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Programme

Rethinking African Development: Beyond impasse, towards alternatives
Maputo, Mozambique, 6-10 December, 2005

In Maputo, the research community will be called upon to carry its critique of post-independence Africa development and the mode of insertion of Africa into the global system one step further by presenting alternatives that are both detailed in content and holistic in approach and relevance. Among some of the subjects that the research community is invited to address are:

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Papers presented at the 11^th General Assembly

Plenary Sessions

• Africa in Search of Development: What went wrong?
  • Olukoshi, Adebayo, Faux Pas in Africa's Quest for Development: Retrospect and Prospect
  • Cardoso, Carlos, Revistitando o conceito de desenvolvimento no pensamento de Amilcar Cabral
  • Diaw, Aminata,  Individualisme Moral, Libérarlisme et Nation State Building: les silences de la pensée politique Africaine
• Rethinking democracy and development
  • Bangura, Yusuf, Democracy and Social Policy in Africa
  • Mustapha, Abdul Raufu, Rethinking the State-Civil Society-Market Nexus in African Development
  • Bah, Thierno, L'Armée, l'État et la problématique du développement en l'Afrique
• Alternative socio-economic frames for African development
  • Brahim Elmorchid, Ajustement des réformes en Afrique: La condition d’un développement réussi
  • Isitua Obiora, An Alternative Theoretical Model for Economic Reforms in Africa
  • Kassey P. Garba, Towards an Engendered Macroeconomics for the Development of Africa
  • Roseline Achieng and Ronald Kalyango, Redistributive Justice: Could it be the Concept, Agenda and Ethos for an Alternative Development for Africa in the New Era?
• Gender and feminist alternatives for African development
  • Amina Mama, Feminist Alternatives for African Development
  • Ngoné Diop, Gender Budgeting for African Development
  • Dodzi Tsikata, Gender Alternatives for Land and Agrarian Reform in Africa
• Harnessing social polity for popular transformation
  • Takyiwaa Manuh, Social Policies for National and Regional Re-birth
  • Michael Neocosmos, Citizenship, Rights and Development: Revisiting the Social in Africa Today
  • C.S.L. Chachage, Africa’s Poor Shall Inherit the Earth and All of Its Mineral Rights
  • Sam Moyo, Land in the Political Economy of African Development: Alternative Strategies for Reform
• Facing the intellectual challenges of alternative development in Africa
  • Jimi Adesina, Beyond Structural Adjustment: The Intellectual and Policy Challenges of Renewal
  • Richard Jolly, Washington Consensus vs. New York Dissent: The Power of UN Ideas
  • Yao Graham, Bridging the Divides between Research and Activism for African Development
  • Francis Nyamnjoh, Re-thinking Communications Research and Development in Africa

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First Parallel Working Sessions (7th December 2005)

• Theory and knowledge in the quest for development alternatives (I)
  • José Jaime Macuane, Os paradoxos de Desenvolvimento à la carte
  • Zubairu Wai, Whither African Development?: A Preparatory for an African Alternative to the Concept of Development
  • Hamed Omer Hawi, The Search for an Afro-centric Development Theory
  • Johann Graaff, Struggling with Impasse: Has Development Theory been able to Reinvent Itself?
  • Amady Aly Dieng, Que reste-t-il de vivant dans le marxisme en matière de développement?
  •  Mahmoud El Zain, The Passing of Development Discourse and Its Successors? Is the condition ripe for putting forward alternative development packages?
• Re-inventing the state for African Development (I)
  • Lwazi Siyabonga Lushaba, On the Character of the State and its Role in African Development
  • Fonchingong Tangie, The State and Development in Africa
  • Gbemisola Adeoti, Re-Inventing the African State: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Narrative of the (Alter)Native Route to Development
  • Bobuin John Gemandze, Transcending Impasse: Re-thinking the State and Development in Africa
  • Boutaleb Kouider, La problématique du développement socio-économique et les objectifs d’uneauthentique réforme de l’État en Afrique
• Gender in the Quest for Alternatives in African Development (I)
  • Susanna Yene Awasom, Towards a Gendered Development Discourse in Africa: Visible Women and Invisible Men
  • Goodisang Mookodi, Situating the Legal Status of Women in Development: The Case of Botswana
  • Melanie Samson, Gender Transformative Developmental Local Government?: Reinventing the Apartheid Local State within the Context of Neo-Liberalism
  • Houria Sadou, L’intégration du genre dans le développement africain: le cas de l’Algérie
• Language and culture in Africa's development alternatives (I)
  • Mary Stella Chika Okolo, Reassessing the Impact of Colonial Languages on the African Identity for African Development
  • Noel Obotela Rashidi, Les langues indigènes dans le processus de développement en Afrique: défis, opportunités et alternatives
  • Sangai Mohochi, Turning to African Languages for Increased Citizen Participation in the African Developmental Process
  • F.E.M.K. Senkoro, Language of Instruction: The Forgotten Factor in Education Standards in Africa
  • Ato Kwamena Onoma, The Language Question: An Anti-Essentialist Excavation
• Regional cooperation and integration in the quest for alternative development strategies (I)
  • John Akokpari, Africa’s Quest for Long-Term Development: Does NEPAD Provide the Necessary Policy Framework?
  • Rawia Tawfik, NEPAD and African Development: Towards a New Partnership between Development Actors in Africa
  • Charles Ukeje, Re-thinking Africa’s Security in the Age of Uncertain Globalisation : NEPAD and Human Security in the 21st Century
  • Anne Marie Kabunda, Intégration économique en Afrique et mondialisation des marchés : Problèmes et perspectives
  • Koffi Sodokin, Une unité de monnaie africaine dans la perspective de la création d’une banque centrale africaine pour le développement économique en Afrique : Fondements analytiques et propositions
  • Etienne Koulakoumouna, Transport routier et effectivité de l’intégration régionale dans l’espace CEMAC : Enjeux, contraintes et alternatives pour le développement durable du Congo
• Harnessing Africa's wealth for the continent's development (I)
  • Kwame Christophe Dikenou, Utilisations viable des ressources naturelles africaines pour le développement: défis éthiques
  • Etanislas Ngodi, Gestion des ressources pétrolières et développement en Afrique
  • Didier Mukawa Pidika, Les ressources naturelles de la République Démocratique du Congo entre convoitise, exploitation illégale et exploitation concertée : quelle alternative pour le développement de l’Afrique ?
  • Chrysanth Lwechungura-Kamuzora, Africa’s Population: A Critical Global Asset for Development
  • Gaston Nkouika Dinghani Nkita, Economie populaire et lutte contre la pauvreté au Congo-Brazzaville: prôner pour le développement communautaire du bas vers le haut

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Special Lectures

• 11th General Assembly Léopold Sédar Senghor lecture
• 11th General Assembly Claude Ake lecture

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Second Parallel Working Sessions

• Theory and knowledge in the quest for development alternatives
  • Lamin Sidibeh, How Colonial Development Theories and Models Impede African Development
  • Pauline Bend, Nouvelles perspectives sur le concept de développement
  • Sally Matthews, Post-Development Politics and Practice: Perspectives from Senegal
  • Leo De Haan, Some Perspectives on How to Research the Changing Outlines of African Livelihood
  • Marcelo Bittencourt, Influencias e persistencias indesejaveis
• Re-inventing the state for African Development
  • Jean-Christophe Boungou Bazika, Rôle de l’État dans le développement économique: une comparaison Afrique-Asie-Amérique Latine
  • Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, A Reflection on the Welfare State within the Context of Liberal Globalisation: The Search for Social Progress Policy Alternatives
  • Khabele Matlosa, The State, Democracy and Development in Southern Africa
  • Kehinde Olusola Olayode, Reinventing the African State: Issues and Challenges for Building a Developmental State
  • Mueni Muiu, Fundi wa Africa: Towards a New Paradigm of the African State
  • Katia Cardoso, Cabo Verde e as suas “Ilhas exteriors”
• Gender in the Quest for Alternatives in African Development
  • Aline Carla Alfonso Pereira, Desenvolvimento de Politicas Publicas para a Inserçao da mulher Angolana na mercado de trabalho
  • Manthiba Phalane, Locating Gender in African Development: Pushing for Progress and Overcoming Obstacles
  • Fondo Sikod, Engendering Development: Gender Division of Labour and Women’s Decision-Making Power in Rural Households in Cameroun
  • Solange Bandiaky, Au-delà du néo-libéralisme africain : une analyse comparative du discours sur genre et développement en Afrique dans les théories féministes et dans les politiques du NEPAD et des OMD
  • Naomi Rioba, The Women Behind the Beautiful Roses: Occupational Health Hazards in Cut Flower Farming in Naivasha, Kenya
• Language and culture in Africa's development alternatives
  • Addo Mahamane, Les potentialités culturelles de l’Afrique, une autre alternative au développement: Le cas du Niger
  • Azzeddine Allam, De la sujétion à la citoyenneté : Itinéraire du concept « RA’IYA »
  • Ana Monteiro, Os Imperativos culturas, tradiçios e costumes seu impacto na propagaçao do HIV/SIDA
  • Ibrahim Mouiche, Chefferies traditionnelles, culture et développement local au Cameroun
  • Linje Manyozo, Rural Radio and the Promotion of People-Centred Development in Africa : Radio Listening Clubs and Community Development in Malawi
  • Alcinda Honwana, Youth and Conflict in Africa
• Regional cooperation and integration in the quest for alternative development strategies
  • Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua, Sécurité humaine et diversité culturelle dans la perspective d’un Bandung II
  • Okello Oculi, Cooperation and Integration in Africa: The Case of Informal Cross Border Trade
  • Gérard Tchouassi, Argent de la diaspora et financement du développement des infrastructures urbaines de base en Afrique
  • José Mvuezolo Bazonzi, Systèmes de transports pour un développement intégré de l’Afrique: Vers un réseau routier et ferroviaire pan-africain
  • Arsene Mwaka Bwenge, D’une CEPGL à une autre : quelles alternatives dans les stratégies actuelles d’intégration et de coopération pour le développement ?
  • Dayo Oluyemi-Kusa, Challenges of Regional Cooperation and Integration in the Context of the African Union
• Harnessing Africa's wealth for the continent's development
  • Tordeta Ratebaye, L’utilisation viable des ressources africaines pour le développement : cas du pétrole tchadien
  • Côme Damien Georges Awoumou, Le golfe de Guinée face aux convoitises
  • Wilson Akpan, Oil, People and the Environment: Understanding Land-Related Controversies in Nigeria’s Oil Region
  • Gabriel Kwame Nyassogbo, Accumulation d’ordures ménagères et dégradation de l’environnement urbain : Quelques pistes pour une viabilité environnementale dans le processus de développement africain
  • Issa Bakayoko, L’Afrique à l’épreuve de la décentralisation: les enjeux de la transformation
  • Aondover Augustine Tarhule, Climate Information for Development : A Proposal Dissemination Model

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Third Parallel Working Sessions

• Theory and knowledge in the quest for development alternatives
  • Marcellin Vijennagni Zounmènou, Indigenous Knowledge System and African Development: The Political Roles of Oral Genres with Specific Reference to Zulu (South Africa) and Goun (Benin)
  • Kibet A. Ngetich, Indigenous Knowledge, Alternative Medicine and Intellectual Property Rights Concerns in Africa
  • Eric Masinde Aseka, Cross-Questioning the Moral Character of Scholars in the Light of the Challenges of Academic Freedom and Social Responsibility of Knowledge Production in Africa
  • Philip Ogo Ujomu, Truncated Development, Ossified Social Order and the Failure of Western Philosophies of Justice in Africa: Envisioning Authentic Development via an Alternative Philosophy of Justice
  • Knowledge Rajohane Matshediso, Development and Security in Africa
• Re-inventing the state for African Development
  • Tayeb Chentouf, Les États face à la mondialisation : L’exemple de l’Algérie
  • Jean-Paul Komon, Aide publique, état moderne et développement en Afrique
  • Wale Are Olaitan, Towards a Functional African State : Bridging the Gap between the State and the People
  • Toure Kazah-Toure, Central Challenges Confronting the African State: Re-thinking its Role in Development
  • Jare Oladosu, Designing Viable Republican Constitutions for Modern African States: Why the Institution of Traditional Kingship Must be Abolished
  • Judy I.M. Mulqueeny, Struggles for National Democratic Developmental Local State in the Transition in South Africa: Implications for Southern Africa
• Law and Constitutionalism in African Development
  • William Idowu, Re-thinking Legal Constitutional Development in Africa : Beyond the Limits of Legal Positivism, Towards a Cultural Jurisprudence
  • Sara Araujo, Pluralismo Juridicao e emancipaçao social: Instancias communitarias de resoluçao de conflitos em Moçambique
  • André Mbata Mangu, Vers un nouveau contrat Etat-Peuple en République Démocratique du Congo : une réflexion sur le constitutionalisme et la démocratie au regard de la constitution posttransitoire
  • Adolphe Dansou Alidjinou, Cadre juridico-constitutionel pour le développement africain: droit constitutionnel et changement politique au Bénin et au Togo, les paradoxes de la doxa juridique
  • Juliano Augusto Fernandes, Inseràao de Ministério Publico nos Tribunais
• Citizenship and the quest for viable social foundations for African development
  • Sheila Bunwaree, State-Society Relations: The Need for a New Social Contract
  • Gruffydd Jones Branwen, Re-thinking African Development: What is the Social Base of Africa’s Alternatives in the Era of Neo-Liberalism?
  • Cassandra R. Veney, Redefining Citizenship: The Role of Refugees in their Host Countries’ Development
  • Lars Rudebeck, Reading Cabral on Democracy
  • Blaise Jacques Nkene, Crise de la nationalité et citoyenneté en Afrique subsaharienne: un obstacle au développement
• Civil society in the quest for alternatives in African development
  • Leah Wambura Kimathi, Non-State Institutions as a Basis for State Reconstruction: The Case of Justice Systems in Africa
  • Walter Gam Nkwi, The Dilemma of Civil Society in Cameroon since 1990: Which Way Forward?
  • Hien Ollo Pepin, Crise du journalisme et de l’espace public en Afrique: quelles alternatives pour un développement africain?
  • Frederick O. Wanyama, Interfacing the State and Voluntary Sector for African Development: Lessons from Kenya
  • Bertha Kadenyi Amisi, Development and Peace-Making in Africa: Negotiating Peace in a Neo-Liberal World
• Bringing industry back into the African developmental equation
  • Simon Maxime Bikoue, La problématique de l’industrialisation de l’Afrique: la nécessité d’une reformulation
  • Stephen M. Kapunda, African Industrial Development Beyond Impasse: The Case of Botswana, Tanzania and Zambia
  • Jacques Bigala, Le rôle de la chambre de commerce et d’industrie dans la promotion des partenariats innovants : cas de l’Association Pointe-Noire Industrielle (APNI) au Congo-Brazaville
  • Léon Bulu Tsambu, Epure d’un développement durable de l’industrie du disque congolaise par le mécénat privé
  • Darlene Miller, White Managers, Black Renaissance : South African Companies in Africa and the Dispositions of Foreign White Managers and Local Black Managers

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Fourth Parallel Working Sessions

• Theory and knowledge in the quest for development alternatives
  • Ebrima Sall, University Reform in the Quest for African Development
  • Geoffrey I. Nwaka, Higher Education, the Social Sciences and National Development in Nigeria
  • Sabo Bako, Universities, Research and Development: Time for a Paradigm Shift
  • Enyinna Nwauche, A Development-Oriented Intellectual Property Regime for Africa
  • Mshai Mwangola, “Justice be Our Shield and Defender”: An Intellectual Property Rights Regime for Africa
  • Kaushik Goburdhun, Enforcement of Intellectuazl Property Rights: A Blessing or a Curse? Perspectives from Mauritius
• Reviving agricultural production and eradicating poverty for african development (I)
  • André Cristiano José, Neoliberalismo e Crise do Trabalho em Moçambique: O Caso do Caju
  • Elisio Macamo, How Development Aid Changes Societies: Disciplining Mozambique through Structural Adjustment
  • Daniel Rotich Kandagor, Rethinking Pastoralism and African Development: A Case Study of the Horn of Africa
  • Max Ntangsi Memfih, HIV/AIDS and African Agriculture at the Crossroads: Challenges and the Search for Agricultural Development Alternatives in Africa
  • Rosa Melo, Alimentaçao, Doenças e Terapias entre os Handa
• Reviving Agricultural Production and Eradicating Poverty for African Development (II)
  • Marie Thérèse Yaba Ndiaye, A Agroecologica, Alternativa ao moderlo agricola desenvolvimentista na Africa
  • Johanna Van der Linden, Fortalecendo Cooperativas Agro-pecuarias Através da aplicaçao de métodos de educaçao de adultos
  • Catherine Wawasi Kitetu, Farmer Groups as a Way of Mobilising Citizen Participation in Development: An Example from Kenya
  • Roch Appolinaire Hougnihin, Les mécanismes endogènes dans la problématique de l’environnement à Cové (Bénin)
  • Omnia Mehana, Poverty Reduction in Africa through the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: A Fata Morgana? Towards Alternative Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa
• Africa in the International (Trading) System
  • Georges Kobou, L’Afrique et les défis du développement au troisième millénaire
  • Mamadou Gbongue, Commerce et développement durable en Afrique : quelle(s) alternative(s) à la libéralisation commerciale
  • Abdelali Naciri Bensaghir, La contribution de la logistique à l’insertion des sous-traitants marocains du textile dans la logique des donneurs d’ordres étrangers
  • Alain-Douathe Koyangozo, L’Impact de la libéralisation commerciale sur les finances publiques du Congo
  • Ana Cristina Caetano, O Papel do empresanado no desenvolvimento economico e social de Moçambique
• Language and Culture in Africa’s Development Alternatives (III)
  • Khalid Chegraoui, Développement et réanimation culturelle au Maroc : approche critique d’une expérience locale
  • Bouazza Benachir, Le Maroc entre la transition démocratique et une nouvelle renaissance sociopolitique culturelle
  • Fibian Kavulani Lukalo, (Mis)Understanding of Nation and Identity : Re-Imagining of Sports in the Future of African Development
  • Louis Kouena Mabika, La place et le rôle des oeuvres d’art dans le développement en Afrique : le cas du Congo Brazzaville
  • Mohammed Gheris, Le financement du logement au Maroc : Des pratiques illégales mais efficaces – cas de la pseudo-hypothèque
• Overcoming Silences in African History and Development
  • Ibrahim Abdullah, Who Owns African History?
  • Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo, Comment traite-t-on de la notion de « progrès » dans l’Afrique in abstracto?
  • Solofo Radrianja, Quelques réflexions d’historiens sur le nationalisme académique (avec référence à l’histoire et au cas de Madagascar)
  • Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba, Le Leadership et la stabilité politique en RDC
  • Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Banishing the Silences : Towards the Globalisation of African History