African Activist Archive

Minutes of three ACAS meetings at the meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) in Atlanta in November 1989. First meeting: ACAS Executive Committee, November 3, 1989 - I. Political Action • II. The Bulletin • III. Election of Officers • IV. Namibian Situation • V. Cultural Boycott • Second meeting: Business Meeting, November 3, 1989 - I. Treasurer's Report • II. Membership • III. Political Action • IV. Cultural Boycott • V. The Bulletin • VI. Election of Officers • VI. Other Business • Third meeting: ACAS Executive Committee, November 4, 1989 - Election of Officers • The Bulletin • ACAS Links with the ANC Research Unit • Cultural Boycott Statement • Panels for the 1990 ASA Meeting in Baltimore • Ed Ferguson reported for Allan Cooper, who is in Namibia; the most recent Bulletin was 65 pages and cost $1,500; normally, the Bulletin is capped at 40 pages and costs around $1,000. Ned Alpers agreed to provide logistical support for the next editions, which will focus on southern Africa and will come out in February under the editorship of Cooper. The spring edition will look at Zimbabwe ten years after independence. Chris Root will continue working on the Namibian Writers Project designed to get op-ed pieces into the local media; 20 people are on the mailing list to receive update materials periodically. The South African association or anti-apartheid academics, and the ANC have both shifted their positions on the academic boycott recently. ACAS should take the lead in publicizing the new guidelines that have emerged. The three areas or concern are individual exchanges, funding flows, and formal institutional linkages. Root reported that ACAS carried out two efforts during 1989 moderately successfully; attempting to provide writers to the Washington Office on Africa to prepare resource materials did not work out. The theme of the fall 1990 Bulletin issue will be Zaire; the Zimbabwe issue scheduled for the spring of 1990. The minutes also mention ANC (African National Congress), the Union of Democratic Staff Associations, MDM (Mass Democratic Movement), the House Intelligence Committee, TransAfrica, C.L.R. James, the Angola Foundation, Candice Goucher, Ed Ferguson, Bill Minter, David Wiley, Willard Johnson, Hans Panofsky, Jim Mittelman, Suzanne Riveles, David Groff, Joel Samoff, Immanuel Wallerstein, Bill Martin, Nzongola Ntalaja, Lee Cokorinos, Elizabeth Schmidt.

African Activist Archive

Minutes of the Meeting of the ACAS

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