TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO was invited by the Institute
for African Development, Cornell University,
to present a public lecture on April 30, 1998. The title of his lecture
was "Search for New Paradigms Towards the Reconstruction of the State and
Society in Post-Cold War Africa: Perspective on the Democratic Republic
of Congo. He chaired and was a discussant of two panels for the 52nd Annual
Conference of the New York State Political Science Association held at
the Sage Graduate School of the Sage Colleges in Albany, New York, on May
8 and 9. The two panels were "Populism, Legalism, and Justice in Latin
America and Africa," and "The Political Economy of Development." He was
also invited by the United Nations to attend a conference in Bata, Equatorial
Guinea in Central Africa last May.
Professor Lumumba-Kasongo's book, The Rise of Multipartyism
and Democracy in the Context of Global Change: The Case of Africa, Westport,
CT: Praeger, 1998, has been published. He participated in a debate on "Aid
Dependence and the Future of Aid to Africa," organized by the Department
of Agricultural, Resource, and Management Economics and the Institute for
African Development, Cornell University, on September 14. Professor Tukumbi-Lumumba
also participated on a panel on "Clinton and Impeachment Procedures," in
September, which was organized by the students at Wells College. On September
23, he accepted the invitation by the Collegiate Press in San Diego, California,
to serve on its Editorial Advisory Board for the New World Politics texts.
His article, "The Search for New Human Rights Paradigms Within the Southern
African Community, with Specific Reference to the Democratic Republic of
Congo," was published in the book by B.F. Bankie, C. Marias, and J.T. Namiseb
(editors), The Southern African Reader: Towards Creating a Sustainable
Culture of Human Rights:, Windhoek, Namibia: Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers,
1998. His book, The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations Between
Africa and Foreign Powers: A Study in International Relation, has just
been published by Praeger, 1999. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo's review of
Opoku Agyeman's book entitled, Pan-Africanism and Detractors: A Response
to Harvard's Race Effacing Universalists, Lewis, New York: Edwin Mellon
Press 1998, was published in African Journal of Political Science/Revue
Africaine de Science Politique, Volume 3.Number 2, 1998: 98-101. Professor
Lumumba-Kasongo was invited by the Cornell African Students Association
(CASA) to moderate a panel on "The Crisis in the Great Lakes Region of
Africa" on February 5 at Cornell University. He co-organized a conference
in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on "Innovations and Reforms of Higher Education
in Africa." The conference was held on February 26-28 and was co-sponsored
by the Rockefeller Foundation, La CoopÈration FranÁaise,
la Francophonie in Paris, and the Government of CÙte d'Ivoire. He
as also a discussant on two panels.
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