Papers and  Abstracts 

Panels 1-5

Panel No. 1: 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