This network of Brown faculty and students and other colleagues in the Providence area meet to engage in discussion about the issues confronting the countries of the African continent and methods employed to analyze these issues. This series has provided young scholars with an important opportunity to present their doctoral research.
Past Events
Thursday, October 4, 2001 Patrick Heller—Social Movements and Democratization: The View from South Africa
Wednesday, October 10, 2001 Asbestos in South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Thursday, December 6, 2001 Susan Cook—Language, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Thursday, February 7, 2002 Assessing Environmentally Sustainable Development in Africa: Key Metrics, Assumptions & Prospects
Thursday, February 21, 2002 "We have Supped So Deep in Horrors:' Understanding Colonialist Emotionality and British Responses to Female Circumcision in Northern Sudan
Thursday, September 19, 2002 Jock McCulloch—Asbestos Blues: Mining, Capital, Physicians and the State in South Africa
Friday, September 20, 2002 Russell Ally—Conditional Impunity / Qualified Amnesty: The South African Case
Tuesday, September 24, 2002 Heribert Adam—Negotiating the Non-Negotiable in South Africa and Israel / Palestine
Thursday, October 3, 2002 Mark Lurie—Who Infects Who? Migration and the HIV Epidemic in South Africa
Thursday, October 31, 2002 Leruo T. Molotlegi—Hereditary Rule in the Age of Democracy: An African King's Reflections
Thursday, December 5, 2002 Kifle Woldesilassie—The Future of Shrimp Aquaculture in Eritrea
Thursday, February 6, 2003 John Hutchison—African Language Marginalization and Literacy Efforts in "Francophone' Africa
Friday, February 21, 2003 Susan Cook—Democracy and Indigenous Communities in South Africa—Notes from the Field
Thursday, March 20, 2003 Eric Berman—Peacekeeping Efforts in the Central African Republic: Recent Developments
Thursday, April 10, 2003 Cyril DaddiehCôte d'Ivoire: The Virtual Collapse of Houphouët-Boigny's Political Project
Thursday, April 24, 2003 Critical Perspectives on Sustainable Development in Africa
Monday, May 5, 2003 Africa Group Reception
Friday, September 26, 2003 Brown University Africa Group Planning Meeting
Wednesday, October 22, 2003 Mwelwa MusambachimeConflict Resolution in Africa: The Role of the United Nations
Friday, October 24, 2003 Terri BarnesThe Struggle Is My Life: Autobiography and Identity in Southern Africa
Friday, November 14, 2003 Richard LobbanPeace in Sudan? Oil, Identity, Justice and the New World Order
Friday, February 6, 2004 Eric BermanSmall Arms in the Central African Republic: A Time Bomb
Friday, March 5, 2004 Mzwanele MayekisoRestructuring Johannesburg: The Fall of Racial Apartheid and the Rise of Fragmentation
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 Is South Africa Becoming a One Party State?
Thursday, September 23, 2004 Mozambique, 1980-83: A Diplomat's Brush with Constructive Engagement
Friday, October 8, 2004 The UN and the Decolonization Process in Africa: The Case for Southern Cameroons' Demand for Statehood
Thursday, October 14, 2004 Academic and Practitioner Perspectives on the Refugee Situation in West Africa
Friday, November 5, 2004 Has Africa any Role in the Present War against Terrorism?
Thursday, December 9, 2004 Vital Africa: Evolution of U.S. Policy
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Spaces of Hope' in the Post-Apartheid Region - African Workers at South African Shopping Malls
Friday, May 6, 2005 CANCELLED Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement: A Step Towards Democratic Government in Burundi
Tuesday, May 10, 2005 Searching for a Weapon of Mass Production in Rural Africa
Thursday, September 22, 2005 Constitutional Adaptations to the Westminster Model of Parliament since Independence in Fourteen States of Former British Africa
Thursday, October 20, 2005 Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement: A Step towards Democratic Government in Burundi
Friday, November 4, 2005 Anatomy of an African Boundary
Friday, December 2, 2005 The African Wildlife Culture, and the role of Sustainable Utilization in Conservation
Friday, December 2, 2005 The African Wildlife Culture, and the role of Sustainable Utilization in Conservation
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 Veterans of the Peace: Former MK Combatants in Post-Conflict South Africa
Thursday, September 21, 2006 Praying for Health and Wealth: Pentecostal Prayer Warriors, the Prosperity Gospel, and People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria
Thursday, October 26, 2006 Africa Group Potluck: A Not-for-Profit Forum
Thursday, December 7, 2006 Population and Health in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Thursday, February 8, 2007 Bruce Whitehouse -- Exile Knows No Dignity: African Transnational Migration and the Anchoring of Identity
Thursday, February 22, 2007 Newell Stultz -- Africa States Experiment with Peer-Reviewing: The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Nearing Five Years Out, and Counting
Thursday, October 18, 2007 2007 Africana Film Festival: Visions of the Diaspora
Monday, October 22, 2007 Writing Comparative Histories of Contemporary Africa: Avoiding the Lowest Common Denominator
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Laura Green -- The Ugandan Epidemic at 25: Historical Successes and Contemporary Issues in Uganda's Fight Against HIV
Thursday, November 15, 2007 Chenjerai Hove -- The Writer and Public Responsibility
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 General Carlton W. Fulford -- The Changing Role of U.S. Military Engagement in Africa with Special Reference to the Creation of the New Africa Command and its Implications for African Security
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Fon Angwafor III -- Traditional and Modern Rule in Africa: The Insights of a Visiting African King
Thursday, February 21, 2008 Emmanuel Dongala -- Hollywood, Pirated Videos and Child Soldiers
Monday, April 14, 2008 Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Sharia in Sudan, Islamism, Post-Islamism, and the Future of the Sudanese State
Thursday, May 1, 2008 Bryan Mealer -- DR Congo: A Reporter's Journey Through a Forgotten War
Monday, May 19, 2008 FILM: memorize-you-saw-it
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 William Miles -- My African Horse Problem