Table of Contents

  • News from the WARA Headquarters
    • Letter from the WARA President
    • From WARA's US Director
    • WARA Membership Survey Results
    • WARA at ASA 2005
  • WARC News
    • Report from the Director of WARC
    • AROA: Compte rendu de l’Assemblée Générale
    • CEMAT/WARC Staff Cross-Training
    • WARC’s First Researchers’ Mini-Seminar.
    • WARC Travel Grant
  • From Our Fellows
    • 2006 WARA Research Fellowships Awarded
    • Griots and their Role in Gambian Political History
    • Jamba Don: The Mande Legacy—A Multimedia Dance Documentation Project
    • Importance des zones humides du Parc National du W du Niger pour les oiseaux d’eau migrateurs
    • Renegotiating Identities in a Transnational Context: Senegalese Sufi Women Migrants in New York
    • Towards an Ethnography of Charity in Dakar, Senegal
  • Feature Article
    • West African Judicial Colloquium: Connecting International and National Justice
  • Research in the Region
    • Diversity and Tolerance in the Islam of West Africa: An Update
    • Pluralism and Weaving Production in Senegal
    • Book Project: Souvenir ou/et Oubli: La Politique de la Mémoire
    • Research Update: HIV/AIDS and Short-Term Marriages among Gold Miners in Siguiri, Guinea.
  • Institutional Report
    • Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon
  • Announcements and Opportunities
    • Call for Papers: African Children in African Media
    • Tombouctou, Capitale de la Culture Islamique de la Région Afrique
    • WARA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
    • WARA Post-Doctoral Fellowship
    • WARA Graduate Student Summer Internship
    • Residencies for West African Scholars
    • WARA Officers and Board of Directors
    • Institutional Members of WARA