General Assembly Distinguished Lectures, Kampala, 2002
Samir Amin,
Mahmood Mamdani & Fatou Sow
Published December 2004 ; 56 pages ; ISBN 2-86978-149-0
African Perspectives on Globalisation, Terrorism and Development
This volume brings together three excellent lectures by three
distinguished scholars, a highlight of the 2002 CODESRIA 10th
General Assembly Conference in Kampala, Uganda. A regular
feature of the CODESRIA triennal General Assembly, the lectures
are delivered in plenary by distinguished scholars whose work
has helped shape the African intellectual landscape. The Claude
Ake Lecture, delivered by Mahmood Mamdani, is traditionally the
privilege of the outgoing Executive Committee president. It
dwells, inter alia, on an African perspective on 9/11,
pointing to the America and Cold War geneses of and the role of
‘culture talk’ in Terorism. This theme is taken up in the Cheikh
Anta Diop Lecture, by Samir Amin who gives a critical overview
and exploration of alternatives to neoliberal globalisation and
militarism. The Léopold Sedar Senghor Lecture is graced by Fatou
Sow, who stresses the need to rethink African development from a
gender sensitive outlook, and regrets the slow pace of creating
space for women in various spheres, despite the fact that women
have got a right to be (‘les femmes ont le droit d’avoir des
droits’).
Samir
Amin
is a leading political economist in the field of development
studies. He is currently the director of the Third World Forum.
Amin teaches economics at the Universities of Poitiers, Paris
and Dakar. He has published numerous treatises on law, civil
society, socialism, colonialism and development particularly in
Africa and the Arab and Islamic Worlds. His numerous books
include Accumulation on a World Scale, Unequal
Development, The Future of Maoism, Eurocentrism,
Empire of Chaos, Re-Reading the Postwar Period and
Spectres of Capitalism.
Mahmood Mamdani
is from Kampala, Uganda. He has taught at the University of
Dar-es-Salaam, Makerere University and University of Cape Town,
and is currently Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and
director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia
University in New York. His previous book Citizen and
Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
was recognized as ‘one of Africa’s 100 best books of the 20th
century’ and was also awarded the Herskovitz Prize of the
African Studies Association of USA for ‘the best book on Africa
published in the English language in 1996’. Mahmood Mamdani was
President of CODESRIA from 1999 to 2002. In 2001, he presented
one of the nine papers at the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial
Symposium.
Fatou Sow
is a Senegalese sociologist, researcher at the Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique in France. She is a professor at
the Department of Social Sciences of the Institut fondamental
d’Afrique noire/Cheikh Anta Diop (IFAN), Cheikh Anta Diop
University (Senegal) where she also lectures on gender and
development issues in the Faculty of Arts. Her publications are
on development issues. She is mostly interested in African women
and gender relations within African economies and cultures.
Africa:
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The Alternative to the Neoliberal System of
Globalization and Militarism: Imperialism Today and the
Hegemonic Offensive of the United States
Samir Amin
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An African Perspective on Nine Eleven
Mahmood
Mamdani
Léopold Sedar Senghor: Senegalese Poet-President, 1906–2001
Fatou Sow
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Re-thinking African Development: And What if
Women Had a Say in It!
Fatou Sow
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