Five College African Scholars Program

Five Colleges, Incorporated

2005 Fellows

Fall 2005

Sakhela Maxwell Buhlungu
Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Topic: Labour and Liberation: Ideology, Organization and Leadership in the Nonracial Unions in South Africa, 1973-2000

Francis Musoni
Curriculum and Arts Education, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Topic: Internal Displacements, Nationalism and Ethnicity in South-Central Zimbabwe: A Case of Buhera District, 1950s to 2003

Susan Ntete
English, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Topic: Transcending the Environment: Stories of Learners at a Township School

Daniel Obuobi (Fulbright Scholar hosted by the UMass Department of Computer Science)
Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Topic: E-Learning and Online Delivery Systems

Lynda Spencer
English, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Topic: Popular Literature in Uganda

Spring 2005

Ndiouga Benga
History, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal
Topic: Qui peut prendre la parole? Senegal: les citoyens et la vie locale
(Who can speak? Senegal: Citizens and Local Life)

Nada Hussein Wanni
English, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Topic: Culture, Identity, and Power Relations in Sudan: The Jungle and Desert School

Sethunya Tshepho Mphinyane
Sociology, University of Botswana, Botswana
Topic: The Creation of a Government-led Local Film Production Industry: Botswana Television and Commissioning

Lucien Fidèle Toulou
Social Sciences and Management, Université catholique d'Afrique Centrale, Cameroon
Topic: “Qu'ils viennent au nom de Dieu!” Eglise, pouvoir, et politique d'appartenance au Cameroun (“May they come in the name of God!” Church, Power and the Politics of Belonging in Cameroon)