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UCONN AFRICA NOTES vol. 6, no. 20 (March 8, 1999)
UPCOMING EVENTS AT UCONN
March 22. Film. Kongi's Harvest (Nigeria, 1970). Monteith 143, free, 6 pm.
March 29. Talk. Ernest Nneji Emenyonu (Visiting Professor at Southern Connecticut State University, from Nigeria.) Artistic Vision and Political Morality in Contemporary Africa: The Example of Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People. Monteith 143, 6:00 pm.
UPCOMING EVENTS REGIONALLY
March 10. Conference. WHO SPEAKS FOR AFRICAN WOMEN?: PARTNERSHIP FOR CHANGE. Dag Hammarskjold Lounge, School of Int'l and Public Affairs, Columbia U. 420 W. 118th St., 2:00-6:00 pm.
March 10. Talk. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (Bunting Inst.). The Cry of Apartheid's Crusader: Contradictions, Psychological Meanings, and South Africa's Most Condemned Perpetrator. Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, 15 Commowealth Ave., Boston. 8:00 pm.
March 11. Talk. William Everett (Andover Newton Theological School). Religion and Life in South Africa: Emerging Challenges. Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis St., Cambridge. noon-1:00 pm.
March 13. Benefit Concert for Sierra Leone. Maitisong, Footsteps Through Africa Part 2: A Celebration of Africa. Lowell Hall, corner of Kirkland and Oxford Sts, Cambridge. Sponsored by the Harvard African Students Assn. 8:00 pm.
March 15. Talk. Olufemi Akinola. Nigeria: What's right with an Obasanjo Presidency: And what's left of its critics? ASC, BU, 270 Bay State Road, Boston. noon-1:30 pm.
March 18. Talk. Pauline Peters (Harvard). Deconstructing Market Liberalization: Agricultural Commercialization in Malawi. Coolidge Hall, Harvard, 1737 Cambridge St., 4:00 pm.
March 22. Talk. Andrew Horn (BU). Popular Theatre and Political Power in Africa--Complicity and Confrontation. ASC, BU, 270 Bay State Road. Boston, noon-1:30 pm.
March 25. Talk. Paul Collier (World Bank). Causes and Consequences of Civil War. HIID, Harvard, 1 Eliot Str., 4:00 pm.
March 26. Talk. James McCann (BU). Maize and Grace: Africa's Green Revolution and Landscapes of Memory, 1500-1999. Inst. for Social and Policy Studies, Yale, 77 Prospect. 11 am to 1 pm.
April 21. AFRICA BUSINESS CONFERENCE 1999. Hosted by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development. For info visit the conference website: www.state.ct.us/ecd/Africa'99 _____________________________________________________________________________
CONFERENCE. A conference on Africa, Islam, and Development will be hosted by the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh, May 26-27, 1999. For info: Pravina King, E-mail: p.king@ed.ac.uk
CALL FOR PAPERS: A Conference on New African Perspectives: Africa, Australasia, and the Wider World at the End of the Twentieth Century. St. George's College, Univ. of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Nov. 26-28, 1999. For info contact: Professor Cherry Gertzel, E-mail: gertzel@spectrum.curtin.edu.au; or Dr. Peter Limb, E-mail: plimb@library.uwa.edu.au _____________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:00:12 -0500 From: Larry Bowman <BOWMAN@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU> Subject: UCONN AFRICA NOTES
Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar
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