RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winner Of The 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award

Good Greetings Mwalima Gloria Emeagwali and Mwalimu Toyin Adepoju:

Thanks a heap for your postings. Your take on the Third World concept is a good one. We even had a panel on the issue during our conference in Cape Coast, Ghana last year. Nonetheless, it is up to us who are well informed about the concept to educate those who are less informed about its correct meaning. I hope that the small sample of URLs below to my essay titled "Pan-Third Worldism: A Challenge to the Association of Third World Studies" published in the Journal of Third World Studies  (Spring 2003, Vol. 20, Number 1, p. 13-17) and works in which it has been referenced will be helpful.

Those of us who are members of the African Studies and Research Forum (ASRF), an affiliate organization of the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS), are not uncomfortable with the name. Our work in academia and community service all over Africa and its Diaspora are testimony to that. Besides, ours is the only scholarly organization that has United Nations membership, and members of the ASRF are among the most published, the most with early tenure and promotion, the most with endowed chairs, the most invited to give public lectures and media appearances around the world, and our journal is among the most read in Africa and other countries around the world and now in the top tier on many universities' tenure and promotion lists in the United States and many other countries.

Our annual conferences are more than just opportunities for renewing acquaintances. Sessions do not take place at the hotel bars or the hall ways. It is our tradition to present completed essays for suggestive evaluations and potential publication.

I hope you can join us next year in Brazil for our ATWS (African Samba) conference!

In Peace Always,
Abdul Karim Bangura/.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200304/ai_n9173367/

http://connection.ebscohost.com/content/article/1034041372.html;jsessionid=75FD1AD80C954DE0E5641D101CF6EC58.ehctc1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-worldism

http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Third-worldism

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From: "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"
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Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winner Of The 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award

Toyin Adepoju has a point. These days the term Third World is used insultingly. See for example
Huffingtonpost.com on the series 'Third World America'.

Studies of Emerging Economies, African and Asian Studies, Non-Aligned Studies
or Majority Studies are some possible alternatives that come to mind.

GE
www.africahistory.net

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winner Of The 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award

Very impressive.

Within the name of the prize,however,I have a problem with the section I highlight in black:

"Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award"

I am wary of such self categorisation,even if it has a degree of validity. Is Africa,for one,Third to the West,in all aspects?Even if one argues that, taken generally,this classification can be sustained,how helpful is it to the psyche of those who belong to this so called Third World?

I might have problems,I might not be living up to my potential but I would not be keen to be NAMED IN TERMS OF MY PROBLEMS beceause I am convinced I can rise above them sooner or later.

I would be much more comfortable if the prize were simply named Toyin Falola Africa Book Award

Thanks
Toyin

On 10 October 2010 23:52, Abdul Karim Bangura > wrote:
Professor Patrick Manning Is the Winner of the 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award

Good Greetings:

It is with great enthusiasm that I share with you the wonderful news that the winner of the 2010 Association of Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award is Professor Patrick Manning of the University of Pittsburgh for his book titled The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (2009) published by Columbia University Press. As in previous years, the Award's committee received numerous and excellent books from which the selection was made. The following is just a small sample of what the judges of the Award had to say about Manning's effulgent book:

"The author is adept at tying together what are seemingly separate and unconnected phenomena. Integrating such a complexity (six centuries and several continents) was challenging enough, but it was done with an almost elegant simplicity...."

"Manning challenges three paradigms that have shaped the study of African peoples: (1) their exclusion from studies on modernity, (2) their exclusion from a global integrated study as a group, and (3) their absence of clearly defined thematic structures that encapsulate the experiences of the Africana. Through a new approach to the study of the African Diaspora, Manning shows how African peoples in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean contributed to modernity through Diasporas, networks, mixes, hinterlands, and exchanges on the roads between centers...."

Please find below more details on the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award and the call for next year's Award. Next year's ATWS conference will be convened in Brazil, home of the Afrikan Samba.

In Peace Always
Abdul Karim Bangura/
Committee Chair

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CALL FOR BOOKS

THE 2010-2011 TOYIN FALOLA

ATWS AFRICA BOOK AWARD

The Toyin Falola Africa Book Award, in honor of Toyin Falola, one of Africa's outstanding historians and intellectuals, will be given for the best book on Africa published in 2010-2011. Book submissions must be published in 2010 through June 15, 2011. The deadline for the submission of entries is June 30, 2011. The award will not automatically be given each year, but only whenever the committee decides that a book of considerable merit has been submitted. ATWS members are encouraged to enter their publications into the competition. The recipient will receive an elegant plaque, citation, and a $500 cash award.

Qualifications are:

1. Only monographs and studies will be considered. Please do not submit anthologies or edited works.
2. An individual who wishes to be considered must send a letter of application to the committee chair, Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura, The African Institution, 7532 Eighth Street, Washington, D.C. 20012 E-mail: theafricaninstitution@verizon.net
3. Publishers are permitted to nominate an author's book as long as the above rules are observed.
4. An individual seeking the award is responsible for sending a copy of his/her book to each member of the committee.

Committee members are:

Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura, committee chair, The African Institution, 7532 Eighth Street, Washington, D.C. 20012. E-mail: theafricaninstitution@verizon.net

Dr. James T. Gire, Department of Psychology, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA 24450. E-mail: GireJT@vmi.edu

Dr. Jose Arimateia da Cruz, Department of Criminal Justice, Social and Political Science, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA 31419-1997. E-mail: dacruzjo@mail.armstrong.edu

Dr. Ishmael Munene, Center for Education Excellence, Northern Arizona University, Flagg Staff, AZ 86011-5774. E-mail: Munene@nau.edu




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