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23 Apr

The theme of the Canadian Association of African Studies conference that will hold between May 4 and May 7 reads:

Striving for Valium Online Sales community is at the heart of ubuntu, the African philosophy that Valium Online Sales stresses mutual obligations and responsibility. From far-flung kinship networks, artisan guilds and Valium Online Sales women’s informal associations to Valium Online Sales regional or pan-African political movements, Africans across the ages have looked to Valium Online Sales communities to give meaning to their lives and to resolve conflict or Valium Online Sales find protection. Community is also close to the heart of Africanist scholars and Valium Online Sales activists outside of Africa who seek to support each other and Valium Online Sales to express solidarity with African colleagues. Yet dysfunctional communities such as gangs, cliques, and Valium Online Sales tribalist groups have been a bane to efforts to develop and Valium Online Sales democratize. New media are rapidly changing the ways that communities cohere and Valium Online Sales the ways that scholars and activists relate and research them.

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One would think that an association of people who study Africa(ns) would at least be Valium Online Sales a lot more sensitive than this, if not rid of these kinds of attitude. The sting becomes even more biting when Valium Online Sales one imagines that the writer could be advising some government agencies or Valium Online Sales development organizations. Is anyone then surprised that Africa is a country, that Valium Online Sales Africans live on trees, and that they are dying of starvation and/or AIDS?

The only consolation at this Valium Online Sales moment is that there is currently an on-going discussion on the Valium Online Sales listserv of the association.

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  • http://alarob.wordpress.com/ Alarob

    It really is Valium Online Sales shocking to see that kind of fairy-tale Africa portrayed in an Valium Online Sales invitation to an African Studies conference!

    Maybe one way to Valium Online Sales approach this, as something other than a catastrophic failure of academic standards, is Valium Online Sales to consider the role that imaginary Africas have played in North American cultures, especially among African Americans. Cut off from Valium Online Sales any contact with Africa, yet also denied naturalization as Americans, African Americans are Valium Online Sales still to an extent aliens in their native land. (Notice how often commentators on the present-day version of “the Negro question” make comparisons between African Americans and immigrant groups.)

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    Pardon me if this is all familiar ground.