TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO AND KENT KLITGAARD's paper, "Can African States Make Development Planning within the Current Structural Adjustment Programs and Struggle for Democracy?," was published in the October issue of International Third World Studies Journal and Review.
TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO article, "Reflections on EcoCity Systems: Historic and Theoretic Perspectives," was published in a book entitled, Village Wisdom/Future Cities, edited by Richard Register, Hayward, California: Alonzo Press, in May 1997. On April 24, he was invited by the Peace Studies Program and the Institute for African Development, Cornell University to participate in a panel discussion on the "Political Situation in the Congo-ZaÔre." On May 7, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo delivered a public lecture on "De-Mobutuization of the Congolese-Zairean State and the Society: A Study of Political Change in Africa," sponsored by the Peace Studies Program and the Institute for African Development, Cornell University. On May 9, he had an interview by Le Nouvel Observateur, a Paris based magazine, on the "United States and French Foreign Policies Towards Africa." He participated in the Annual Conference of the African Association of Political Science in Durban, South Africa, in June 1997; he presented a paper entitled, "Ethnicity and Democracy in African Politics." Also in June, Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was invited to give a public lecture at the University of Venda, South Africa; the topic was "Social Movements and Political Discourses in Social Sciences. He participated in the 17th World Congress of International Political Science Association and presented a paper entitled, "Dialectics of Political and Economic Relations between Africa and the Capitalist World Before and After the Cold War: A Search for New Paradigms and a Basis for Policy." It was held in Seoul, South Korea, in August.
Professor Lumumba-Kasongo's was invited by the United
Nations Development Program Director, Mr. James Gustave Speth, and participated
in "A World Without Poverty Program" to commemorate International Day for
the Eradication of Poverty, held on October 17 in the United Nations Headquarters,
New York City. He was also invited by Cornell University Africana Studies
and Research Center to participate in its colloquium series. He presented
a public lecture on "From the Congo to ZaÔre and Back the Congo:
Reconstructing a Nation with a Pan-African Vision;" the lecture was held
on November 12. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo was offered the position of Co-Editor
of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology, a journal published
in Leiden, The Netherlands. He has accepted this position for a period
of four years. Tukumbi had two interviews by the Voice of America in Washington,
DC, on "the Political Situation in the Congo-ZaÔre and the Region
of the Great Lakes." He was invited to give a public lecture to honor students
at Cayuga Community College in Auburn on February 11. The title of his
lecture was "A Comparative Analysis of Different Colonial Experiments in
Africa with a Special Emphasis on the Congo." Tukumbi has accepted the
invitation to serve as an outside reader for articles for the International
Third World Studies Journal and Review, published in Omaha, Nebraska.
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