AFRICA IN MOTION

Mid-America Alliance for African Studies

Program for the 13th Annual Conference, September 28-29, 2007
Kansas Memorial Union, The University of Kansas

Friday, September 28

11:30 am -12:20 pm: Registration
Malott Room, KansasUnion

12:30--2:10 pm Session I
Resources, Development and Politics in Motion: Malott Room

Garth Myers, Kansas University, Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice in African Cities

Ken Aikins, Kansas University, Straddling Two Political Worlds in the Midst of Ethnic Cleavages: the Case of N. Ghana

Emmanuel Birdling, Kansas University, Analysis of the Forces that Caged Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley, Truman State University, Citizens or Subjects? Artisanal Miners and the Resource Scramble in Sierra Leone

2:20-4:00 pm Session II
African Arts and Literature in Motion: Malott Room

Gitti Salami, Kansas University, The Origins of the Yakurr Leboku Festival

Linda Wiley, Kansas University, The Manichean Mindset as Exemplified/Countered in Some Examples of Film + Literature

Kitty Johnson, Indiana University, Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. in Nairobi: Aesthetic Strategies in Matatu Art

Hilary Hungerford, Kansas University, Exhibits of African Art and Constructions of Race

4: 10-5:20 pm Keynote Address: Derick Moyo, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of South Africa in Washington, DC: Malott Room

5:30-7:00 pm: Welcome Celebration and Poetry Reading
Garth Myers and Brian Daldorph: Malott Room

Saturday, September 29

8:30-9:30 am Welcome
Malott Room; Coffee, Tea, and Muffins

9:40-11:20 am Session III (concurrent panels)
III A: Belief in Motion: The Theoretical Perspective of Cultural Psychology and its Application to African Studies: Malott Room

Glenn Adams, Kansas University, Genital-Shrinking Panic in Ghana: A Case of Belief-in-Motion

Phia Salter, Kansas University, Suspicion is Contagious: A Socio-cultural Account of Polio Vaccination Resistance in Nigeria

Stephanie Anderson, Kansas University, When Belief and Reality Collide: Explaining Negative Outcomes of Attractive Ghanaians

Gokce Gungor, Kansas University, The Cultural Grounding of Enemyship: Cross-cultural and Experimental Evidence

III B: African Migration I: Histories and Ethnicities: English Room

Ryan Groves, University of Central Florida, Dini ya Msambwa: Bukusu Resistance to British Colonialism

Jeremy Rich, Middle Tennessee State University, Tyrant, Father, Martyr: Considering State, Family, and Regional Oral Narratives of Gabonese Chief Felicien Endame Ndong (ca. 1890-1971)

Erin Kenny, Drury University, Return Migration: Households and Relational Personhood in Upper Guinea

Betty Harris, Oklahoma University, Chinese in Contemporary South Africa: White or Non-White: Does it Really Matter?

11:30-1:00 pm: Lunch (participants are on their own)

1:10-2:40 pm Session IV (concurrent panels)
IV A: African Migration II: Transmigration and Displacement: Malott Room

Luke Struckman, Kansas University, African Transmigrants in Europe and Conflict with the Idealized Nation-State

Ang Gray, Kansas University, Displacement in Motion: Refugee-Hosting and Development in Ukwimi, Zambia

Daba Gedafa, Kansas State University, Causes and Effects of Migration of Oromo People of Ethiopia Since 1900

Yacob A. Zereyesus, Kansas State University, Youth Migration and its Repercussion to the Economy: A Case Study of Eritrea

IV B: South African Migrations: A Roundtable Discussion: English Room

Carol West, Allison Shutt, Thomas Campbell, Lovemore Gororo, Emily Hollis Proffitt, Stephanie Ryan Williams, all of Hendrix College (Arkansas)

2:50-4:20 pm Session V (concurrent panels)
V A: African Migration III: Gender, Empowerment, Education: Malott Room

Jamaine Abidogun, Missouri State University, Immigration of British and Missionary Education to Nsukka District, Nigeria (1930s-1960s)

Margaret Buckner, Missouri State University, Spirit Courtship in West Africa: When the Women Went a-Courting

Jane Irungu, Kansas University, The African Immigrant Woman: Reasons for Migration, Challenges + Changing Gender Roles

Mba Ude, Kansas State University, An Alayi Migrant, the Advent of Cassava and Economic Empowerment of Alayi Women

V B: Africa in Many Directions: English Room

Theresa Asojo, Olabisi Onabanjo University (Nigeria), Religion Movement and Migration: A Case of Science Influence

Fridah Munkombwe, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation, The Role of Women in the Media in Zambia

Mohamed Dosi, University of Memphis, African and Asian Immigration Experiences in the US

Patrician Batsikama and Antonio Thomas Ana, Angolan Philosopher and Art Historian
Etonism: Philosophy of Tolerant Reason

Stephen Harmon, Pittsburg State University, The Kingdoms of Africa are of Our Conquest: Castile's Challenge to Portuguese Commercial Primacy in West Africa, 1453-1480

4:30-5:40 pm MAAAS Annual Business Meeting (open to all participants and attendees): Malott Room

6-8:30 pm MAAAS Banquet and Dance Party: (LOCATION HAS CHANGED!) Union Pacific Depot, Theater Room, 402 N. 2nd Street, North Lawrence

8:30-11:00 pm The Cabaret/Harlem-style "Rent Party" will be held in the Kansas Union ballroom - $10 general public/$5 students with ID – in association with the Spencer Museum of Art Conference, Aaron Douglas: African-American Modernist