I. African Studies Seminar “From African Renaissance to African Pragmatism: The Landscape of Contemporary African Politics.”
Thursday from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., Room 109 Bailey Hall
February 2, 2005 “Implementing Gender: Using National Institutions for Improving the Status of Women in Africa ,” Dr. Hannah Britton, Women's Studies and Political Science , KU.
February 16, “Transformation of Kenyan Politics: Constitutional Agitation after the Referendum: What’s Next?” Jumaa Mwushuruti, and David Okech graduate students, Political Science, and Social Welfare, KU.
March 2, “Politicians and Political Culture in Nigeria in a Global Century: Nigeria and Africa's Move to Stability,” Dr. Myra Gordon, Associate Provost, Kansas State University and Aminu Gusau, Lecturer, Department of African and African American Studies, KU.
March 16, “ How did Senegal Escape Unrest and Political Upheavals Faced by the Remainder of the African Continent?” Alassane Fall, Wolof Instructor at KU.
April 13 "Does Foreign Aid Make a Difference? Validating OECD Investment and Development Assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa." Dr. Kalu Kalu, Associate Professor, Emporia State University.
April 27 “A Nation without a Government: Somalia Case Study,” Abdirahman Gutale, Osman Nur, KU Students.
May 4, 2005 , “US Interventions and Failures to Intervene in African Crises,” Dr. Deborah “Misty” Gerner, Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Center for International Political Analysis, KU.
II. Ujamaa Brownbag
Wednesdays, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. , Alcove F, the Kansas Union
January 25, “Peace Corps in Africa,” Betty Barron, KU Campus recruiter and Hilary Hungerford, Graduate student in Geography, KU.
February 8, “Education and Foreign Aid in Africa,” Dr. Abdelwahed Zhiri, former World Bank executive, Lawrence.
February 22, “Children Soldiers and Abduction of Children in Northern Uganda,” Conversation with “KU for Uganda” students group, moderated by Sandra Gray, Associate Professor of Anthropology, KU.
March 8, “Globalization and the Film Industry in Tanzania: The Emergence of Video Films,” Mona Mwakalinga, Fulbright graduate student, Theatre and Film, KU.
March 29, “ Rwanda, What Went Wrong: Revisiting the 1994 Genocide.” Octave Mugabowineza, graduate student, International Studies, KU.
April 5, “Identity and Language in Toni Morrison’s and Assia Djebari’s Fictions,” Giselle Anatol, Assistant Professor of English and Louisa Matmati, Fulbright visiting scholar, Annaba University, Algeria.
April 19 “From Africa to Kansas: My African Sports Journey” Moulaye Niang, Benson Chesang, Victor Chesang, Oumar Seck, Mujahid Hassaballa, moderated by Tony Daniels, KU’s Athletic Department.
III. African Immigrants in Kansas: Community Meetings
Monday March 27, “Meeting with African Immigrants in Lawrence,” New African Immigrants in Kansas Project, sponsored by the Kansas Council for Humanities, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont Street, 7:00 – 9:00 PM.
Monday May 1, “Meeting with African Immigrants in the Kansas City Area,” New African Immigrants in Kansas Project, sponsored by the Kansas Council for Humanities. Jewish Vocational Services (JVS), 7:00 – 9:00 PM , 1608 Baltimore, Kansas City, MO
IV. Workshop on Business Environment from an Islamic Perspective
Friday, April 7 & Saturday, April 8, sponsored by the KU Center for International Business, Education and Research, KASC, and Department of Economics.
V. African Cultural Night
Friday April 28, sponsored by theOsher Lifelong Learning Institute, Continuing Education Dept. 1515 St. Andrews Street , 6:00 – 8:00 PM
VI. Teacher Summer Institute on African Diaspora, 2006
Monday June 12 to Friday June 23,Room 109, Bailey Hall
VII. Other Events
Wednesday February 15,“Soweto Gospel Choir,” sponsored by the Lied Center of Kansas at the University of Kansas, Lied Center, 7:00 PM.
Thursday March 2"Our Kind Nancy and the African Presence in the Commemoration of the Cherokee Trail of Tears," Navarre Hall, Haskell Indian Nations University, 3:30 PM.
Friday June 23 – Saturday June 24, Annual Meeting ofthe Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, keynote speaker, Professor Mahmood Mamdani, Professor of Government and Director of the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University
