Edited by Tanya Lyons, Flinders University
The twenty sixth Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia was held at Flinders University Adelaide Australia from the 1st to 3rd of October 2003. The aim of the conference was to examine all of the major issues facing Africa today, and to put Africa in focus on a global stage. Understanding the African context is an important factor in coming to terms with current world events. The following papers presented at this international conference by members of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific have been peer reviewed by a panel of scholars.Keynote Address
African Resistance, Colonialism, and Contemporary
Intervention
William Reno, North Western University
State and
Civil Society in Africa with special reference to Zimbabwe
Pieter Labuschagne, University of South Africa
Global Impulses / Local
Politics: Comparing two Eras of Constitution making in Kenya
Edith A. Miguda, Adelaide University
Regional Implications for Europe,
Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific
Teresa Thorp, Observatoire des Relations internationales du Développement et
de la Francophonie
What is the World Bank doing about
Poverty Reduction in Africa?
Helen Ware, University of New England
Globalization,
Urbanization and Municipal Solid Waste Management in Africa.
Eric Achankeng, University of Adelaide
University Research Centres in
Central Sub-Saharan Africa – A Capacity Building Objective in Engineering and
Technology
Steven Riley, University of Western Sydney
An Approach to ICT based school
education in Tanzania
JP Senzige and K. Sarukesi, Institute of Finance Management, Dar es
Salaam.
Human Rights in Africa in the
New Global Order: A Dilemma?
Martin Bimbo Ogunbanjo, Babcock University, Nigeria
"The Second Betrayal?"
Globalizing Rwanda’s Genocide
Colin Cameron, Griffith University
From Bad to Worse: Land Reforms in
Coastal Kenya 1908-1960s.
Hamidin Bin Abd Hamid, University Malaya
Orality, Music and HIV/AIDS:
interrogating the Malawi popular public sphere
John Lwanda
Does Cultural Studies have anything
to offer African Studies? Introducing a cultural studies perspective by
considering Afrikaner and South African black nationalism
Eric Louw, University of Queensland
Encountering the "Other": The
"Local" and the "Global" in Recent
Nigerian Popular Fiction
Rita Nnodim, Eufo-Institut, Institute of Development and Research
"'While We are Available to Help
and Guide'; The Establishment of the Pengana Chieftaincy, Northern Jos, Nigeria,
1950-55".
Peter J. Yearwood University of Papua New Guinea, and John Nengel, University of
Jos. (Map of Region)
"The last of the Queen's men". A
true story?
David Lucas, ANU
The state of South Africa's Human
Capital
Yaw Amoateng (Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town),
David Lucas (Demography and Sociology
Program, The Australian National University), and Ishamel Kalule-Sabiti
(Population and Research Training Unit, University of the North West, Mafikeng).
The Impact of Theories of
Civilization and Savagery on Native Policy in Colonial Natal
Jeremy Martens, History Discipline, University of Western Australia
"South African diplomats in
Australia 1949-1970"
David Tothill, Freelance Historian and Former Diplomat
The State of African Studies
In Australia
Tanya Lyons, Flinders University and Elizabeth Dimock, La Trobe university
Two
Worlds Integration, Synthesis or Conflict? Psychological Perspectives on
Cultural identity
Jane Gilbert.
The Hausa Code of Worldlife: A
Paremiological Exposition
Muhammad Lawal Amin, Ahmadu Bello University
Bandung Conference: The Quest
for a Moral Resolution to the Color Question
Gordon Cyrus Mwangi, Shikoku Gakuin University
Reclaiming Democracy for
Africa: Alarming signs of Post- Deomcratic Governance
Samuel M. Makinda, Murdoch University
Searching for the Elusive
Success: the politics and hurdles of post-1999 land reform policy in South
Africa
Samuel Kariuki, Wits University
Trokosi Slavery: injustice
in the name of religion
Benjamin Rinaudo, La Trobe University
Cabinda and Somaliland
Jeremy Wells, Flinders University