Research in North Africa: A Report to the Research Liaison Committee of the African Studies Association

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Rivlin
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Liaison Committee

The Research Climate in Eastern Africa (Report on a Mission for the Research Liaison Committee of the African Studies Association, July-September, 1967)

1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Vernon McKay
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Liaison Committee ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Conflicting Evidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Climate

The formulation of valid generalizations about the climate for research in the social sciences and humanities in eastern Africa is a perplexing task. When one thinks one has reached a useful generalization, one is likely to be confronted with conflicting evidence. Moreover, changes are occurring with increasing frequency. In Zambia, for example, certain kinds of research especially important for political scientists were banned in July, 1967. Two main conclusions may nonetheless be drawn from my 175 interviews in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Uganda, Ethiopia, and the United Kingdom on behalf of the Research Liaison Committee of the African Studies Association. It was encouraging to find many informants, both African and expatriate and in both government and academic circles, who emphasized the need for more research, especially for studies geared at least in part to help African governments in their economic, social, and educational development planning. Foreign scholars who comply with the established research procedures and behave with tact and common sense are still welcome throughout the area. However, this optimistic judgment must be qualified by a less favorable conclusion. The evidence indicates that the research climate is deteriorating in certain respects. In particular, the new clearance procedures, which often cause months of uneconomic delay, will probably not only become somewhat more restrictive in countries that already have them, but will probably be adopted in other countries as well.

The Research Liaison Committee of the (American) African Studies Association

1967 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-133
Author(s):  
Shirley K. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
National Group ◽  
Liaison Committee ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Individual

Scholars from the United States constitute the largest single national group engaged in African research. The responsibility for establishing friendly relations with their colleagues in Africa has, in the past, been assumed by the individual scholar. It has become increasingly apparent that co-operation with Africanists in Africa itself will be of the greatest importance to future research, and that the A.S.A. can play a useful liaison role.

North Africa and the Middle East

1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Manfred Halpern ◽  
Clement Moore
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Plenary Session ◽  
Brooklyn College ◽  
African Studies ◽  
North African

The sixth annual meeting of the African Studies Association was held at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. The opening plenary session included three papers concerned with North African affairs. Benjamin Rivlin of Brooklyn College, considering “The Maghreb and Pan-Arabism,” began with a series of questions. Were the aspirations of the Maghreb states for Arab unity incompatible with their African vocation? Ought the Maghreb to be considered as a part of Africa, or was this precluded by the region's commitment to the Arab East? What was the extent of this commitment, and what identity did the Maghreb seek?

African Studies and Training in West Germany

1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Taylor Cole
Keyword(s):  
Late Summer ◽  
West Germany ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Liaison Committee ◽  
Secure Information ◽  
American Council On Education ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
The Status ◽  
Early Fall ◽  
And Training

During the spring of 1962, the Africa Liaison Committee of the American Council on Education authorized me to secure information on the status of African studies and training in Germany. Toward this end, I visited on two occasions in the late summer and early fall of 1962 a number of German organizations, institutes, and universities. My work in Germany was facilitated by the cooperation of the German Foreign Office, which arranged for my itinerary while in the Bonn area, and by the encouragement of President Heinrich Luebke of the German Federal Republic. In this brief report, I list and describe the work of the most important agencies and organizations which were engaged in 1962 in research on Africa, particularly south of the Sahara, and in the training of Africans. Special consideration will be given to some of the developments and problems in the universities.

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