From: sabidde@yahoo.com [ChatAfriK] <ChatAfriK@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 3 March 2018 at 15:38
Subject: [ChatAfriK] Book Chapter - Reflections on Exile
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Book Proposal: Call for Chapter Contributions
Title: Exile and Migration: Reflections of African Scholars in Foreign Academies
Whether forced or voluntary, Africans have been migrating in response to what is broadly classified as the pull-push factors of migration. In the last several decades, many have migrated primarily because of the stifling and unhealthy social, economic and political space in their respective countries. Within this large pool of immigrants are scholars and intellectuals who left the continent for the intellectually fertile grounds of Europe, North America, and the Middle East. While many of these scholars left on their own volition, others were forced out.
Whether migration was voluntary or compelled, it can have both a negative and a positive impact on the émigré. Leaving one's family and the familiar can be painful; yet, being able to start anew in an environment of near-endless possibilities can be invigorating. At the very least, many of the tools and resources that are lacking in their homeland are available in their new countries. There is a level of academic-freedom that is available in places like the US, UK, Australia and Canada, for instance, that is not available in countries like Nigeria, Namibia, Zambia, and Ethiopia. Nonetheless, many African scholars and intellectuals must contend with campus culture, politics, and attitude that can be distressing, demoralizing, and painful.
What are these distressing and demoralizing campus culture, politics and attitude? In what ways do these negatives affect African scholars and intellectuals who hold teaching, research, and administrative positions? While some African scholars in the US, for instance, points to the hostile behavior of their African American colleagues and colleagues from the Caribbean; others point to the biased evaluation they sometimes receive from White and Asian students. There are other issues African scholars and intellectuals in foreign academies must contend with. Hence, you are invited to investigate any of the issues you may be familiar with – a few are listed below:
· A Comparative Analysis of Home and Foreign Universities
· Campus Culture
· On-Campus Xenophobia
· The Myth of Return to African to Teach
· Sense of Entitlement Within the Academy
· Racism: Overt and Covert
· Students' Evaluation
· Evaluation by Administrators
· The Contest Between Africans and African American Teachers and Administrators
· Issues Relating to Tenure and Promotion
· Complaints About Speaking Accent and Teaching Methods
· Managing The Classroom
· Sexual Harassment at Home and Abroad
· Teaching and Learning in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)
· The Environment at Academic Conferences
· Teaching and Learning in Predominantly White Institutions (PWI)
Please Note: Contributors may also submit articles that deal with areas not listed above if the main thrust of their submission is on their experiences and or observation within universities outside of the African continent.
Formatting/Citation/Due Dates:
1. Submit 300-350-word abstract plus a 150-250-word biography by 25 March 2018
2. Response to accepted or rejected abstract will be given on or before 25 April 2018
3. Completed essay: 5000-6500 words including endnotes are due by 25 August 2018
4. Formatting/Citations: Chicago (with endnotes)
5. Please send abstract/bio to: Sabidde@gmail.com
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