship between technology and the crimes committed against vulnerable people in search of protection. In this volume, the third in a four-part series ‘Connected and Mobile: Migration and Human Trafficking in Africa’, relevant new theories are proposed as tools to understand the dynamics that appear in mobile Africa. Most importantly, the editors identify critical ethical issues in relation to both technology and human trafficking and the nexus between them, helping explore the dimensions of new responsibilities that need to be defined. The chapters in this book represent a collection of well-documented empirical investigations by a young and diverse group of researchers, addressing critical issues in relation to innovation and the perils of our time.
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon, 2019
Ouafa and Thawra: About A Lover from Tunisia (Poetry, Drawings, Essay).
[(وفاء وثورة: عاشق من تونس (أشعار ورسومات ومقال]
Author: Arturo Desimone
“Ouafa and Thawra is a nomadic collection: well-travelled and restless, but with roots firmly in revolutionary Tunisia, a tumultuous country “where people are sweet/ where even the hypocrisy is sweet.” Arturo Desimone travels fearlessly between genres, too, with sketches deepening the reading experience and a postscript essay on Tunisia before and after the ‘Arab Spring’ adding context to the poems (and offering the controversial but sound claim that the Arab Spring was catalysed by the events of 2003 in Iraq). Desimone is wholly original: his poems simultaneously draw on a breathtaking, freewheeling sense of linguistic innovation, and on a timeless well of imagery and mythology.”
Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe, 2019
Regime Stability, Social Insecurity and Bauxite Mining in Guinea: Developments Since the Mid-Twentieth Century
[استقرارية النظام وانعدام الأمن الاجتماعي وتعدين البوكسيت في غينيا]
Author: Penda Diallo
This book explores how bauxite mining has affected local and national political dynamics in Guinea over the past 55 years, providing an overview of mining interactions with social, economic and political spheres. Guinea is amongst the world’s top producers of bauxite, and the country’s rich mineral presence has numerous implications on local communities and national policy. Guinea is an interesting and highly relevant case study in assessing the impact of bauxite mining on regime stability and social insecurity. The author offers a clear understanding of the role of mining during the Touré and Conté regimes and analyses how changes since the election of Condé in 2010 have affected the socio-political and economic development of Guinea. The author also offers analysis on how bauxite mining has led to the emergence of new forms of social contracts, sustained by mining companies instead of the state. Finally, the book argues that understanding the stabilising and destabilising potential of mining is key to ensuring long-term, sustainable, stable and inclusive growth of mineral-resource-rich countries. The book concludes by highlighting the relevance of the findings in Guinea for the wider African extractives sector.
Publisher: Routledge, 2019.
The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness
[أشباح غومبي: قصة حقيقية عن قضايا الحب والموت في أدغال أفريقيا]
Author: Dale Peterson
On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall’s famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating in a pool at the base of a high waterfall. With careful detail, The Ghosts of Gombe reveals for the first time the full story of day-to-day life in Goodall’s wilderness camp—the people and the animals, the stresses and excitements, the social conflicts and cultural alignments, and the astonishing friendships that developed between three of the researchers and some of the chimpanzees—during the months preceding that tragic event. Was Ruth’s death an accident? Did she jump? Was she pushed? In an extended act of literary forensics, Goodall biographer Dale Peterson examines how Ruth’s death might have happened and explores some of the painful sequelae that haunted two of the survivors for the rest of their lives
Publisher: University of California Press, 2018.
Roaming Africa: Migration, Resilience and Social Protection
[جولات في أفريقيا: مسائل في الهجرة والمرونة والحماية الاجتماعية]
Author/ (Editor): Mirjam van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, Mia Stokmans, Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher
What happens when digital innovation meets migration? Roaming Africa considers how we understand modern-day mobility in Africa, where age-old routes strengthen the resilience of people roaming the continent for livelihoods and security, assisted by mobile communication. Digital mobility expands connectivity around the world, and also in Africa. In this book, the authors show that mobility, resilience and social protection in the digital age are closely related. Each chapter takes a close look at the migration dynamics in a specific context, using social theory as a lens. This book adopts a critical perspective on approaches in which migration is regarded merely as a hazard. Edited by distinguished scholars from Africa and Europe, this volume, the second in a four-part series Connected and Mobile: Migration and Human Trafficking in Africa, compiles chapters from a diverse group of young and upcoming scholars, making an important contribution to the literature on migration studies, digital science, social protection and governance.
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon, 2019
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