African Activist Archive

Minutes from Exec and Board Meeting Baltimore, 11/02/1990 • 1. Vacancies on the Exec Board • 2. Membership • 3. Bulletin • 4. Rainbow Lobby • 5. Teresa Smith's Report • 6. Other Issues Addressed • Minutes from the General Meeting Baltimore, 11/02/90 • Minutes from the Exec and Board Meeting Baltimore, 11/03/1990 • 1. The "New Blood Commission" • 2. Research Committee • 3. ASA Business Meeting • 4. ACAS Brochure and Letterhead • 5. New Board Members • 6. Liberia • 7. PAC • 8. 1991 Meeting • Immanuel Wallerstein agreed to stay on for a final year as Co-chair, and Ed Ferguson agreed to continue as Exec. Secretary, with the Membership Development position absorbed into Exec. Sec. and a maximum of $2,000 per year be allocated to employ work-study or secretarial assistance. David Wiley was asked to chair a committee of three (including Jim Mittelman, and requesting they approach Catharine Newbury to join them) to identify enthusiastic members to serve as "new blood" on the Exec and Board. Membership has reached 240, bringing income back to the level of one year ago. The group decided against a campaign to recruit Canadian members. Current members should recruit graduate students and get their libraries to subscribe to the ACAS journal. Teresa Smith failed to respond to repeated requests for a brief report on the Havana Conference, which she attended with ACAS support, and she failed to pay dues for the past two years; therefore, she was dropped from the Board. The academic boycott of South Africa still stands on paper, but the African National Congress (ANC) continues to violate it in practice by extending invitations to scholars to travel and teach in South Africa. Julius Ihonvbere shared information about action needed on behalf of certain Nigerian academics in peril. The minutes includes a letter to President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya. The minutes mention Gitobu Imanyara, Pheroza Nowrojee, ASA (African Studies Association), Nzongola Ntalaja, Candice Goucher, Alan Cooper, Susanne Riveles, Bill Minter, Bill Martin, Hans Panofsky, Carol Thompson, Joel Samoff, James Mittelman, Nabte Selassie, Chris Root, Ann Seidman, Richard Knight, Jennifer Davis, Edward Alpers, Kevin Danaher, Bill Bigelow, Zaire, Binaifer Nowrojee, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Meredith Turshen, Robert Manley, and Amnesty International.

African Activist Archive

[Minutes from Exec & Board Meeting, Baltimore, 11/02/1990]

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