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CENTRE OF AFRICAN STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
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Conference: 24-26 May 1995
Ethnicity in Africa:
Roots, Meanings and Implications
The Centre of African Studies is holding its next annual conference on the
topical theme of 'Ethnicity in Africa'. This will consist of two separate
events which will follow on one from the other. The first is a
one-and-a-half day conference, covering Africa as a whole, to be held all
day Wednesday 24th and the morning of Thursday 25th May, 1995. It will be
followed by a one-and-a-half day workshop, dealing specifically with Ghana,
on the afternoon of 25th May and on Friday 26th May.
The conference is interdisciplinary by design and will involve
participation by specialists in Law, Anthropology, History, Literature,
Linguistics, Education, Politics and Development Studies. We are also
inviting papers from senior media correspondents in Africa. The conference
will cover issues such as the colonial construction of 'tribes'; ethnicity
and trading diasporas; the moral economy of ethnicity; language policy and
the national question in contemporary Africa.
Space at the Ghana workshop is strictly limited and will be allocated on a
first-come-first served basis.
The Planning Group for this interdisciplinary meeting includes: Dr Paul
Nugent, History; Professor Kenneth King, African Studies; Dr Louise de la
Gorgendiere, Social Anthropology;
Dr Carola Lentz, Free University of Berlin.
Speakers include: Tim Allen, Jean Allman, Kwame Arhin, Peter Geschiere,
Sandra Greene, David Killingray, John Lonsdale, Sinfree Makoni, Gerhard
Mare, Richard Fardon, Comi Toulabor, Richard Rathbone, Ivor Wilks.
The conference fee, which covers tea/coffee and a complete set of papers, is
as follows:
Full Student
Ethnicity in Africa - stlg 35.00 Ethnicity in Africa - stlg 12.00
Ethnicity in Ghana - stlg 35.00 Ethnicity in Ghana - stlg 12.00
Joint stlg55.00 Joint stlg20.00
Conference Dinner - Thursday 25th May: stlg 12.00 (not inclusive of drinks)
If you wish to attend, please print out the booking form below and return
it along with your cheque to:
Mrs. Anne Fernon, Ethnicity Conference Secretary, Centre for the Study of
Christianity in the Non-Western World, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh
EH1 2LX Scotland (telephone 0131-600-8952; fax: 0131-650-6579, E-Mail
fernona@srv0.div.ed.ac.uk).