# Achille Mbembe (*), dont le livre “On the Postcolony” vient de remporter le prix Bill Venter/Altron pour l’année 2006, propose sur le site d’Africultures [URL] un texte intitulé “Lutte pour la succession en Afrique du Sud : Le syndrome de Nongqawuse” dont la version originale (anglaise) se trouve à l’URL URL. Il publie également […]
@ Shaheen Mozaffar (*) visited Baghdad to observe the December 15, 2005 elections to the Iraqi Council of Representatives and assess the electoral preparations and the polling process in the elections for the International Mission on Iraqi Elections (http://www.imie.ca/). He was also an IMIE assessor for electoral preparations and the polling process for the January […]
@ Douglas Yates (*) has contributed a chapter on “Neo-‘Petro-monialism’ and the Rentier State in Gabon” (pp. 173-190) in the book edited by Matthias Basedau and Andreas Mehler: Resource Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Hamburg: Institut für Afrika-Kunde, 2005 – ISBN 3-928049-91-7). The same collection includes a chapter by John F. Clark (*) titled “Petroleum Revenues […]
Nous apprenons avec une profonde tristesse la nouvelle de la mort soudaine de Jean-François Médard (*) le Vendredi 23 septembre. Né en 1934, il avait longtemps travaillé en Afrique, notamment au Kenya et en Côte d’Ivoire et avait enseigné à l’Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV où il avait été étroitement associé aux travaux du Centre d’étude d’Afrique […]
# Luc Sindjoun (*) a participé au colloque qui s’est tenu au Goethe Institut de Yaoundé les 9 et 10 Mai 2005 sur le thème “Mondialisation et identités” et y a présenté un exposé intitulé “Relations internationales et culture” dans le cadre de la commission sur “Les relations internationales dans la Mondialisation”. # Comi M. […]
@ Mario Azevedo (*) is one of the two coordinators of the Southeast Regional Seminar on African Studies (SERSAS), which will be held on Friday-Saturday, April 15-16, 2005 at Norfolk State University, Norfolk VA. SERSAS is a semi-formal, multi-disciplinary association of college and university faculty and staff members, independent scholars, practitioners, and graduate students residing […]
@ William F.S. Miles (*) has an article on “Third World Views of the Holocaust”, in the Journal of Genocide Research 6:3 (2004). Among the perspectives highlighted therein are those from Burkina Faso, Mauritius and Rwanda. Miles has recently received an auxiliary research appointment with the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University while […]
@ Douglas Yates (*) contributed a paper on “Changing Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment in the Oil Economies of the Gulf of Guinea” in a volume he co-edited with Rudolf Traub-Merz, titled “Oil Policy in the Gulf of Guinea: Security & Conflict, Economic Growth, Social Development” . The book represents the proceedings of a conference […]
@ Edward R. McMahon , founding director of the Center on Democratic Performance (CDP, United States, http://cdp.binghamton.edu/), has accepted a teaching and research position at the University of Vermont, from where he will remain an adjunct fellow of the CDP. His successor as director is Patrick Regan, professor of political science at Binghamton University, whose […]
# Charles Kapanga Kapele M.K.(*) vient de publier une monographie intitulée: “Sony Labou Tansi et les hardiesses langagières”, paru fin 2003 à Sudbury, aux éditions Glopro. (108 p., $10.00 + $2.00 pour expédition; ISBN 0-9733975-1-9). Pour passer commande de cet ouvrage, contacter l’auteur à ckapanga@hotmail.com ou envoyer un mandat-poste à: Kapanga Kapele, 1290 av. Parisien, […]