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The 2nd Annual Towards an Africa Without Borders
Conference ­ Transformation and Action
October 8th to October 10th 2004
UW-Madison, Wisconsin US

The deadline for submission of papers has been
extended to July 23, 2004.

The organizing committee for TAWB II invites papers
and colloquia from activists and scholars from all
disciplines and professions on the topics of
TRANSFORMATION and GUIDEPOSTS in Africa and the
Diaspora.  Our vision for TAWB II is to host a forum
for a discussion leading to ACTION that will be
centered on (but not limited to) the following core
questions:

1) How do those of us working for change in Africa and
its Diaspora imagine Transformation?  How has
progress/advancement been identified historically?
What are some existing examples of guideposts?  What
has been achieved?

2) The Ties that Bind - In what ways do the issues
that Africans face differ from the issues that
African-Americans and other Africans in the Diaspora
face in achieving goals towards 'progress'?  Which
issues are shared?  How can we build a common platform
and on what issues should it be based?

3) How 'Pan' is Pan-Africanism? Is Pan-Africanism
inclusive of Northern Africa?

4) How has African feminism fared in Pan-Africanist
theory and action?

5) Fanon, Nkrumah, Cabral etc. and the cause for
African independence: What is the future of African
radical theory?

6) Progress in fighting the AIDS pandemic: What are
the issues? What has been achieved?  What more needs
to be done?

 7)  Africa and the War on Terror:  Whose war?  Whose
terrorists?

8) Africa via Haiti: 200 years between empires?

9) Refugees and immigration:  What role for
Pan-Africanism?

The above questions, which are meant to raise
discussion leading to action, may also be narrowed to
topics relevant to Pan-Africanism such as:

(i) Non-governmental Organizations:  Agents of Change
or neocolonialism?  (ii)  Regional Cooperative Efforts
(such as the AU, NEPAD and the EAU): Progress or
forbearance?  (iii) Globalization: Are there
alternative globalizations?  (iv) IMF/World Bank and
the anti-globalization movement: What role for the
African activist?  (v) The future of change in Africa
and Pan-Africanism/African unification ­ pragmatics
(vi) Latin American and African connections in
political struggle (vii) The Congo and Pan Africanism
(viii) Rwanda ­ When is never again never again? (ix)
Palestine/Israel:  What does it mean to the political
activist in Africa and Diaspora? (x) The African
writer, language and African unity (xi) South Africa:
Betrayal or Fulfillment?  (xiii) Africa and the Middle
East (xiv) Naming: Anglophone, Francophone and
Lusophone Africa& (xv) North Africa in relation to
Sub-Sahara Africa

Submission of abstracts: Abstracts should be limited
to 250 words, and should include the author's name,
title, affiliation, and full address (including
telephone, fax, and e-mail).  If abstracts are
submitted by e-mail, attachments should be in
Microsoft Word (.doc).  The deadline for abstract
submission is July 23, 2004.  (If you are sending in
your abstract from outside the United States, please
consider your country's visa application turn around
and adjust the deadline accordingly).


The abstracts can be sent to the following address:

         Towards an Africa without Borders
         Department of African Languages and
Literature
         University of Wisconsin-Madison
         1414 Van Hise Hall
         1220 Linden Drive
         Madison, WI 53715

For more information, please see our website at
http://african.lss.wisc.edu/AWB or contact Mukoma Wa
Ngugi at 608-262-8462 or [log in to unmask]








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