GRAF Publications
The Francophone Africa Research Group/Groupe de Recherches sur l’Afrique Francophone (GRAF) organized the interdisciplinary conference “Brazzaville + 50” in Boston in October 1994. A list of the the papers (in English or French) presented at that conference, as well as of those published by GRAF or by the African Studies Center in the form of expanded monographs or of edited collections is below.
For inquiries or to order, please contact the Publications program.
COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL 1994 “BRAZZAVILLE + 50” 1994 INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
CONFERENCE PAPERS AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION ($1.00 each + $2.50 flat rate postage & handling)
TEXTES DISPONIBLES POUR DISTRIBUTION ($1.00 par unité + $2.50 forfait pour frais d’envoi)
–Simon Adetona AKlNDES (Ohio): Indigenous Publishing in Francophone Africa: Lessons from a Personal Experience
–Karine ANCELLIN-SALECK (“Mauritanie Nouvelles”): The Twareg Resistance and what is at stake
–Mohamed AOUTCHEKI (Association Touaregs, Paris): La Genèse de la rébellion touarègue
–Mario AZEVEDO (University of North Carolina at Charlotte): Ethnicity and Democracy in Gabon, 1949–1994
–Daniel C. BACH (CEAN, IEP-Bordeaux): La Dévaluation du CFA et les tentatives de relance de l’intégration régionale: l’expérience de l’Ouest africain.
–Tessy D. BAKARY & M. KALULAMBI PONGO (Université Laval): From Brazzaville to La Baule: France and the Export of Democratic Institutions in Africa
–Edmond BERNUS (ORSTOM, Paris): Les Touaregs et l’Etat (Niger, Mali)
–Daniel BOURMAUD (CEAN, IEP Bordeaux): La Politique de coopération et la politique française en Afrique: Entre compromission et ajustement
–Edouard BUSTIN (Boston University): Une Certaine idée de l’Afrique: De Gaulle’s vision of Africa between mythology and pragmatism
–Tony CHAFER (University of Portsmouth): The Liberation in French West Africa: Liberation By Whom? From What?
–Lucy E. CREEVEY (University of Connecticut): Decentralization, Structural Adjustment and Women in Senegal
–Jean-Marc DANIEL (OFCE, Paris): Les réalités de la dévaluation en Afrique: le cas du Franc CFA
–Cheikh Oumar DIARRAH (Transafrica, Bamako): Le Processus démocratique en République du Mali: Une entreprise complexe et ardue
–William J. FOLTZ (Yale University): The Search for Political Order in Chad
–David E. GARDINIER (Marquette University): France’s Relations with Gabon During the Mitterrand Presidency
–Jane HALE ( Brandeis University): Writing, Reading and Schooling in Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s “Ambiguous Adventure”
–Phillippe HUGON (Université de Paris X): La Dévaluation du Franc CFA: Ruptures et nouvelles relations franco-africaines
–Moses Kwadwo KAMBOU (University of Illinois at U-C): Language and Education in Francophone Africa: The Case of Burkina Faso
–Kapanga KAPELE (Université Laurentienne): Homogénéité de la politique française en Afrique au travers de la littérature africaine de contestation
–Gérard KEDREBEOGO (University of Illinois at U-C): Francophonie for African Development: Myth or Reality?
–A. H. M. KIRK-GREENE (Oxford): “C’est vous, Monsieur le Commandant?”: The French Colonial Administrator in the late colonial African novel.
–Michel LELART (CNRS, Paris): La Zone Franc et la construction monétaire européenne
–Max LINIGER-GOUMAZ (ESCEA, Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne): France-Espagne: Un Match de 150 ans dans le Golfe de Guinée
–Guy de LUSIGNAN (Indiana University): Mythes et réalités politiques et économiques de l’Afrique francophone
–Patrick MANNING (Northeastem University): Democracy and Nation in Francophone Africa, 1985–1994
–Roy MAY (Coventry University): France and Africa: Policy or Bad Habits?
–Ned McMAHON (NDI, Washington, D.C.): US NGOs and Democratic Transition in Francophone Africa
–Serge MICHAILOF (World Bank): La Dévaluation du Franc CFA: Une décision incontournable—Une Opportunité de relance économique
–William F. S. MILES (Northeastern University): Decolonization as Disintegration: The Disestablishment of the State in Chad
–Célestin MONGA (M. l. T. Sloan School): La Zone Franc apres Maastricht: vers des monnaies nationales?
–Kouassi Michel NGUESSAN (University of Illinois at U-C): Franco-African Linguistic Cooperation: Past, Present and Future Perspectives
–Souliy wan N’TANI (Cameroun): Problems of Decentralization in Cameroun
–Ernest SERI (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): African Literature in French: The Question of Authenticity
–Zeric Kay SMITH (UNC/Chapel Hill): Civil Society & New Social Movements: Comparative Political Theories on African Democratization
–Marie-Ange SOMDAH (Université de Franche-Comté): Distanciation et dynamique sociale dans les contes africains.
–David STYAN (South Bank University): The Origins of “le droit d’ingérence” and its contradictory relationship with French African policy
–Claude SUMATA (Université du Maine; IUT – Le Mans): Les Enjeux économiques des relations franco-africaines dans la région des Grands Lacs
–Theodore TREFON (Université Libre de Bruxelles): Forest Conservation and Central African Cities: Cameroun-Gabon-Zaïre
–An VRANCKX (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):Discourse and Cooperation: Aspects of European Trade and Aid
–Karen L. WEBER (Northeastern University) & Karine DELAUNAY (Université de Paris I): French Influence on the Ivoirien Maritime Fisheries Sector
–Douglas YATES (Boston University/Long Beach State College): The Rentier State in Gabon
–Scott YOUNGSTEDT (SW Minnesota State University): Continuity, Conflict and Change in Niger: The Hausa Perspective
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African Studies Center, Boston University (GRAF)
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The Language Question in Francophone Africa
John Hutchison & Michel K.Nguessan, eds.
West Newbury MA: Mother Tongue Eds., 1995
84 pp. US$6.00 postpaid/port inclus
Contributions by:
Simon Adetona Akindes, John Hutchison, Moses Kwadwo Kambou, Kassim Kone, Gérard Kédrebéogo, and Michel K. Nguessan
Monographies GRAF Occasional Papers
Célestin MONGA: L’Inflation du politique en Afrique: Une théorie de la consolidation démocratique (1997) 68 p. US$6.00
Luc SINDJOUN: La Politique d’affection en Afrique noire: Société de parenté, ‘société d’Etat’ et libéralisation politique au Cameroun; (1998) 48 p. US$6.00
Janvier ONANA: L’Ordre politique colonial par-delà les fausses évidences: Eléments pour une sociologie historique du métier politique au Cameroun (1999) 58 p. US$6.00
Nicodéme MIAL, Charles MBE, David ZEITLYN: Trois études sur les Mambila de Somié, Cameroun (2000) 110 p. US$8.00
Boston: GRAF @ African Studies Center, Boston University (prix/prices: port incl. postage)
Working Papers in African Studies
Trade Reform and Exchange Rate Issues in the CFA Zone, by Célestin Monga (WP 195) 1995
The Rentier State in Gabon, by Douglas Andrew Yates (WP 196) 1995
“C’est vous, Monsieur le Commandant?” Une certaine image, by Anthony Kirk-Greene (WP 199) 1995
Forest Conservation and Central African Cities: Kinshasa, Libreville, & Yaoundé, by Theodore Trefon (WP 200) 1995
Working Papers are available from AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER PUBLICATIONS
(address above) at $4.40 each (postage included), or through GRAF
Les Monographies de la Série “Working Papers” sont disponibles auprès de :
AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER PUBLICATIONS au prix de $4.40 par unité (port inclus)