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UCONN AFRICA NOTES
Vol. 4, no. 17 (March 3, 1997)
UPCOMING EVENTS AT UCONN:
March 4. Talk and Book Signing. Lucy McNeece (French Studies). Art and Politics in Duras' "India Cycle". UConn Coop, 4:00 p.m.
March 4. Talk. Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen will speak on Kofi Annan, the new Secretary General of the United Nations. Room 162, Dodd Center, 8:00 p.m.
March 7. Film. Touki Bouki (Senegal). Babbidge Library, Video Theater 1, 3:00 p.m.
March 11. Talk. Shaheen Mozaffar (Bridgewater State U.). Assessing the Potential for Survival of Presidential Democracies in Africa. Monteith 119, 12:15-1:30 p.m.
UPCOMING EVENTS REGIONALLY:
March 5. Talk. Michael Bratton (Michigan State). Political Participation in New Democracies: International Considerations from Zambia. CFIA, Harvard U, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge. 4:00 p.m.
March 6. Talk. Shadrack Gutto (Witswatersrand U.). Constitutionalism and Affirmative Action in the New South Africa. Pound 201, Harvard U. Law School. 4:30 p.m.
March 6. Talk. Jabulani Tafari, Issues between African-Americans and Caribbean Americans. Gengras Student Union, Univ. of Hartford. 6:30 p.m.
March 6. Film. Afrique, Je Te Plumerai (Cameroon, 1992). Luce Hall, Yale U., 34 Hillhouse Ave. New Haven. 7:00 p.m.
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SUMMER STUDY PROGRAM. African Literature and History (June 24- August 7, 1997) in South Africa. For Info: Northwestern University Summer Session. Tel: 1-800-FINDSNU; FAX: 847-491-3660; E-mail:summer@nwu.edu http://www.nwu.edu/summernu/
CONFERENCE: Africa in a Changing World, Seventh All-Russia Conference of Africanists, October 1-3, 1997. For info: Dr. Yuri Ilyin, Inst. of African Studies, 30/1 Spiridonovka St., Moscow, Russia 103001. Fax: 7 (095) 202-07-86; E-mail: dir@inafr.msk.su
AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL: African Studies Center, Michigan State U., April 18-19, 1997. The works of Bassek ba Kohbio, Djibril Diop Mambety, Gaston Kabore, Ngozi Onwurah, Flora M'Mbugu-Schelling, Salem Mekuria, and Tsitsi Dangarembga will be featured. For info: Tel: 517-353-1700.
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Items for inclusion in UCONN AFRICAN NOTES should be sent directly to Larry W. Bowman, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of Conn., Storrs, CT 06268. FAX (860-486-3347); E-mail: bowman@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970303164644.006780f4@uconnvm.uconn.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 11:46:44 -0500 From: "Larry W. Bowman" <BOWMAN@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU> Subject: UCONN AFRICA NOTES
Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar
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