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DAvIDC. 0:NwJ, President, State University of New York-OswegoBARBARAE. FRANK,Vice President, State University of New York-Stony BrookSrEPHENWOOTEN,Secretary-Treasurer, University of Oregon

Advisory BoardPeter Mark, Wesleyan UniversityTereba Togola, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, BamakoJeanne Maddox Toungara, Howard UniversityKarim Traore, University of Georgia

The Journal Mande Studies in Jeopardy

On the 28th of February 2001, Stephen Belcher who co-edits with Ariane Deluz our journal Mande Studies,received the following e-mail message from DavidHenige, the benefactor who bestowed upon us the giftof having our own journal which is published by theAfrican Studies Program of the University ofWisconsin: "Stephen: The Program just told me that wehave fewer than 60 subscribers to Mande Studies, fartoo few to be viable. Given the vibrant character ofMANSA. I expected it to do much better. Is thereanything you can do to persuade (shame) members (howmany are there by the way?) to subscribe? We printedup 200 copies."

The answer to David Henige's question is that wehave about 180 dues-paying members who couldsubscribe to the journal. Belcher forwarded Henige'smessage to me, and I responded with an e-mail memo(3/8/01) informing MANSA members of the situation,noting that we owe the African Studies Program a debtof gratitude for providing us with a journal devoted toMande studies and pointing out that the Program hadeven donated thirty free copies for us to distribute tocolleagues and institutions in West Africa. I indicatedthat at the next MANSA meeting I intend to introduce amotion to add the $15 subscription fee to the basic $10dues, which will raise them to a total of $25. (Fivemembers immediately replied in support of this plan.)The memo concluded with an appeal to members toplease subscribe to the first two issues of MandeStudies.

Alas, the response to my memo has so far been lessthan hoped for. On April 3rd, Molly Simmons of theAfrican Studies Program reported that "about ten orderscarne in in response to" my e-mail. Therefore, I'mrepeating my plea for support of Mande Studies.

Mary Jo Arnoldi. Smithsonian InstituteMirjam de Bruijn, University of LeidenYacouba Konate, Universite d' AbidjanKassim Kone, State University of New York-Cortland

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The M S 1 table of contents is on the website and inNewsletter 43 and the one for M S 2 is in this issue andon the website. This is a peer-reviewed journal which, ifit survives, will surely someday feature articles bymany of you. It has been a fine addition to ourorganization and is well worthy of your support.

I have been reminded of the difficulty that Europeanmembers have in paying for things in the United States(something many in the U.S. have experienced inreverse). Jan Jansen reminded me that we have aMANSA account in Leiden that has existed since thetime of our conference there in 1995. He suggested thata supply of the journals be sent to him. Europeanmembers could then receive their copies by submittingpayment in local currency to be deposited in our Leidenaccount. David Henige is sending twenty copies each ofthe first to issues of the journal to Leiden. Thispromises to solve the problem for our Europeanmembers, several of whom have enthusiasticallyendorsed the plan and are waiting to subscribe. The planis to do this for the first two issues and then revisit thequestion if, as I hope, members agree to includesubscriptions to future issues in our dues. (It seems wecould continue using the Leiden account to collectEuropean members' dues).

Coincidentally, just as I was preparing the firstappeal for additional subscriptions Mande Studies 2arrived. In it, I noted the unintentional irony of acomment by Patrick McNaughton in his article"Comments on 'Secrets and Lies' ," and I'll concludewith that here: "These papers are a tribute to the degreeof dedication and sophistication that Mande studies havereached: who knew, so many years ago, when GeraldCashion suggested we form a Mande studiesassociation ... that it would lead to this. I hope therewill be many more publications of this caliber tofollow" (Mande Studies 2: 175).

Dates Set for the Fifth InternationalConference on Mande Studies

The dates for the Fifth International Conference onMande Studies to be held in Leiden. The Netherlands.are 17-22 June. 2002. The meetings will take place atthe Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde which has been re-modeled since we were there in 1995.

The initial response from members has beenpromising. with many people already committed toattending. and others hoping that it will be possible forthem:Marv Jo Arnoldi. Laura Arntson. Ralph Austen.

" -Stephen Belcher. Alice Bellagamba, CatherineBogosian. Saskia Brand. Sarah Brett-Smith, ShelbvCarpenter. Eric Charry. Maria-Luisa Ciminelli. DavidConrad. Ariane Deluz, Mamadou Diawara, GerardDumestre, Lucy Duran. Paulo Farias. Edda Fields.Henrik Florusbosch, Barbara Frank, Cornelia Geising,Maria Grosz-Ngate, Musa Hakim, Joseph Hellweg,Christian Hoejbjerg, Nicholas Hopkins. Allen Howard.Jan Jansen, Marloes Janson, John Johnson. JamesJones, Lansine Kaba, Cherif Keita, Martin Klein,Dolores Koenig, Kassim Kone, Frederic' Lamp,Kirsten Langeveld, Nehemia Levtzion, BarbaJ:a Lewis,Carlos Lopes, Kevin MacDonald, Gregg Mann, PeterMark. Pekka Masonen, Andreas Massing, He:atberMaxwell, Patrick McNaughton, Marie. iran,Mohamed Saidou N'daou, Rainer Polak. . IarcReinhardt, Mamadou Lamine Sanogo, DorotheaSchultz, Ingse Skattum, David Skinner. BerendTimmer, Red Tobin, Karim Traore, Valentin 'ydrineStephen Wooten, Donald Wright, Oemens Zobel.

Up-Date on MANSA Members'Activities

TOM BASSETT has received a Fulbright-Hay FacultyResearch Abroad Fellowship for 2001-<P- for his project"Rethinking Opportunistic Grazing: The PoliticalEcology of Herd Mobility in Northern Cote d'Ivoire."

BRAHIMA CAMARA, a new member who did hisPh.D. at Bayreuth University (Germany) on Mandehunters' literature, is currently working on a largeproject to transcribe and translate the work of Bala JinbaDiakite, the famous Malian hunters' singer. He is alsopreparing a work on the songs of Siramori Diabate.

SEYDOUBA CISSE, from whom many of us havereceived help at the National Archives of Guinea formore than ten years, is on a course in Rennes, Franceduring April and May. In the fall he will be at

I'Universite d'Anzers working on a thesis aboutarchival research. "Les besoins des chercheurs enhistoire sociale dans Ie domaine des archives au Angerset au Conakry."

ANDREW CLARK has been elected to theExecutive Council of the Association of Third WorldStudies. This summer he will be spending two monthsback in West Africa with stays in Ghana. Togo. Benin.and Senegal.

PAPA ALY DRAME. a new member fromSenegal who is a Ph.D. candidate in African Historv atthe University of Illinois-Chicago. is currently workingon the historv of the Mandinka in the Casamance. witha focus on Islam and society in Karantaba. One of thefirst Mandinka settlements in the Casamance. Karantabais located on the south bank of the Casamance River.Papa Alv will also be presenting a paper on the "MandeDiasoora Panel" at the ASA in Houston. ""FodeHeraba, a Mandinka Religious Leader in the Casamance,Senegal."

On April 30 ALMA GOTTLIEB will be presented\\ ith the Outstanding Mentor Award of the GraduateCollege, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.AI . The Chronicle of Higher Education has featuredtwo articles discussing A World of Babies: ImaginedChildcore Guides for Seven Societies that Alma editedwith Judy DeLoache (see MA SA ewsletter 44: 3-4):Jennifer K Ruark.. "Hot TypelBaby Talk," June 2,2000: A24, and Jennifer K. Ruark, "Seeing Childrenand Hearing Them Too," ovember 17,2000: A22-A24. Alma presented talks at the Oregon HumanitiesCenter, University of Oregon in March, and at theAnnual Meeting of the American AnthropologicalAssociation in San Francisco in November.

CHRIS HAYDEN has organized a panel for theASA meeting in Houston, "Framing the Question ofModernity in Africa: Analytical Notes from Twentieth-Century Guinea." The panel's discussant will beLANSINE KABA.

JAN JANSEN has submitted a paper for the ASAmeeting in Houston, "Coping with Time: TheCommodification of ciwara Performances inSouthwestern Mali."

MICHELLE JOHNSON will be presenting a paperon the "Mande Diaspora Panel" at the ASA in Houston,"On the Road to Alijana: Reconfiguring Islam and'Manding-ness' in the 'New' African Diaspora,"

CHERIF KElT A is working on a documentraryfilm project, Oberlin=Inanda: In Search of John LDube. Directed by the award-winning Congolesefilmmaker Mweze Ngangura, it involves Keita's searchfor John Langalibalele Dube, the first president and

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founding member of the South African Native Congress(later the A~'C "00 tudied in the U.S. at OberlinCollege een 1887 and 1892. Dube founded the firstind ucation school for Blacks and by Blacks,the 0bIa0ge Institute (1901), that was modeled after the

plOD and Tuskegee Institutes. In 1903 he alsoa Zulu-English newspaper, IlangaLase Natal

Sun of Natal) that is still published to this day. In1994 when Nelson Mandela voted in the firstmultiracial national election, he asked to cast his voteon the grounds of Ohlange High School in tribute toJohn L. Dube. Keita spent four days in March shootingat Oberlin College, and part of the film will be shot inSouth Africa in September 2001 during the Centenaryof the Ohlange School in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal.

KASSIM KONE has proposed a panel for the ASAmeeting in Houston, "Mande Bards: Past.Present andFuture." He hopes to have the panelists look atindividual bards from medieval to present-day Mande,exploring how the relationships between bards and theirpatrons and society might have shifted in differentperiods of Mande history. Kassim's own paper will beon Banzumana Sisoko.

KEVIN MACDONALD is writing up the resultsof last year's field project in southeastern Mauritaniaand preparing to embark on Diaspora archaeology workin Louisiana. He has set up a project to work oneighteenth-century sites in Natchitoches parish and ishoping to locate some Mande connections.

In March, PETER MARK presented a seminar atthe CNRS-Institut Parisien de recherche architectureurbanisme et societes, on "Metissages: architectures despays lusophones." June 25 is the date of the opening ofhis exhibition of photos of Jenne at La BOlte auxBoitiers photo gallery in Strasboug. Peter has alsoorganized a small working colloquium with Jos van derKlei to identify the photographs left by ProfessorLouis- Vincent Thomas. These include some 900 shotstaken in the 1950s and 60s, mostly of Casamance.They hope to host a larger conference to complete thisproject and recover the photos as historical documents.

ANDREAS MASSING will be presenting a paperon the "Mande Diaspora Panel" at the ASA in Houston,"Nafuna, Ligbi, Weila: Proto-Diula or MandeizedAutochthones in Kong, Bouna, Bondoukou, andGonja,"

BILL MOSELEY, a new member from theUniversity of Georgia has organized a pair of ASApanels for the Houston meeting, "(lnter)NationalPolitical Economies and Local Ecologies: Rural AfricanLivelihoods in a Political Ecology Context, Parts I andII. One of the panels will be chaired by STEPHEN

WOOTEN, and other MANSA participants includeMIRJAM DE BRUUN and HAN VAN DIJK.

STEPHEN WOOTEN has accepted a tenure-trackposition as Assistant Professor in Anthropology andInternational Studies at the University of Oregon. InMarch he organized the "Engaging Africa" symposiumat the University of Oregon campus. Working withcolleagues from the university's African StudiesCommittee and the Oregon Humanities Center, hecoordinated a series of presentations by a group ofdistinguished visiting Africanists. The symposiumhighlighted the need for sustained attention tocontemporary African issues and concerns.

DONALD WRIGHT will be presenting a paper onthe "Mande Diaspora Panel" at the ASA in Houston,"Pan-Africanism with 'the Pinch of Famine': Gambianand African-American Debt Peons on the Wrong End ofan Atlantic World Economy, 1850-1998."

Book, Article, Dissertationand Journal Releases

BOOKSJean-Loup Amselle. 2001. Branchements:Anthropologie de l'universalite des cultures. Paris:Flammarion.

Ce livre, qui procede d'un travail de terrain eclate,nous promene a trvers les capitales de trois paysafricains: Bamako au Mali, Le Caire en Egypte etConakry en Guinee. En cela, il rompt avec l'approchec1assique de I'anthropologie, qui privilegie le local parrapport au global, et repond au souci de cerner au pluspres les contours d'une veritable rnulitinationaleculturelle: Ie N'ko,

Fonde en 1949 pour exprimer I'identite d'un peupleopprime, Ie peuple rnandingue, ce mouvement doitbeaucoup a I'Europe et a I'Islam=l 'alphabet dont il s'estdote evoque ainsi les alphabet latin et arabe, tout enpossedant ses caracteristiques propres. A ce titre, IeN'ko illustre les "branchements" possibles d'une culturesur une autre, phenomene de derivations multiples quimontre bien que notre monde globalise n'est pas unesimple juxtaposition d'univers etanches.

De la globalisation a I'afrocentrisme, de I'ecriture ala philosophic africaine et au genocide, la thematique dubranchement permet de decliner les differentes figuresqui font de I' Afrique un concept a geometric variable, unelement essentiel de I'imaginaire planetaire.

Tom Bassett. 2001. The Peasant Couon Revolution ill

West Africa: COle d'Ivoire 1880·1995. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press (African Studies Series).

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ARTICLESAndrew Clark. 2000. "The Village Dispensary

(Senegal)." Journal oj African Travel Writing 8-9.Victoria Bomba-Coifman. 2000. "The People of the

African-European frontier, from the Sahil to SierraLeone: The Rio Nunez and Rio Pongo of LowerGuinea" In Migrations anciennes etpeuplement actuel des cotes guineennes, ed. GeraldGaillard. Paris: L'Harmattan.

Alma Gottlieb. 2000. "Where Have AU the BabiesGone? Toward an Anthropology of Infants and TheirCaretakers," Anthropological Quarterly 73 (3),Special Issue: "Youth and the Social Imagination inAfrica" Part 1.

Aly Gilbert Iffono. 2000. "Migrations mandingues dansla zone littorale guineenne du Xve au XIXe siecle."In Migrations anciennes et peuplemem actIIel descotes guineennes, ed. Gerald Gaillard Paris:L'Harmattan.

Peter Mark. 2000. "Les 'Portugais' de la Senegambie etde Bissau: Identite et architecture. ~ In Migrationsanciennes et peuplement actuel des cotes gJline~Tmes,ed, Gerald Gaillard. Paris: L Hannanan..

Peter Mark. 200l. "IIs commencent en eel endratpour prendre les habitudes des anglais: menssageculturel en Gambie au 17e siecle." In Festschrift inHonor oj Max Llniger-Goumaz; Madrid..

Jan Jansen. 2001. "The Sunjata Epic: The UltimateVersion." Research ill African Literatures 3_ (1).

Mohamed Saidou N'daou. 2000. "Politiquedepeuplement et construction de I'identite desMikhifore." In Migrations anciennes et peuplementactuel des cotes guineennes, ed. Gerald Gaillard.Paris: L'Harmattan.

Mohamed Saidou N'daou, 2000. "Oral StoriesAcademic Stories and the Construction of Identity."Illinois Schools Journal.79 (2).

Berend Timmer 2000. "They Came from Sankarang:Oral Traditions in a Gambian Village." InMigrations anciennes et peuplement actuel des COlesGuineennes, ed. Gerald Gaillard. Paris: L ,Harmattan.

Karim Traore 2000. "Kourouma's Monneas Aestheticsof Lying."Callaloo 23,4.

JOURNALSRevue Guineenne d' Histoire 200 1 (1).

The first issue of a new journal representing theAssociation des Historiens de Guinee which wasfounded the same year as the Mande Studies Association(1986). Among various introductory editorials andcommentary the contents include the article:

"Decouverte d'un site de signes rupestres a Ley-Legguel,Sons-Prefecture de Sarekaly Prefecture de Telimele(Guinee)" by Alpha Mohamed Diallo (3-5).

Maude Studies 2Special Issue "Secrets and Lies in the Mande World"Contents:Molly Roth and Jan Jansen

Introduction: The Social Life of KnowledgeSory Camara

Servitudes rituelles, subversion narrative, ou Iesecret de I'existence

Molly RothThe 'Secret' in Malian Historical Consciousness:Renarrating the West

Dorothea E. SchulzSeductive Secretiveness: Jeliw as Creators andCreations of Ethnography

BarbaraG. HoffmanClassifying Information: Secrets, Lies, and OtherCategories in Mande

Jan JansenThe Mande Magical Mystery Tour: The MissionGriaule in Kangaba (Mali)

Julinne E. FreemanKnowledge, Secrecy, and the Practice of SeniorWomanhood Among the Barnana of the Beledugu(Mali)

Alma GottliebSecrets and Society: The Beng of Cote d'Ivoire

Ferdinand de JongSecrecy and the State: The Kankurang Masquerade inSenegal

Patrick McNaughtonComments on 'Secrets and Lies'

New & Renewed MANSA Members& Address Changes

NEW MEMBERSHerbert Braun, Parcusstrasse 1,55116 Mainz

GERMANY; Tel.: 061311220591; e-mail:brauhOO5@maiLuni-mainz.de. Affiliation: JohannesGutenberg University. Interests: Western Mandelanguages and Songhay; functional description oflanguages; inter-ethnic relations in Mali.

Dinie Bouman, Emmastraat 15 - c209, 9722 EWGroningen, The Netherlands. Affiliation: LeidenUniversity. Interests: Arabic as a second language inMali; Quranic schools, Islam.

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Brahima Camara. FLASH, Departement d'Allemand,Universne du Mali, BP 241, Bamako; Tell Fax: 00:!:!3 23 16 88; e-mail:bralJirnac;nnara@hotmail.com. Interests: Mandeb ters'!iterature; the works of Bala Jinba Diakite

Siramori Diabate.Shelby Carpenter, 137 Bay State Road, Boston, MA

02"'15; Tel.: 617-867-9997; e-mail: carp@bu.eduAffiliation: Boston University. Interests: SierraLeonean refugee crisis; population movements;Arab influence in West Africa

Papa Aly Drame, University of Illinois-Chicago,Department of History (MC 198), 601 SouthMorgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7109; Tel.:708-660-9348; e-mail: adrame 1@uic.edu.Interests: History of the Mandinka in theCasamance; social and religious organization;ethnic interaction.

Candace Keller, 800 North Smith Road, Apt l-UBloomington, IN 47408, Tel.: 812-323-2740;e-rnail: cmkeller@indianaedu;Affiliation: IndianaUniversity. Interests: Bamana aesthetics; therelationship between ideas/social philosophies andthe visual arts.

Matthew Lewis, 300 South Goodwin Ave. Apt. 613. Urbana, IL 61801; Tel.: 217-332-5817; e-mail:

mtlewis@uiuc.edu. Affiliation: University ofIllinois, Urbana-Champaign. Interests: Religionand ritual; gender; art and artists; symbolicanthropology; feminist anthropology.

Friederike Luepke, Max Planck Institute forPsycholinguistics, Postbus 310, Nijmegen 5600AH The Netherlands; Tel.: (0031) (0)243521560; Fax: (0031)(0)243521213; e- mail:friederike.luepke.@mpi.nI. Interests: WesternMande languages, semantics, typology,ethnolinguistics, and comparative linguistics;Mande history.

UPDA TES & ADDRESS CHANGESLaura Arntson, 106 Walnut St., NW, Washington, DC

20012; Tel.: 202-530-4386 (work); Fax:202-293-4167; e-mail: larntson55@hotmail.com;Affiliation: Save the Children/Children in CrisisUnit. Interests: Music and verbal art asrepresentations of history and identity; forcedmigration and identity issues; psychosocialprogram planning and evaluation; incorporation oftraditional healing and ritual into.responses tocomplex emergencies.

Mark Davidheiser (Temp. thru 1/2002); P.O. Box 2090Serekunda, Gambia.

Henrike Florusbosch, 639 Turner Park CourtAnn Arbor MI 48103. Tel.: 734-222-0619e-mail: henrikeflorusbosch@hotmail.com

Cornelia Giesing = Valentikkolors aol.comKonrad Tuchscherer e tuchschk@stjohns.eduScott Lacy, P.O. Box 8262, Goleta, CA 93118

Tel.: 805-968-4585; e-mail:solosangare@netscape.net. Affiliation: UC SantaBarbara, Anthropology. Interests: Mali; localknowledge, science and agriculture.

RENEWED MEMBERSLaura Arntson (sponsor)Catherine BogosianMaria Luisa CiminelliJose da Silva HortaMark DavidheiserDavid GambleTom HaleJoseph HellwegStacy HoldenMarloes JansonMichelle JohnsonJames Jones (sponsor)Lansine Kaba (sponsor)Scott LacyJoseph Lauer (sponsor)David Robinson (sponsor)Patrick Royer

Submitting Articles toMANDE STUDIES

The journal of the Mande Studies Association MandeStudies welcomes articles on all aspects of the Mandeworld and the peoples and cultures that compose it.Submissions will be peer-reviewed before acceptance.The journal will accept and publish manuscripts inEnglish or French.

Manuscript submissions should be typewritten orcomputer-printed in double-spacing, and should beaccompanied, if possible, with an electronic version ofthe text on a diskette (IBM/MS-DOS; Mac texts shouldbe sent bye-mail). Authors must furnish any maps orillustrations in hard copy suitable for reproduction, andare responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions.

Colleagues from Africa without access tocomputers should send a typewritten manuscript,keeping a copy for their own use.

Submissions may be made electronically toeither Ariane Deluz (Ariane.Deluz@ehess.fr) or to

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Stephen Belcher(spbelcher@mindspring.com);manuscript submissions should be sent to StephenBelcher (R.D. 1 Box 1000, Petersburg PA, 16669USA). In the case of electronic submissions, the textshould be sent as an attachment and not in the body ofthe message. The preferred format, if not WordPerfect orMicrosoft Word, is as a 'rich text file' (suffix: .rtf).La revue Etudes Mande invite nos collegues a presenterdes contributions portant sur tous les aspects du mondemande et des peuples et des cultures qui le composent.Les articles proposes seront evalues anonymementavant d 'etre retenus. La revue accepte et publie desarticles en anglais ou en francais.

Les manuscrits soumis doivent etre saisis ouimprimes sur ordinateur en double interligne, etdevraient s'accompagner si possible de la versionelectronique du texte sur disquette (formatIBM/MS-Dos). Les textes composes sur Macintoshdoivent nous parvenir commes fichiers attaches a unemail. Les auteurs sont pries de fournir leurs cartes etillustrations sur papier, d'une qualite permettant lareproduction. II est de la responsabilite des auteursd'obtenir toute permi ion necessaire pour lareproduction.

Nos collegues en Afrique d'ayant pas acces a unordinateur sont pries d'envoyer un manuscritdactylographic, et de conserver un deuxieme exemplairepour leur propre usage.

Les articles peuvent etre soumis par voieelectronique a Ariane Deluz(Ariane.Deluz@ehess.rr) ou a Stephen Belcher(spbelcher@mindspring.com); les manuscritsdevraient etre addresses a Stephen Belcher (R.D. 1, Box1000, Petersburg PA, 16669 -- USA). Dans le cas desarticles envoyes par email, Ie texte ne doit pas etreenvoye dans Ie message mais comme fichier attache aumail. Le format prefere, autre que Microsoft Word, estIe "Rich Text File" (suffixe .rtf).

Renewal Notices on Newsletter Labels

The Secretary-Treasurer, Stephen Wooten, has includedthe following signals on your address labels: If the dateis highlighted in yellow it means "time to renew." Ared check-mark beside the date means you are overdue,and this is your last newsletter until you do renew.

Joining MANSA and Renewing Membership

Regular and institutional membership $10, students $5,sponsoring membership $25. Make check out toMANSA and (if you are joining) send yourinstitutional affiliation and a brief description of yourresearch interests to: Stephen Wooten, Department ofAnthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene OR97403-1218. Members (other than sponsored Africancolleagues) will find the date on which their presentmembership expires recorded on their address labels. TheSecretary-Treasurer will forward your up-dated addressand research information to the President for publicationin the newsletter.

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