Africa and Its Environment

• 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
  Registration

• 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
  Reception

• 9:00 pm
  Executive Committee Meeting
  Gold Fork restaurant (Ramada Inn)

• 8:30-9:15 am
  Registration, coffee
  upstairs lobby

• 9:30-Noon
  Opening ceremony
  Room: Flint Hills

• 10:15- 11:45 am

  • Session 1
    Room: Flint Hills
    Chair: Wayne Nafziger, University Distinguished Professor, Kansas State University

    • W.L. Hargrove, Kansas State University, "Our Environment Sustains Us: Natural Resource Management in the Sub-Humid Savanna of Burkina Faso"

    • Wayne Nafziger, Kansas State University, "Development, Inequality, Conflict, and Environmental Resources in Africa"

    • Emmanuel Nnadozie, Truman State University, "US Private Investment in Africa: Temporal and Spatial Evolution and Transformation"

    • David Norman, Kansas State University, "The Reality of Biotechnology: an Imperative for Africa"

  • Session 2
    Room: 212
    Chair: Kisangani Emizet, Kansas State University

    • David N. Smith, University of Kansas, "Coffee, Gender, and Genocide: the Ecology of Fear in Rwanda

    • Mrs. Nwando J. Obika, Mrs. Chidi A. Odikpo, barristers, and Mrs. A. O. Okpalla, "Women's Participation in Public Life, Leadership and Decision Making: the Nigerian Experience"

    • Christopher A. Conte, Utah State University, "Usamba' Historical Geography: the Landscape in Cultural Reckoning"

    • K.C. Morrison, Jason Cruse, Jason Wills, and Rebecca Ye, University of Missouri-Columbia, "African Political Parties: a Census"

• 12:00-1:30 pm
  Luncheon
  Room: Bluemont Room
  Guest Speaker: Dr. Emmanuel Dongala, Simon's Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, Mass.

• 1:45-3:15 pm

  • Session 3
    Room: Cat's Pause
    Chair: David Norman, Kansas State University

    • Round table with Graduate students from Africa

  • Session 4
    Room: Flint Hills
    Chair: Robert Hudgens, Kansas State University

    • Nkoli Ezumah, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, "Gender and Environment: Dissemination of Agricultural Technologies to Women Farmers: Cases in Nigeria and Cameroon"

    • Wanda Haxton, University of Maryland, "Environmental Degredation and Domestic Conflict in Africa"

    • Kate Showers, Boston University, "African Urban-Rural Water Linkages: a Preliminary Mapping"

    • Salibo Some, University of Ouagadougou, "Participatory Education and Training of Rural Farmers for Sustainable Soil Restoration and Conservation in Burkina Faso"

  • Session 5
    Room: 212
    Chair: Claire L. Dehon, Kansas State University

    • Sandra C. Dickinson, University of Oklahoma, "The Seal of (Dis)Approval: Nadine Gordimer's Preface to Ellen Kuzwayo's Call Me Woman"

    • Mwama Cabakulu, Université Gaston Berger de St. Louis, Sénégal, "La Lettre: genre féminine ou une spécificité générique?"

    • N. André Siamundele, Colby College, "Literature and Environment: Reading African Landscape"

    • Michael S. Wilson, University of Oklahoma, "Learning to Read in Francophone West Africa: Influences in the Linguistic Environment"

• 3:15-3:45
  coffee break

• 3:45-5:30

  • Session 6
    Room: Cat's Pause
    Chair: Peter Ukpokodu, University of Kansas

    • Augustine Okereke, University of Bielefeld, "Integrating, Modernizing and Globalizing Africa's Oral Heritage"

    • Jonathan Ngate, Cornell University, "Pour un tombeau de Luambo Makiadi, alias Franco: Self-Position and Laying Claim to Musical Legacy"

    • G. Odera Outa, University of Witwatersrand, "Beyond the Canon: Power Alternations and the Rise of the New Voices in the Drama and Popular Theater Practice of Post-colonial Kenya

  • Session 7
    Room: Flint Hills
    Chair: Garth Myers, University of Kansas

    • John Cinnamon, Miami University, "The Murder of Ango Nkume: Social Landscapes and Memory in Equatorial Africa"

    • Abimbola O. Asojo, University of Oklahoma, "Housing the Urban Poor in Africa: a Case Study of Lagos, Nigeria"

    • Betty J. Harris, University of Oklahoma, "A House of One's Own: South African Squatters and Affordable Housing"

    • Imeh Thomas Nathaniel, Seth Atkuson, and A. A. Afolabi, Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria), "Climbing the Wall of Unity from the Economy and Environmental Aspects: Challenges and Priorities for Africa"

  • Session 8
    Room: 212
    Chair: John Harrington, Kansas State University

    • Ezekiel Walker, University of Central Florida, "The Environment, Ecology and Government Policy in the Cocoa Economy of Southwestern Nigeria, 1940s-1990s"

    • C.T. Ike-Okoye and C. O. Obika, Idemili North Local Government (Nigeria), "Solid Waste Management and the Nigerian Environment Today"

    • Aondover Tarhule, University of Oklahoma, "The Potentials and Limitations of Shallow Alluvial Aquifers in Semi-Arid West Africa

    • Edward T. Sankowsky, University of Oklahoma, "Democracy and
      Environmental Ethics in South Africa"

• 5:45-6:45 pm
  MAAAS General Business Meeting
  Room: Flint Hills

• 7:30 pm
  Dinner
  Little Apple Resturant

• 9:00 am
  Executive Committee Meeting
  Gold Fork restaurant (Ramada Inn)

Claire L. Dehon,
Department of Modern Languages,
Eisenhower Hall, Kansas State University,
Manhattan, KS 66506
Tel: (785) 532-1929
Fax: (785) 532-7004
E-mail: dehoncl@ksu.edu