Papers presented at the Conference

Parallel Session A: Interrogating African Intellectuals on Nationalism and Pan-Africanism

 John Forje, Self-determination, Nationalism, Development and Pan-Africanism Stuck on the Runway: Are Intellectuals to be Blamed?

John Forje

 Ngodi Etanislas, Intellectuels, pan-africanisme et démocratie en Afrique: Bilan et perspectives

Ngodi Etanislas

 André Mbata Mangu, Contribution des intellectuels congolais au mouvement nationaliste, à la lutte pour l’indépendance et la démocratie au Congo-Kinshasa

André Mbata Mangu

 Michael Neocosmos, The Contradictory Position of Tradition in African Nationalist Discourse: Some Analytic Reflections in the Context of Democratic Struggle

Michael Neocosmos

 Cyril Obi, No Longer at Ease: Intellectuals and the Crisis of Nation-Statism in Nigeria in the 1990s

Cyril Obi

 Ernest-Marie Mbonda, Intellectuels et patriotisme: à propos de la fuite des cerveaux

Ernest-Marie Mbonda

Parallel Session B: Re-Reading the Pillars of Africa Nationalism and Pan-Africanism

 Olufemi Taiwo, Re-reading a Pioneering Pan-Africanist: J. Africanus Horton

 Helmy Sharawi, Frantz Fanon, Intellectuals and the Pan-African Movement

 Kenneth Nyangena, An Epitome of Indigenous Pan-Africanism: Jomo Kenyatta, Nationalism and Intellectual Production in Kenya

Kenneth Nyangena

 Antoine Tine, Léopold Sédar Senghor et Cheikh Anta Diop face à l’idéal pan-africain

Antoine Tine

 Osei Raymond, Re-Visiting Nkrumah’s Political Agenda

 Daniel Abwa, Kwame Nkrumah revisité: Les seize pour l’unité africaine

Daniel Abwa

Parallel Session C: Issues and Perspectives in the Realisation of the Pan-Africanist Vision

 Konate Kangbai, La Place et l’utilisation de l’Afrique dans le processus identitaire des Noirs américains: discours interpretative et négociation

Konate Kangbai

 Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Can a “Realist Pan-Africanism” be a Relevant Instrument toward the Transformation of African and African Diaspora Politics? : Imagining a Pan African State

Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo

 Beban Sammy Chumbow, The Language Question and the Pan-African Ideal

 Mammo Muchie, A Theory of Pan-African Unification-Nation for the Structural Transformation of Africa

Mammo Muchie

 Léon Tsambu Bulu, La refondation de l’idéal panafricain à travers la musique

Léon Tsambu Bulu

 David Mathew Chacha, Julius Nyerere: The Intellectual Pan-Africanist and the Question of African Unity

David Mathew Chacha

Parallel Sessions II

Parallel Session D: Nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Trajectories, Promises, Contradictions and Discontents (I)

 Chentouf Tayeb, Les indépendances, et après?

Chentouf Tayeb

 Tatah Mentan, Exiting the Whirlpool? Pan-Africanism Caught in the Crossfire of Identity and Globalization

Tatah Mentan

 Jacques Tshibwabwa Kuditshini, Nationalisme et crise de l’Etat-nation dans le processus de mondialisation: cas de la République démocratique du Congo

Jacques Tshibwabwa Kuditshini

 Aghi Auguste Bahi, Permanence et biffurcation du « sentiment nationalisme » ivoirien

Aghi Auguste Bahi

 Ismail Ibouroi, Comores: La naissance du séparatisme ou l’effondrement d’une République

Parell Session E: Nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Trajectories, Promises, Contradictions and Discontents (II)

 Akin Fadahunsi, Nigerian Nationalists and Pan-Africanists: Paradox of An Emerging Sub-Imperial Regional Power

Akin Fadahunsi

 Kwame Boafo-Arthur, Neo-Liberalism, Human Security and the Pan-African Ideal: Synergies and Contradictions

Kwame Boafo-Arthur

 Laury Ocen, Negotiating Neo-Liberal Influences and Popular Renaissance in Africa: The Narrative Discourse in African Cinema

Laury Ocen

 Sehlare Makgetlaneng, The External Expansion Factor of South Africa: The Theoretical Position of White Intellectuals that South Africa is an Advanced Capitalist country

Sehlare Makgetlaneng

 Félix Mouko, Entrepreneuriat, mondialisation et panafricanisme

Félix Mouko

 Danson Khayana, Narrating National Identity: Fiction, Citizenship and the Asian Experience in East Africa

Danson Khayana

Parallel Session F: Nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Trajectories, Promises, Contradictions and Discontents (III)

 Yacouba Zerbo, Genèse et évolution du Nationalisme en Afrique

Yacouba Zerbo

 M.S.C Okolo, Re-Establishing the Basis of Social Order in Africa: A Philosophical Reflection on Achebe’s Reformist Agenda and Ngugi’s Marxist Aesthetics

M.S.C Okolo

 Remi Adeoti Gbemisola, Narrating the Green Gods: Nigerian Military Rulers

 Guillaume Funkwa Nkongolo, Conscience a-historique et crise de nationalisme et de panafricanisme chez les intellectuels: Le cas des économistes congolais

Guillaume Funkwa Nkongolo

 Adekoya Olusegun, Psychopaths in Power: The Collapse of the African Dream in A Play of Giants

Adekoya Olusegun

 Madeleine Alingué, Afro-Latinité: Nouvelles Perspectives pour la «Renaissance Africaine»

Madeleine Alingué

Parallel Sessions III

Parallel Session G: Fourth Generation African Scholarship: Knowledge, Identity and Pan-Africanism

 Mshai Mwangola, Nurturing the Fourth Generation: Defining the Historical Mission

Mshai Mwangola

 Nana Akua Anyidoho, Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation

Nana Akua Anyidoho

 David Afriyie Donkor, Pan-African Nationalism and Theatre Discourse in the New Political Economy of Ghana

David Afriyie Donkor

 Henry Dougan, African Scholarship, Language and Democracy: The Struggle for Participatory and Inclusionary Politics in Africa

Henry Dougan

 Godwin Murunga, Memories and Connections: Thoughts on Intellectual and Institutional Links between African and Black Studies in the Reconstruction of African Identity

Godwin Murunga

 Jean-Pierre Tshipamba Dikamba, Du front commun universitaire pour le salut de la nation à l’universitaire aux multiples fronts pour la survi

Jean-Pierre Tshipamba Dikamba

Parallel Session H: Knowledge and Religion in the Nationalism and Pan-Africanist Projects

 Kabiru Chafe, Scholars, Sufis and Ideals of Pan-African Identity: An Examination of the Role of Sheikh Uthman bn. Fudi

Kabiru Chafe

 Khalid Chegraoui, Idéologie, religion et ethnocentrisme au Maghreb: de l’historique contemporaine au Maroc

Khalid Chegraoui

 Muhammed Garba Bala, Religion and the Pan-African Ideal: The Experience of Salafi Islam in West Africa

Muhammed Garba Bala

 Godwell Nhamo, The Influence of Actor-Network Theory on Knowledge Construction in Africa

Godwell Nhamo

 Isaie Dougnon, « Il y a trop d’enquêtes et notre situation ne change pas »: Essai sur la crise de savoir en milieu rural

Isaie Dougnon

 Eric Masinde Aseka, Theoretical Charters of African Intellectual Discourse

Eric Masinde Aseka

Parallel Session I: Issues in Regionalism and the Quest for a Pan-African Public Space

 Herman Wasserman, The Internet, Civil Society and a Pan-African Public Sphere: Renaissance or Delusion ?

Herman Wasserman

 Kalilou Sylla, Pourquoi le processus d’intégration économique en Afrique piétine?: Nouvelles explications de l’échec de la politique d’intégration

 G. Chikowore, The African Union and the Destiny of Africa: The SADC Experience

G. Chikowore

 Alexander Frempong, Trajectories of Sub-Regional Conflict Management: An Assessment of ECOWAS

Alexander Frempong

 Darlene Miller, South African Multinational Corporation and Regional Claim-Making in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Retail Workers at Shoprite-Checkers in Zambia

Darlene Miller

 Frederick Muyia Nafukho, Africa Growth and Opportunity Act: A Mythology in the Making or New Path to Africa’s Economic Recovery?

Frederick Muyia Nafukho

Parallel Sessions IV

Parallel Session J: Historians and the Nationalist/Pan-Africanist Projects

 Thierno Mouctar Bah, Quelle géographie pour l’histoire en Afrique?: Plaidoyer pour la dimension régionale

Thierno Mouctar Bah

 Hannington Ochwada, Historians, Nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Myth and Realities

Hannington Ochwada

 Mildred Ndeda, Nationalist Historiography in Kenya: A Look at the Changing Dispositions of B.A. Ogot’s Works since 1963

Mildred Ndeda

 Zahra Tamouh, L’Histoire interrégionale comme socle de l’identité panafricaine: L’émergence d’une école des historiens spécialisés dans les relations du Maroc avec le Soudan

Zahra Tamouh

 Seydou Ouedraogo, Trajectoire historique, actualité et perspectives du panafricanisme

Seydou Ouedraogo

 Inyani Simala, Panafricanism and the Language Question: Re-Reading African Cultural and Intellectual History

Inyani Simala

Parallel Session K: State, Politics and Emerging Actors

 Anne Pirou, Lieux, temps, figures de l’engagement intellectuel enAfrique de l’Ouest (1945 – 1960) : Retour sur la fabrique des « pionniers des indépendances »

 Boubacar Niane, Idéologie de la dénonciation et constitution d’un champ public intellectuel au Sénégal

 Abdoulaye Gueye, Entre l’obsession de la race et celle du territoire : les nationalistes Africains en France

 Olivier de Sardan, La Gouvernance quotidienne en Afrique: Diagnostic empirique

Olivier de Sardan

 Songca Rushiella, Barriers to knowledge and development in Africa in the Millienium

Songca Rushiella

Parallel Session L: Children, Students and the Youth in the Nationalist an Pan-African Projects

 Bjorn Beckman, Student Radicalism and the National Project: The Nigerian Student Movement

Bjorn Beckman

 Ngoie Tshibambe, Les Jeunes et les représentations des enjeux géo-stratégiques de l’Afrique à l’ère de la mondialisation : cas des étudiants congolais de Lubumbashi

Ngoie Tshibambe

 Harri Englund, How Human Rights Discourse Disempowers: Transnational Governance and the Pacification of Youths in Malawi

Harri Englund

 Ndolamb Ngokwey, Children and Young People in the Partnership for Africa’s Development

Ndolamb Ngokwey

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