ANSA.llrwslrttrr .llumbrr 15 ~ ~l3l\3I1. 1991

Canadian Association of African Studies Annual MeetingYork University. Downsview. Ontario May 14-18. 1991

Papers on Islam. Panels Organized by Martin Klein

lsaaka B~, Institut desSciences Humaines, Mali, "L'ls1am et l'£tat Contemporain au Mali"MusaAbdu1 Hakim, SUNY-Buffalo, "An IdeasAppr(B;h to the Study of West African Islamic

Historiography: New Perspectives and Contextual Understandings"John Hanson, West Chester University, "Islam and Society After Umar Tal's~"Stephen Harmon, Arkansas State University, "Foreign and Local Marabouts: French Perception of

SudaneseMarabouts, 1900-1940"Elaine Hutson, Indiana University, "'Rightly Guidedor Misguided': British Colonial Neo-Mahdist

POlicy in the Sudanand Nigeria 1908-1928"Abdullah Hakim Quick, University of Toronto "The Concept of A1-Wa1a (Allegiance, Client8JB) in the

Sokato caliphate and the Resulting Dilemma at the Time of the British Conquest"Charles Stewart, University of Illinois, "Notions of Self and Group Identity in a Southern Saharan

History, Harun B. Sidlyya's Knab al-Alchbar"RaymOndTaylor, University of Illinois, "Inquiry into Changing Concepts and Applications of Diyya in

the Southern Sahara, circa 1850-1980"teonerm Vl11alon, University of Texas-AusUn, "Charisma, Ethnlclty and the Establishment of a

Clientele: The Caseof the Serer Marabout Ma Ansou Niang"David Conrad, SUNY-Oswego, "Islem, Oral Tradition, andA Question of MandeSocial Hierercbv"Discussants: Ann McDougall, University of AlbertI! and Martin Klein, University of Toronto

MANSASecretary Appointed to ASA Committee

MANSASecretary Kathryn Green has been eppomted by Martin Klein, President of the AfricanStudies Association, to be a member of the Committee to StOOythe ASA.'s Relationship With Affiliatedand Coordinate Organizations. Green was eppomteo to represent the small groups that have formedinside the ASAsuch as MANSA.She would welcome your opinions, criticisms, and comments in orderto present them to the rest of the com~ iUee.

DAVID C. CONRAD, President, State University 'of New York-Oswego

B. MARIE PERINBAM, Vice President, University of Maryland

KATHRYN L. GREEN, Secretary, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Advisory Board:

LANSINE KABA, University of Illinois-Chicago

ROBERT LAUNAY. Northwestern University

MANSA-Sponsored Panels. African Studies AssociationAnnual Meeting. St. louis. Missouri. November 1991

ASTRIDETHE MALI-MAURITANIA FRONTIER:COLONIALPOLICYAND SOCIALINTERACTIONSCheir: Stephen A. Hermon, Arlcensas State UniversityPapers: Ann McDougall, University of Alberta, "On the Margin of the Manoo World: frontierProblems and Colonial Policy, Mali-Mauritania, 1912-1945"

Stephen A. Harmon, Arkansas State University, "Cheikh Ma el-Aimn. Armed Resistance andColonial Policy in the French Sudan and Mauritania, 1900-1910"

Raymond Taylor, University of Illinois, -Q.M and the Construction of the Collective loontityin the Southern Sahara: 1840- 1960-

Boniface I. Obichere, UCLA, -Nioro du Sahel from the Reign of AhmOOJuCheikou to 1914:From a Tukulor Province to a Colonial District"Discussant: Charles C. Stewart, University of Illinois

THE SUNJATA EPIC: HISTORY, LITERATUREAND ANTHROPOLOGYChair: Ralph A. Austen, University of ChiC8}lPapers: Ralph A. Austen, University of ChiC8}l, "From Panegyric to Epic to Novel: A specujenve andCritical History of the Sunjata Text-

Stephen Belcher, Pennsylvania State University, "Sunjata, Sumanguru, and Mothers"David C. Conrad, SUNY-Oswel:J), "A Town Called Dakajalan: AcKnowleOJing A Messagefrom

the Sunjata Epic"Tal Tamari, C.N.R.S. "The Sunjata Epic and the 6enesis of the Manoo Caste System"

Discussant: John W. Johnson, Indiana University

Book Beleases

Carol SpinOOl, IN THE SHADOW OF THE SACRED OROVE, Vintage Books (New York, 1989).This superb book about Carol Spindel's and Tom Bassett's experiences in a Senufo/Dyula village inthe Northern Ivory Coast has enjoyed such success that it is now in its third printing.

Tell MANSt\ about your forthcomjng boots! Since begun several issues 8(J), this section of thenewsletter has received a positive response from Africanist ltbrertene of important reeeerchcollections. It is of course only genuinely effective if we are able to publish notices earlier than isposs1ble elsewhere becauseof ins100 1nformatton we ~1re from our own MAN~ members whoauthor, edit, and review books. Since this section was introduced, several books have been authored,edited, or co-edited by MAN&. members that we would very much have liked to mention. However,they have not appeared in this section because the editor was not 8Ware that they were out until heSflN them alraooy reviewed or on display at a conference. Some titles have appeared here in gDj timebecause our Francophone colleagues gave us the information. Others appeared because the editorheppened to be esked to review the book. You could help the MAN~ Newsletter perform e usefulservice for its members by taking a minute or two to send David Conrad a postcard with yourpuolieetton information on 11soon after you hear from your publisher the date of your next bOOKrelease. Alternatively, if you are asked to review a book on a topic related to the Mande world itmight be by someone who is not a MAN&. member or by one who has failed to inform us. Please takea moment to submit the publication information in case we have not heard about it.PLEASEDOYOURSHARETO MAKE THE NEWSLETTERUSEFUL-- IT ONLYTAKESA FEW MINUTES

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MANSAWelcomes Fode Sidibe to U.S.A.

The Manre Studies Association has extended a warm welcome to Mr. FooeSidibe, who recentlyarrived in the United States from Mali. Mr. Sidibe has spent seven years studying in the SovietUnion where he earned a Master of Arts degree in International relations. He was given the MANSAOOjress by Youssouf Tata ctsse, and we were pleased that he wrote to S8f that he is presently inPhilfK1elphia (see trliresses below), and that he plans to begin studying for a Ph.D.

Converting Foreign Currency for MANSADues Payments

Recording the minutes of the last MANSt\ meeting in Newsletter # 14 , MANM Secretary KathrynGreen reported that problems connected to the preetice of some members paying in French francshoo been causing externild ci3lays between the time of the dues payments and the recording of renewedmemberships in the newsletter. Since then, some members in both Europe and Africa have found away of converting local currency to U.S. $ that eliminates this prob lem for the MANSAtreasurer.These members have been going to European andAfrican banks that have afffliatlons with ClTIBANKJ

111 Wall Street, 21 FL Zone 19, New York NY 10043, and with Banque Nationale de Paris's NewYor" Branch at 499 Par" Avenue, New York, NY 10022. Using French francs, Deutchmar"s andWest African currencies, they have been able to purchase cashier's checks called CITIBANKCHEQUEXPRESS,or the Banque Nationale de Paris's Service Etranaer. This means that thfJt can sendtheir dues in U.S.S which can be ei3positeddirectly into the MANSAaccount. The Presici3nt wishes tothanlc the members who have oonethis, and to encourage others to consioer EKklptingthis preetice,

--D.C.C.

Returned Newsletters

The most recently returned newsletters are ones that were sent to Kelilou Tere, formerly of ILA,Universite Nationale de COted'ivoire, and Jean Baptiste Kouroma of Abidjan, COted'ivoire, bothmarked 1nconnu. If anyone knows either of tneir current DJresses, please noUty the newslettereditor.

New and Renewed Mansa Members.Research Specializations & Address Changes

Imlca Bagayt:9), sic Mtmme Bagayt:9) Miriam Sidibe, Direction Nationale des Industries, B.P. 278,Bamako, Republie of Mali

Thomas J. Bassett, Department of 8eography, University of l11inois, 220 Davenport Hall, 607 S.Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801

Cassian Braconnier, ILA - Universite, 08 BP 887, Abidjan 08, COted'lvoire

6eorge E.Brooks, History Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405

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Victoria Bomba Coifman, Department of Afro-American & African Studies, 808 Social SciencesBuilding, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455Preparing an English edition of of the autobi(1Jraphy Noviciate d'un eveaue.Captivite sous 5el\ouToura by the former Archbishop of Conakry ( 1962-1979), Raymond Marie Tchidimbo.

RosaDeJorio, Department of Anthropology, 109 Davenport Hall, 607 South Mathews Avenue,Urbana, IL 61801Third year Ph.D. student in socio-cultural anthropology, University of Illinois. Economic, social andurban anthropology, Bemanafocus.

Kate Ezra (Sponsor), Department of Primitive Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at8200 Street, New York, NY 10025

David P. 66mble, 268 Klemath Street, Brisbane CA94005

Marla C3rosz-Ngate(Sponsor), Center for African Studies, 200 W. Eng1neerlng BIDJ., Unlvers1ty ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092

.Berbera Hoffman, 4730 E. State R(RIj 46, Bloomington, IN 47401 (6li:lress correction)

Rachel Hoffman, 15915 SW Waluga Dr., Lake 0swe;J), OR97035 (ED:Iresschange)

Hoover Institute Africa Collection (Karen Fung), Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305-4409

Instituto Nacional de Estudose Pesqisa, Complexo Escolar 14 de Novembro, Bairro Cobornel Bissau,6uine-Bissau

Jan Jansen, Himalaya 154,352 XJ Utrecht, The Netherlands

Cheiek M. Cherif Keite, Department of Languages,Cerleton College, OneNorth College Street,Northfield, MN, 55057

Martin A. Klein (Sponsor), Department of History, University ofToronto, Toronto, ONTM5S lA 1,Cana1a

Ro:Ieric Knight, Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH44074Mandinka music

Dolores Koenig, Department of Anthropology, TheAmerican University, Washington, D.C.200 t 6

YacoubaKonate, Ecole Normale Superieure, 09 B.P. 30 I, Abidjan 09, COted'ivoireMandephilosophy and aesthetics. Author of Alpha B100(t>,: Remaeet societe; co-author of Sacrificesdans la v me (Edi tions Douga, 1990).

Frederick Lamp, Curator ,The Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218

DierK Lange, 6eschichte Afrikas, Universitat Bayreuth, 6eschwister-Scholl-Platz, Postfach lOt 25 t , 8580 Bayreuth, Germany

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carlos Lopes, 40 River RQEKj(14K), Roosevelt Island, New York, NY 10044

Claucil Meillessoux, 2 rue Mirbel, 75005 Paris, Frence

Christopher Miller, Department of French, P.O. Box 2504A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520

Simon ottenberg, Department of Anthropol(X]y', University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

FIDe Sidibe, 5031 Baltimore Avenue, Philooalphia, PA 19143

Margit C. Smith, Hartmeyerstr. 1119,1<0-7400 TUbingen, Germany

carol Spindel, 608 W. Delaware, Urbana, Il61801

J. Malcolm Thompson, Department of Humanities, Fayetteville State University, 1200 MurchisonROII1,Fayetteville, NC28301-4298Labor history; economic and social effects of slave abolition and the processes by which communitiesassimilated millions of emancipated slaves in the Senegal River valley, specifically focusing onslaves (including river boBtmen or laotots )who served in coloniel ermed forces 6S soldiers, seilorsand porters.

Jane Turrittin, GlendonCollege, Women's Studies Progrmn, York University, 2275 B8')'ViewAve.,Toronto, Ontario, Cana:il M4N 3M6

Peter M. Weil, Anthropology Department, University of Delaware, Nawark, DE 19711

Joining MANSA and Renewing MembershIp:

Regular and Institutional membership $10, Students $5, Sponsoring membership $25

MaKeChecKout to MANSAand (if you are joining) send with your institutionalaffilietion and a briefOOscription of your research topics to:

David C. ConrtJ:!History DepartmentSUNY-OswegoOswego,NY 13126U.SA

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