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African Spiritual States: Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa

 African Spiritual States: Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa

School of History, Queen Mary University of London.

Monday, 23 March 2015 from 13:00 to 19:00 (GMT)

How have Christianity and Islam shaped public politics in Africa’s past and how do they do so in the present? To answer these questions, this workshop brings together a range of scholars whose research ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa.

Programme

13:00  Introductory Remarks: Saul Dubow (QMUL)

13:10-14:40 Panel 1: Islam in Africa

• Felicitas Becker (Cambridge) ‘Conflict and Convergence in Muslims’ and Christians’ Narratives of Tanzanian Statehood’
• Alexander Meleagreou-Hitchens (KCL) ‘Jihadist Radicalisation and Recruitment in Kenya’
• Insa Nolte (Birmingham) ‘Who Owns the Schools?’ Educational Reform and Muslim-Christian Competition in Osun State, Southwest Nigeria’

14:40-15:40 Tea

15:40-17:10 Panel 2: Christianity in Africa

• David Maxwell (Cambridge) ‘Vernacular Scriptures, Ethnic Communities and Politics: The Case of the Luba Katanga’
• Reuben Loffman (QMUL) ‘Catechists, Councilors and Chiefs: The White Fathers and Decolonisation in Kongolo, Katanga, 1960-1961’
• Ben Jones (UEA) ‘Give Unto Caesar: Religious Identities, Local Elites and the State in Eastern Uganda’

17:15 Drinks reception

Attendance is free, but you must register via this link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/african-spiritual-states-religion-and-politics-in-sub-saharan-africa-tickets-15830544585

African Research and Documentation 125 – 2015 Contents

African Trajectories: Travel and the Archives: papers from the 2014 Scolma Conference

Noo Saro-Wiwa

Endless Possibilities: Why Africa keeps travel writing alive

Gerald Brisch

 Tackling Africa: the resourceful Mrs J. Theodore Bent

 Maria Sienkiewicz and Billy Frank

 An Eagle Eye: Africa in the 20^th Century as viewed through the archives of Barclays Bank

Oliver Coates

The Particular and the Work of Retrospection in Isaac Fadoyebo’s  A Stroke of Unbelievable Luck

 Rebecca Jones

Nigeria is my Playground: Pelu Awofeso’s Nigerian travel writing

Caitlin Pearson

 How to Blog about Africa: travel writing in the digital age

AFRICAN RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION No. 124, 2014. Contents.

Articles

 Hans Muller and Jos Damen

Wikipedia for Africanists

 David Clover

Preserving and Protecting Press Freedom – Insights from the archive of the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association

Gwil Colenso

A Case of Painstaking Planning and Preparation: the reception of the 1907 deputation of Basuto Chiefs in Britain

 Conference Report

 Birgitte Jansen

SCECSAL XXI – a brief summary

 Book Reviews

• Access to Information in Africa: Law, Culture and Practice, edited by Fatima Diallo and Richard Calland. Ian Cooke
• Routledge Handbook of African Politics, edited by Nic Cheeseman, David M. Anderson, and Andrea Scheibler Ian Cooke
• Repertoires and Choices in African Languages, by F. Lüpke and A. Storche.Patricia S. Kunz
• Une Histoire Inconnue de l’Afrique Centrale, 1895-99, by Pierre Prins, edited by Viviane Prins-Jorge and Yves Boulvert. Marguerite Garling
• South African performance and archives of memory, by Yvette Hutchison Regina Lee Roberts
• The Long Garden Master in the Gold Coast: Life and Times of a Colonial Agricultural Officer in the Gold Coast, 1929-1947 by Charles, Marjorie and Sylvia Lynn. Dan Gilfoyle
• The Changing Scenes of Life: from the Colonial Service to the European Service, by Keith Arrowsmith Terry Barringer
• Europeans in British Administered East Africa: A Biographical Listing 1888–1910, by Stephen North Terry Barringer
• Leopard, by Desmond Morris Terry Barringer