Abstracts and Papers 

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 21^st 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