Abstracts and Papers presented at the CODESRIA 10th General Assembly 

Panels 12-20


Panel N°. 12
African Diaspora and Diapora Linkages / La diaspora africaine et les rapports avec la diaspora

« Contribution des Africains de la Diaspora au Panafricanisme (du milieu du XIXè siècle au début du XXIè siècle).
Joachim Emmanuel Goma Thethet

Absent fathers, Garvey's children and the Back to Africa Movement
Jalani Niaah

Little Senegal” in New York: The daily reproduction of “Home” Among Senegalese Women Migrant in New York
Awa Ba,

Migrations forcées et développement : la contribution des réfugiés nigérians à Douala
Blaise-Jacques NKENE

The Ties that Bind: Lessons from the Historic African Diaspora
Cassandra Veney, Ph.D


Panel 13
Rural Dynamiques / Dynamiques rurales

The Rural Communities of Cameroun and their Development in the Era of Post-Developmentalism;
Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo
Che Charles Fonchingong

Incidence du régime foncier sur l’utilisation durable des terres agricoles: une analyse de deux cas contrastés provenant du Sud Bénin.
Dr.  Maximin K. Z. KODJO

Globalisation and Technology: Problems and Prospects for the Agricultural sub-Sector in Africa
Osita Agbu

Strategies feminines de lutte contre la pauvrete en milieu peri-urbain de la region du Dakar, Senegal : Entre spheres publique et privee
Ndeye Sokhna Gueye 

Impact of Community Broadcasting on Rural Development in South Africa
Sheila Onkaetse Mmusi


Panel N°. 14
African Urban Processes / Processus Urbains

La modernité mauritanienne Enjeux d’une quête difficile de citoyenneté
Abderrahmane N’GAIDE

Le transport urbain à Batna : la nécessité de  repenser le service public.
Farès BOUBAKOUR

The City and Hegemonic Politics: The Press and the Struggle for Lagos in Colonial Nigeria
Wale Adebanwi,

Local and Global Determinants in the Emergency of Social solidarity: the case study of Maputo City, in Mozambique
Teresa Cruz e Silva

Da Abertura 1 a aperture 2: Os Desafios da Transiçao politica na Guiné-bissau
Carlos Cardoso


Panel 15
The African Brain Drain to the North/La fuite des cerveaux Africains vers le nord

The Ties that Bind: Lessons from the Historic African Diaspora
Cassandra Veney, Ph.D

The African Brain Drain to the North: Pitfalls and Possibilities;
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Migration, Identity and the Politics of African Intellectuals in the North;
Francis Nesbitt Njubi

The Making of the Sudanese Diaspora;
Ibrahim El Nur,

The African Diaspora and Information Technology: Bridging North-South Divides.
Nkiru Nzegwu, 


Panel 16:
Africa’s Evolving Security Architecture Emergence d’une architecture sécuritaire en Afrique

The ECOWAS Security Mechanism: Toward a Pax West Africana
Dr. Adekeye Adebajo,

The African Union and Subregional Security Mechanisms in Africa: Problems and Prospects
Professor Margaret Vogt,

Building Peace in the Horn of Africa: IGAD’s Peacemaking Efforts
Dr. Josephine Odera, 

Regional Approaches to Conflict Transformation in the Great Lakes Region
Professor Mwesiga Baregu

Southern Africa’s  Security Challenges
Dr. Christopher Landsberg,

Conflict and Reconstruction in Africa: The Case of Liberia.
Alexander K.D. Frempong


Panel 17:
Digi-speak: Intellectuals, ICTs and Africa in the new millennium
Florence Ebam Etta

Globalization, ICTS and the new imperialism: perspectives on Africa in the global electronic village (GEV)
Y. Z. YA'U


Panel 18
Issues in Gender Studies and Gender Relations  Questions de Genre et Relations de Genre

Repenser le développement économique en Afrique par la formation des femmes à l’entrepreneuriat
Gérard TCHOUASSI

Locating gender and women’s studies in Nigeria: What trajectories for the future?
Charmaine Pereira

Traversing Gender and The Colonial Madness: Same Sex Relationships, Customary Law and Change in Tanzania, 1890-1990
Babere Kerata Chacha

"Cultural Turbulence at its Most: Uganda's "Guys" and "Chicks" Neither "Here" nor "There".
Sarah Muzaki


Panel 19
Higher Education in Africa / Enseignment Supérieur en Afrique

"Rethinking the Role of the State in Higher Education in Africa in the 21st Century"
Dr. Munyae M. Mulinge

The Parodox of Curriculum Innovation and Implementation in a Liberalized  Higher Education System in Uganda:  A Challenge to Makerere University.
Mark Byaruhanga

A tracer Study of University of Nairobi Graduates, 1991 – 1998;
Gerald Kimani

State, Union and Higher Education: The Struggle for and Against Restructuring and Deregulating Nigerian Universities;
Sabo  Bako

The Crisis of Ethics in Higher Education in Cameroon.
Herman TOUO


Panel 20:
Issues in the Political Economy of Contemporary Africa / Questions d’Economie Politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine

The Idea of a Regional Currency for Anglophone West Africa
Dr. Chibuike U Uche

K. Polanyi, K. Marx, et les «sociétés lointaines»: enseignements pour le développement de l’Afrique subsaharienne
Kako NUBUKPO[1]

The Politics of the Belly, The Poetics of the Belly: Practices of the Self in the African World
Dr Bibi Bakare-Yusuf

Land and Natural Resources Management Reforms in Mozambique: Its implications for Sustainable Development
Victor Paulo Meque Muchanga