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Mailing Address Department of African Studies Howard University Howard Center Suite 416 2225 Georgia Avenue Washington, DC 20059 USA

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Research Interests Activities: Former President, African Studies Association (USA/Global); Lecturer: U.S., Canada, Africa, Europe, China, Soviet Union, Korea & Japan; Special African Policy Advisor and consultant to Rev. Jesse Jackson 1984 Presidential Campaign; International Analyst, African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Group of States, Brussels; International Consultant & Advisor, ACP-EU (European Union) Migration Programme, 1995-97 (Brussels/London), 1995-97; Special US Envoy, the UNDP Human Rights Report Launching Committee, Bonn; Board Member: numerous organizations; Consultant (e.g.): International Institute of Education; South Africa Democratic Teachers Union; Congressional Office of Technology Assessment; UNDP; ACP/EU; Focus Consultancy, London; The Peoples Programme; UN Human Rights Development Index; the University of Fort Hare, South Africa; and the Academy for Educational Development

Teaching Interests Research & Teaching interests: - labor and transportation systems in East Africa; - complex emergencies, such as famine and drought, in Africa; - African migration and national development; - US public policy towards Africa and the political economy of Africa; - African economic systems, including capitalism and regional trade developments; - African economic History and economic development strategies

Publications * (1) Books & Monographs: ISLAM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (with S.S. Nyang). Saudi Arabia: The King Faisal Foundation, 1986. THE LAGOS PLAN OF ACTION vs. THE BERG REPORT: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN AFRICA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (with R. S. Browne). 2nd ed. Virginia: Brunswick Publishing Co., l985. AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF UKAMBANI: 19TH CENTURY AKAMBA LABOR AND TRANSPORT SYSTEMS. (2) Articles: "A Note on the History of Caravan Porters in East Africa". KENYA HISTORICAL REVIEW, 1, 2 (1973). "Trade and Interior Support in Pre-Colonial East Africa". JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 2, 1, (1975). "The Early Development of Akamba Local Trade History, c. 1780-1820". KENYA HISTORICAL REVIEW, 4, l, (1976). "Super Power Contention in the Horn of Africa" (with P. Gabriel). THE WESTERN JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES, 1, 4 (December, 1977). "United States Relations with the Horn of Africa". THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY ON AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (TransAfrica Forum, Part III), 1978. "Economics and African Development". KENYA ECONOMIC SOCIETY (Fall, 1980). "Interior Support for Regional Trade: The Akamba Case, 1800-40". JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 3, 5 (l981). "Wage Labor in Kenya in the Nineteenth Century". C. Coquery-Vodrovitch & P. E. Lovejoy (eds.), THE WORKERS OF AFRICAN TRADE (Beverly Hills: Sage, Publications, l985). "Migration and National Development: The Kenyan Example". B. Lindsay (ed.), AFRICAN MIGRATION AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985). "Internal Factors That Generate Famine". M. Glantz (ed.), DROUGHT AND HUNGER IN AFRICA (Cambridge: University Press, l987). "Martin R. Delany and Africa: Towards Acquiring Power/Freedom". JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES (pending) "Long Term Prospects for Change in Africa". Art Hansen & D. E. McMillan (ed.), FOOD IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1986). "Africa Between the Ages". AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW. Volume 29, No. 4, l987. "Africa's Crisis and Causes". FINAL PROCEEDINGS: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DROUGHT AND DESERTIFICATION. New York: UnitED Nations Sudano- Sahelian Office (UNSO), 1986 "La politique americaine a l'egard de l'Afrique: continuite et changement, 1958-1988". POLITIQUE ETRANGERE (Paris: Institut Francais des relations Internationales, 1988). "A Historical Perspective on The Lagos Plan of Action," in Julius Nyang'oro & Timothy Shaw (eds.), BEYOND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN AFRICA: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SUSTAINABLE AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT. New York: Praeger, 1992. "Entrepreneurship and Capitalism in Africa: Overview," in the Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1997. Vol. 1. New York: Scribners, 1997, pp. 238-43. "Shaping Future Relationships between the ACP and the United States of America." ACP CONFERENCE: "Illusion, Reality and Perspectives: ACP Migration, Development and the Year 2001." (London: Focus, May 1997) "Religious Beliefs and Economic Behavior in Contemporary Africa, South of the Sahara: Linking Religion and Development." Jacob Neusner (ed.), RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR: ANCIENT ISRAEL, CLASSICAL CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM AND JUDAISM, AND CONTEMPORARY IRELAND AND AFRICA (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999) (3) General: "The Dakar Symposium: An Analysis" NEW DIRECTIONS (April, l977). "Africa and China: A Foreign Policy Perspective". U. S. - CHINA RELATIONS (New York, l983). "Economic Development in Africa: A Strategy". AFRICAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE NEWSLETTER (Nov., l984). "Economic Power and International Politics: Post-Bretton Woods". WORKING PAPERS, No. 34. Harare: University of Zimbabwe, l982. "Establishing A Black Foreign Policy Agenda: The Significance of Internationalism/Pan-Africanism". Washington: TransAfrica Educational Forum Policy Conference Proceedings, l983. "Population Movement, Social Formation and Exchange". WORKING PAPER, No. 28. Evanston: Northwestern University African Studies Program (l981). "Umanthi: Individuality and Communalism in Akamba Society [East Africa]". RESEARCH ON AFRICA. Emory University: South Eastern Regional Seminar in Africa Studies, l983. "The Labor of African Long-Distance Trade". AFRICAN HISTORY NOTES AND RECORDS. Montreal: York University, l983. "Kenya in the Nineteenth Century: Akamba vs. the Amasai", PROCEEDINGS. Nairobi: Kenya Historical Association, l983. "Planning and Managing the African Economy: International Assistance and the Problems of Self-Reliance". CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. Nova Scotia: ECA/Dalhousie University, l984. "Drought and Hunger in Africa: Denying Famine a Future". CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. Colorado: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1985. "The Struggle Against Drought in Africa". AFRICAN SUN (May, l986) "African Economic Development: The Role of the West". Educational Television Series. New Jersey: Ramapo College, 1985. "South African Trading Partners". CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH PAPERS. Under the auspices of Cong. W. Gray (D.Pa.), l984. "The United States and Africa Under a Jackson Administration" (Authored for Candidate Jesse Jackson). AFRICA REPORT, 29, 3 (l984). "Pluralism in Africa: The History of Democracy and Democratic Institutions". PROCEEDINGS. Dakar, Senegal: 1985.

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