Preliminary Programme

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Showing: Africa (all days)

Tue 26 February
14.15
16.30

Wed 27 February
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

Thu 28 February
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

Fri 29 February
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

Sat 1 March
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

All days

Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15

F-1 AFR05 Knowledge, Health and Utilities in colonial and Post-colonial Africa
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos

Network: Africa	Chair: E. Ike Udogu
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Anna Bohman : Framing the Water Challenge - Institutional Change within the Ghanaian Water Supply and Sanitation Sector 1957 - 2005
Markku Hokkanen : Reflections of microscopic gaze – tensions in colonial imaginations in Central Africa
Ana Roque : Knowledge and use of medical herbs and plants in the central Coast of Mozambique in the late 19th century. Contribution for a better understanding of the present day situation
Tundé Zack-Williams : African Leadership, Nation State and the Weberian Project

Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30

A-3 AFR01 The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Stock-taking Time
Cave A

Network: Africa	Chair: Judith M. Spicksley
Organizers: -	Discussant: Judith M. Spicksley

Antonio Almeida Mendes : The Iberian slave trade between Africa, the Mediterranean and the Americas (15th – 17th Century)”
Daniel Domingues Da Silva : The Origins of Slaves Leaving Angola in the Nineteenth Century
David Eltis : “Extending the Frontiers: Implications of the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database”
Frank Lewis, David Eltis & Kimberly Mcintyre : The Cost of Transporting Slaves from Africa to the Caribbean, 1680 to 1725

Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30

P-7 AFR03 Central & Southern Africa
Room 8.1

Network: Africa	Chair: Ana Roque
Organizers: -	Discussant: Ana Roque

Dawne Curry : Til death do us Part: Grieving Patterns in Alexandra, South Africa
Johan Fourie, Willem H. Boshoff : Estimating the South African Business Cycle: 1652-1793
Kamini Krishna : The Economic Status of Zambian and Indian Women During the Colonial Period

Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15

Y-9 AFR04 Colonialism and Its Relics in Africa
Room 2.14

Network: Africa	Chair: Tundé Zack-Williams
Organizers: -	Discussant: Tundé Zack-Williams

Judith Byfield : Feeding the Troops: Abeokuta (Nigeria) and World War II
Patrick Mbajekwe : Onitsha and Its Neighbors: Urbanization, Communal Relations and Boundary Disputes in Eastern Nigeria
E. Ike Udogu : Historicizing the Discourse on African International Law and a Concise Overview of the Cameroon-Nigeria Bakassi Peninsula Dispute
Natascha Wyss : Social strategies for access to education in southern rural Mozambique during colonial time

Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30

A-10 NM Network meeting: Africa & Asia & Latin America
Cave A

Networks: Africa , Asia , Latin America	Chairs: -
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Friday 29 February 2008 14.15

X-13 AFR06 European Competition and the Slave Trade
Room 2.13

Network: Africa	Chair: Frank Lewis
Organizers: -	Discussant: Frank Lewis

José C. Curto : The Ethnicity of Recaptured Slaves in Angola, c. 1846-1876
David Richardson : The significance of the French Slave Trade to the evolution of the French Atlantic world before 1716
Judith M. Spicksley : Debt and slavery in Africa, c.1500-1800
Jelmer Vos : Dutch slave trading on the Windward and Ivory Coasts, ca. 1740-1790