The Future of the South African Dream: Howard University, April 28
By ACAS | April 2009
The Future of the South African Dream: Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and the April 2009 Elections. Tuesday, April 28 2009. 6:30PM - 8:30 PM. At Howard University, Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center. 2218 Sixth Street NW. Washington, DC. 20059. Admission free - All are welcome!
Keywords: South Africa
Africom Awareness Event in Berkeley
By ACAS | March 2009
The new U.S. Military Command for Africa threatens to escalate the militarization of all aspects of U.S. policy towards Africa. Come learn what the Africa Command is all about, what’s at stake, and how we can stop it.
Keywords: Africom • militarization
Further Reading on Zimbabwe
By ACAS | March 2009
Further readings from ACAS Bulletin 82 (Summer 2009): Reflections on Mahmood Mamdani’s ‘Lessons of Zimbabwe’
Keywords: Zimbabwe
Rwanda: Fifteen Years Post-Genocide: Peace Review Call for Essays
By ACAS | March 2009
In light of the fifteenth anniversary of the 1994 Tutsi genocide, Peace Review is soliciting submissions for a special commemorative issue on post-genocide Rwanda. We invite scholars from all disciplines, NGO workers, activists, writers, refugees and survivors to consider issues related to post-genocide Rwanda that concomitantly, contribute to progressive work in peace and conflict studies.
Keywords: Rwanda • Rwandan genocide
Draft Statement of Principles (1977)
By ACAS | February 2009
We are a grouping of scholars interested in Africa and concerned with moving U.S. policy toward Africa in directions more sympathetic to African interests. For political and practical reasons, our emphasis for the foreseeable future will be on southern Africa
Summary of the Founding Meeting of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, Houston, Texas, November 3, 1977
By ACAS | February 2009
The meeting was chaired by Prof. Edris Makward, University of Wisconsin, Madison, who introduced the two main speakers: Prof. Immanuel Wallerstein and Mr. Edgar Lockwood, who spoke concerning “American Scholars and the Political Economy of Southern Africa” and “The Carter Administration and Southern Africa an Overview,” respectively. (See summaries elsewhere in newsletter.) A motion was made, seconded, and passed unanimously to establish the Association of Concerned African Scholars (ACAS).
Resist Africom: the movie
By ACAS | December 2008
Keywords: Africom
Helping the people of Zimbabwe
By ACAS | December 2008
Understanding the Zimbabwean crises or acting on it, is only part of the story. Meanwhile, people lack access to basic necessities: medicines, health services and food. Here’s some ideas how you can help.
Keywords: Africa Action • Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition • humanitarian aid • Imani Countess • Priority Africa Network • UN World Food Program • USAID • Zimbabwe • Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions • Zimbabwe National Students' Union
New Journal on Law, Social Justice and Global Development
By ACAS | September 2008
The first issue of LGD, Law, Social Justice and Global Development, a new electronic law journal published by Warwick University, is now available online.
Keywords: development • social development • South Africa • water • Zimbabwe
New Dictionary of African Biography
By ACAS | September 2008
Oxford University Press and Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research have announced an ambitious new project, the Dictionary of African Biography, that will include 5,000 entries both online and in print editions. The General Editors of the project are two Harvard faculty, Henry Louis Gates and Emmanuel Akyeampong.
