Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - ASAA 2017: CFP

Dear shola

Thanks for posting this. I read the notice, and found its claim to be the only African professional assn that sees the world from an African perspective to be slightly…what? Extreme? All the others see the world from a non-african centered perspective? Like codesria, for instance?

Anyway, I copied the passage to post and ask how this claim could be defensible in its accusation again all other African professional organizations. It says, “The ASAA is currently the only multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary professional association on the continent dedicated to the study of Africa from an Africanist perspective, what Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, referred to as studying our societies and experiences in an African-centred way.”

ken

 

Kenneth Harrow

Dept of English and Film Studies

Michigan State University

619 Red Cedar Rd

East Lansing, MI 48824

517-803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/

 

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Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 10:39
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - ASAA 2017: CFP

 

Dear All,

Please find attached a CFP for this year's African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) conference.

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Regards,

Dr. Shola Adenekan

African Literature and Cultures

University of Bremen

 

Editor/Publisher:
The New Black Magazine - http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com

 

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