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Trang 1KOFI AWOONOR B E N E F I T F U N D On Monday, A p r i l 19th a Poetry Reading and Performance was held at the University of Texas in Austin to raise money for the defense of K o f i A w o o n o r , Ghanaian poet, novelist, and critic who has been detained w i t h o u t formal charge or trial by the Ghanaian government since the end of December, 1975 Dr A w o o n o r is tenured in English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New Y o r k (Stony Brook), but was teaching on sabbatical at Cape Coast University, Ghana, at the time of his arrest He was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in 1972-73 Those wishing t o contribute to the defense should mail their contribu-tions to: K o f i A w o o n o r Benefit F u n d , P.O Box 14012, A u s t i n , Texas 7 8 7 6 1
MIDWEST U N I V E R S I T I E S CONSORTIUM FOR I N T E R N A T I O N A L A C T I V I T I E S , S O M A L I A PROJECT In October 1975, M U C I A signed a contract w i t h the United Nations Food and Agri-culture Organization (FAO) to assist the Democratic Republic of Somalia in developing its Central Agricultural Research Station and Training Center The Ohio State University was designated as contract manager for M U C I A Dr Byron Boudurant, of the OSU Department of Agricultural Engineering, was named Field Team Leader, and Dr Mervin S m i t h , Assistant Dean of Agriculture and Home Economics at OSU, became Campus Coordinator Dr Bondurant will be joined later this spring by a second long-term staff member Dr William L y o n , of the OSU Entomology Department
[Excerpted f r o m the MUCIA Newsletter, V o l 4 , No 1 , February 1976.]
LETTER ON THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA
Professor James Duffy
African Studies Association
218 Shiftman Center
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts 02154
Dear J i m ,
Members of the African Studies Association have been f o l l o w i n g , I am sure, w i t h some anxiety
developments at the University of Zambia this past year The situation is complicated, as it always is, but the basic fact is that lecturers have been imprisoned and expelled f r o m the c o u n t r y , and others
fell under pressure to leave The immediate cause seems linked t o South Africa's intrusion into inde-pendent Angola and Zambia's ambivalent attitude (to say the least) to the government of Angola,
an ambivalence not appreciated by many persons in Zambia
In the wake of the expulsions, t w o problems are posed One is that those expelled (or forced t o
leave) need positions The other is that the University administration, which seems t o have sided w i t h the Zambian government in this affair, is seeking replacements
It seems to me we collectively ought to do t w o things One is t o help those expelled or forced
to leave to f i n d new positions The second is t o discourage "scabbing" until the situation clarifies
itself
The Zambian government is entitled, like any other, t o pursue policies it thinks appropriate But
we are not obliged to give moral endorsement t o such policies, expecially when the tactics and
objectives are morally d o u b t f u l
Sincerely yours, Immanuel Wallerstein [Past President of the African Studies Association]
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