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UCONN AFRICA NOTES vol. 6, no. 9 (Nov. 2, 1998)
UPCOMING EVENTS AT UCONN
Nov. 2. Film. The Blue Eyes of Yonta (Guinea-Bissau, 1991). Moneteith 143, 6 pm.
Nov. 5 Talk. Jeffrey Lefebvre (Political Science). Dilemmas in the Horn: Eritrean Independence and Regional Crises. Monteith 119, noon-1:15 pm.
Nov. 6. Ethnic Dinner and after-dinner talk and slide show on Madagascar by Professor John Silander (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). 6:00 pm. Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Wilbur Cross Building, Storrs. Tickets are $27 for Museum members and $32 for nonmembers. For tickets call: 860-486-4460.
Nov. 9. Film. Tableau Ferraille (Senegal, 1997). Monteith 143, 6 pm.
Nov. 10. Rally and Film to remember Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni activist executed in Nigeria on 10 November 1995. The film, Delta Force, about Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni cause will also be shown. Student Union Patio and Mall, noon-2 pm.
UPCOMING EVENTS REGIONALLY
Nov. 3. Talk. John Middleton (Yale). Ethnography: Peasants and Merchants Luce Hall, Yale, 34 Hillhouse, 4:00 pm.
Nov. 3. Talk. Edward Kissi (Yale). Socialism, Revolution and Ethnic Nationalism in Ethiopia, 1974-1977. Harvard Africa Seminar, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge. 4:30-6:00 pm.
Nov. 4. Talk. Olufemi Akinola (U. of Asmara). The Rise and Impending Fall of Civil Society in Analysis of African Politics. Barker Center, Harvard U., 12 Quincy St. noon.
Nov. 4. Talk. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (U. Cape Town). Eugene De Kock and the Cry of Apartheid's Crusader: To Understand, or not to Understand, that is the Question. Bunting Institute, Radcliffe, 34 Concord Ave, Cambridge. 4:00 pm.
Nov. 4. Talk. Jean-Francois Bayart (Belgium). The Congo Crisis in the Perspective of State Formation. ASC, BU, 270 Bay State Road. 2-4 pm.
Nov. 5. Talk. Philip Verwimp (U. Leuven). Foreign Intervention on the Eve of Genocide: The Case of Rwanda. Luce Hall, Yale, 1:30 pm.
Nov. 9. Talk. Peter Alegi (BU). Contract of Joy: Players and Supporters in South African Soccer, c. 1940-1976. ASC, BU, 270 Bay State Rd, Boston. noon-1:30 pm.
Nov. 10. Talk. Hermann Wittenburg (U. Western Cape). African Alpinism and the Shaping of an Imperial Landscape: the 1906 Abruzzi Expedition. Luce Hall, Yale, 12:30 pm.
Nov. 13. Performance. Tute Chigamba (Zimbabwe). Tute Chigamba in Concert: Live Traditional Music of Zimbabwe on the Mbira Dzavadzimu. Dudley House Common Room, Harvard U. 8:15 p.m. For ticket info contact: Fleur Weinstock: weinstock@fas.harvard,edu; or Solomon Murungu: smurungu@tiac.net.
Nov. 16. Talk. Laura Maclatchy (BU). Fossils from Karamoj. ASC, BU, 270 Bay State Road, noon-1:30 pm. ______________________________________________________________________________
AFRICAN/AFRICAN-AMERICAN SUMMIT will be held in Accra, Ghana, May 15-22, 1999. The focus will be Education, Democracy, Business Investment and Economic Development, Health, and Agriculture. For info: The Summit Office, 5040 E. Shea Blvd, Suite 260, Phoenix, AZ 85254-4610; TEL: 1-800-835-3530.
OPERATIONS CROSSROADS AFRICA (OCA) invites applications for its 1999 programs. For info contact: Kate Shackford, OCA, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1366, NY, NY 10027. E-mail: oca@igc.ac.org; Website: www.igc.org/oca
AFRICANA LIBRARY WEBSITES:
Boston U: www.bu.edu/library/asl/home.html Stanford:
www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa Columbia:
www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa
A-Z of African Studies on the Internet:
docker.library.uwa.edu.qu/~plimb/az.html
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UCONN AFRICA NOTES is published electronically each Monday morning during the academic year by the Center for Contemporary African Studies at the University of Connecticut. Anyone wishing to be on the mailing list should send their E-mail address to Larry W. Bowman. We will happily list and publicize Africa-related activities occurring throughout Southern New England. Send info directly to Larry W. Bowman, Director, CCAS, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269; TEL: 860-486-3355; FAX: 860-486-3347; E-mail: bowman@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981102095100.007fe850@uconnvm.uconn.edu> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:51:00 -0500 Sender: aadinar@sas.upenn.edu From: Larry Bowman <BOWMAN@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU> Subject: UCONN AFRICA NOTES
Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar
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