The University of Wisconsin - Madison will be hosting the third annual
Midwest Graduate Student Conference in African Studies on February 28th and
March 1st. Graduate students from the U.S. and abroad will be presenting
and discussing papers on a broad variety of topics pertaining to Africa.
The conference begins at 8:45am on Saturday February 28th and continues
until Sunday afternoon, March 1st. Conference proceedings will be held in
the UW Memorial Union and are free and open to the public. For more
information contact Jeremy Liebowitz at 286-9241.
Saturday, February 28 - 8:45 to 10:15
I-A: Street Children in East Africa
Chair: Joy Noel Baumgartner / Beefeaters Rm
Catherine Cutcher - Ohio/ And Life Continues: The Struggle for Survival
and Identity Among Street Children in Nairobi, Kenya
Auma Okwany - Indiana/ Reaching the Unreached: Non- Governmental
Organizations-Response to Educational Marginalization of Street Girls in
Kenya
Joy Noel Baumgartner - Wisconsin/ Ethnic-Sensitive Generalist Social
Work Practice with Tanzanian Street Children
Mohamed Sheriff - The Effect of Civil War on Children in Sierra Leone
I-B: Organizational Culture and Politics
Chair: Akosua K. Darkwah / Old Madison East Room
Leah Thayer - Wisconsin/ I am Not What You aree Searching For: Refugee
Assistance and Liberian "Refugees" in Cote D Ivoire, 1989-1997
Akosua K. Darkwah - Wisconsin
Silencing Local Voices: The Case of USAID-Ghana
Michael Ba Banutu Julian Gomez - Case Western Reserve
The Role African Leaders Can Play in Forming, Changing and Sustaining
Organizational Culture
Yazon Gnoumou - Wisconsin/ Closing the Gap Among Actors for the Control
and Prevention of Erosion And Sedimentation in Burkina Faso, West Africa
I-C: Colonial Institutions in Senegal and Mali
Chair: Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou / Old Madison West Room
Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou - Michigan State
Institutions of Local Government in the Four Communes of Colonial
Senegal, 1880-1914
Hiliary Jones - Michigan State
Citizen or Subject: The Metis of Saint Louis, Senegal and City
Government in the Early Colonial Period, 1890-1914
Rebecca Shereikis - Northwestern
The Scandals of the Muslim Tribunal of Kayes: An Islamic Law Court in a
French Colonial Town, 1905-1912
Ellen E. Foley - Michigan State
French Colonial Medicine in Senegal: Changing Discourse and Practice,
1890-1920
Saturday, February 28 - 10:30 to 12:00
II-A: Art, Music, and Film - Chair: Ned Bertz / Beefeaters Room
Ned Bertz - Iowa
Where Communities Converge and Cultures Collide: Hindi Films in
Tanzanian Cinemas
Kinsey Katchka - Indiana
Everyday Art and Popular Life: The ECOPOLE de Dakar
Peter Jones - Illinois/ The Political Music of Tabu Ley Rochereau:
An Interview and Analysis of Song Texts
Liza Kitchell - Wisconsin - Kabyle Song and the Berberism Movement
II-B: Natural Resources and Agricultural Productivity
Chair: Kristin B. Dwyer / Old Madison East Room
Kristin B. Dwyer - Wisconsin
Implementing CAMPFIRE as a Sustainable Land-Use Strategy: A Cultural-
Historical Analysis of Wildlife in Zimbabwe_s Communal Lands
Brigitte Gnoumou - Wisconsin/ Cattle and Manure Management
Strategies to Increase Soil Phosphorus Level in Western Niger
Bernard Bashaasha - Ohio State
Agricultural Productivity Growth and Rural Land Use in Uganda
II-C: Language Use and Communication
Chair: Amadou T. Fofana / Old Madison West
Jeanine Ntihirageza/Chicago - Exploring Vowel Length in Bantu Languages
Amadou T. Fofana - Michigan State/ A Reflection on the Teaching of a
Second Langauge Cheryl Sterling - Wisconsin Old Choices, Old Thoughts,
New Venues-Language Choice and the African Writer
Saturday, February 28 - 2:00 to 3:30
III-A: Religious Institutions and Values Chair: Jeremy Liebowitz /
Beefeaters
William David Stevens - Northwestern/ The Growth of Pentecostal Churches in
Ghana: An Analysis of Evangelical Strategies and Organizational Factors
Ousman Kobo - Wisconsin
The Tijaniyya Sufi Brotherhood and the Wahabi Reform Movement in Ghana
Jeremy Liebowitz - Wisconsin/ What Did the Bishop Do With the Cows?
Leadership and Legitimacy in Busoga, Uganda
Richard Robert Haavisto - Pennsylvannia
The Value Encoded Invisible World of the Bafuumbira
III-B: The Impacts of Structural Adjustment
Chair: Kathleen Muligan-Hansel / Old Madison East Room
Kwaku Osei-Akom - Howard/ Increasing Cocoa Production under
Ghana_s Structural Adjustment Program: An Empirical Study of Farmers
in Tano North Cocoa District in the Brong Ahafo Region
Padraig Carmody - Minnesota/ The Determinants of Differential Inter-Firm
Performance Under Economic Liberalization in the Third World:
Evidence from Zimbabwe's Textile, Clothing and Footwear Industry
Leslie Fadiga-Stewart - Indiana at Bloomington
The Structural Adjustment Program in Senegal and its Impact on Women,
1980-1990: a Gender and Public Policy Case Study
Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel - Wisconsin/ Structural Adjustment,
Women_s Organizations and Local Political Economies in Tanzania
III-C: Historiography and Research Methodology
Chair: Stephen Corradini / Old Madison West Room
Opolot Okia - West Virginia
African Voices: African Historiography And Imperialism
Stephen Corradini - Wisconsin
The Development of the Igbe Anti-Witchcraft Movement in Isokoland
Bennie Visher III - Northwestern
Zanzibar and the Papers of Edmund Roberts: A Reconsideration
Faith Maina-Gichane - British Columbia
Insider Researcher: Dilemmas, Challenges and Contradictions
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