AFREC Fellows and Projects

This is a partial list of recent projects untaken with assistance from AFREC.
Click on highlighted project titles for additional information.

Name/Address Phone/Fax/Internet Project/Sponsor

Carolyn Anderson Brown
Associate Professor
Department of History
Van Dyck Hall
16 Seminary Place
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1108
USA

Tel: 732-932-8030
Fax: 732-932-6763
Email: cbrown@panix.com

Projects:

1) Memory and the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Pilot Oral History Project on the Slave Trade and Its Legacy in South-Eastern Nigeria

2) The Enugu Archival Project on Slavery and Slave Trade. Conducted at the Nigerian National Archives, Enugu.

3) Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora. Conference held in Enugu Nigeria, July 2000.

Sponsors: Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey; UNESCO/York Nigerian Hinterland Project; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Enugu State Government.

Alexander X. Byrd
Rice University
Department of History
Fondren Library #500
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
USA
Tel: 713-527-8101
Email: axb@rice.edu

Project: Intelligence Reports on Some Igbo Communities 1929-1938).

Sponsor: Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Matthias Heeder
Rhizomfilm
22763 Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49.40.3990.5459
Fax: +49.40.3990.5406
Email: rhizomfilm@t-online.de
Project: The Making of Nigerian Video Films, Thirsty Earth, Shadow of Doubt and Disposable People.

Sponsors: Several European TV Broadcasters, Deutsche Welle, EU, and EU respectively.
John C. McCall
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901 - 4502
USA
Phone: 618-453-5010
Fax: 618-453-5037
Email: jmccall@siu.edu
Web: www.siu.edu/~anthro/mccall

Project: Research Toward an Ethnography of Nigerian Video Watching.

Sponsors: Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program, US Department of Education. National Endowment for the Humanities, Southern Illinois University.

Christey Carwile Routon
Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901 - 4502
USA

Phone: 618-453-5010
Fax: 618-453-5037
Email: ChristeyCR@aol.com

Web: www.siu.edu/~anthro/students/carwile

Project: Women’s Healing Associations and the Ritual Management of Fertility in Southeastern Nigeria.

Sponsor: The West African Research Association.

Axel Harneit-Sievers
Director, Nigeria Office
Heinrich Boll Foundation
9B, Omo Osagie Street
S. W. Ikoyi, Lagos
Nigeria

Tel: 234-1-472-1465
Email: axel@boellnigeria.org
Or: ahasver@gmx.net

Projects:
1) A Social History of Nigerian Civil War: Perspectives from Below.

2) Making of the Igbo ‘Town’: Local Communities and the State in
Southeastern Nigeria since the late 19th Century.

Sponsors: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council), Bonn and The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for Technical Cooperation), Eschborn, Germany.

Renee Soulodre-La France
Coordinator of Research
York/UNESCO Nigerian Hinterland Project
113 Vanier College
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Canada
Tel: 416-736-2100, Ext. 30322
Fax: 416-650-8173
Email: soulodre@yorku.ca
Or: soulodrerenee@hotmail.com

Project: Memory and the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Pilot Oral History Project on the Slave Trade and Its Legacy in South-eastern Nigeria.


The Enugu Archival Project on Slavery and Slave Trade.
Conducted at the Nigerian National Archives, Enugu.

Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora, conference held in Enugu, July 10-14, 2000.

Sponsors: Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey; UNESCO/York Nigerian Hinterland Project; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Enugu State Government.

The British Council
Teachers’ House
Ogui Road
PMB 01333
Enugu, Nigeria

Tel: 234-42-258456
Or: 234-42-255577
Or: 234-42-255677
Fax:234-42-250158

Email: bc.enugu@bc.enugu.bcouncil.org

Project: Short Course on Conflict Management; Workshop on The Role of Justice of Peace in Enugu State.

Sponsor: The British Council, Enugu and British High Commission, Abuja

Cultural Affairs Office
Public Affairs Section
U.S. Consulate General
2 Broad Street
P.O.Box 554, Lagos
Nigeria
Tel: 234-1-263-2577
Or:234-1-263-2504
Or:234-1-263-3713
Or:234-1-263-3395
Fax: 234-1-2635397
Web: http://www.usembassy.state.gov/Nigeria
Project: International Visitor Program on Africa-America Cultural Heritage Series, August/September 2001.

Sponsor: United States Department of State, Washington, D.C.
The Ford Foundation Office for West Africa
AIB Plaza, Level 6
Akin Adesola Street
Victoria Island
P.O.Box 2368
Lagos, Nigeria
Tel: 234-1-262-3971
Or: 234-1-262-3972
Fax: 234-1-262-3973
Email: fordnga@fordfound.org
Project: Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora, conference held in Enugu, July 10-14, 2000.

Sponsors: Institute of International Education, New York.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY 10037-1801

Tel: 212-491-2200
Or: 212-491-2263
Fax: 212-491-6760
Web: www.schomburgcenter.org

Project: Memory and the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Pilot Oral History Project on the Slave Trade and Its Legacy in South-eastern Nigeria.