NEW YORK AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION PRESENTS
EMERGING AFRICAS:
VERSIONS AND VISIONS
42nd Annual Conference
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
March 31 – April 1, 2017
STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT OF NYASA, ABDUL NANJI
Dear Participants:
Welcome to the 42nd Annual New York African Studies Association Conference, 2017. Last year, 2016, the
41st Annual NYASA conference was held in New York City, hosted by City College (City University of New
York) and Columbia University. It was a historic conference in that the last NYASA Conference hosted by
Columbia University was the 5th NYASA Conference in 1978, 38 years ago. The 42nd NYASA Conference,
hosted by University at Buffalo, is an equally historic conference in that the 4th NYASA Conference was
hosted by the University at Buffalo 40 years ago under the theme “Application of African Studies.” The
2017 Conference theme of “Emerging Africas: Versions and Visions” is a topic critical to the 21st Century
world. This conference offers all participants an exciting opportunity to exchange challenging ideas, and to
dialogue and reflect on the future of African people.
I would like to extend my special thanks to the University at Buffalo Local Organizing Committee for their
diligent work in making this conference a success, including Program Coordinator Professor Phillips
Stevens; Program Committee Chairs Professor Ndubueze Mbah, and Professor Jason Young; Local
Arrangement Chair Cindi Tysick; Professor Fred Klaits, and Professor Jeff Good. I thank everyone for their
commitment in organizing this successful conference.
In addition, the NYASA Executive Board acknowledges the extensive breadth of cross-disciplinary and
institution-wide support received from the University at Buffalo academic departments, colleges, and
programs in support of the 2017 NYASA Conference and K-12 Teachers' Workshop. We thank the following
for their financial and logistical support: Office of Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion; Office of Dean
of College of Arts and Sciences; Office of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research and Experiential
Learning; the Departments of History, Anthropology, Linguistics, Transnational Studies, and Comparative
Literature; The Gender Institute; and the University at Buffalo Libraries.
Special thanks to Dr. Mara Huber, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning,
Director of Academies University at Buffalo, and to W. Charles Brandy, Director, Department of Social
Studies, Buffalo Schools for coordinating the NYASA 2017 Conference K -12 Teachers’ Workshop.
I congratulate the 2017 awardees of The 2017 NYASA Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ali A. Mazrui
Outstanding Publication / Book and Educational Activities Award, The NYASA Community Service Award,
The NYASA Distinguished Local Organization Award, The NYASA Distinguished Teacher Award, The
NYASA Book Award, and The NYASA Book Award Honorary Mention.
Finally thank you to all presenters, participants, and all who worked to make 2017 Conference a success.
Karibuni, and enjoy the conference and the City of Buffalo.
Mwalimu Abdul Nanji, President
FRIDAY MARCH 31, 2017
NYASA K-12 Teachers’ Workshop
VENUE: THE OSCAR A. SILVERMAN
LIBRARY, RM 310,
CAPEN HALL, UB NORTH CAMPUS
8:30am – 1:45pm
The University at Buffalo African
Studies Initiative, comprised of African
and African-American Studies faculty
from across the disciplines, proudly
presents the New York African Studies
Association Teachers’ Workshop on
Africana Studies for Buffalo Public
School K-12 Teachers. This workshop
explores teaching methods and
resources available for teaching about
Africa and African Peoples. We are
pleased to provide live streaming of the
workshop via: ZOOM. https://zoom.us/
meeting/register/5e919922ce47caf1d746f627e8486654.
8:30am – 9:00am
NYASA K-12 Teachers’ Workshop
Registration/Refreshments
9:00am – 9:15am
Welcoming Remarks and Introductions
Award Pre-Announcements for NYASA
K-12 Teacher Award and
NYASA Local Organization/Community
Service Award
9:20am – 9:50am
Opening Plenary Session: Teaching
about Africa and the African Diaspora
from an African Centered Perspective
(Locksley Edmondson, Africana Center,
Cornell University)
9:55am – 10:25am
Memorable Africa: Connecting High
School Students to Africa
(Kevin Hickey, Albany College of
Pharmacy and Health Sciences)
10:30am – 11:10am
Slavery in Africa: Human and Spiritual
Dimensions
(Ndubueze Mbah, History Department,
University at Buffalo)
11:15am – 11:55am
Student and Teacher Panel: Portrayal of
African Youth in the Media
(Buffalo Public Schools)
12:00pm – 12:45pm
Teaching Resources Available on
Internet and Other Electronic Media
(Eric Acree, Director, John Henrik
Clarke Africana Library, African Studies
Center, Cornell University)
12:50 – 1:30pm
Working Lunch (one presenter per table)
FRIDAY MARCH 31, 2017
NYASA CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
VENUE: THE STUDENT UNION, UB
NORTH CAMPUS
NYASA Executive Board Meeting —
Marriott Hotel (Autonomous Schedule)
9:00am – 12:30pm
NYASA Conference Registration
[Venue: Student Union Theatre Foyer,
UB North Campus]
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Light Refreshments [Student Union]
Chair: Mechthild Nagel, SUNY Cortland
Mechthild Nagel, SUNY Cortland, “Two
Tales of Restorative Justice: Gacaca
(Rwanda) and Truth and Reconciliation
(South Africa)”
Habib Zanzana, University of Scranton,
“Until the Music Stops: Revolutionary
Vision, Gender, and Modern African
Youth in Leyla Bouzid’s As I Open my
Eyes”
Rachel Campbell, SUNY Brockport,
“Naomi Wicomb’s Playing in the Light and
the Dynamics of Post-Apartheid Racial
Reconciliation in South Africa”
Garhe Osiebe, University of
Birmingham, “False Consciousness in
Nigerian Popular Music: Interrogating
the Two Faces of 2face Idibia, 2baba”
Panel IB: Race and Political
Representations in African Films and
Hip Hop
[Venue: 145F Student Union]
1:30pm - 2:00pm
[Student Union Theatre]
Chair: Kevin Hickey, Albany College of
Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• Welcome remarks by the Local
Committee Chairs
• Welcome remarks by University at
Buffalo Provost Charles F. Zukoski
• Introduction of the Keynote Speaker,
Claude Welch
Shelby Bergen, SUNY Cortland, “Black
Womanhood in Tyler Perry and Spike
Lee Films”
2:00pm – 2:55pm
[Student Union Theatre]
Keynote Address by Professor Claude
Welch
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Plenary Session
Immigration, Diversity, and America’s
Shifting Policies
[Venue: Student Union Theatre]
Moderator: Deborah Reed-Danahay,
Anthropology, University at Buffalo
Ellen Dussourd, Director of
International Student & Scholar Services
at UB
Fidele Nlemvo Menavanza, Center for
Elder Law & Justice, Buffalo
Myron Glick, Founder, Jericho Road
Community Health Center, Buffalo
Anna Ireland, Jericho Road Community
Health Center, Buffalo
4:00PM - 5:30PM
SESSION I
Panel IA: Restorative Justice and
Reconciliation in Africa
[Venue: 145A Student Union]
Jacob Wright, SUNY Cortland, “Fight the
Power! Analysis of Women in Hip Hop
Struggle for Representation and Power”
Kevin Hickey, ACPHS, “Guerilla Griot–
Ousmane Sembene’s Filmic Oeuvre as
Seen in His First Film, Borom Sarret (The
Wagoner) of 1963”
Panel IC: Current Directions in African
Linguistics
[Venue: 210 Student Union]
Chair: Jeff Good, University at Buffalo
Nadine Grimm, University at Rochester,
“Documenting Endangered Languages of
Africa”
Jeff Good, UB, “Documenting
Multilingualism in the Cameroonian
Grassfields”
Cristin Kalinowski, University at
Buffalo, “The Marking of Emphasis in
African Languages”
Braden Brown, University at Buffalo,
“Linguistic Negation in Bantu
Languages”
Robert Hepburn-Gray, University at
Buffalo, “The Special Properties of
Noun Classification in Niger-Congo
Languages”
Panel ID: I’m Black, And I’m Proud:
Resistance and Identity in the Diaspora
Panel IIB: Separate and Unequal:
“Black” Education in North America
Panel IIE: Emerging Africa: The
Politics of Identity
[Venue: 330 Student Union]
Chair: John Karefah Marah, SUNY
College at Brockport
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K14]
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K109]
Chair: Gabrie’l J. Atchison, Trinity
College
Gabrie’l Atchison, Trinity College,
“Awakenings: The Black Experience in
the Episcopal Church”
Janice Mwapaga, NYSED, “The Essential
Educational Paradigm”
Chair: Cheikh M. Ndiaye, Union College
Dahouda Kanaté,Hobart and William Smith
Colleges
“Emerging Ivory Coast: Changes,
Challenges and Opportunities”
Guillaume Yoboue, University at Buffalo,
“Religious Fanaticism and Boko Haram A Study of Xala (Sembène Ousmane) and
Allah n’est pas obligé (Ahmadou
Kourouma).”
Jocenelle Sarah Alcime, SUNY Cortland,
“Views of Society on Black Hair”
John Karefah Marah, SUNY Brockport,
“Even Uncle Tom Rebelled”
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Light Refreshments [Silverman Library
Classroom 310]
6:00pm - 7:00pm
NYASA Business Meeting including
NYASA Executive Board Member
Elections—open to all members. Please
attend.
[Venue: Silverman Library Classroom
310]
7:00pm
Enjoy the City [List and Maps]
SATURDAY APRIL 1, 2017
NYASA CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
VENUE: KNOX HALL, UB NORTH
CAMPUS
8:00am - 11:00 am
NYASA Conference Registration
Continued.
8:30am – 12:30 pm
Deanna Keenan and Titilayo Okoror,
SUNY Binghamton, “How Far Does the
Apple Fall? Influences of Family and
Home on Mixed Race Identity”
Stephanie Hector, SUNY Cortland, “Black
Girls’ Education in America: Challenges
and Solutions”
Seth N. Asumah, SUNY Cortland,
“Africana Studies: Rethinking
Curriculum Design and Leadership
Challenges in Historically White
Colleges and Universities”
Panel IIC: New Visions of PanAfricanism
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K20]
Chair: Richard Severin, Union Institute &
University
Justin Williams, City College of New
York, “Pan-Africanism in Ghana:
African Socialism, Neoliberalism, and
Globalization”
Kofi Boukman Barima, Jackson State
University, “Clearing the Road:
Caribbean Radical Streams before
Marcus Garvey, 1820-1920”
Dalia Muller, University at Buffalo,
“African Political Identity in Early
Twentieth-Century Cuba”
Africana Visions Exhibitions:
Religions/Arts/Cultures
Panel IID: African Childhood I: Labor
Regimes
[Venue: Knox Hall Ground Floor Foyer]
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K104]
9:00AM - 10:30AM
SESSION II
Chair: Locksley Edmondson, Africana
Center, Cornell University
Panel IIA: Sahara and Identity in
Literature, Music and Religion
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K4]
Chair: Kevin Hickey, Albany College of
Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Maria G. Traub, Neumann University,
“Fils et fille d’Algérie; frère et sœur
Amrouche: vies politiques et littéraires”
Sophia Azeb, NYU Gallatin School
of Individualized Study New York,
“The Trans-Saharan Nation: The
Festivalization of Négritude & Arabité in
Dakar, Algiers, and Lagos”
Latifa Bounou, Benedictine Univ.,
“Gnawa Religion, Syncretism, and
Saharan Identity”
Parfait Kouacou, CUNY, “African
Childhood: Between Heritage and
Modernity. Shackled or Cradled by
Traditions?
Georgina Yaa Oduro, Harvard School of
Public Health, “‘Why Blame the Girls?’:
Examination of Contextual Factors
Fueling Juvenile Prostitution in a
Ghanaian Community”
Chioma Joseph-Obi, No Affiliation,
“Patriarchy and Girl-Child Labor in
Urban Nigeria: Experience of Girls
in Domestic Employment in the PortHarcourt Metropolis”
Cheikh M. Ndiaye, Union College,
“Emerging Africa: The Concept of a
‘nouveau type de citoyen’ in a Global
Market Narrative”
Marc Adoux Papé, Saint John Fisher College,
"The Curse of French Hegemony: Visions of
an emerging Africa free of French hegemony"
Panel IIF: Marriage, Gender, and
Sexuality in Africa
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room 110]
Chair: Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, SUNY
Cortland
Khalid Omar Kitito, No affiliation,
“Dialogism in Swahili Oral Literature: A
Case of Marriage Proposal Dialogies of
the Adigo of the Kenyan Coast”
Connie Anderson, Hartwick College,
“Persistence of Polygyny in Southern
Africa, 30 Years Later”
Michael Fiorica, University at Buffalo,
“‘Really a non-issue’? A Compatibilist
Approach to Economic Development and
LGBTI Inclusion”
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, SUNY
Cortland, “The Socio-Political and
Economic Conditions of African Men and
Women Since the 1980s: A Synopsis”
Coffee Break [Knox Hall, First Floor
Foyer]
10:45AM - 12:15PM
SESSION III
Panel IIIA: Documentary Film and
Participatory Audience Discussion:
“The Man on the Move: Standing Rock,
North Dakota”
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K110]
Discussant: Jermaine Wells, Union
College
Panel IIIB: “Global Africa/Black
Internationalism” Challenges
America’s Retreat from Globalism,
Cosmopolitanism & the Persistence
of American Exceptionalism in an
Increasingly Multipolar World”
Chair: Kwame Akonor, Seton Hall
University
Lindah Mhando, Duke University and
LSEPS
Darryl C. Thomas, Pennsylvania State
University
Panel IIIC: Language, Symbols, and the
Arts: Dynamics of African Knowledge
Production
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K20]
Chair: Jerry E. Persaud, SUNY College at
New Paltz
Panel IIIF: Roundtable on Sustainable
Development, Urbanization and
Environment in Africa
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room 109]
Chair: Roger Gocking, Emeritus Mercy
College
El Hadji Oumar Toure, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, “Territorial
Ecosystem Approach to Improve
Integrated Management in the Senegal
River Delta”
Andrew Guyette, Union College,
“Afrofuturism: a Journey into Black
Space”
Nahum N. Welang, Yachay Tech, “Steelframed Skyscrapers in Rural Villages:
The Misguided Capitalism Influencing
Modernization Theory and the necessity
for Educational Innovation”
Komla Amegashie, SUNY Albany, “What
Do Ewe Dictionaries Contain? The Limits
of Lexicographical Studies and the
Diachronic Evolution”
Roger Gocking, Mercy College, “Ghana’s
Bui Dam: The Costs and the Benefits of
Ghana’s Third Major Hydro Electric
Facility”
Edgar Ridley, N.A., “Cognitive Semiotics
as an Engine for Global Behavior
Change”
Ashraf Ghaly, Union College, “Water
Scarcity and Its Potential Role in
Population Sense of Insecurity”
Jerry E. Persaud, SUNY New Paltz, “The
Relevance of African Post-Colonial
Literature, and the Digital Divide”
Kelly Ndubuka, Paul Hastings LLP,
“Water Rights, Urbanization, Health, and
Population in Africa: The Way Forward”
Andrzej Polus and Wojciech Tycholiz,
University of Wroclaw, “Natural Gas
in Tanzania: The Game Changer for
Economic Development?”
Panel IIID: Black Community Studies:
Niagara Falls and Nashville Tennessee
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K14]
Chair: Deidre Hill Butler, Union College
Michael Boston, SUNY Brockport, “The
‘Impact of Urban Renewal’ on the Black
Community of Niagara Falls”
Deidre Hill Butler, “Community
Engaged Photo Exhibit Retrospective–
“Revitalized Community: Bordeaux
Neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee
Since the 2010 Flood”
Panel IIIE: African Childhood II:
Refugees, Migration, and Displacement
[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K104]
Chair: Seth N. Asumah, SUNY Cortland
Cornelius Bradt, University at Buffalo,
“‘Don’t Uproot the Pumpkin’: The LongTerm Impact of Civil War on Gender
and Childhood Among the Acholi of
Northern Uganda”
Lynne Stillings, CUNY, “Senegalese
Voices in Children’s Rights Discourse:
Empowerment and Agency in Musical
Participation”
Assefaw Bariagaber, Seton Hall
University, “The Impending Return
of Somali Refugees and Migrants:
Challenges, Impediments, and
Opportunities”
1:00pm - 3:00pm
AWARD LUNCHEON
VENUE: CENTRE FOR TOMORROW,
UB NORTH CAMPUS
Awards:
1. NYASA K-12 Teacher Award to Kinzer
Pearson, English Language Art Teacher
East Community School
2. NYASA Distinguished Local
Organization/Community Service
Award to Karibu News http://
thekaribunews.com/about/
3. NYASA Book Award to Kwame
Akonor for UN Peacekeeping in
Africa: A Critical Examination and
Recommendations for Improvement.
4. NYASA Distinguished Service Award
to Claude Welch of The University at
Buffalo
5. NYASA Ali A. Mazrui Outstanding
Publication/Book and Educational
Activities Award to N’Dri Thérèse
Assié-Lumumba, Africana Studies and
Research Center, Cornell University
6. NYASA Distinguished Scholar Award
to Carole Boyce Davies Professor of
English and Africana Studies at the
Africana Studies & Research Center at
Cornell University
Keynote Address:
• Carole Boyce Davies, English and
Africana Studies at the Africana Studies
& Research Center at Cornell University
Election Results and Conference
Closing Remarks
NYASA President and Local
Arrangement Chairs
NYASA Executive Board PostConference Meeting
Venue: Marriott Hotel (Autonomous
Schedule)
New York African Studies Book
Awards 2017 Complete List:
NYASA 2017 Book Award to
Kwame Akonor, UN Peacekeeping in
Africa: A Critical Examination and
Recommendations for Improvement.
Springer International Publishing AG,
2017.
NYASA 2017 Book Award Honorable
Mention to Souleyman Bachir Diagne,
The Ink of the Scholar: Reflections on
Philosophy in Africa. Codesria, 2016.
NYASA 2017 Book Award Honorable
Mention to Kai Kresse, Guidance
(Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui:
Selections from the First Swahili Islamic
Newspaper. Brill Publishers, 2017.
BIOGRAPHIES
Carole Boyce Davies: 2017 NYASA Distinguished
Scholar Award
N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba: 2017 NYASA Ali A.
Mazrui Outstanding Publication/Book and Educational
Activities Award
Carole Boyce Davies—professor of English and Africana
Studies at the Africana Studies & Research Center at Cornell
University—will receive the 2017 New York African Studies
Association Distinguished Scholar Award at the 42nd Annual
NYASA Conference at The University at Buffalo, NY. Professor
Boyce Davies has held distinguished professorships at a
number of institutions, including the Herskovits Professor
of African Studies and Professor of Comparative Literary
Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern
University. She is the author of numerous books including
Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject
(Routledge, 1994) and Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life
of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Duke University Press,
2008). A globally influential scholar, educator, and activist,
Carole Boyce Davies has also published the following critical
anthologies: Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature
(Africa World Press, 1986); Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean
Women and Literature (Africa World Press, 1990); and a twovolume collection of critical and creative writing entitled
Moving Beyond Boundaries (New York University Press, 1995):
International Dimensions of Black Women’s Writing (volume
1), and Black Women’s Diasporas (volume 2). She is co-editor
with Ali Mazrui and Isidore Okpewho of The African Diaspora:
African Origins and New World Identities (Indiana University
Press, 1999) and Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora
Studies (Africa World Press, 2003). She is general editor of the
three-volume, The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora (Oxford:
ABC-CLIO, 2008), and of Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment:
Autobiography, Essays, Poetry (Banbury: Ayebia, 2011). Her most
recent monograph is Caribbean Spaces: Escape Routes from
Twilight Zones (Illinois, 2013) and a children’s book, Walking
(EducaVision, 2016).
N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba—Professor of African and
Diaspora Education, Comparative and International Education,
Social Institutions, African Social History, and Gender in the
Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University—
will receive the 2017 New York African Studies Association
Ali A. Mazrui Award at the 42nd Annual Conference at The
University at Buffalo. Assié-Lumumba is President of the
World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES,
2016-2019), served in 2015-2016 as President of Comparative
and International Education Society (CIES), and is co-founder
and Associate Director of the Pan-African Studies and
Research Center in International Relations and Education for
Development (CEPARRED) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She has
also been a visiting professor or is a fellow at universities in
Japan, Egypt, South Africa, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire. Professor
Assié-Lumumba’s monographs, edited, and co-edited books
include: Les Africaines dans la politique: Femmes Baoulé de Côte
d’Ivoire (L’Harmattan, Paris 1996); African Voices in Education
(Juta Publishers, Lansdowne, South Africa 2000); Cyberspace,
Distance Learning, and Higher Education in Developing
Countries: Old and Emergent Issues of Access, Pedagogy and
Knowledge Production (Brill, Leiden and Boston 2004); Higher
Education in Africa: Crises, Reforms and Transformation
(CODESRIA, Dakar 2006) and African Higher Education in
Transition: Recurrent Impediments, Emerging Challenges and
New Potentialities (CODESRIA, Dakar, Forthcoming). In addition
to a PhD, Assié-Lumumba has earned two Masters and two BA
degrees. She is fluent in five languages.
Claude E. Welch , Jr.: 2017 NYASA Distinguished
Service Award
Kezia Pearson: 2017 NYASA Distinguished Teacher
Award
Claude E. Welch Jr. is SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus
of Political Science at the University at Buffalo. In 1967 he was a
founder of the SUNY African Studies Faculty Association, the
parent organization of NYASA. He graduated from Harvard
in 1961, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his
D.Phil from Oxford University in 1964. He is the recipient of
numerous research grants, numerous honors and awards in
scholarship, teaching, and humanitarian service; and he is the
author or editor of fourteen books on Africa, and military and
political organization, and human rights globally, not including
revised editions and paperback editions; and hundreds of
chapters, articles, reviews, encyclopedia entries, and other
publications. Several of his books received awards and special
recognitions. Some of his notable works on Africa are Dream of
Unity: Pan-Africanism and Political Unification in West Africa,
his dissertation, published by Cornell in 1966; Soldier and State
in Africa, Northwestern University Press, 1970; Peasants in
Africa, Crossroads Press, 1978; Human Rights and Development
in Africa, SUNY Press, 1984; No Farewell to Arms? Military
Disengagement from Politics in Africa and Latin America,
Westview, 1987; Protecting Human Rights in Africa, U. Penn.
Press, 1995; paperback edition 2001. This work was named by
Choice as one of the outstanding books of 1995 and was also
short-listed by the African Studies Association for its highest
book award. He is currently working on a book titled Protecting
Human Rights Globally: Roles and Strategies of International
NGOs.
Kezia Pearson has worked for the Buffalo Board of Education
for over 17 years. The first part of her career was spent teaching Algebra to junior high students. She now teaches English
Language Arts. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English
and Master of Arts and Humanities in Film and Performance
from the University of New York at Buffalo. Kezia is heavily
into the arts. She writes poetry, short stories, and screenplays.
She’s taught creative writing at James Madison University for
The Institute, shoots photography as well as video for existing
and up and coming entertainment artist, and designs clothes.
She has written and produced a number of African American
History plays, authored a book titled “Covered Mirrors” and
more recently has added “Because I Am Me and You are You!”
to her published work. Although Kezia is an English teacher,
she spends a great deal of time finding ways to infuse African
American History into her classroom. She uses her art forms to
engage her students in a much-needed revision of history.
Karibu News: NYASA Distinguished Local Organization/
Community Service Award
Karibu News is a multilingual and multicultural refugee and
immigrant focused newspaper. Among their core objectives is
to link and integrate their thriving and ever growing community with the rest of the community in Western New York. Karibu
News aims to make WNY natives aware of the obstacles faced by
the refugee and immigrant communities, as well as informing
these communities about the services available to them. The
award will be presented to CEO and Founder Rubens Mukunzi.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Ndubueze Mbah, History, University at Buffalo
Jason Young, History, University at Buffalo
Kevin Hickey, Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Phil Stevens, Program Coordinator, Anthropology
Cindi Tysick, Local Arrangements Chair, Libraries
Mara Huber, High Schools Liaison, DUE
Fred Klaits, Anthropology
Jeff Good, Linguistics
Shaun Irlam, Comparative Literatures
Keith Griffler, Transnational Studies
NYASA EXECUTIVE BOARD
Abdul Nanji, President
Columbia University
Cheryl Sterling, President Emeritus
The City College of New York, City University of New York (CUNY)
Kevin Hickey, Vice President
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Seth N. Asumah, Vice President for Publications
SUNY Cortland
Jerry Persaud, Treasurer
SUNY College at New Paltz
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Cheikh Ndiaye, Union College
S. N. Nyeck, Independent Scholar
Deidre Butler, Union College
Jean Richard Severin, Union Institute & University
Locksley Edmondson, Africana Studies & Research Center Cornell University
NYASA NEWSLETTER CO-EDITORS
Dr. Roger Gocking, “Emeritus” Mercy College
Dr. Thomas E. Nyquist, Nyquist Foundation
SECRETARIAT
Corinne Nyquist, SUNY College at New Paltz
Jerry Persaud, SUNY College at New Paltz
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
Kwame Akonor, Seton Hall University
Seth N. Asumah, Vice President, SUNY College at Cortland
John Marah, Associate Vice President, SUNY College at Brockport
Abdul Nanji, Columbia University
Jerry Persaud, SUNY College at New Paltz
Cheryl Sterling, The City College of New York (CUNY)
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES
Yayra Awo Sumah, Columbia University
Samuel Osei-Afriye, SUNY College at Oneonta
SPONSORS
Department of History, University at Buffalo
Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo
Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo
Department of Transnational Studies, University at Buffalo
Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo
The Gender Institute, University at Buffalo
Office of the Associate Dean, Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning, University at Buffalo
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo
University at Buffalo Libraries
Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion, University at Buffalo
The New York African Studies Association