Papers and  Abstracts 

Panels 1-5

Panel No. 1

Theme: Health Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa / Santé, Politiques et société dans l'Afrique contemporaine 

Poverty and the AIDS Pandemic in Africa
Olayiwola Erinosho

HIV/AIDS Interventions in Zambia – Financial Resource Implications
Chris N. Mwikisa

Le Recours à la pharmacopée traditionnelle africaine dans le nouveau millénaire: cas des femmes herboristes de Bamako
Malick Traore

The Impact of Culture, Religion and Policy on the Reproductive Health of Women in Kenya
Constance Rose Ambasa

Politics, Etiquette and the Fight against HIV/AIDS in Kenya: Negotiating for a Common Front
Zachary Arochi Kwena

Panel 2
Civil and Political Society in Africa / Société civile et politique en Afrique

The Alternative Genealogy of Civil Society and Its Implications for Africa: Notes for Further Research
Ebenezer Obadare

Entre l’Etat et la Nation : l’impossible lieu d’énonciation du politique en Afrique
Aminata Diaw

Towards Development: International donors, Agenda Setting and the Participation of the Non-Profit Sector in NEPAD
Bhekinkosi Moyo

Ngos and Africa in the New Millennium: Lessons from Tanzania
Janet Reuben 

Non-State Actors in Development at the Local Level: Lessons of Experience From Kenya
Walter O. Oyugi. (PhD)

Panel 3
Colonialism, Customary Law and Post-Colonial State and Society / Colonialisme, droit coutumier, état post-colonial et société

The Denial of Modernity – The regulation of native labour in colonial Mozambique and its postcolonial aftermath
Elisio S. Macamo

Les droits coutumiers du Mozambique, dans les communautés Nyanja de Metangula (Le cas de la province du Niassa -1975-1997)
José Alberto Raimundo

Demise or Resilience, Customary Law and the Changing Order in Africa: The Case of Botswana.
Morapedi Gilbert Wazha

Might and Right: Chieftaincy and Democracy in Cameroon and Botswana
Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Creating and celebrating “African-ness”- juggling with men and women’s interests in family life: the status of customary law as a measure political commitment to gender equality in Zimbabwe
Rekopantswe Mate (Ms)

Colonialism, Customary Law and Post-Colonial State in Africa: the Case of Nigeria
Dr John Ademola Yakubu

Panel N°. 4:

Africa  and  the Challenges of Globalisation /  l’Afrique et la défi de la Mondialisation

Globalization and the Challenge of Democracy in North Africa Region: Special Reference to Egypt
Shahida El-Baz

Protecting Refugees in the Era of Globalisation: the Challenges of Africa in the New Millennium!
Ekuru Aukot

Facing the Genetic Frontier: Contemporary Africa and the Challenges of Biotechnology
Edward Waswa Kisiang’ani

Utilisation of Africa’s Environmental Resources and the Challenges of Globalisation: A Case in Eastern Tanzania
Professor William Rugumamu

Panel N°. 5: 

Continuity and Change in African International Relations / Continuité et Mutation dans les relations internationales africaines

Post-Cold War International Relations in Africa: new trends, new directions and new challenges
John Akokpari, Ph.D

Reflections on Liberal Democracy and International Debt Issues in Post-Cold War Africa?
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo

NEPAD and the challenge of Africa’s Development: towards a political economy of a discourse
Jìmí O. Adésínà, PhD

Reconstructing Africa’s Development in the New Millennium Through NEPAD Can African Leaders Deliver the Goods?
Cyril Obi

New Regionalist Impulses: Implications of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) for Regional integration in Southern Africa
Khabele Matlosa