Call for Chapters: Book in Honour of Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

[steve sharra]

[Got this via Stanley Onjezani Kenani. M'lauzi]


http://dialogueseriesnew.blogspot.ch/2015/08/usa-africa-dialogue-series-call-for.html

Call for Chapters for a book in honour of Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Working title: Perspectives on Africa's Development Dynamics: African
and Diasporic Reflections in Honour of Prof. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza


Editors: Maurice N Amutabi (amu...@gmail.com) and Cheryl N Grills
(Cheryl...@lmu.edu)

The African continent has produced some of the most prolific and
dynamic scholars in the world, such as Ali A Mazrui, Ngugi wa
Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Toyin Falola, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Prof.
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, among others. The contributions of these scholars
to the growth and development of scholarship in African cannot be
gainsaid. Prof. Zeleza deserves to be mentioned alongside these
intellectual giants because he is perhaps one of the most dynamic
scholars to emerge from the African continent. Prof. Zeleza currently
works as the Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Professor of
History at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, USA. Besides
his enormous contribution to African studies, Prof. Zeleza has also
contributed immensely to the development of African American studies
through research and publications. Through many of his great academic
works, he has ignited great debates and discourses on African and
African American studies in Africa and in Diaspora. He was pioneer of
the famous intellectual debates at the Council for Social Science
Research in Africa (CODESRIA) debates that included famous scholars
such as Samir Amin, Archie Mafeje, Mahmoud Mamdani, Thandika
Mkandawire, Eric Masinde Aseka, Issa Shivji, among others. Many
scholars in African and African American studies have had the chance
to use some of the books written by Prof. Zeleza in their classes and
seminars, such as A Modern Economic History of Africa, Vol.1: The
Nineteenth Century which remains the most authoritative book on
economic issues on Africa. It is Prof. Zeleza's flagship book, cited
over 50,000 times in scholarly journals. Prof. Zeleza is also the
author of Manufacturing African Studies and Crises; Rethinking
Africa's Development and Smouldering Charcoal.

Prof. Zeleza has worked and taught in many parts of the world, in
Africa, South and North America and influenced research in different
aspects of humanities and social sciences in the world. He has
mentored hundreds of scholars many of whom are today prominent in
their own right. His great influence on Africa and African American
studies is invaluable. Prof. Zeleza embraced interdisciplinary
research very early at a time when many traditional scholars were
still ambivalent to such approach and still engaged in disciplinary
cocooning. This outstanding and amiable personality made invaluable
contributions towards the enrichment of scholarship by supervising
several doctoral students who are now actively working in Africa and
African American studies and other fields.

Maurice N. Amutabi and Cheryl N Grills are proposing to publish an
edited book in honour of Prof. Zeleza. The anthology is in recognition
of Prof. Zeleza's outstanding contributions to African and African
American studies. As editors, we are calling for chapters from
scholars in various disciplines to submit well-researched scholarly
works for inclusion in the book in honour of Prof. Zeleza. Send
chapter abstracts of not more than 300 words to editors at
amu...@yahoo.com or amu...@gmail.com orChery...@lmu.edu by
September 30, 2015. The deadline for full chapter submission is
October 30, 2015. Proposed chapters should be accompanied by a brief
biography of author(s) of not more than 150 words along with
institutional affiliation. All papers will be subjected to blind
peer-reviews and comments will be sent to contributors for corrections
by November 30, 2015. We intend to publish the book by December 30,
2015. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:



The themes to be covered include:

African literature and African languages

Human rights, Ubuntu and NEPAD

Environment and Development

Intellectual history and history of ideas in Africa

Discourses on Africa and African Diaspora

Higher education in Africa

Gender issues, discourses and dynamics

Economic, Social and Cultural history

Marginalization, Space and Minorities

Xenophobia, Migration and Movement

Brain Drain, Brain Gain and Africa

Governance and Democracy in Africa

Afro-centricity, Africa and African American Discourses

Religious Radicalism

Globalization and Terrorism

Any other relevant topic

Important dates

· E-mail: amu...@yahoo.com or amu...@gmail.com orChery...@lmu.edu

· Abstract: 250 words (in MS word)

· Chapter proposal September 30, 2015

· Bio-Data: 150 words

· Peer Reviewed paper due: October 30, 2015

· Submission dateline: November 30, 2015



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E-mail: Amu...@yahoo.com or dv...@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke
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