Global Partners East Africa home

Proposed work not completed yet outlined below.

             
          Jahwara Giddings, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Antioch College 
          Giddings has brought Professor Charles Nyambuga from Maseno 
          University in eastern Kenya to conduct several lectures at Antioch and 
          other institutions in the region.

          James Makubuya, Associate Professor of Music, Wabash College Makubuya 
          will travel to the Nyanza province in Kenya to study the obokano bowl 
          lyre, considered the largest bowl lyre in the world, so that he may 
          compare its relationship with other East African bowl lyres.

          Joseph Mbele, Associate Professor of English, St. Olaf College Mbele 
          will travel to Tanzania to continue his research on Osale Otango, an 
          outlaw hero who operated in the 1950s during the British rule. He hopes 
          to record narratives and document sites as well as search archival records 
          in Dar es Salaam.

          Janet Puhalla, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, 
          Rollins College Puhalla will meet with the directors of the Taita Discovery 
          Center in southeastern Kenya to determine how their established programs 
          and projects could help her students learn about indigenous Kenyan cultures 
          as well as the conservation and biodiversity issues of the surrounding 
          environment. She hopes to offer a 2004 spring semester course on sustainable 
          development and conservation in East Africa that would culminate in 
          a two-week field study component in Kenya.

          Michael Schneider, Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies, Knox 
          College Five Knox College faculty members will travel to Tanzania to 
          familiarize themselves with country and work on individual projects 
          which include war crimes, African music, and birds.. They will also 
          work to identify a Tanzanian scholar or scholars who could visit the 
          Knox College campus in the 2003-04 or 2004-05 academic years.