CURRICULUM VITAE

PAUL TIYAMBE ZELEZA

Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Professor of African American Studies and History

Head, Department of African American Studies University of Illinois at Chicago 1231 University Hall, M/C 069,

601 South Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60607, USA

Work Telephone: 312-996-2952 Work e-mail: zeleza@uic.edu

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A. EDUCATION AND WORK A. EDUCATION Ph.D. 1978-1982: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Courses in African History and Economic History Thesis Title: Dependent Capitalism and the Making of the Kenyan Working Class During the Colonial Period. M.A. 1977-78: University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies and London School of Economics). Courses in African History and International Relations Thesis Title: The Sisal Industry in Tanganyika, 1920-1948. B.A. 1972-1976: University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi. Courses in Mathematics, Sociology, Political Science, History and English Majored in History and English Degree Status: Passed with Distinction. B. WORK EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION January 2007-: University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Professor of African American Studies and History and Head, Department of African American Studies Adjunct Professor of History and African and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa Courses Taught Africa and Its Diasporas 2003-6: Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA Professor of African and African American Studies and History, Departments of History and African and African American Studies Courses Taught Comparative Colonialism: Africa (Graduate Seminar) African History Since 1500 South Africa Today Contemporary Africa

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Ancient African History Africa and Its Diasporas Imperialism and Nationalism in Modern African History Supervision of graduate students in the departments of History, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and College of Education 1995 - 2003: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA Professor of History and African Studies; Director, Center for African Studies Courses Taught History of Africa African Independence and Underdevelopment: 1945 to Present The Development of African Studies (Graduate Seminar) African Economic History Supervision of graduate students in the department of History 1990 - 1995: Trent University, Ontario, Canada 1994-1995: Principal, Lady Eaton College 1994-1995: Acting Director, Trent International Program 1995: Professor, Departments of History and Comparative Development Studies 1991-94: Associate Professor, Departments of History and Comparative Development Studies 1990-1991: Assistant Professor, Department of History Courses Taught The Emergence of Modern Africa African Labor History A Survey pf West European History from the Middle Ages to the Present World History Since 1500 Comparative Development Studies Field Course - Jamaica 1990 (January-June): Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Visiting Research Fellow 1988-1989: The Catholic Higher Institute for Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Visiting Lecturer Courses Taught: Graduate Methods of Historical Research Theories and Processes of Development in Africa Supervision of MA Dissertations 1984-1989: Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya 1987-1989: Senior Lecturer, Department of History 1984-1987: Lecturer, Department of History Acting Department Head on several occasions

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Courses Taught: Undergraduate African Economic History History of Southern Africa History of East Africa Third World Economic History History of Africa Graduate Social and Economic Processes in Africa Comparative Labor History Supervision of M.A. and Ph.D. candidates 1982-1984: University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica Lecturer, Department of History Courses Taught History of Southern Africa History of West Africa 1979-1980: University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Research Associate, Department of History 1976-1977: Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba Teaching Assistant, Department of History Courses Taught History of Southern Africa History of West Africa C. AWARDS AND HONORS SCHOLARLY AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS 2007. LAS Distinguished Professor (University of Illinois at Chicago) 2006. Liberal Arts Research Professor (Pennsylvania State University). 2006. The College of the Liberal Arts Class of 1933 Distinction in the Humanities Award (Pennsylvania State University). BOOK AWARDS 2004. Finalist for the Conner-Porter Award (made by the Association of African Studies) for

Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African History. 2004. Honorable Mention, Conover-Porter Award for excellence in Africana bibliography or

reference work, awarded by The Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association (U.S.) for Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African History.

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2004. Outstanding Academic Title selected by Choice for Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African History.

2002. Short-listed for Africa’s 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century, organized by the “Zimbabwe International Book Fair in consultation and cooperation with the African Publishers' Network (APNET), the Pan-African Booksellers Association (PABA), the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), African scholars and friends of Africa throughout the world,” for A Modern Economic History of Africa, Vol.1: The Nineteenth Century.

2001. Nominated for Africa’s 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century for A Modern Economic History of Africa, Vol.1: The Nineteenth Century; Manufacturing African Studies and Crises; and Smouldering Charcoal.

1998. Special Commendation of the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa for book, Manufacturing African Studies and Crises (for second best book published in Africa in any of the following three categories: scholarly, creative, and children’s books).

1994. Noma Award for Publishing in Africa for book, A Modern Economic History of Africa, Vol.1: The Nineteenth Century (for the best book published in Africa in any of the following three categories: scholarly, creative, and children’s books).

1974. First Prize, Tenth Anniversary of Independence Essay Competition (University Category). WHO’S WHO Who’s Who in the World Marquis World Who’s Who Europa Biographical Reference PERSONAL GRANTS Excluding negotiated annual personal research grants from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995-2003); the Pennsylvania State University (2003-6); and the University of Illinois at Chicago (2007-). 2008. $250,000 “Rethinking Race and Affirmative Action in the US and South Africa”, Ford

Foundation, New York, PI; collaborators from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Cape Town

2005. $200,000 Ford Foundation, Office for Eastern Africa. Project: “Africa and Its Diasporas: Dispersals and Linkages.”

2002. $11,000 Ford Foundation, Office for North Africa. Project: “African Studies in Egypt: Exploring Linkages.”

2001. $40,000 Ford Foundation, Office for Eastern Africa. Project: “Building Linkages between Africa and the North in the Age of Globalization.”

1998: $3,000 African Studies Association. Project: International Visitors Program. 1998: $3,000 African Studies Association. Project: Program Chair of the Association’s Annual

Meeting. 1997: $13,000 University of Illinois Research Board. Project: “African Economic History in the

Twentieth Century.” 1996: $2,000 University of Illinois Research Board. Project: Conference Travel. 1994-1998: $48,000 Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada). Project:

“Peasant Labor Processes in Kenya: The Dynamics of Ecology and Gender.”

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1992: $3,000 Trent University-SSHRC. Project: “African Economic History in the Twentieth Century.”

1990-1991: $25,000 Rockefeller-CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) Reflections on Development Fellowship. Project: “African Economic History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.”

1989-90: $50,000. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the Ford Foundation, Nairobi. Project: “Refugees in Kenya: A Needs/Refugees, Opportunity and Institution Assessment.”

1989: Ksh.10,000 Centre de Recherches, d’Exchanges et de Documentation Universitaire (CREDU). Project: “The Strike Movement in Colonial Kenya.”

1988: Ksh.70,000. The Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Deans’ Research Grants Committee, Kenyatta University. Project: “The Participation of Women in the Kenyan Labor Process and the Labor Movement, 1963-1987.”

1983: J$5,000 University of the West Indies Research and Travel Grant. Project: “The Historiography of Southern Africa.”

INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS Funds raised as principal grant writer or organizer of the event Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2002-2003 Academic Year: $906,000 US Department of Education Title VI program Project: National Resource Center and FLAS fellowships for 2003-2006 2001-2002 Academic Year: $433,000 $325,000 Rockefeller Foundation, New York Project: Humanities Institute on Education and African Modernities. $60,000 Ford Foundation, Nairobi Office. $23,000 Carnegie Corporation of New York Project: Annual Spring Symposium, “African Universities in the Twenty-First Century.” $25,000 National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Focus Grants. Project: “Africa and Education in the Era of Globalization.” 2000-2001 Academic Year: $143,000 $63,000 US Department of Education Project: Group Projects Abroad; to take school teachers to Ghana $80,000 from various colleges and departments at UIUC Project: Annual Spring Symposium, “Technology and Development in Africa.” 1999-2000 Academic Year: $1,236,000 $1, 212,000 US Department of Education Title VI program Project: National Resource Center and FLAS fellowships for 2000-2003

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$14,000.Partnership Illinois, UIUC. Project: African Virtual Trade Mission. 1998-99 Academic Year: $40,000 $8,000 International Programs and Studies and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC Project: Supplementary grant for the Center’s grant from the Ford Foundation. $33,000 from various colleges and departments at UIUC Project: Annual Spring Symposium, “Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Africa.” $2,000 for MillerComm Lectures, UIUC Project: Public Lecture (Abena Busia). 1997-98 Academic Year: $142,396 $50,000 Ford Foundation, New York. Project: “African Studies: Towards the Next Century.” $25,000 Rockefeller Foundation, New York Project: African Graduate Students’ Dissertation Workshop. $7,076 from various colleges and departments at UIUC Project: Center’s Fall Colloquium, “The ‘Posts’ and African Studies.” $3,250 for MillerComm Lectures, UIUC Project: 2 Public Lectures (Ambassador of DRC to Washington; Nawal el Saadawi). $27,320 from various colleges and departments at UIUC Project: Annual Spring Symposium. $15,000 Partnership Illinois, UIUC. Project: “Power and Beauty: A Learning Module on African Art and Culture.” $8,000 from various colleges and departments at UIUC Project: African Business Workshop. $5,000 Cooperative Collection Management Coordination Committee, UIUC Project: Graduate Students Fellowship. $1,750 Interinstitutional Collaborations Program, UIUC. Project: Graduate Students’ recruitment for Center’s MA program. 1996-97 Academic Year: $1,104,307 $1,039,957 US Department of Education Title VI program Project: National Resource Center and FLAS fellowships for 1997-2000

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$11,000 from various colleges and departments at UIUC Project: Annual Spring Symposium, “The Creation and Consumption of Leisure in Urban Africa.” $15,000 from MillerComm and various colleges and departments at UIUC in collaboration with Eastern Illinois University Project: Public Lecture (Wole Soyinka). $7,000 Illinois Council for the Arts Project: Outreach - Pan-African Orchestra, Ghana. $1,750 Interinstitutional Collaborations Program, UIUC. Project: Graduate Students’ recruitment for Center’s MA program. $4,600 from various colleges and departments at UIUC Project: 2nd Mid-West Graduate Students Conference, UIUC. $25,000 Rockefeller Foundation (jointly with Northwestern University). Project: African Graduate Students’ Dissertation Workshop. 1995-96 Academic Year: $23,000 $3,000 from various colleges and departments at UIUC Project: Center’s 25th Anniversary Celebrations Lectures (Jane Guyer; Thandika Mkandawire; and Pearl Robinson). $20,000 from various colleges and departments at UIUC Project: Annual Spring Symposium, “Space, Culture and Society in Africa.” D. CONSULTANCIES AND ADVISORY WORK 2004. Chair, Institutional Review Panel, Africa Institute of South Africa, August 21-29. 2004-: Advisory Board, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. 2003-5: Gender Advisory Group (nine members), United Nations Research Institute for Social

Development, to produce Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World (Geneva: UNRISD, 2005), launched at the United Nations Headquarters, Commission on the Status of Women, New York, March 8, 2005.

2001: Consultant to Freedom Park History Museum Project, South Africa. 2000-2001: Consultant to the Ford Foundation on the African Universities Initiative 2000: Consultant to the McArthur Foundation on the African Universities Initiative. 1998: Invited consultant, plan to set up Center for African Studies at Rutgers: The University of

the State of New Jersey. 1997: Invited Program Reviewer, Center for African Studies, University of California at Los

Angeles.

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1996-99: Consultant, “Hopes on The Horizon: The African Media Project” by Blackside, Inc (Producer of the PBS documentary series Eyes on the Prize I & II and other documentaries).

1995: Ontario Arts Council, assessing proposals for provincial funding in poetry, fiction and scholarly writing.

1995: Metro Toronto Zoo (Ontario, Canada), “The African Savanna Project.” 1994: Canada Arts Council, assessing proposals for federal funding in poetry, fiction and drama. Manuscript Reviews In addition to the journals on whose editorial boards I am a member, I have refereed articles for numerous journals, such as African Urban Quarterly; Africa Development; Canadian Journal of African Studies; Canadian Journal of Development Studies; and Canadian Historical Association Journal, as well as book length manuscripts for various academic publishers, such as Codesria Book Series. Review of Grant Proposals I have periodically been asked to review proposals for grants and fellowships for the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the American Social Sciences Research Council, and Fulbright-Hays. Tenure and Promotion Reviews 2008: Johns Hopkins University 2008: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2007: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2007: Columbia University 2007: Cornell University 2006: Rice University 2004. Binghamton University, State University of New York 2004: University of Rochester 2004: Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario 2004. University of Alabama at Birmingham 2003: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 1998: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 1998: Loyola University Chicago 1998: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1998: University of Toronto 1998: City University of New York 1998: University of California, Los Angeles 1997: Tufts University 1993: Ontario Institute for Special Education, University of Toronto External Examiner for Ph.D. Dissertations 1998: York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 1997: University of Toronto 1995: York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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E. COMMITTEES AND ASSOCIATIONS UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES University of Illinois at Chicago University Committees Provost’s Diversity Committee Urban Health Program Review Board Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy UIC Senate Search and Promotion and Tenure Committees As head of an interdisciplinary department I regularly head or conduct joint searches with other departments besides those for 100% appointments in African American Studies. I have also conducted several P&T cases for tenure and promotion to Associate professor and promotion from Associate to Full Professor. Pennsylvania State University Department of African and African American Studies Curriculum Committee External Relations Committee Strategic Planning Committee Promotion and Tenure Committee Search Committees Department of History Policy Committee University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University Committees International Council (1997-2000) Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences/Fine and Applied Arts, Task Force on the Humanities (1997-98) Search and Promotion and Tenure Committees 1998: Director, Women in International Development 1997: Associate Provost for International Affairs 1996-97: Assistant Professor of English and African Studies In my capacity as Director of the Center for African Studies, I participated in the campus interviews of several Africanist faculty brought by various departments. I also prepared tenure and promotion materials for faculty with partial appointment in the Center and participated in cases of other faculty affiliated with the Center.

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Trent University Department of History Curriculum Committee Personnel Committee Comparative Development Studies Curriculum Committee Champlain College Liaison for Visiting Writers University Committees Admissions and Scholarships Bookshop Committee (Chair) Presidential Planning and Priorities Steering Committee—Curriculum Human Rights Committee (Chair) Writers’ Reading Series African Studies Working Group Tenure Review and Search Committees On many occasions I served on tenure and search committees by appointment or in my capacity as a member of the committees listed above and as College Principal. Kenyatta University Department of History Representative to the Graduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Arts Acting Chair of the department on several occasions ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AND JOURNALS Editor, Umodzi, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Students' Magazine, 1975-76. Collecting Editor, ODI, a Bilingual Quarterly of Malawian Writing, 1974-1975 Founder Member of the Malawian Writers' Series Editorial Board, 1974-76. Member, Executive Board, Canadian Artists Network: Black Artists in Action (CAN:BAIA),

1992-1997. Member, Editorial Board, The Toronto Review, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1994-2000 SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS Life Member, Kenya Historical Association. Member, Association of Caribbean Historians, 1983-1984. Member, Kenya National Examinations Council, History Panel, 1986-1989. Member, Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS), 1981-1984; 1990-2004 Member-at-large, Canadian Association of African Studies Executive, 1991-1995 Member, Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID), 1991-4

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Vice-President African Studies Association, October 2007-November 2008 President, African Studies Association, November 2008-November 2009 Member, Editorial Board, Afrika Zamani, Dakar, Senegal, 1994-2003 Editor, Newsletter of the Pan-African Caucus, 1995-97 Member, Editorial Board, Rochester Series on African History and the Diaspora, Rochester

University Press, 1997- Member, Editorial Board, African History Series, Cambridge University Press, 1997-98. Member, Editorial Board, Trans-African Journal of History, 1998-2002 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Eastern African Research and Development, 1998-2002 Member, Steering Committee of the Civil Society Program of the Council for the Development

of Social Science Research in Africa, 1998-2001. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1999- Member, Editorial Board, Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review, 1999-2003. Member, Editorial Board, Africa Review of Books, 2002- Member, Editorial Board, African Review of Foreign Policy, 2002-2004 Member, Editorial Board, Mawazo, 2002-2004 Member, Editorial Committee, Feminist Africa, 2002- Contributing Editor, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 2002-. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 2003- Member, Editorial Board, LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 2006- Member, Editorial Board, Review of Leadership in Africa, 2006- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Eastern Africa Studies, 2006- Member, Editorial Board, African Renaissance Studies, 2006- Member, Editorial Board, African Historical Review, 2007- Editor, The Zeleza Post (www.zeleza.com) COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS President, Association of the African Community in Jamaica, 1983-1984. Member, Executive Committee, Malawi Action Committee, 1992-1994. Shadow Minister of Industry and Energy, United Democratic Front, Malawi, 1993-4. PUBLICATIONS

a) Books and Reports b) Articles and Chapters c) Book Reviews d) Popular Publications e) Short Stories

A. BOOKS AND REPORTS FICTION 1994. The Joys of Exile: Stories. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 194pp.

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1992. Smouldering Charcoal. Oxford, United Kingdom: Heinemann International, 183pp. 1976. Night of Darkness and Other Stories. Limbe, Malawi: Montfort Press, 217pp. POPULAR In Press 2009. Blogging Africa: From Katrina to Kenya via Paris and Beijing (Oxford: Ayebia, Athens: Ohio University Press. ACADEMIC Forthcoming A Modern Economic History of Africa, Volume 2: The Twentieth Century. Dakar: Codesria Book

Series. Rethinking Africa’s Globalization, Volume 2: The Developmental Challenges, Trenton, NJ:

Africa World Press. African and Its Diasporas: Dispersals and Linkages (Negotiating with a publisher). Published 2008. The Roots of African Conflicts: The Causes and Costs. Oxford: James Currey; Athens,

Ohio: Ohio University Press; Pretoria, SA: University of South Africa Press, xii+244. (Co-edited with Alfred Nhema)

2008. The Resolution of African Conflicts: The management of Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction. Oxford: James Currey; Ohio: Ohio University Press; Pretoria, SA: University of South Africa Press, xv+206. (Co-edited with Alfred Nhema)

2007. The Study of Africa. Volume 1: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Encounters. Dakar: Codesria Book Series, x+483pp. Edited.

2007. The Study of Africa, Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements. Dakar: Codesria Book Series, x+409pp. Edited.

2005. New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. (6 Volumes) New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 3,600pp (Associate Editor; Editor Maryanne Cline Horowitz).

2004. Human Rights, the Rule of Law and Development in Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, vi+302pp. (Co-edited with Philip J. McConnaughay).

2004. African Universities in the 21st Century, Volume1: Liberalization and Internationalization. Dakar, Pretoria: Codesria Book Series, University of South Africa Press, xiii+317pp. (Co-edited with Adebayo Olukoshi).

2004. African Universities in the 21st Century, Volume 2: Knowledge and Society. Dakar, Pretoria: Codesria Book Series, University of South Africa Press, xii+356pp. (Co-edited with Adebayo Olukoshi).

2003. Rethinking Africa’s Globalization, Volume1: The Intellectual Challenges, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, xi+500pp.

2003. Leisure in African Cities. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, xli+455. (Co-edited With Cassandra Rachel Veney).

2003. In Search of Modernity: Science and Technology in Africa. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, xxix+642pp. (Co-edited with Ibulaimu Kakoma).

2003. Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African History. London: Routledge, xix + 652pp. (Co-edited with Dickson Eyoh)

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2001. Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, ix+171pp. (Co-edited with Cassandra Veney).

1999. Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels: African Cultural and Economic Landscapes. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, viii+370pp. (Co-edited with Ezekiel Kalipeni).

1997. Manufacturing African Studies and Crises. Dakar: Codesria Book Series, viii+617pp. 1993. A Modern Economic History of Africa. Volume1: The Nineteenth Century. Dakar:

Codesria, vii+501pp. 1988. Labor, Unionization and Women’s Participation in Kenya: 1963-1987. Nairobi: Friedrich

Ebert Foundation, 207pp. SHORT MONOGRAPHS AND REPORTS 1998. Crises, Conflicts and Transformations in Africa. Report of CODESRIA 8th General

Assembly. Dakar: Codesria Book Series, 105pp. (with Momar C. Diop) 1987. Imperialism and Labor: The International Relations of the Kenyan Labor Movement.

Kisumu: Anyange Publications, 37pp. 1985. UNESCO Conference on the Revision of History Textbooks in East and Central Africa.

March 25-30, Nairobi, 77pp. 1984. UNESCO Conference on the Revision of History Textbooks in East and Central Africa.

December 13-18, Nairobi, 51pp. TEXTBOOKS AND JUVENILE 1994. Maasai. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 64pp. 1994. Akamba. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 64pp. 1994. Mijikenda. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 64pp. 1989. Revising for History and Government for K.C.S.E. London and Nairobi: Evans Brothers,

170pp. (With A. Williams and M. Sharman). Themes in Kenyan and World History, Volumes 1-4. London: Evans Brothers (With Adrian

Williams; Unpublished). GUEST EDITED JOURNALS Forthcoming Research in African Literatures: Special Issue to Commemorate Abolition of the Atlantic Slave

Trade. (Co-Edited with Adeleke Adeeko and Natasha Barnes) 2002. African Issues (A Journal of the U.S. African Studies Association), Special Issue on “The

African Brain Drain to the North: Pitfalls and Possibilities.” (Co-Edited with Cassandra R. Veney).

B. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS JOURNAL ARTICLES Forthcoming “The Developmental and Democratic Challenges of Postcolonial Kenya,” Africa Today Special

issue on Kenya.

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“Dancing to the Beat of the Diaspora: Musical Exchanges between Africa and its Diasporas,” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal

“The Challenges of Studying the African Diasporas,” African Sociological Review In Press “The Struggle for Human Rights in Africa,” Canadian Journal of African Studies “African Studies at Fifty: Confronting Old and New Challenges,” Transition Published 2008. “Dancing with the Dragon: Africa’s Courtship with China,” The Global South 2, 2: 170-

186. 2008. “Contemporary African Global Migrations: Patterns, Perils, and Possibilities” Journal of

Global Initiatives 3, 1: 33-56 2007. “The Pasts and Futures of African History: A Generational Inventory,” African Historical

Review 39, 1: 1-24. 2007. “Colonial Fictions: Memory and History in Yvonne Vera’s Imagination,” Research in

African Literatures 38, 2: 9-21. 2006. “The Troubled Encounter between Postcolonialism and African History,” Journal of the

Canadian Historical Association 17, 2: 89-129. 2006. “The Disciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Global Dimensions of African Studies,”

International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 1, 2: 195-220. 2005. “Transnational Education and African Universities.” Journal of Higher Education in

Africa 3, 1: 1-28. 2005. “The Politics and Poetics of Exile: Edward Said in Africa.” Research in African

Literatures 36, 3: 1-22. 2005. “Rewriting the African Diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic.” African Affairs 104, 1: 35-

68. 2004. “The African Academic Diaspora in the United States and Africa: The Challenges of

Productive Engagement.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 24, 1: 265-278.

2003. “Transnational Scholarship: Building Linkage between the US Africanist Community and Africa.” African Issues XXX: 69-75.

2003. “Academic Freedom in the Neo-Liberal Order: Governments, Globalization, Governance, and Gender.” Journal of Higher Education in Africa 1, 1:149-194.

2003. “Imagining and Inventing the Postcolonial State in Africa,” Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora 1, 1: 101-123.

2002. “Dr. Gates, We Presume: The Interplay of Text, Audience, and Narrator in Wonders of the African World,” Chemchemi 2, 1: 49-72 (With Zine Magubane).

2002. “African Migrations in a Global Context,” African Issues XXX, 1: 9-14. 2002. “African Universities and Globalization.” Feminist Africa 1: 64-85. 2002. “The African Renaissance: The Recurrent Search for a Usable Future.” Black Renaissance

4, 1 (Spring 2002): 145-154. 2002. “The Politics of Historical and Social Science Research in Africa.” Journal of Southern

African Studies 28, 1: 1-21. 1999. “The Past and Futures of African Studies and Area Studies.” Ufahamu XXV, 2: 1999:5-41.

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1998. “The Perpetual Solitudes and Crises of African Studies in the United States Today.” Africa Today 44, 2: 193-210; also published the Institute of Research and Postgraduate Studies Seminars, Maseno University College, Kenya, Reprint Series No.1 of 1999, 20pp.

1997. “Visions of Freedom and Democracy in Post-Colonial African Literature.” Women Studies Quarterly 25, 3&4: 10-34.

1996. “Manufacturing and Consuming Knowledge: African Libraries and Publishing.” Development in Practice 6, 4: 293-303.

1996. “The Struggle of Memories in Abiku Societies: Reading Recent West African Literature.” The Toronto Review 14, 2: 54-65.

1996. “Reflections on the Traditions of Authoritarianism and Democracy in African History.” Afrika Zamani 2: 223-40.

1995. “The Moral Economy of Working Class Struggle: Strikers, the Community and the State in the 1947 Mombasa General Strike.” Africa Development 20, 3: 51-87.

1994. “The Democratic Transition in Africa and the Anglophone Writer,” Canadian Journal of African Studies 28, 3: 472-97.

1994. With Joan Sangster, “Academic Freedom in Context,” Journal of Canadian Studies 29, 1: 139-144.

1993. “The Strike Movement in Colonial Kenya.” Transafrican Journal of History 22: 1-23. 1992. “African Social Scientists and the Struggle for Academic Freedom.” Journal of Eastern

African Research and Development 22: 11-32. 1991. “Economic Policy and Performance in Kenya since Independence.” Journal of Eastern

African Research and Development 21: 35-76. 1990. “The Production of Historical Knowledge for Schools.” Transafrican Journal of History

19: 1-23. 1990. “The Development of the Cooperative Movement in Kenya since Independence.” Journal

of Eastern African Research and Development 20: 68-94. 1989. “The Global Dimensions of Africa's Crisis: Debts, Structural Adjustment and Workers.”

Transafrican Journal of History 18: 1 -53. 1988. “Women and the Labor Process in Kenya since Independence.” Transafrican Journal of

History 17: 69-107. 1988. “African Sugar on the World Market.” Journal of Eastern African Research and

Development 18: 1-23. 1987. “Trade Union Imperialism: American Labor, the ICFTU and the Kenyan Labor

Movement.” Social and Economic Studies 36, 2: 145-170. 1986. “Pan-African Trade Unionism: Unity and Discord.” Transafrican Journal of History15:

164-190. 1986. “The Current Agrarian Crisis in Africa: Its History and Future.” Journal of Eastern

African Research and Development 16: 151-186. 1986. “Independence on a Silver-Platter: The Emerging Liberal Mythology.” Ufahamu 15, 1&2:

182-201. 1985. “The Political Economy of British Colonial Development and Welfare in Africa.”

Transafrican Journal of History 14: 139-161. 1984. “Colonialism and Internationalism: The Case of the British and Kenyan Labor

Movements,” Ufahamu 14, 1: 9-28.

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1983. “African History: The Rise and Decline of Academic Tourism.” Ufahamu 13, 1: 9-42. BOOK CHAPTERS In Press “Memories of Birth and Other Anecdotes,” in Ato Quayson, ed., Fathers and Daughters: Essays

and Stories on a Special African Relationship. Oxford: Ayebia Publishers. “The Media in Social Development,” in Kimani Njogu and John Middleton, eds., Media and the

Construction of African Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. “Diaspora Dialogues: Engagements between Africa and Its Diasporas,” in Isidore Opkewho and

Nkiru Nzegwu, eds., The New African Diaspora: Assessing the Pains and Gains of Exile. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Published 2008. “The Historic and Humanistic Agendas of African Nationalism: A Reassessment,” in

Toyin Falola and Salah Hassan, eds., Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa: Essays in Honor of the Memory of the Late Professor Don Ohadike. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 37-53.

2008. “The Conundrum of Development and Human Rights in Africa,” in John Akokpari and Daniel Zimbler, eds. Africa's Evolving Human Rights Architecture. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, Cape Town: Centre for Conflict Resolution, 24-44.

2007. “The Causes and Costs of War in Africa: From Liberation Struggles to the ‘War on Terror,’” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Alfred Nhema, eds. The Roots of African Conflicts: The Causes and Costs. Oxford: James Currey; Ohio: Ohio University Press; Pretoria, SA: University of South Africa Press, 1-35. (Co-edited with Alfred Nhema)

2007. “Journeying to Excellence: Knowledge, diaspora and leadership,” in Onyekachi Wambu, ed., Under the Tree of Talking: Leadership in the African Context. London: British Council, pp.231-251.

2007. “The Internationalization of African Knowledges,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, ed., The Study of Africa, Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements. Dakar: Codesria Book Series, 1-24.

2007. “The African Academic Diaspora: The Struggle for a Global Epistemic Presence,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, ed., The Study of Africa, Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements. Dakar: Codesria Book Series, 86-111.

2007. “Knowledge, Globalization and Hegemony: Production of Knowledge in the 21st Century,” in Sverker Sörlin and Hebe Vessuri, eds. Knowledge Society and Knowledge Economy: Knowledge, Power and Politics. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 79-106.

2006. “The Disciplining of Africa,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, ed., The Study of Africa. Volume 1: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Encounters. London and Dakar: Zed Press and Codesria Book Series, 1-35.

2006. “The Inventions of African Identities and Languages: The Discursive and Developmental Implications,” in Olaoba F. Arasanyin and Michael A. Pemberton, eds., Selected Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Shifting the Center of Africanism in Language Politics and Economic Globalization. Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla, 14-26.

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2006. “Human Rights and Development in Africa: Current Contexts, Challenges, and Opportunities,” in Lennart Wohlgemuth and Ebrima Sall, eds., Human Rights, Regionalism and the Dilemmas of Democracy in Africa. Dakar and Uppsala: Codesria Book Series and Nordic Africa Institute, 57-96.

2005. “Challenges of the ICT Revolution in East Africa,” in Florence Ebam Etta and Laurent Elder, eds., At the Crossroads: ICT Policy Making in East Africa. Nairobi and Ottawa: East African Educational Publishers and IDRC, 283-294.

2005. “Changing Historiographical Perspectives on Colonialism,” in Katsuhiko Kitagawa, ed., Retrospect and Prospect of African Historiography: Colonialism and Nationalism, Osaka: Japan Center for Area Studies Occasional Paper No. 26, 5-21.

2005. “The Academic diaspora and knowledge production in and on Africa: what role for codesria?” in Thandika Mkandawire, ed., African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development. Dakar and London: CODESRIA Books and Zed Books, 209-234.

2005. “Africa: The Changing Meanings of ‘African’ Culture and Identity,” in Elisabeth Abiri and Håkan Thörn, eds., Horizons: Perspectives on a Global Africa, Göteborg, Sweden: National Museum of World Cultures and Göteborg University, 31-72.

2005. “Historicizing the “Posts”: The View From African Studies,” in Zine Magubane, ed., Interrogating The “Posts” From African and Diaspora Studies. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1-38.

2004. “The Genealogies and Burdens of African Intellectuals,” in Lawford Imunde, ed., The Role of the Educated Class in Africa: Between Renaissance and Globalization. Rehburg-Loccum, Germany: Loccumer Protokolle Series, 23-46.

2004. “The Struggle for Human Rights in Africa,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Philip McConnaughay, eds., Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1-18.

2004. “Globalization, Intellectuals, and Africa,’ in Manfred Steger, ed., Rethinking Globalism. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 165-177 (With Zine Magubane).

2004. “The African University in the Twenty-First Century: Future Challenges and a Research Agenda,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Adebayo Olukoshi, eds., African Universities in the twenty-first century Vol.2: Knowledge and Society. Dakar and Pretoria: Codesria Book Series, University of South Africa Press, 597-615.

2004. “Introduction: The Struggle for African Universities and Knowledges,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Adebayo Olukoshi, eds., African Universities in the twenty-first century, Volume I: Liberalization and Internationalization. Dakar and Pretoria: Codesria Book Series, University of South Africa Press, 1-18

2004. “Neo-Liberalism and Academic Freedom,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Adebayo Olukoshi, eds., African Universities in the twenty-first century, Volume I: Liberalization and Internationalization. Dakar and Pretoria: Codesria Book Series, University of South Africa Press, 42-68.

2003. “Africa’s Search for Modernity in the Internet Age,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Ibulaimu Kakoma, eds., In Search of Modernity: Science and Technology in Africa. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1-31.

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2003. “The Production of Historical Knowledge for Schools,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Ghana in Africa and the World: Essays in Honor of Adu Boahen. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1-119.

2003. “The Creation and Consumption of Leisure: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Cassandra Rachel Veney, eds., Leisure in African Cities. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, vii-xli.

2002. “The Struggle for African History: The Career of B.A. Ogot,” in Toyin Falola and Atieno Odhiambo, eds., The Essays of Bethwell Allan Ogot: The Challenges of History and Leadership in Africa. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, xxiii-l.

2002. “The Challenges of Writing African Economic History,” in George Bond and Nigel Gibson, eds., Issues in African Studies, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 59-84.

2001. “Women’s Scholarly Publishing in African Studies,” in Cassandra Rachel Veney and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, eds., Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1-44 (With Cassandra R. Veney).

1999. “A Social Contract for Books,” in James Gibbs and Jack Mapanje, eds., The African Writers Handbook, Oxford: African Books Collective, 1999, 3-14.

1999. “The Spatial Economy of Structural Adjustment in African Cities,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Ezekiel Kalipeni, eds., Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels: African Economic and Cultural Landscapes. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998, 43-71.

1999. “Rethinking Space, Politics, and Society,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Ezekiel Kalipeni, eds., Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels: African Economic and Cultural Landscapes. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998, 1-13. (Co-Edited with Ezekiel Kalipeni)

1998. “The Challenges of Editing Scholarly Journals in Africa,” in Philip G. Altbach and Damtew Teferra, eds., Knowledge Dissemination in Africa: The Role of Scholarly Journals. Chestnut Hill, MA: Bellagio Publishing Network, 13-38.

1997. “African Libraries and the Consumption and Production of Knowledge,” in Deborah Eade, ed., Development and Patronage, Oxford: Oxfam, 14-24.

1997. “Gender Biases in African Historiography,” in Ayesha M. Imam, Amina Mama and Fatou Sow, eds., Engendering the Social Sciences in Africa. Dakar: Codesria Book Series, 81-115.

1994. “The Unemployment Crisis in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s,” in Eghosa Osaghae, ed., Between State and Civil Society in Africa. Dakar: Codesria Book Series, 75-122.

1992. “The Labor System in Independent Kenya,” in W.R. Ochieng' and Robert Maxon, eds., An Economic History of Kenya. Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya/East African Education Publishers, 347-369.

1992. “The Colonial Labor System in Kenya,” in W.R. Ochieng' and Robert Maxon, eds., An Economic History of Kenya. Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya/East African Education Publishers, 171-199.

1990. “Africa’s Economic Performance since Independence,” in L. Nyamwera, et al., Towards African Christian Liberation. Nairobi: St. Paul's Publications, 153-182.

1989. “Labor Coercion and Migration in Early Colonial Kenya,” in A. Zegeye, ed., Forced Labor and Migration: Patterns of Movement within Africa. London: Hans Zell, 159-179.

1989. “Kenya and the Second World War Years: 1939-1952,” in W.R. Ochieng’, ed., A Modern History of Kenya: 1895-1980: Essays in Honor of B.A. Ogot. London and Nairobi: Evans Brothers, 144-172.

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1989. “The Establishment of Colonial Rule in Kenya: 1905-1920,” in W.R. Ochieng’, ed., A Modern 1989. History of Kenya: 1895-1980: Essays in Honor of B.A. Ogot. London and Nairobi: Evans Brothers, 35-70.

1988. “Kenya's Road to Independence and After,” in P. Gifford and W.R. Louis, eds., Decolonization and African Independence: The Transfers of Power, 1960-1980. New Haven: Yale University Press, 401-426 (With B.A. Ogot).

ENCYCLOPEDIA AND SURVEY ARTICLES 2008. “Education, University and College: Overview,” in John Middleton AND Joseph C.

Miller, eds., New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2nd Edition, New York: Thomson Gale, 224-231.

2006. “Africa,” in Mike Lewis, ed., The World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago: World Book, 98-136. (With Paul Desanker, Peri Klemm, Kenneth J. Perkins, and Kwesi Kwaa Prah)

2005. “The Idea of Africa,” in Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed., New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 19-26.

2005. “Colonialism, Africa,” in Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed., New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 369-375.

2005. “Communication of Ideas: Africa and Its Influence,” in Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed., New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Volume 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 385-391.

2005. “Democracy, Africa,” in Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed., New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Volume 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 556-560.

2005. “Diasporas, African,” in Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed., New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Volume 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 578-583.

2005. “History, Economic,” in Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed., New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Volume 3. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1002-1005.

2003. “The Dynamics of Book and Library Development in Anglophone Africa,” in Roger Stringer, ed., The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa. Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP). Oxford: INASP, 3-7.

2003. “Cold War,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 98-101.

2003. “Commonwealth,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 115-116.

2003. “Decolonization,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 135-141.

2003. “Development of African History,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 143-149.

2003. “Education: Post-Independence,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 180-186 (With Romanus Ejiaga).

2003. “Globalization,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 238-245.

2003. “Kenya,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 302-304.

2003. “Organization of African Unity,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 410-411.

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2003. “Panafricanism,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 415-418.

2003. “Plantation Agriculture,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 434-437.

2003. “Press,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, pp.442-445 (With Francis Nyamnjoh).

2003. “Third World,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 555-561.

2003. “Urbanization,” in P. T. Zeleza and D. Eyoh, eds., Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa. London: Routledge, 577-583 (With Ezekiel Kalipeni).

SCHOLARLY NEWSLETTER ARTICLES 2006. “Interview with Paul Tiyambe Zeleza,” News from the Nordic Africa Institute 3 (October):

15-19. 2006. “Madam President: The Changing Gender Dynamics of African Politics,” CODESRIA

Bulletin 1 & 2: 20-22. 2006. “The Political Wrath of Hurricane Katrina,” Tinabanthu 2, 2: 2005. “The Developmental Costs of Conflicts.” Codesria Bulletin, 3&4: 34-36. 2005. “The Republicanization of America.” Codesria Bulletin, 1&2: 40-42. 2001. “Re-presenting Slavery, Re-presenting Race, and Mis-representing Africa: A Critique of

the Wonders of the African World.” Codesria Bulletin 3 & 4: 2-5. (With Zine Magubane) 1997. “Academic Freedom in the North and the South: An African Perspective.” Academe:

Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, 83, 6: 16-21. 1996. “National Book Policy: The Key to Long-Term Development.” Southern Africa Political

and Economic Monthly 10, 1: 33-36. Also published as, “A Social Contract for Books” in The African Book Publishing Record 22, 4: 251-6, and in M. McCartney, ed., National Book Policies for Africa: Key to Long-tem Development. Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair, pp.12-20.

1995. “Report of Codesria Eighth General Assembly.” Codesria Bulletin, No.4: 3-15. (With Momar Coumba Diop)

1995. “Totalitarian Power and Censorship in Malawi.” Southern Africa Political and Economic Monthly 8, 11: 33-7. Also published as “Banishing Words and Stories in Banda’s Malawi,” Codesria Bulletin, 3: 1-4.

WORKING PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PROCCEDINGS 2008. “Africa and Its Diasporas: Remembering South America,” Working Papers, Center for

Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2008-08-21, Working Paper 009, 29pp, available at https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/32799

2003. In Sandra Wilson, Human rights and international development: does the language of human rights help or hinder debate? Cumberland Lodge, London, UK, Commonwealth Conference, 84pp.

1997. “Research Cooperation Within Africa,” in Academic Book Production and Distribution in Africa. Conference Report, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, April 10-11, 90-104.

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C. BOOK REVIEWS REVIEW ESSAYS 2004. “Resurrecting South Africa from the Ashes of Apartheid,” a review article of Robert Fines

with Dennis Davis, Beyond Apartheid: Labour and Liberation in South Africa. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1990, pp.xiii+338; Stephen Gelb, ed. South Africa's Economic Crisis. Cape Town: David Philip, 1991, pp.xiii+289; Pauline H. Baker, et al., eds., South Africa and the World Economy in the 1990s. Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1993, pp.xiv+263; Ben Turok, et al., Development and Reconstruction in South Africa: A Reader. Johannesburg: Institute for African Alternatives, 1993, pp.226; Iraj Abedian and Barry Standish, eds., Economic Growth in South Africa: Selected Policy Issues. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp.viii+239; Peter G. Moll, The Great Economic Debate: The Radical's Guide to the South African Economy. Johannesburg: Skotaville, 1991, pp.154; Peter Moll, et al., eds., Redistribution: How can it Work in South Africa? Cape Town: David Philip, 1991, pp.ix+150; Duncan Innes, et al., Power and Profit: Politics, Labour, and Business in South Africa. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp.x+310; African National Congress, The Reconstruction and Development Programme: A Policy Framework. Johannesburg: Umanyano Publications, 1994, pp.147, in Africa Development 1&2: 7-15.

1997. “Struggle for the University,” a review article of J. F. Ade Ajayi, Lameck K. H. Goma, and G. Ampah Johnson, The African Experience with Higher Education. Accra: The Association of African Universities, 1996, pp.xii+276; Emanuel Ngara, The African University and Its Mission. Lesotho: The Institute of Southern African Studies, 1994, pp.xviii+194; Lalage Bown, ed., Towards a Commonwealth of Scholars: A New Vision for the Nineties. London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 1994, pp.xii+245; and Codesria, The State of Academic Freedom in Africa. Dakar: Codesria, 1996, pp.189, in Africa Development 22, 2: 181-192.

1997. “Fictions of the Postcolonial,” a review article of Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen, eds., Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994, pp.vi+288; Padmini Mongia, ed. Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. London and New York: Arnold, 1996, pp.vii+407; O.P. Juneja, Post Colonial Novel: Narratives of Colonial Consciousness. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1995, pp.x+182, in The Toronto Review 15, 2:19-29.

1995. “Bullies in Uniform: Military Misrule in Nigeria,” a review article of Tunji Olagunju, Adele Jinadu and Sam Oyovbaire, Transition to Democracy in Nigeria (1985-1993). Ibadan: Safari Books, 1993, pp.ix+278; and Said Adejumobi and Abubakar Momoh, eds., The Political Economy of Nigeria Under Military Rule: 1984-1993. Harare: Sapes Books, 1995, pp.xix+359, in Africa Development 20, 4: 143-51.

1995. “Beyond Communal Tenure: Land and Cattle in African Agrarian Systems,” a review article of Thomas J. Bassett and Donald E. Crummey, eds., Land in African Agrarian Systems. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, pp.xi+418; and Peter Rigby. Cattle, Capitalism, and Class: Ilparakuyo Maasai and Transformations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pp.xviii+ 247, in Africa Development 20, 1: 147-57.

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1995. “Homage to the Master,” a review article of Adewale Maja-Pearce, ed. Wole Soyinka: An Appreciation. Oxford: Heinemann, 1994, pp.ix+166, in The Toronto Review 13, 2: 87-90.

1994. “African Studies and the Disintegration of Paradigms,” a review article of Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp.xi+225; Robert H. Bates, et al., Africa and the Disciplines: The Contribution of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp.xxiii+245; Frederick Cooper, et al., Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, pp.viii+422, in Africa Development 19, 4: 179-93.

1994. “The Tribulations of Undressing the Emperor,” a review article of Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, pp.xxviii+380, in Canadian Journal of African Studies 28, 1: 106-20.

1993. “Gendering African History,” a review article of Jane L. Parpart and Kathleen A. Staudt, eds., Women and the State in Africa. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 1989, pp.229; Sharon Stichter and Jane L. Parpart, eds., Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labor. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990, pp.253; Luise White, The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990, pp.285; and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16, 4 (1991) Special Issue on African Women Family, State, and Economy in Africa, in Africa Development 18, 1:99-117.

1992. “Rethinking Development and Underdevelopment,” a review article of Gavin Kitching, Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1989. Pp.209; and Nigel Harris, The End of the Third World. Newly Industrializing Countries and the Decline of an Ideology. London: Penguin, 1988, pp.231, in Journal of Eastern African Research and Development 22.

1992. “South Africa: Through the Eyes of a Nineteenth Century Tourist,” a review article of Adulphe Delegorgue, Travels in Southern Africa, Volume 1. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1990, pp.359, in Research in African Literatures 23, 3: 147-9.

1992. “The Development of African Capitalism,” a review article of John Sender and Sheila Smith, The Development of Capitalism in Africa. London and New York: Methuen, 1986, pp.171; and Paul Kennedy, African Capitalism. The Struggle for Ascendancy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp.233, in Africa Development 15: 129-136.

1991. “Agrarian Crisis in Africa,” a review article of Peter Lawrence, ed. World Recession and the Food Crisis in Africa. London: Review of African Political Economy and James Currey, 1986. Pp.vi+314; Philip Raikes, Modernizing Hunger: Famine, Food Surplus and Farm Policy in the EEC and Africa. London: James Currey and Heinemann, 1988. Pp.vii, 280; and Thandika Mkandawire and Naceur Bourenane, eds., The State and Agriculture in Africa, London: Codesria Book Series, 1987, pp.380, in African Urban Quarterly 6, 1&2: 130-134.

1990. “The History and Structure of African Poverty,” a review article of John Illife, The African Poor, A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp.387, in Africa Development 15, 1: 97-104.

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SHORT REVIEWS 1998. Tekeste Nagash and Lars Rudebeck, eds., Dimensions of Development with Emphasis on

Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1995, pp.279, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 31, 1: 244-5.

1998. Valentine Udoh James, Sustainable Development in Third World Countries. Westport, Con.: Praeger, 1996, pp.xvi+245, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 31, 1: 245-7.

1998. Archie Mafeje and Samir Radwan, eds., Economic and Demographic Change in Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp.173, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 31, 1: 247-9.

1998. P. T. W. Baxter, Jan Hultin and Alessandro Triulzi, eds., Being and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropological Enquiries. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitute, 1996, pp.310, in Africa Development.

1998. Toyin Falola, Development Planning and Decolonization in Nigeria. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1996, pp.xxiv+215. Journal of African History 38, 3:517-19.

1997. James C. McCann, People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800-1990. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, pp.xviii+298, in Technology & Culture 38, 3: 980-982.

1996. Raija Warkentin, Our Strength is in our fields: African families in change. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, pp.xi+330, in Canadian Woman Studies.

1996. Lorraine J. Haricombe and F. W. Lancaster, Out in the Cold: Academic Boycotts and the Isolation of South Africa. Arlignton, VA: Information Resource Press, pp.xii+158, in History of Education Quarterly 36, 3:314-5.

1996. Achim von Oppen, Terms of Trade and Terms of Trust. Münster: Lit Verlag, n.d., pp.viii+473, in Journal of African History 37, 2: 312-313.

1996. H.S. Wilson, African Decolonization. London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1994, pp.xi +222, in Journal of African History 37, 2: 337-338.

1995. Frank Fonda Taylor, To Hell with Paradise: A History of the Jamaican Tourist Industry. Pittsburg and London: University of Pittsburg Press, 1993, pp.ix+259, in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 20, 39-40: 307-9.

1995. Mahmood Mamdani and Mamadou Diouf, eds., Academic Freedom in Africa. Dakar: Codesria, 1994, pp.370, in International Higher Education 1 (May).

1995. David Sahn, ed., Adjusting to Policy Failure in African Economies. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994, pp.xiv+421, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 28: 416-18.

1995. Henrietta L. Moore and Megan Vaughan, Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1910. London: James Currey, 1994, pp.xxv+278, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 28, 2: 404-6.

1995. E.S. Atieno-Odhiambo and David Cohen, Burying S.M. Otieno. London: James Currey, 1992, pp.xiii+159, in Canadian Journal of African Studies 29, 1: 139-41.

1995. Yvonne Vera, Nehanda. Toronto: Tsar Publications, 1994, pp.118, in The Toronto Review 13, 3: 87-9.

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1994. Jacques Depelchin, From the Congo Free State to Zaire (1885-1974): Towards a Demystification of Economic and Political History. Dakar: Codesria Book Series, 1992, pp.235, in Africa Development 19, 2: 183-5.

1994. Z.A. Konczacki, J.L. Parpart and T.M. Shaw, eds., Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa. Vol One: The Front Line States. London: Frank Cass, 1990, pp.228, in Africa Development 19, 3: 137-9.

1994. Mathew J. Schoffeleers, River of Blood: The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, c. A.D. 1600. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992, pp.xiii+325, in Ethnohistory 41, 3: 506-8.

1994. Timothy M. Shaw, Reformism and Revisionism in Africa's Political Economy in the 1990s. London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1993, pp.xii+215, in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 27, 1: 195-7.

1994. Robert G. Gregory, The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa: The Asian Contribution. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Transaction Publishers, 1992, pp.x+251, in History of Education Quarterly 34, 1: 112-4.

1993. Steve Feierman, Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990, pp.340, in Africa Development 18, 1: 118-120.

1993. Jonathan Crush, Alan Jeeves and David Yudelman, South Africa's Labor Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines. Boulder: Westview, 1991, pp.266, in Canadian Journal of African Studies 27, 1: 111-112.

1993. Patrick Manning, Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp.236, in Africa Development 17, 4: 99-101.

1993. Frederick Cooper, On The African Waterfront, Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, pp.290, in Transafrican Journal of History 20: 213-6.

1993. Roger C. Riddell, Foreign Aid Reconsidered. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press and James Currey, 1988, pp.310, in African Urban Quarterly 6, 1&2: 157-9.

1990. Hosea Jaffe, A History of Africa. London: Zed Books, 1988, pp.172, in Transafrican Journal of History 19: 194-6.

1989. JASPA, Informal Sector in Lilongwe. A Study of Informal Sector Activities in Garages, Metal Fabricating, Tinsmithing and Woodworking. Addis Ababa: JASPA, 1987, pp.120, in African Urban Quarterly 4, 3&4: 400-1.

1989. Peter Coughlin and G.K. Ikiara, eds., Industrialization in Kenya. In Search of A Strategy. London and Nairobi: James Currey and Heinemann Kenya, 1988, pp.328, in African Urban Quarterly 4, 1&2: 152-5.

1989. J.L. Moock, ed., Understanding Africa's Rural Households and Farming Systems. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1986, pp.234, in African Urban Quarterly 4, 1 & 2: 150-2.

1989. ILO/JASPA, The Challenge of Employment and Basic Needs in Africa. Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp.379, in Eastern African Social Science Research Review IV, 2: 87-91.

1989. The World Bank and UNDP, Africa's Adjustment and Growth in the 1980s. Washington. D.C: The World Bank and the UNDP, 1989, pp.33, in Journal of Eastern African Research and Development 19: 187-91.

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1988. Thomas Odhiambo, et al., Hope Born Out of Despair. Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya, 1988, pp.123, in Transafrican Journal of History 18: 196-7.

1988. Tabitha Kanogo, Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau. Nairobi and London: James Currey and Heinemann Kenya, 1987, pp.206, in Transafrican Journal of History 17: 193-6.

D. POPULAR PUBLICATIONS: ONLINE AND PRINT For the Internet publications, I provide only a sample of some of the essays posted regularly on The Zeleza Post (www.zeleza.com) that have been picked up by various online magazines, such as Pambazuka News and AISA Electronic Monographs. 2008. “El Experto Responde. El voto afroamericano. Un cambio politico Por: Paul Tiyambe

Zeleza,” Elespectador, Colombia, October 14, at http://www.elespectador.com/impreso/internacional/articuloimpreso43755-un-cambio-politico

2008. “Racialized Complexes of Xenophobia,” Pambazuka News: Forums for Social Justice in Africa, May 27, at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/panafrican/48366

2008. “Zimbabwe’s Political Watershed,” Pambazuka News: Forums for Social Justice in Africa, April 8, at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/47203

2008. “Obama’s Speech and the Black man’s Burden,” Pambazuka News: Forums for Social Justice in Africa, March 20, at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/46808

2008. “Holding a Nation to a Bankrupt Political Class,” Pambazuka News: Forums for Social Justice in Africa, January 4, at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/45212

2007. “Dancing with the Dragon: Africa’s Courtship with China,” Pambazuka News: Forums for Social Justice in Africa, September 7, at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/africa_china/43183

2007. “The Struggle for Human Rights in Africa,” Pambazuka News: Forums for Social Justice in Africa, May 24, at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/rights/41591

2007. “Love, Lies, Wolfowitz and the World Bank,” Pambazuka News: Forums for Social Justice in Africa, May 4, at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/corruption/41166

2006. Africa: The Power, Possibilities and Perils of African Nationalisms,” Pambazuka News: Forums for Social Justice in Africa, November 8, at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/development/38165

2006. “Beyond Afropesssimism: Historical Accounting of African Universities,” Pambazuka News: Forums for Social Justice in Africa August 8, at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/35832

2006. “Cartoons as Weapons of Mass Provocation.” Pambazuka News: Forums for Social Justice in Africa February 16 at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/32049

2005. “The Political Wrath of Hurricane Katrina.” The Black Commentator, September 15, Issue 150 at http://www.blackcommentator.com/. Also published by (African Institute of South Africa) AISA Electronic Monographs at http://www.ai.org.za/electronic_monograph.asp?ID=33

2004. “The Republicanization of America: An African Observer’s View.” The Black Commentator, November 18, Issue 114 at http://www.blackcommentator.com/. A slightly

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revised version published by AISA Electronic Monographs at http://www.ai.org.za/electronic_monograph.asp?ID=28

2000. “The U.S. Elections, Political System and Africa.” USAfrica Online, www.USAfricaonline.com, November 24, 2000.

1997. “The New Frontiers for African Scholarly Journals.” African Periodicals Exhibit 1997: 3-6.

1997. Huntington Ochwada, “Intellectuals in Kenya and the Crises in African Studies.” Codesria Bulletin, 4: 38-9.

1997. Huntington Ochwada, “Why African Scholars Do Not Respond to the Continent’s Woes.” Sunday Nation, Nairobi, Kenya, September 14.

1997. “Writers Urged to Oppose Despotic Governments.” The Herald, Harare, Zimbabwe, August 9:8.

1997. “Not Your Average Council. International Conference on Academic Freedom, Politics and the Future of the University.” Canadian Association of University Teachers Bulletin, June: 4.

1996. “Don’t forget the past, artists told.” The Nation, Blantyre, Malawi, July 22: 3. 1996. Portia Chinyama, “Writers resolve ends in foundation birth.” The Nation, Blantyre,

Malawi, July 23: 3. 1996. Martin Makoni, “African states to develop book policies.” The Herald, Harare, Zimbabwe,

July 29: 10. 1995. “The Challenges of Academic Publishing for African Scholars.” Bellagio Publishing

Network Newsletter, 13 (April): 4-5. 1995. Raven Hill, “UI history prof selected to direct African Studies.” Daily Illini, Champaign,

Illinois, 125, 43: 5. 1995. Jika Nkolokosa, “On the cutting edge of ideas” Guest of the Week Column, The Nation,

Blantyre, Malawi, 1, 3 (August, Saturday 19-25): 7. 1995. Davison Maruziva, “President to open Book Fair.” The Herald, Harare, Zimbabwe,

Tuesday, August 1: 6. 1995. Don Selby, “Interview with Paul Tiyambe Zeleza.” Peterborough Review 2, 1: 32-41. 1995. “Interview” (in Japanese) World Plaza, Tokyo, Japan, 4, 5:56-8. 1995. Machiko Seino, “Special Interview” (in Japanese), World Now, Tokyo, Japan, 15: 170-1. 1995. “Publishing at home for a truer image of self.” Trent Fortnightly, Peterborough, Ontario,

25, 10 (February 9):5. 1995. “Noma Award Acceptance Speech.” Issue: A Journal of Opinion 23/4 (Winter/Spring): 7-

8. 1995. “Noma Award Acceptance Speech.” Codesria Bulletin 1: 4-5. 1995. “Noma Award for Professor Zeleza.” African Publishing Review 4, 2:9. 1994. Katherine Salahi, “Malawian Scholar Tiyambe Zeleza, Noma Award Winner 1994,

Receives Prize during Book Week in Dar es Salaam.” Bellagio Publishing Network Newsletter 12 (December): 3-4.

1994. “Noma Award Acceptance Speech.” The African Book Publishing Record 20, 4: 237-9. 1994. Ciugu Mwagiru, “Malawian Scholar Wins the 1994 Noma Award.” The East African,

Nairobi, Kenya (December 12-18): 1, 3. 1994. Anne Kamande, “Book famine hits Africa.” The Express, Issue No.207, Dar es Salaam,

Tanzania (December 1-3): 6.

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1994. Scott Whalen, “Stories about exile.” Peterborough Examiner, Peterborough, Ontario, May 29: B3.

1994. Paul Rutherford, “Trent professor seems to have the `write’ stuff.” Peterborough This Week, Peterborough, Ontario, May 17: 6.

1993. Julie Rouse, “An African in Exile: Breaking the Stereotypes.” Trent Fortnightly, Peterborough, Ontario, 24, 6 (November 4): 5.

1992. Charles Kopun, “Trent prof’s imagination dwells in Africa.” Peterborough Examiner, Thursday, December 24: D9.

1992. Paul Rutherford, “Africans struggle for democracy made clear.” Peterborough This Week 4, 49 (December 2): 14.

1992. “History prof publishes novel.” Trent Fortnightly 23, 5, Peterborough, Ontario, (November 5): 7.

1992. “Tiyambe Zeleza’s Fictional Africa,” Preface 1, 3, Toronto, Ontario (September): 3. 1989. Gloria Emegweali, “A Glimpse on Gender, the Food Crisis and Related Matters,”

Codesria Bulletin 3: 14-15. E. SHORT STORIES: SELECT SAMPLE 2000. “Blood Feuds,” in Stephen Gray, ed., The Picador Book of African Stories, London:

Picador, 237-245. 2000. “Foggy Seasons,” in Ayanna Black, ed., Fiery Spirits and Voices Canadian Writers of

African Descent, Toronto: HarperPerennialCanada, 125-148. 1997. “Rocking Chair,” in George Elliot Clarke, ed., An Anthology of African Canadian Writing.

Toronto: Stewart & McClelland, 171-80. 1994. “Foggy Seasons,” in Ayanna Black, ed., Fiery Spirits: Canadian Writers of African

Descent. Toronto: HarperCollins, 137-60. 1993. “Trial of an Academic Tourist,” Codesria Bulletin 1: 20-22. 1993. “Family Secrets,” ICARUS: New Writing From Around the World 9 (Winter): 1-17. 1983. “A Soldier without An Ear,” in Paul A. Scanlon, ed., Short Stories From Central and

Southern Africa. London: Heinemann, 141-149. 1977. “The Beggar,” Star Magazine, Blantyre, October-November. 1975. “Behind the Facade,” Prize Magazine, Harare, November. CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

a) Keynote Addresses b) Other Invited Conferences c) Self-Sponsored Conferences d) Invited Seminars and Public Lectures e) Local Campus Seminars f) Media Interviews and Public Readings g) Conference Organization

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A. KEYNOTE ADDRESSES 2008. “The Challenges of Studying the African Diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic,” Diaspora

Teach In, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, May 12-18. 2008. “African Studies: Confronting Old and New Challenges,” Yale University, New Haven,

USA, February 1. 2007. “African Studies in the Postcolony,” Colloquium, Opening of the Centre for Africa

Studies, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, November 5. 2007. “African Studies from a Global Perspective,” Symposium for Human Rights and

Leadership in Africa, organized by Counterpoint, British Council, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom, October 4.

2007. “The Contemporary Relevance of Pan-Africanism,” Launch of Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana, September 21.

2007. “The Struggle for Human Rights in Africa” at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of African Studies through the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 17–19, 2007.

2007. “Contemporary African Global Migrations: Patterns, Perils, and Possibilities” at the International Conference on the Role of the Kenyan Diaspora in Kenya’s Development at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, Georgia, USA, March 22–24.

2006. “The Historic and Humanistic Agendas of African Nationalism: A Reassessment,” Symposium on Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa, in Honor of the Memory of the Late Professor Don Ohadike, Organized by the Africana Research Studies and Research Center and Institute for African Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, September 22-23.

2006. “Diaspora Dialogues: Engagements between Africa and Its Diasporas,” at conference on “The New African Diaspora: Assessing the Pains and Gains of Exile,” Africana Studies, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA, April 7-8.

2006. “Colonial Fictions: Memory and History in Yvonne Vera’s Imagination,” Conference on Literature and Historical Imagination, Center for African Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 4.

2006. “The Disciplinary, Interdisciplinary and Global Dimensions of African Studies,” the National Conference on the Strengthening of African Studies in Africa and South Africa in Particular, Organized by the Ministry of Education, Republic of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, February 26-February 28, 2006.

2005. “The Inventions of African Identities and Languages: The Discursive and Developmental Implications.” 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Shifting the Center of Africanism: Language, Economic Integration, and Globalization, Savanna, Georgia, USA. March 31-April 2, 2005.

2005. “Transnational Education and African Universities.” Eleventh General Conference of the Association of African Universities, Cross-Border Provision and the Future of Higher Education in Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, February 21-25.

2004. “The American-led War on Terror and Human Rights in Africa.” International Conference on African Conflicts: Management, Resolution and Post-Conflict Recovery and

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Development, organized by the Organization of Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), United Nations Conference Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 29–December 1, plenary.

2004. “What is ‘Africa(n)’?: The Changing Meanings of ‘African’ Culture and Identity.” Africa Presence Week organized by the Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. April 25-30.

2004. “Globalization and African Migrations: Their Impact on Africa and the Diaspora.” The African and Caribbean Students Association Annual Pan-Africa Week Conference, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, April 14, 2004.

2004. “Rethinking the African Diasporas: Towards a Global History.” Seventh Annual African Studies Graduate Students’ Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA. February 21.

2003. “Knowledge, Globalization and Hegemony: Production of Knowledge in the 21st Century.” The First Global Research Seminar on Knowledge Society versus Knowledge Economy: Knowledge, Power and Politics, Organized by UNESCO’s Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, Paris, France, December 8-9, endnote.

2003. “The Genealogies and Burdens of African Intellectuals.” International Conference on the Role of the Intellectual Elite in Africa in the Reconstruction of the African Social Fabric, Evangelische Akademie, Loccum, Germany, March 21-23.

2002. “Rethinking Africa’s Globalization and Gender Dynamics,” Women’s Worlds Congress, the 8th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, July 21-26.

2000. “Renaissance, Libraries and Democracy: The challenge of the African Renaissance,” National Library Association of South Africa and Ministry of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Pretoria, South Africa. October 31 - November 2.

2000. “The Politics of Historical and Social Science Research in Africa.” International Conference on Historical and Social Science Research in Malawi: Problems and Prospects, organized by the Nordic Africa Institute and University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi. June 26-29.

1999. “Africa’s Bumpy Road to Democracy,” Film School, for Hopes on the Horizon documentary, Blackside inc., Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. June 4-6.

1998. “The Protocols of Scholarly Publishing,” Workshop on Book and Peer Review, Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare, Zimbabwe.

1998. “Malawi during the Last 100 Years.” Malawi Day organized by the Malawi High Commission to Ottawa and the Ottawa Commonwealth Society, Ottawa, Canada. January 24.

1997. “Writing as Conversation.” Writers’ Workshop, Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare, Zimbabwe, August 1-8.

1997. “Academic Freedom in the North and the South: An African Perspective.” International Conference on Academic Freedom and the Future of the University organized by the Canadian Association of University Teachers, Ottawa, Canada, May 2-3.

1996. “A Social Contract for Books.” Indaba, Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe, July 26-27.

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B. OTHER INVITED CONFERENCES 2007. “Roundtable on Revitalizing African Studies,” Yale University, New Haven, USA,

December 6 (participated by phone). 2007. “African Diasporas in North America: The Challenges of Accommodation,” International

Conference on Immigration, Minorities and Multiculturalism in Democracies, Montreal, Canada, October 24-27.

2007. “The Conundrum of Development and Human Rights in Africa,” Conference on Human Rights, Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, June 27-29.

2007. “The Changing Terrain of African Studies,” 2020: Re-envisioning African Studies Symposium at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 13.

2006. “Africa and its Diasporas: Dispersals and Linkages,” Panel on “African and African Diasporic Futures, Workshop on African and African Diasporic Knowledges, organized by the Center for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Centre for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, and Africana Studies Department, Brown University, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, October 23-25.

2006. “New Trends in the History of Africa and the Diaspora,” The Second Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora (CIAD II), organized by the African Union and the Brazilian Government, Salvador, Brazil, July 12-14.

2006. “African Studies: A Global Perspective,” Conference on “Means, Methods, and Meanings: Area Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Critical Pedagogies,” Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, March 30-April 2.

2005. “Banishing the Silences: Towards the Globalization of African History,” Paper presented at the 11th General Assembly of the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Rethinking African Development: Beyond Impasse, Towards Alternatives, Maputo, Mozambique, December 6 - 10.

2005. “Cross Border Delivery of and Collaboration in Teacher Training Programmes in Africa,” Paper presented at the DETA (Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa) Conference 2005, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, August 7-9.

2005. “In Search of Literary Identity: Anglophone African Literature between Africa, the Commonwealth and the Postcolonial,” Paper presented at the Conference on “The Literatures of the Commonwealth,” Cumberland Lodge, London, U.K., May 15-18.

2005. “The Migrant Literary Experience: A Personal Memoir,” Paper presented at the Spring 2005 Symposium of the Center for African Studies, Rutgers University, “African Immigrant Literature: Negotiating Identities Post 9/11.” Douglas Campus, New Brunswick, USA, April 29.

2005. “The Cultural and Political Economies of Africa’s Globalization and Diasporas,” Symposium on “The Jagged Edge: Globalization as Seen from the Near Periphery (Africa and Latin America),” African Studies Program and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, March 3-4.

2004. Participant, Panel Presentation, “The Malawi State of Governance,” Organized by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Malawi to the United Nations, the Office of the High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS (OHRLLS), the United Nations

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Development Programme (UNDP) at the UN Secretariat Building, New York, U.S.A. September 24.

2004. Discussant, Plenary Session on “Pan-Africanism in the Twenty-First Century,” The Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora: Africa in the 21st Century—Integration and Renaissance,” organized by the African Union, Dakar, Senegal, October 7-9

2004. International Conference on the Media and the Construction of African Identities, organized by the International Africa Institute and Twaweza Communications, First Presentation: “The Media in Social Development;” Second Presentation: “Discourses on African Identities,” Nairobi, Kenya. August 3-6.

2004. Indaba, Zimbabwe International Book Fair. First Presentation: “Teaching Africa and the African Diaspora.” Second Presentation: “The Impact of the Brain Drain on African Scholarship,” Harare, Zimbabwe. August 1-3.

2004. “Universities of the Future: Networks, Knowledge Sharing and Empowerment,” UNESCO 21st Century Dialogues, Building Knowledge Societies, organized by the National Commission for UNESCO of the Republic of Korea together with the Division of Foresight, Philosophy and Human Sciences, UNESCO, Seoul, South Korea. July 27-28, 2004.

2004. “The African University in the 21st Century: Future Challenges and A Research Agenda,” The First Regional Research Seminar for Africa, UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, organized by UNESCO, Nile Hotel, Kampala, Uganda. July 7-8.

2004. Second Meeting of the Gender Advisory Group, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, Switzerland. July 1-2.

2004. “Changing Historiographical Perspectives on Colonialism,” International Workshop, Retrospect and Prospect of African Historiography, organized by the Japan Center for Area Studies and the National Museum of Ethnography, Osaka, Japan. June 26.

2004. “Human Rights and Development in Africa: Current Contexts, Challenges, and Opportunities,” International Conference on the Africa Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and the Current Challenges of Promoting and Protecting Human Rights, organized by the ACHPR, CODESRIA, Nordic Africa Institute, and the Swedish NGO Foundations for Human Rights, Uppsala, Sweden, June 9-10.

2004. “African Diasporas and Africa: Exploring the Politics of Linkages,” African Union Technical Workshop of Relationships with the Diaspora, organized by the African Union and the Foundation for Democracy in Africa, Port of Spain, Trinidad. June 2-4.

2003. “The Academic Diaspora and Knowledge Production in and on Africa: What Role for CODESRIA?” CODESRIA’s 30th Anniversary Conference, Intellectuals, Nationalism and the Pan-African Ideal, Dakar, Senegal. December 10-12.

2003. “Transformations in Higher Education and the Challenges of Interdisciplinarity,” Conference on “Teaching For Our Times: Curricula Transformations and Equity Considerations,” University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. September 12.

2003. First Meeting of the Gender Advisory Group, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, Switzerland. June 13-14.

2003. “Human Rights Discourse: A Developing World Perspective,” A Cumberland Lodge Commonwealth Conference on Human Rights and International Development: Does the

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Language of Human Rights Help or Hinder Debate? London, United Kingdom. February 12-14.

2002. “Contemporary African Migrations in a Global Context: Towards Building the Black Atlantic,” The 10th CODESRIA General Assembly, Kampala, Uganda. December 8-12.

2001. “The Possibilities and Problems of Electronic Journals,” Meeting of Editorial Boards of CODESRIA Journals, Dakar, Senegal, November 5-7.

2001. “Why Africa Matters: From Epistemology to Economy,” Engaging Africa: A Symposium Exploring the Future of African Studies,” The Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon, Portland, U.S.A. March 1-2.

2000. 2nd Steering Meeting/Regional Meeting of the CODESRIA/UNDP Program for Civil Society Empowerment for Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa, Kampala, Uganda. January 25-26.

2000. “Africana or African Studies: Beyond the Impasse,” Africana Congress, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. February 4-6.

2000. “Challenges of Research in African Universities: Potential Partnerships between African and American Universities,” Ford Foundation Meeting on Higher Education Initiative in Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. April 6-7.

1999. “Supporting Cultural Industries for Local Development: A Critique,” Culture Counts: Financing, Resources, and the Economics of Culture in Sustainable Development, Cosponsored by the Government of Italy and the World Bank in Cooperation with UNESCO, Florence, Italy. October 4-7.

1999. “Scholarly Communication in Africa,” Workshop on Global Knowledge Flow and Dissemination organized by the Social Science Research Council, Dissemination Working Group, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada. June 23-25.

1999. Regional Symposium of African Historians, Bamako, Mali, March 15-19. 1999. “Africa on the International Scene.” Camden Conference on Sub-Saharan Africa, Camden

Conference, Camden, Maine, U.S.A. February 26-28. 1998. “Globalization and African Economies: Prognosis for the 21st Century,” International

Conference on Globalization, Institute of West-Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China. October 21-24.

1998. Co-Chair Session on “Trade and Regional Development,” National Summit on Africa, Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, U.S.A. September 24-26.

1998. International Symposium on “Globalization and Social Sciences in Africa,” Council for the Development of Social Sciences in Africa, the South African Human Science Research Council and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. September 14-18.

1998. “Towards a Sustainable Readership in Africa: Remembering Urban Children,” Writers’ Workshop, Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare, Zimbabwe. August 3.

1998. “The Challenges of Writing African Economic History,” Symposium on Issues in African Studies, Columbia University, Institute of African Studies, New York, U.S.A. June 5.

1998. “African Migrant Intellectuals: Building New Transatlantic Bridges,” Symposium on African and African American Intellectuals, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A., May 22.

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1998. “Imagining and Inventing the Postcolonial State in Africa,” Conference on States of Imagination, Center for Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 13-15.

1997. “Research Cooperation within Africa,” Academic Book Production and Distribution in Africa: Support from Nordic Countries. Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, April 10-11.

1997. Resource Person. UWEP (Urban Waste Environmental Program) Program Policy Meeting, Gouda, the Netherlands. May 13-15.

1997. “Reclaiming Other as Self: African Americans as Producers and Consumers of African Studies in the US Academy,” The Ohio State University Conference on “‘Black Studies’: (Re)Defining A Discipline,” Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A., May 22-24.

1995. “Manufacturing and Consuming Knowledge: African Libraries and Publishing,” International Library and Book Fair, Göteborg, Sweden, October 26-9.

1995. “Banishing Words and Stories: Censorship in Banda’s Malawi.” Writers’ Workshop, Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare, Zimbabwe, August 1-5.

1995. Conference Rapporteur. Codesria Eighth General Assembly on “Crises, Conflicts and Transformations: Responses and Perspectives,” Dakar, Senegal. June 26 - July 2.

1995. Dialogue with African Intellectuals on Issues Facing Africa, organized for six African intellectuals by the Japanese Foreign Ministry and Kodansha Publishing. First Presentation: “The Past and Future of Regional Integration in Africa” (Tokyo) Second Presentation: “The Impact of the Second World War on Africa” (Nagasaki), Japan. March 7-15.

1994. “Traditions of Authoritarianism and Democracy in African History,” CODESRIA/Afrika Zamani Conference, Historical Legacy and the Democratization Processes in Africa: Historians' Commentaries, Bamako, Mali. April 26-29.

1994. “Trends and Inequities in the Production of Knowledge on Africa,” Annual Spring Symposium, Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa, Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Il, U.S.A., April 8-9.

1993. Panel Discussion, “Malawi’s 1964 Cabinet Crisis,” Center for Southern African Studies, University of York, York, United Kingdom, September 15-18.

1991. “African Social Scientists and Developmentalism.” Canada/USSR/Africa Symposium, organized by the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS), Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. May 12-15.

1990. “The Intelligentsia and Academic Freedom: The Question of Expatriate African Scholars in African Universities,” CODESRIA Symposium, Academic Freedom, Research and the Social Responsibility of the Intellectual in Africa, Kampala, Uganda, November 26-29.

1989. “Preliminary Report of the Study ‘African Economic History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,’” A Meeting of African and Asian Fellows of the Reflections on Development Fellowship Program, Rockefeller Conference and Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, August 13-24.

1989. “The Strike Movement in Colonial Kenya,” International Symposium on Social History and Development in East Africa: 19-20th Centuries, Bujumbura, Burundi, October 17-24.

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1989. “The Problems of Writing History Textbooks: The Case of East Africa,” UNESCO Meeting of Experts, “History Teaching and Textbooks in African Schools,” Nairobi, Kenya, March 6-10.

1988. Discussant. First International Conference, Urban Growth and Spatial Planning of Nairobi, organized by African Urban Quarterly, Nairobi, Kenya, December 13-17.

1988. “Women in the Kenyan Labor Movement,” Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) African Regional Meeting, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, September 27-29.

1988. “Employment, Wages and Working Conditions of Women in Africa,” ITF/FES (International Transport Federation/Friedrich Ebert Stiftung), Women Workers Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, October 3-7.

1987. “African Sugar in the World Market” and “Agricultural Reform in Africa,” IFPAAW/NUPAW (International Federation of Plantation and Allied Workers / National Union of Plantation and Allied Workers - Uganda), Building National Leadership, Tom Mboya Labor College, Kisumu, Kenya, July 26-29.

1987. “The Causes of Africa's Recurrent Agrarian Crises.” IFPAAW/ILO(International Labor Organization), Workers Education Project For Women Members of Rural Workers Organizations, Nairobi, Kenya. March 15-16.

1985. “The Current Agrarian Crisis in Africa: Its History and Future,” International Youth Year, International Conference, “Issues for the Next Generation,” Toronto, Canada, August 15-17.

1985. “The Problems of Teaching African Economic History.” UNESCO Conference, The Revision of History Textbooks in East and Central Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, March 25-30.

1985. “Kenya’s Road to Independence.” African Independence: Origins and Consequences of the Transfers of Power, 1956-1980, Harare, Zimbabwe. January 8-14. (With B.A. Ogot)

1984. Conference Rapporteur, UNESCO Conference, “The Revision of History Textbooks in East and Central Africa,” Nairobi, Kenya, December 13-18.

1984. “Decolonization: The Kenyan Case,” Symposium to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Colonization of Africa, Toronto, Canada, September 22-23.

1984. “The Political Economy of British Colonial Development and Welfare in Africa,” Canadian Association of African Studies, Annual Meeting, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada, May 9-12.

C. SELF-SPONSORED CONFERENCES 2008. International Congress of Diaspora, nation and Difference for African Descendent People

in Mexico and Central America, Veracruz, Mexico, June 10-13. 2007. “African Writing, Publishing, and Globalization,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies

Association, New York, USA, October 17-21. 2007. “Rethinking Africa, Africanity, and Blackness,” The Dilemma of Blackness: Challenges

and Continuities of the 21st Century, 2007 Annual Faculty Workshop, Department of African American Studies, UIC, Chicago, USA, June 7-9.

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2006. Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, San Francisco, U.S.A., November 16-19.

2005. 36th Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Arlington, Virginia, USA. March 23-26, 2005.

2003. Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Boston, U.S.A., October 30-November 2.

1999. Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Philadelphia, U.S.A. November 11-14.

1998. “African Scholarship at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair.” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Chicago, U.S.A., October 29 – November 1.

1998. Discussant. Fourth Joint Centers’ Symposium, “Peasants in Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspective: Landscapes of Identity, Nature, and Power.” Allerton Park and Conference Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, U.S.A., April 9-10.

1998. “Relations between African and African American Studies in the US Academy,” Area Studies and Ethnic Studies: Commonalities and Differences, Organized by the UIUC Area Studies centers and Ethnic Studies Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, U.S.A., April.

1997. Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Columbus, U.S.A., November 13-16. 1996. Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, San Francisco, U.S.A., November

23-26. 1996. Panel Chair. Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for African Studies, Space, Culture

and Society in Africa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, U.S.A., March 28-30.

1996. Panel Chair. “Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights,” Department of French, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Champaign, U.S.A. March 21-23.

1995. Panel Discussant. African Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Orlando, U.S.A., November 3-6.

1995. “African Environmental History: Towards a Research Agenda,” Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Meeting, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, May 10-13.

1994. Panel Discussant, US African Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 3-5.

1993. Round Table, Canadian Association of African Studies, Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 12-15.

1992. “The Moral Economy of Working Class Struggle: Strikers, the Community, and the State in the 1947 Mombasa General Strike,” Canadian Association of African Studies, Annual Meeting, Université d’Quebec á Montréal, Montreal, Canada, May 16-19.

1991. “The Unemployment Crisis in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s.” Canadian Association for the Study of International Development, Annual Meeting, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, June 3-5.

1991. “The Labor Movement and Local Politics in Kenya” and “The Strengths and Limits of Village-Based Research in Africa,” CAAS, Annual Meeting, York University, Toronto, Canada, May 16-19.

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1990. Discussant and Coordinator of Graduate Students Workshop, Canadian Association of African Studies, Annual Meeting, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, May 9-12.

1989. “The Political Economy of Human Rights in Africa,” The French Revolution and Human Rights in Africa, Kampala, Uganda, November 30.

1986. Kenya Historical Association, Annual Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, January. 1983. Association of Caribbean Historians, Annual Conference, Kingston, Jamaica, April. 1982. “The British and Kenyan Labor Movements: Possibilities and Limits of International

Working Class Solidarity,” Canadian Association of African Studies, Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May.

1981. Canadian Learned Societies, Annual Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, May.

1978. “The Political Economy of the Sisal Industry in Tanganyika, 1920-1948,” and coordinator of Graduate Students’ Workshop, Canadian Association of African Studies, Annual Meeting, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada, May.

1977. “The Social and Economic History of Malawi, 1890-1975,” The Historical Association of Malawi, Annual Conference, Zomba, Malawi, July.

D. INVITED SEMINARS AND PUBLIC LECTURES 2008. “The Developmental and Democratic Challenges of Postcolonial Kenya,” Public Lecture,

September 22, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, USA2008. “Education in Africa: A Historical Overview,” Seminar presentation, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana, USA, March 24. 2008. “The Pasts and Futures of African Studies,” Public Lecture, Queen’s University,

Kingston, Ontario, Canada. February 28. 2007. “Africa's New Diasporas: From Brain Drain to Brain Mobility?” Public Lecture, Center for

Transnational and Diaspora Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, USA, November 22, 2007.

2007. “Dancing with the Dragon: Africa’s Courtship with China,” Public Lecture, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA, November 13, 2007.

2007. “Historical and Contemporary Challenges of Development and Democracy in Kenya,” Lecture, Depaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 15.

2007. “African Studies,” Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, May, 2007* 2006. “Colonial Fictions: Memory and History in Yvonne Vera’s Imagination,” Yale Council on

African Studies, Fall Colloquium Series, Historical Narratives, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, December 6.

2006. Seminar, “Knowledge production and the African diaspora,” Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, November 2.

2006. “The Pasts and Futures of African History: A Generational Inventory,” paper presented to the History Department Seminar, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, August 8; also presented to the Department of History, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, August 16.

2006. “African Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Diaspora,” public lecture at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, June 22; and also presented at the

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Instituto Universitario de Barlovento, Higuerote, Venezuela, June 26. 2006. “Critical Issues in Higher Education and Intellectual Development in Africa,” paper

presented as the Founders Lecture, University of South Africa, Senate Hall, Pretoria, South Africa, August 7.

2006. “African Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Pitfalls and Possibilities,” Research Seminar Series, Center for African Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 6.

2006. “Introducing the Problematique of Africa in the American Classroom,” College of Wooster, Ohio, USA, February 25.

2005. “The African University in the 21st Century: Future Challenges and A Research Agenda,” African Gender Institute Public Lecture, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. February 23.

2004. “The New Contexts, Challenges and Opportunities of Human Rights in Africa,” Meeting of the Kanto Branch of the Japan Association for African Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. June 24.

2004. “The Challenges of Researching and Writing African Economic History,” Kansai University, Kansai, Japan. June 21.

2004. Discussant, Rockefeller Humanities Institute Fellows Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA, May 4.

2003. “Rewriting the African Diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic,” African Studies Seminar, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, December 4.

2003. “The Challenges of Mapping African Intellectual Histories: The Case of the Postcolonial State.” Africa Workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, January 29.

2002. “Africa and Globalization,” University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. December 18.

2002. “The ‘Posts’ and African Studies,” Illinois State University, Bloomington, USA, 23 October.

2002. “The Evolution of the Idea of Pan-Africanism,” Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. April 2. 2002. “The Development of African Studies in the United States,” American University in Cairo,

Cairo, Egypt, April 4. 2000. “The Politics of Social Science Research in Africa,” Center for Southern African Studies,

University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, July 6. 2000. “Literature and Politics in Contemporary Africa,” Milliken University, Decatur, U.S.A.

March 8. 2000. “Why Africa Matters: Globalization and African Development,” University of Delaware,

Newark, Delaware, USA, February 24. 1999. “Globalization, Development and African Peasantries,” Agrarian Program, Yale

University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, September 10. 1999. “The Ties That Bind: Relations Between Africans and African Americans.” Black History

Month, Church of Christ, Champaign, USA, February 17. 1998. “The Role of Migrant African Intellectuals in Africa’s Intellectual Development,”

Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies, Monthly Seminar, Harare, Zimbabwe, August 4.

1998. “Africans, Africanists and African Studies: Thoughts for the Future.” James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, May 21.

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1997. “The Perpetual Solitudes and Crises of African Studies in the United States,” University of Cape Town, Center for African Studies, Cape Town, South Africa, August.

1997. “Pan-Africanism and African Studies,” Maseno University College, Maseno, Kenya, July 29.

1997. “Studying Africa in Africa and the United States: Similarities and Differences,” Kenyatta University College, Nairobi, Kenya, July 15.

1996. “Imagining Pan-Africanism for the 21st Century.” Institute of African Studies and the Barnard Pan-African Studies Program Columbia University, New York, USA, April 19.

1996. “The Role of South Africa in the Emergence of a New Pan-Africanism.” Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, the City Wide Forum on Africa, New York, USA, April 20.

1996. “Africa’s Bumpy Road to Democracy: From the Tragedy of Rwanda to the Triumph of South Africa.” The World Affairs Council of Central Illinois, Springfield, USA, January 25.

1995. “The Challenges of Economic Development in Africa,” Illinois Leadership Forum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA, January.

1994. “Visions of Democracy in Post-Colonial African Literature,” African Studies Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. January 28.

1994. “Visions of Democracy in Post-Colonial African Literature,” Center for African Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, January 14.

1993. “The Democratic Transition in Africa and the Writer,” African Studies Working Group, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, November 17.

1992. “Africa and the European Community,” Champlain College, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, May 22.

1984. “The Significance of Soweto,” Jamaican Human Rights Council, Kingston, Jamaica, June 16.

1984. “Race and Class in South Africa,” Jamaican Human Rights Council and the Lions Club of May Pen, May Pen, Jamaica, June 13.

1984. “Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa,” Peoples Nation Party (PNP) Youth Organization, Highgate, St. Mary, Jamaica, May 28.

1984. “Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa,” African Liberation Day Rally, Kingston, Jamaica, May 25.

1984. “South Africa and Human Rights,” Morant Bay United Nations Association, Morant Bay, Jamaica, March 6.

1984. “Capitalism and Apartheid,” PNP Youth Organization, Kingston, Jamaica, March 4. 1984. “The Political Economy of South Africa.” Press Club, Press Association of Jamaica,

Kingston, Jamaica. February 7. 1984. “The Impact of Apartheid on African Family Life, Education and Employment.” Webster

Memorial Hall, Kingston, Jamaica, January 27. 1984. “The Impact of Apartheid on African Family Life, Education and Employment,” Jamaican

Human Rights Council, Kingston, Jamaica, January 21. 1984. “The Struggles against Apartheid,” Redcam Library, Kingston; Organized by the African

Studies Association of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, January 17.

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E. LOCAL CAMPUS SEMINARS 2007. “The Roots and Resolution of African Conflicts,” October 16, Great Cities Institute,

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 2003. “Globalization, Intellectuals, and Africa,” Transnational Seminar: Sociology-Geography -

Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. January 31.

2000. “African Labor and Intellectual Migrations to the North: Building New Transatlantic Bridges.” Center for African Studies Interdisciplinary Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. February 10.

1999. “Historicizing the “Posts”: The View from African Studies.” Fall Colloquium, Center for African Studies, “Is the ‘Post’ in Postcolonial the ‘Post’ in Postmodern? Interrogating Postmodernity and Postcoloniality From the Perspective of African and Diaspora Studies,” Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. November 4-5, 1999.

1997. “Political Transformations in Kenya.” Center for African Studies Brown Bag Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. October.

1996. “The Joys and Tribulations of Writing African Economic History.” Center for African Studies Brown Bag Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. January 10.

1991. “The Economics of the Partition of Africa Revisited.” Joint Trent University and University of Ottawa History Departments Seminar, Ottawa, Canada. October 4-5.

1990. “The Social Costs of Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa.” Multidisciplinary Center, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. March.

1989. “The Production of Historical Knowledge For Schools.” History Department, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. December.

1989. “Africa's Economic Performance Since Independence.” The Catholic Higher Institute For Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. February.

1985. “Africa and the Western Africanist Scholar.” Department of History, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. November. (With Isaac Sindiga).

1984. “Imperialism and Labor: The International Relations of the Kenyan Labor Movement.” History Department, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. March.

1982. “The Political Economy of International Trade Unionism.” Center for African Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. February.

1978. “Theories of Underdevelopment.” History Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. December.

1976. “The Rise and Fall of the Central African Federation.” History Department, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi. April.

1976. “The Arab-Israeli Conflict.” History Department, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi. May.

F. MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND PUBLIC READINGS 2008. Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ, World Affairs, interview on Kenyan elections and post

election violence, Chicago, USA, January 9.

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2008. Al-Jazeera International (TV), interview on Kenyan elections and post election violence, World News, 6 p.m., London, United Kingdom, January 6.

2007. KPFK 90.7 FM, Pacifica Radio, The Africa-EU Summit, Spotlight Africa Program, Los Angeles, USA, December 9.

2007. KPFK, 90.7 FM, Pacifica Radio, The Commonwealth Conference, Spotlight Africa Program, Los Angeles, USA, November 25.

2007. WPFW Radio, interviewed on “U.S. Celebrities & African Activism,” Africa Now Program, Washington, DC, USA, September 2.

2007. KPFK, 90.7 FM, Pacifica Radio, interviewed on “The Commonwealth Conference,” Spotlight Africa, Los Angeles, USA, November 25.

2007. KPFK 90.7 FM, Pacifica Radio, interviewed on “The Africa-EU Summit,” Spotlight Africa Program, Los Angeles, USA, December 9.

2007. Chicago Public Radio, interviewed on “After Independence: Kenya,” hour-long program. Chicago, USA. June 27. Rebroadcast, January 2, 2008 on National Public Radio (NPR)

2006. SABC Radio, FM 104, interviewed on “African Studies Conference,” from Pretoria, South Africa, April 27 (phone in program 11-12 a.m.).

2005. Indiana University, Graduate Student Forum with Dr. Zeleza, Rethinking Africa's Globalization, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. March 4.

2004. Channel Africa, South African Broadcasting Corporation, interview with Owen Lupeska on the African Union’s Conference of “Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora,” Dakar, Senegal. October 8.

2004. Voice of America, “Straight Talk Africa,” hosted by Shaka Ssali. Call-in TV, Radio and Internet program broadcast worldwide. Washington, DC, U.S.A. August 18.

2004. Nation TV, Nairobi, “Evening News” Report on international media conference. Nairobi, Kenya. August 6.

2003. Rethinking Africa’s Globalization, “Spotlight Africa” on KPFK, 90.7 FM, Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles, USA, October 26, Assumpta A. Oturu, Host/Producer.

2002. “Smouldering Charcoal as a Window to African Literature and Politics.” Roosevelt University, Chicago, USA, April 11.

2002. Voice of America, “Straight Talk Africa” hosted by Shaka Ssali. Call-in TV, Radio and Internet program broadcast worldwide, linked from Cairo, Egypt. March 27.

2001. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service. BBC Africa Service, “African Perspectives on September 11,” Champaign, USA, David Stead, Producer, October 2001.

2001. BBC Africa Service, “The Story of Africa” (African History from the dawn of humans to the end of apartheid), Champaign, USA. David Stead, Producer, October 2001.

2000. South African Broadcasting Corporation, “The Tim Modise Show,” Johannesburg, South Africa. July 3.

2000. Malawi TV, “Guest of the Week,” Blantyre, Malawi. July 1. 2000. WILL-TV, “Talking Point: Black Perspectives,” Champaign, USA, April 27. 1998. British Broadcasting Corporation, “African Children’s Literature–Zimbabwe International

Book Fair,” August 4. Harare, Zimbabwe. Anna Umbima, Producer. 1996. British Broadcasting Corporation, “Living Abroad as Exiled Writers,” July 21. Blantyre,

Malawi, Anna Umbima, Producer.

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1996. Readings from The Joys of Exile and Smouldering Charcoal, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi. July 22.

1996. Readings from The Joys of Exile, French Cultural Center, Blantyre, Malawi. July 18, 1996.

1996. Readings from The Joys of Exile. Columbia University, New York, USA, April 19. 1996. Readings from The Joys of Exile and Smouldering Charcoal. A Likely Story Bookstore,

Urbana, Illinois, USA. February 24. 1996. WILL Focus 580, “Contemporary African Politics,” Champaign, USA, January 23. 1995. British Broadcasting Corporation, “Censorship in Banda’s Malawi,” Harare, Zimbabwe,

31 July. 1995. Readings from The Joys of Exile, Radio Swiss International, Harare, Zimbabwe, July 31. 1994. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CHEX TV, “News and Entertainment,”

Peterborough, Canada, July 26. 1994. Interview and Readings from The Joys of Exile. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Radio, “The Arts Tonight,” Toronto, Canada, July 20. 1994. Interview and Readings from The Joys of Exile, Trent Radio, Peterborough, Canada.

March 23. 1994. Readings from The Joys of Exile, Champlain College, Trent University, Reading Series,

Peterborough, Canada, March 1. 1994. Readings from The Joys of Exile, Traill College, Trent University, Peterborough,

Canada, February 7. 1993. Readings from Smouldering Charcoal and The Joys of Exile and Lecture, “The

Democratic Transition in Africa and the Writer,” Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, November 17.

1993. Readings from Smouldering Charcoal and The Joys of Exile, George Ignatief Theater, University of Toronto, Writers’ Workshop ‘93, Toronto, Canada, July 18.

1993. Readings from Smouldering Charcoal and Lecture, “Imaginative Literature and Politics in Post-Colonial Africa,” York University, Africa History Month, Toronto, Canada. February 25.

1993. Readings from Smouldering Charcoal and Lecture, “The Development of African Literature,” Traill College Lecture Hall, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. July 26.

1992. Readings from Smouldering Charcoal and Lecture, “The Theme of Resistance in African Literature,” Trent International Program Colloquium, Lady Eaton College, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, November 2.

1992. Readings from Smouldering Charcoal and CAN:BAIA's Launching of The International Review of African American Art special edition on Celebrating African Canadian Identity, Volume 10, No.1. Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada, October 26.

1992. Readings from Smouldering Charcoal, Champlain Fellows Dinner, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, October 4.

1992. Readings and launch of Smouldering Charcoal, Harbourfront Reading Series, Toronto, Canada, September 29.

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G. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION As center director, department chair, and member of executive committees of various associations including the Canadian Association of African Studies and the African Studies Association I have been involved in the organization of many conferences including some of the following. 2008. Chair for the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA,

November 13-16. 2002. Co-Organizer (with Jim Anderson and Bill Trent, College of Education and Adebayo

Olukoshi, CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal), 28th Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “African Universities in the Twenty-First Century,” Champaign, U.S.A. and Dakar, Senegal. April 25-27:

2001. Co-Organizer (with Ilesami Adesida, College of Engineering and Ibulaimu Kakoma College of Veterinary Medicine), 27th Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Technology and Development in Africa,” Champaign, U.S.A. April 25-28.

2000. Co-Organizer (with Cynthia Radding, Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies) Fifth Joint University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Area Centers’ Symposium, “Gender and Globalization,” Champaign, U.S.A. April 14-16.

1999. Co-Organizer (with Phil McConnaughay, College of Law), 26th Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Human Rights and the ‘Rule of Law’ in Africa.” Champaign, U.S.A. July 8-10.

1998. National Panels Chair for the 41st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Responsible for choosing conference theme and sub-themes, setting up the organizing committee, and coordinating with the ASA secretariat on all aspects of the conference. Chicago, U.S.A. October 29—November 1.

1998. National Summit on Africa, Midwest Regional Conference, Assembled team of conference rapporteurs. Chicago, U.S.A. September 24-26.

1997. Co-Organizer (with Adrienne Shadd) of conference segment of CAN:BAIA’s (Canadian Artists Network: Black Artists in Action) CELAFI II (Celebrating African Identity), “Panafrican Arts and Artists,” Participants from over 20 countries. Toronto, Canada. July 9-13.

1997. Co-Organizer (with Dan Williams, Department of Leisure Studies, UIUC), 24th Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “The Creation and Consumption of Leisure in Urban Africa,” Champaign, U.S.A. April 3-5.

1996. Co-Organizer (with Ezekiel Kalipeni and Merle Bowen, Depts. of Geography and Political Science), 23rd Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for African Studies, “Space, Society and Culture in Africa,” Champaign, U.S.A. March 28-30.

1995. Co-Organizer (with Jackie Solway, Departments of Anthropology and Comparative Development Studies,” Canadian Association of African Studies, 23rd Annual Meeting, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. May 10-13.

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1994. Member of the Panels Selection Committee (responsible for History and Literature panels) for the US African Studies Association 37th Annual Meeting, Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada. November 3-5.

1994. Artistic Director of “The Griot's Palaver” (readings by African and African-Canadian Writers organized on behalf of CAN:BAIA in conjunction with the Harbourfront Reading Series to coincide with the ASA 37th Annual Meeting). Harbourfront Reading Series, Toronto, Canada. November 3-5.