ASAUK Biennial Conference 2008
'The Presence of the Past? Africa in the 21st Century'
This page lists all the accepted papers by author. Click on a Panel reference to see the panel page (showing convenors, , accepted paper titles & abstracts).
| Author | Paper | Panel |  |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron, Kiikpoye | Out of Africa: Confronting the Myth of Voluntary Migration. | E4 | |
| Adegoju, Adeyemi | Towards Attaining Constructive Modes of Conflict Resolution in Africa: The Wisdom of Yoruba Proverbs | F1 | |
| Adejumo, Arinpe | Towards a Diachronic Survey of Gender Consciousness in Written Literary Works of Yoruba Expressions | F1 | |
| Adeka, Ruth | Promotion of neglected foods in Kenya: Case of African Leafy vegetables | F5 | |
| Aggarwal, Anju | Globalisation and African Women | D6 | |
| Ahiauzu, Nkiruka | Some Law Jobs for African philosophy | F5 | |
| Ajayi, Kunle | Inter-Ethnic Hostilities and the Challenge of conflict Transformation in Africa: Interrogating the potentials of de-partitioning thesis | B6 | |
| Ajayi, S. Ademola | Universal Education and Social Change in Western Nigeria Through Changing Scenes, 1955-2005 | C3 | |
| Akhaine, Sylvester Odion | Democracy Dividends, not democracy | D3 | |
| Akinyoade, Akinyinka | Ministerial stability and socio-economic development in Nigeria and Indonesia c. 1966-1998 | D2 | |
| Appiah, Mark | An exploration of puberty rites and its impact on the schooling of the adolescent female in Ghana: a critical ethnographic study | E1 | |
| Arero, Hassan | Designing and curating Africa in the UK: theoretical reflections for an Equitable Partnership framework on knowledge of and research on Africa | A5 | |
| Arokiasamy, Clara A | Skills exchange or capacity building for Africa and African Diaspora in the 21st century? | A5 | |
| Assan, Joseph | Ethnic identity and the shaping of remittance culture in Ghana | D2 | |
| Bakare, Babatunde Allen | Gender and African Development: Dynamism and Transformation, as Reflected by Soyinka and Rotimi in The Lion And The Jewel and Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again | A2 | |
| Baker, Bruce | Contemporary British Settlement in the Gambia | D3 | |
| Baker, Bruce | Non-State policing; does it warrant support or closure? | H1 | |
| Beinart, William | Local Veterinary and Environmental Knowledge in Mpondoland: Is there a Crisis in Livestock Management? | F5 | |
| Bek, David | Ethical codes and global supply chains: the case of South Africa’s Flower Valley | G1 | |
| Bekee-Eberendu, ChuzMariya | Theorizing the Cultural Politics of Narratives of conflicts in the discourse of Nigeria’s Ethnic political conflicts | B6 | |
| Binns, Tony | Ethical codes and global supply chains: the case of South Africa’s Flower Valley | G1 | |
| Bleibinger, Bernhard | Promoted Culture and Local Strategies – The Indigenous Music and Oral History Project and its recent activities | F2 | |
| Boateng, Richard | E-commerce Strategies in Resource Poor Environments – Evidence from Ghana | D7 | |
| Bohlin, Anna | Memory Making and Local Participation: Rebuilding Protea Village, Cape Town | C5 | |
| Bolarinwa, Joshua Olusegun | The Darfur Crisis and African Union Involvement: Lessons for United Nations Intervention | G6 | |
| Bordonaro, Lorenzo | “In the street you live like a rebel”. Why Cape Verdean street children choose to live in the streets. | B7 | |
| Chelati-Dirar, Uoldelul | Patrolling Borders and Stretching Ties Colonial Troops, Colonial Administration and the Shaping of Eritrean Borderlands | E7 | |
| Cross, Hannah | Labour Migration from West Africa to Europe | E4 | |
| de Silva, Shihan | Recognising the African Presence in Asia | G4 | |
| details not provided, Author | Reflections on Marching Songs of Childhood | A1 | |
| details not provided, Author | Racialising Abiku Childhood in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl. | A4 | |
| details not provided, Author | Commemoration and emancipation in an African museum”: What are the implications in a “post-2007-UK” for heritage partnerships with museums in Africa? | A5 | |
| details not provided, Author | Volunteering for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa: some thoughts on poverty & unemployment in the global economy | A6 | |
| details not provided, Author | The 1945 General Strike and the Struggle for Nigeria: A Critical Review of Issues and Literature | B3 | |
| details not provided, Author | Reclaiming the ‘Forgotten’ Past as a Human Right in Kenya | C5 | |
| details not provided, Author | In the Present, Our Past is Present: Tradition, (Post)Modernity and Gender Politics in Nigerian Video Films | C6 | |
| details not provided, Author | Negotiating boundaries of womanhood: the position of women in migrant households in rural Ghana | F6 | |
| details not provided, Author | Pan-African Multilateralism: Transformative or Disconnected? | G1 | |
| details not provided, Author | Microwaved Rights; Assassinated State: Nigerian Scapegoats’ Detention Narratives | G3 | |
| details not provided, Author | Human Rights Violations in Eritrea: the role of the international community | G3 | |
| details not provided, Author | Controlling the Aliens: A Survey of the Political and Economic History of the Lebanese of Ghana, c.1925-1992 | G4 | |
| details not provided, Author | The West’s Responses to the Bosnian Crisis and the Conflict in Darfur, Sudan: A Test of the Efficacy of the Cultural Affinity Theory | G6 | |
| details not provided, Author | US Foreign Policy and Africa's Structural Adjustment Programs before 2005 6.00-7.00pm | H2 | |
| details not provided, Author | Somalia: Crisis & Resurgence | H2 | |
| details not provided, Author | Sub-Saharan Africa's Ethnic Horizontality | H2 | |
| details not provided, Author | “The healing and memorial agenda in African museums". Does it have intellectual and political relevance for the construction of Africa in UK heritage institutions? | H3 | |
| details not provided, Author | Politics and the use of Development Aid in Sierra Leone, 1960-1994 | H4 | |
| details not provided, Author | Theatre and the State in Zimbabwe | H5 | |
| Devereux, Linda | Captured and shot: Re-presenting history through one family’s saved newspaper clippings | C2 | |
| Doyle, Shane | Modernity, Sexuality and Reproduction in Twentieth-Century Buganda and Buhaya | D2 | |
| Duffy, Rosaleen | Neoliberalising Nature? Conservation, Ecotourism and Sub-Saharan Africa | E6 | |
| Dunkerley, Marie | Education policy and colonial administration structures in the Belgian Congo, 1916-1939: the development of the schools for African clerks | C3 | |
| Ejobowah, John Boye | Ensuring the Durability of Ethnoterritorial Autonomy | D5 | |
| Elischer, Sebastian | Classifying African Political Parties Preliminary Evidence from Kenya, Ghana and Namibia | D1 | |
| Fayomi, Oluyemi | Dynamics of Flood and Drought in Ethiopia: The Reflections of the Past in the 21st Century | B2 | |
| Fein, Regina | Cultural acceptability of housing in the Ethiopian context | E3 | |
| Frank, Billy | Labour’s ‘New Imperialist Attitude’: State sponsored colonial development in Africa 1940 – 1960 | B2 | |
| Frost, Diane | Resource predation, inequality and social injustice. Grass –roots struggles in the diamond areas of Sierra Leone. | B3 | |
| Gallagher, Julia | Healing the scar: idealism, Africa and British policy under Blair | B4 | |
| Gibert, Marie | The European Union in Africa: A European 'Renaissance' in Africa? | B5 | |
| Hagmann, Tobias | Bringing the sultan back in: elders as peacemakers in Ethiopia's Somali region | D4 | |
| Hall, Philippa | ‘Jesus is my business manager’: Debates on enterprise, social provision and investment in education among Nigerian Pentecostal ministries. | F4 | |
| Hancock, Coralie | The Use and Formation of Landscape in Zimbabwe | B1 | |
| Harman, Sophie | Fighting HIV/AIDS: Reconfiguring the State? | E2 | |
| Heap, Simon | A Star is born in Nigeria, 1949-60 | G5 | |
| Hlongwane, Ali | Memorialisation in museums in South Africa and the challenges of notions of consensus, diversity of perspectives and the commodification of heritage and memory. | H3 | |
| Hoehn, Sabine | The struggle over the struggle - contested meanings | F7 | |
| Hughes, Lotte | Bado Uhuru, Not yet a Nation: Contestations Between and around State- and Community-led Heritage Activities in Kenya | C5 | |
| Hunsu, Folasade | Fictionalising Twenty-First Century Africa: Abdul Razak Gurnah’s Art in Desertion | A3 | |
| Hutchison, Christopher | African museums without geographical boundaries and without walls: Heritage Informatics and critical knowledge construction of and with Africa | A5 | |
| Hutchison, Yvette | Green Man Flashing: Exploring the Place of the Individual Voice in the Newly Democratic South Africa | D1 | |
| Ibidapo-Obe, Akinola | The Human Rights Jurisprudence of the Yoruba: A Study in Cultural Specificity | F1 | |
| Ibreck, Rachel | Restoring Human Dignity: The Work of Survivors in the Memorialisation of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda | C2 | |
| Ikuomola, Adediran | Corporate Establishment Demands: The Quest For Foreign Education In Nigeria | C3 | |
| Jagun, Abi | Phones and informal micro-enterprises: an information perspective based an a case study of an fabric-weaving micro-enterprise in south-western Nigeria | D7 | |
| Jerven, Morten | Explaining Growth in Africa: The Methodology and the Evidence | G1 | |
| Kamdem, Seraphin | Local language literacy to challenge hegemonies: A grassroots perspective from Kom, Cameroon | F3 | |
| Kiwuwa, David | Of fallen angels, hollow dreams and broken promises: Democracy and the Politics of the 'Third Term' in Africa | D5 | |
| Knighton, Ben | ‘Going for cai at Gatũndũ, 1968-9: Storing up ethnicity for Kenya’s national future?’ | C7 | |
| Kolawole, Clement | Promoting Indesenous Education for National Development in Nigeria | C3 | |
| Kryck, Christiane | Financing adequate shelter: are microfinance schemes the solution? The case of Dar es Salaam | E3 | |
| Kyed, Helene Maria | Traditional authority in Mozambique: the legible space between state and community | D4 | |
| Lagae, Johan | The Dead can’t talk… | A7 | |
| Lagae, Johan | Early Prefabrication in Africa: ‘Balon’ houses in West and Central Africa | A7 | |
| Lane, Paul | Pastoralist cultural bomas: Paradoxes of place and the re-invention of tradition in Kenya and Tanzania | C4 | |
| Leonardi, Cherry | ‘Bound by history and blood forever’? The meaning of the Ugandan-Southern Sudanese border | E7 | |
| Lishilinimle, David | Expatriate Researchers and the Historiography of Calabar, 1650 - 1960: A Reassessment | B1 | |
| Liston, Vanessa | NGO's and Spatial Dimensions of Poverty in Kenya | C7 | |
| Locatelli, Francesca | Borders, migration and identities in the Horn of Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries | E7 | |
| Loffman, Reuben | Violence Begins at Home: The Local Roots of Conflict in Katanga (DRC), 1856 – 2006 | B7 | |
| Lohnert, Beate | Housing is more than shelter Adequate housing under the conditions of rapid urbanisation in Africa | E3 | |
| Longair, Sarah | The Peace Memorial Museum in Zanzibar: articulating colonialism through architecture and material culture | H3 | |
| Luckay, Zuzana | The Concept or Regaining Dignity and the Manifestations of this Process in Post-apartheid South- African Literature | A3 | |
| MacGonagle, Elizabeth | Contesting the Past in the Present: Identities in Ghana and the Diaspora 200 Years after the Abolition of the Slave Trade | G4 | |
| Martiniello, Giuliano | The Land Question in South Africa: an historical and contemporary (policy) perspective from KwaZulu-Natal | B2 | |
| Masika, Rachel | Agency and the practice of everyday life: To what extent do mobile ICTs support development aims and goals in Uganda? | D7 | |
| Massey, Simon | Smuggling and trafficking of people by sea from Africa to Europe | E4 | |
| Matos, Madalena | Portugese Architectural Networks in Lourenço Marques/Maputo ; from pre-independence to the present. | A7 | |
| Max-Kyne, Sao-Kpato | Capacity needs assessment of the extractive sector in Sierra Leone. | H4 | |
| May, Roy | Contemporary British Settlement in the Gambia | D3 | |
| McMillan, Leah | A Misguided Curriculum: Decentralised Education Policy in Ghana’s Primary Education System | C1 | |
| Mekusi, Busuyi | Memory, Exile and Identity: a Negotiated Post-Apartheid South Africa in John Kani’s Nothing But The Truth | A3 | |
| Mohale, Gabriele | Oral Traditions not for Archives: The Case of Lobolo/Magadi | F2 | |
| Moore, Lorraine | Beware the elephant in the bush: the potential role of myths in mitigating human elephant impacts in West Caprivi, Namibia | E6 | |
| Moradi, Alexander | Measuring Well-Being in Kenya during the last century: Mapping Regional Inequalities in Nutrition and Health, 1880-2000 | E2 | |
| Morgan, Sharon | African Women bridging the digital divide: women’s participation in the Information Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in Botswana | D7 | |
| Moyo, Philani | Urban Agriculture and Poverty Reduction in Urban Zimbabwe: Prospects and Obstacles | G7 | |
| Msiska, Mpalive | African Popular Fiction and the Burden of Post-colonial Formation: David Maillu’s For Mbatha and Rabeka and Benni Kamba 009 in Operation DXT | H5 | |
| Mustapha, Mala | State, Petro-violence and the Dynamics of Conflict Management in the Niger-Delta | H1 | |
| Ncozana, Jonathan Mzathu | The educational role and the perception and attitude of Xhosa diviners towards HIV/AIDS in the 21st century | F3 | |
| Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. | Positioning Africa within Global Governance: From Soft Humanitarian Case to A Strong Strategic Player | B5 | |
| Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. | Performing the Nation: The Case of ‘uMdala Wethu’ Galas in Zimbabwe | C5 | |
| Newbury, Darren | “Civilisation on Trial”: Michael Scott and Early Political Documentary in South Africa | A6 | |
| Nosike, Austin Njiribeako | Ethnicism, Social Conflict and Nation Building in Africa: the experience of Southern Nigeria | B6 | |
| Nosike, Austin Njiribeako | Repositioning the Management of Education in Nigeria: Perspectives on Assessment Evaluation | C1 | |
| Nosike, Austin Njiribeako | Reinventing the African Urban Space: Complexities of Poverty, Inequality and Violence in Cities of the Niger Delta Region | G7 | |
| Nwaka, Geoffrey | Promoting Good Urban Governance and Planning in Africa: Implications for the NEPAD Agenda | G2 | |
| Obi, Cyril | Oiling the Developmental State? Re-thinking the State-Oil Nexus in Africa | H1 | |
| Ogola, George | Cyber publics as 'floating nations': The Kenyan diaspora and the digital media | C7 | |
| Ojakorotu, Victor | Positioning Africa within Global Governance: From Soft Humanitarian Case to A Strong Strategic Player | B5 | |
| Okon, Friday | Ibibio Oral Tradition, World View and Pop Culture: A Case of Pacifism in the Midst of Violence | F2 | |
| Porter, Abioseh | History, Poetry, Fiction, and Film Coming Together to Correct Some Major Lies in Contemporary Form: Human Freedom and the Abolition of the Slave Trade. | A4 | |
| Porter, Gina | Linkages between children's physical mobility, health and well-being: studies from rural and urban Ghana | E1 | |
| Potts, Deborah | The best and worst of living in the city: gendered attitudes to Harare, Zimbabwe | F6 | |
| Reid, Richard | Nation of Rock and Hard Place: Genealogies of violence, victimhood and identity in modern Eritrea | E7 | |
| Roberts, Jonathan | Pan-Africanism through the Beer Glass: Michael Power and the Guinness Masculinity | G5 | |
| Ronnenberg, Ryan | A good Host: A Historical Analysis of Refugee and Host Communities in Western Tanzania) | E5 | |
| Routley, Laura | Globalization and local NGOs: The production of the local and the global | D6 | |
| Salifu, Seidu | A troubled generation: educational achievements among the generations African Caribbean people in the United Kingdom | E1 | |
| Santschi, Martina | Traditional authorities and state-building in the ‘New Sudan’ | D4 | |
| Schumann, Anne | The Role of Coupe-Decale Music in the Ivorian Crisis: a new Relationship with France | A6 | |
| Sebestyen, Eva | A Mbundu Attempt to Create their Own Archives: Village Writings in Angola during 18-20th Centuries | F3 | |
| Serrano, Maria | Refugee militarization and civil war. Contesting the greed hypothesis on the causes of civil wars through forced migration literature. The case of Rwandan refugees. | E5 | |
| Siegert, Nadine | Kuduru – real and virtual cultural areas in Angolan Popular Culture | A1 | |
| Southgate, Chris | Cultures in Transition – the impact of ecotourism on the aspirations and perceptions of Maasai children and parents | E6 | |
| Stephens, Rhiannon | Economic Organisation and Ideologies of Motherhood in Precolonial Uganda | F6 | |
| Stump, Daryl | Past and Policy: Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Agriculture in Highland Tanzania | C4 | |
| Uchendu, Egodi | Negotiating relationships in a mixed religious society | F4 | |
| Udogu, E. Ike | The Antinomy of Human Rights Practices: The Case of Peripheral populations in Africa | F7 | |
| Udogu, E. Ike | The Antinomy of Human Rights Practices: The Case of Peripheral populations in Africa | G3 | |
| Uduku, Nwola | Lagos, Legacy Heritage and Identity | A7 | |
| Ugochukwu, Francoise | Meeting with the ghosts – Nigerian videos and their ancestral ties | C6 | |
| Van den Bersselaar, Dmitri | “Keeps you fit and healthy”: schnapps gin in West Africa, 1945-70 | G5 | |
| van Donge, Jan Kees | Comparing Tanzania with Vietnam: The elusive supply response as compared to the evident supply response. | G1 | |
| Venkatachalam, Meera | From Celebration to Repentance Mapping the Ghosts of Slavery along the West Coast of Africa | C2 | |
| von Hellermann, Pauline | Evoking the Past: Missionary Photography and Landscape Memory in the Pare Mountains, Northwestern Tanzania | C4 | |
| Wai, Zubairu | The Knowledge Question and African Conflicts: The Case of the Sierra Leone Civil War | H4 | |
| Wakili, Haruna | Media and Conflict Management in Nigeria: A Survey of Press Coverage of Ethno-Religious Conflicts in Metropolitan Kano, 1991-2001 | B7 | |
| Wakili, Haruna | Islam and Democratic Development in Nigeria: the Ulama and 2007 Elections in Kano | F4 | |
| Wakunuma-Zojer, Kutoma J. | Policy, ICTs and the Sexes: An Analysis of the Missing Link in Zambia’s ICT Policy for Development and Empowerment | D7 | |
| Wasserman, Herman | Past and present media for development in Africa: The case of South African tabloids | A1 | |
| Willems, Wendy | Performing the Nation: The Case of ‘uMdala Wethu’ Galas in Zimbabwe | C5 | |
| Wisnicki, Adrian | Imperialism at/to the “Margins” - Reading Regionalism and Multidirectional Agency in Nineteenth-Century Africa | B1 | |
