MAAAS Executive Committee (2018-2019) Darlingtina Esiaka, President (2018-2019) Francis Owusu, President-Elect (2018-2019 Jamaine Abidogun, Past-President (2018-2019) Sterling Recker, Webmaster-Treasurer (2017-2020)
Board Members Ashley Leinweber (Missouri State University) Erin Kenny (Missouri State University) Chase Barney (University of Arkansas) Richard Glotzer (University of Akron) Glenn McKnight (Drake University)
2019 Conference Planning Committee Darlingtina Esiaka, Union College Liz MacGonagle, University of Kansas Francis Owusu, Iowa State University Jamaine Abidogun, Missouri State University Charlotte Kukundakwe, University of Kansas Sterling Recker, North Central Missouri State.
2019 MAAAS Conference Sponsors University of Kansas Kansas African Studies Center (KASC), Title IV Funding Kenneth P. Lohrentz Fund, University of Kansas Department of Economics, University of Kansas
Welcome Note from Conference Convenors Darlingtina K. Esiaka, MAAAS President, Psychology, Union College, NY Liz MacGonagle, Director, Kansas African Studies Center (KASC), University of Kansas *Kenneth Lohrentz Graduate Paper Award Presentation *Presenters: Liz MacGonagle, Director, KASC, University of Kansas Francis Owusu, President-Elect, MAAAS, University of Iowa
Opening Session: Growth or Colonialism Restructured? Chair: Ashley Leinweber, Political Science, Missouri State University *Africa in the Global Geo-Economic Competition: New Colonialism or Opportunity for Alternative Policy Paradigms - Francis Owusu, Community & Regional Planning, Iowa State University *China and Contemporary Urban Development in Africa - Garth Myers, Urban International Studies, Trinity College
*Exchanging Colonialism/Neocolonialism for Authoritarianism: Unveiling Kwame Nkrumah’s Not-Too-Hidden Exilic Agenda - Tunde Adeleke, African & African Studies, Iowa State University
*The Impact of Open Access on African Scholarship – Brian D. Moss, Reference Services, University of Kansas
MAAAS 2019 Keynote Address “Africa Rising or Repackaged Coloniality? Re-emerging Players and Enduring Risks” Lina Benabdallah, PhD Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
Gendered Equity or Reconstructions of Inequity Chair: Sterling Recker, Political Science, North Central Missouri College *Enacting Feminine Respectability: Unpacking a Wardrobe of Malinke, Islamic and Western Styles in Conakry, Guinea - Erin Kenny, Anthropology, Missouri State University *Is Africa Rising? The Sparsity of Women in the Leadership of Most African Countries - Mary Mba, French, Cottey College *Africa Rising For/By Reel: Nollywood’s Depictions of Violence Against Women - Ogochukwu C. Ngwudike, University of Kansas
ColLAB: Bridging East Africa’s Health Divides Chair & Moderator: Kathryn Rhine, African & African-American Studies and Geography & Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas *Decolonizing Experiential Learning: Fieldnotes from a Global Health Humanities Lab in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – Kathryn Rhine
Panel Members: Eric Splavec, Political Science, University of Kansas Tyler Cargill, Chemical Engineering, University of Kansas Symantha Dawson, Anthropology, University of Kansas Melissa Lenos, English, Donnelly College
Deconstructing Health and Growth Narratives Chair: Erin Kenny, Sociology & Anthropology, Missouri State University *Indigenous Culture, HIV/AIDS and Globalization in Southern Africa: Towards an Integrated Sexuality Education Pedagogy - Angellar Manguvo, Medical Humanities & Bioethics, University of Missouri-Kansas City *Is DR Congo Finally Rising? - Ashley Leinweber, Politic Science, Missouri State University *The Experience of Chronic Illness Among Older Persons in North Central Nigeria - Kafayat O. Mahmoud, Sociology & Gerontology, University of Kansas *Lost in History: Abe J.B. Desmore & Emil Blume; How History informs the Contemporary Struggle of Southern Africa’s ‘Coloured’ Community’s Political, Cultural, and Economic Voice and Power – Richard S. Glotzer, School of Social Work, University of Akron
Shifting Narratives of Politics, Ethnicity and Religion in Africa Chair: Darlingtina Esiaka, Psychology, Union College *Parliamentary Power in a New East Africa – Ryan Gibb, International Studies, Baker University *Evolution of the Political Influence of the Baganda Muslim Community from the Advent of Islam until the Buganda Agreement of 1900 – Brenda McCollum, Global & Area Studies, University of Oxford *Terrorism and Ethnic Violence in Northwest Africa: Recent Developments along the Mali-Libya Axis – Stephen A. Harmon, History, Pittsburg State University *Boko Haram after the Fall of the Islamic State - Mamadou Badiane, Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Missouri-Columbia
