Call for Chapters for a book in honour of Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Working title: Perspectives on Africa's Development Dynamics: African and Diasporic Reflections in Honour of Prof. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Editors: Maurice N Amutabi (amutabi@gmail.com) and Cheryl N Grills (Cheryl.Grills@lmu.edu)
The African continent has produced some of the most prolific and dynamic scholars in the world, such as Ali A Mazrui, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Toyin Falola, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Prof. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, among others. The contributions of these scholars to the growth and development of scholarship in African cannot be gainsaid. Prof. Zeleza deserves to be mentioned alongside these intellectual giants because he is perhaps one of the most dynamic scholars to emerge from the African continent. Prof. Zeleza currently works as the Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Professor of History at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, USA. Besides his enormous contribution to African studies, Prof. Zeleza has also contributed immensely to the development of African American studies through research and publications. Through many of his great academic works, he has ignited great debates and discourses on African and African American studies in Africa and in Diaspora. He was pioneer of the famous intellectual debates at the Council for Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) debates that included famous scholars such as Samir Amin, Archie Mafeje, Mahmoud Mamdani, Thandika Mkandawire, Eric Masinde Aseka, Issa Shivji, among others. Many scholars in African and African American studies have had the chance to use some of the books written by Prof. Zeleza in their classes and seminars, such as A Modern Economic History of Africa, Vol.1: The Nineteenth Century which remains the most authoritative book on economic issues on Africa. It is Prof. Zeleza's flagship book, cited over 50,000 times in scholarly journals. Prof. Zeleza is also the author of Manufacturing African Studies and Crises; Rethinking Africa's Development and Smouldering Charcoal.
Prof. Zeleza has worked and taught in many parts of the world, in Africa, South and North America and influenced research in different aspects of humanities and social sciences in the world. He has mentored hundreds of scholars many of whom are today prominent in their own right. His great influence on Africa and African American studies is invaluable. Prof. Zeleza embraced interdisciplinary research very early at a time when many traditional scholars were still ambivalent to such approach and still engaged in disciplinary cocooning. This outstanding and amiable personality made invaluable contributions towards the enrichment of scholarship by supervising several doctoral students who are now actively working in Africa and African American studies and other fields.
Maurice N. Amutabi and Cheryl N Grills are proposing to publish an edited book in honour of Prof. Zeleza. The anthology is in recognition of Prof. Zeleza's outstanding contributions to African and African American studies. As editors, we are calling for chapters from scholars in various disciplines to submit well-researched scholarly works for inclusion in the book in honour of Prof. Zeleza. Send chapter abstracts of not more than 300 words to editors at amutabi@yahoo.com or amutabi@gmail.com or Cheryl.Grills@lmu.edu by September 30, 2015. The deadline for full chapter submission is October 30, 2015. Proposed chapters should be accompanied by a brief biography of author(s) of not more than 150 words along with institutional affiliation. All papers will be subjected to blind peer-reviews and comments will be sent to contributors for corrections by November 30, 2015. We intend to publish the book by December 30, 2015. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
The themes to be covered include:
African literature and African languages
Human rights, Ubuntu and NEPAD
Environment and Development
Intellectual history and history of ideas in Africa
Discourses on Africa and African Diaspora
Higher education in Africa
Gender issues, discourses and dynamics
Economic, Social and Cultural history
Marginalization, Space and Minorities
Xenophobia, Migration and Movement
Brain Drain, Brain Gain and Africa
Governance and Democracy in Africa
Afro-centricity, Africa and African American Discourses
Religious Radicalism
Globalization and Terrorism
Any other relevant topic
Important dates
· E-mail: amutabi@yahoo.com or amutabi@gmail.com or Cheryl.Grills@lmu.edu
· Abstract: 250 words (in MS word)
· Chapter proposal September 30, 2015
· Bio-Data: 150 words
· Peer Reviewed paper due: October 30, 2015
· Submission dateline: November 30, 2015
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1. The NGO Factor in Africa
http://www.amazon.com/NGO-Factor-Africa-Arrested-Development/dp/0415979951
2. Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa
http://www.amazon.com/Regime-Change-Succession-Politics-Africa/dp/0415534089
3. Lifelong Learning in Africa
http://www.amazon.com/Studies-Lifelong-Learning-Africa-Technological/dp/0773447571
4. Studies in Economic History of Kenya
http://www.amazon.com/Studies-Economic-History-Kenya-Entrepreneurship/dp/0773439072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265479492&sr=8-1
5. Perspectives in African Environment and Technology
http://www.amazon.com/Perspectives-African-Environment-Toyin-Falola/dp/15922188496
6. Prof. Maurice Amutabi's Blog
http://kenyasocialscienceforum.wordpress.com/author/kenyasocialscienceforum/
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