ࡱ>  bjbj *Pxx'V V 8&9.}(8888888T:<88888]./-f6l.880&9/=6=(/=/88$&9=V _: Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja EDUCATION Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), 1975 M.A. in Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky, Lexington (USA), 1968 B.A. in Philosophy, Davidson College, Davidson, NC (USA), 1967 CURRENT POSITIONS Professor of African Studies, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), since August 2007: Duties include teaching of undergraduate courses on Africa; research on DR Congo and the political economy of Africa; and community outreach on current issues in Africa. Professor Emeritus of African Studies, Howard University, Washington, DC (USA), from August 1, 1997, where I took early retirement for international service following 19 years of teaching, research and service. EMPLOYMENT RECORD (1): PAST ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Interim Director of the African Studies Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2011-2012, to fill in for the Director of this Title VI program, who was on leave James K. Batten Professor of Public Policy, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 1998-99, a distinguished chair filled each year for one semester, with the holder responsible for one course on public policy, one interdisciplinary seminar, and one public lecture. Professor of African Studies, Howard University, Washington, DC, 1978-97 (Associate Professor, 1978-89): (1) Teaching of graduate and undergraduate (from 1986) courses and seminars on contemporary Africa, with emphasis on public policy and development; supervision of M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations; and community outreach on Africa in the Washington area and through the mass media. (2) Archival research on DR Congo (then Zaire) with grants from the Faculty Research Program in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Education at Howard University from the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs: (a) Colonial archives in Brussels, Belgium (July-August 1980, June-August 1986, August 1993, and May 1994); (b) UN Archives in New York, 1986-87. Visiting Professor of Political Science, Davidson College, Fall 1990. Courses taught: African Political Systems and African International Relations. Visiting Professor of African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, Summer 1987, where I taught a course (in French) on Africa in the World Economy. Visiting Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, Rosslyn, VA, 1978-94: Several guest lectures each year on African political systems, Central Africa, Francophone Africa, African international relations, and U.S. policy toward Africa. In bestowing upon me the title of Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in 1993, the head of the institute stated that despite being a severe critic of US policy, I was one of the most popular lecturers at the FSI. Senior Lecturer in Political and Administrative Studies, University of Maiduguri, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, 1977-78: Courses taught: Introduction to Political Science, Political Sociology, Politics and Urban Society, and Racism and Politics. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University), Atlanta, GA, 1975-77: I taught graduate-level courses and seminars and served on M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertation committees in African politics, comparative politics, and political economy. Visiting Lecturer in Political Science and African Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 1975: I taught an introductory course on African politics. Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of Zaire (UNAZA), Lubumbashi Campus, 1972-73: I served as the administrator in charge of student affairs from October 1972 to February 1973 and as the acting Vice-Dean and administrator in charge of academic affairs from February to October 1973. Lecturer in Political Science, UNAZA/Lubumbashi, 1971-75: (1) Teaching of undergraduate courses and supervision of senior theses (a graduate requirement for all students) in political science and public administration; (2) Field research in the city of Kananga for Ph.D. dissertation on urban administration in Zaire (1971-73), funded with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation through its Staff Development Program at the National University of Zaire; and (3) A study leave for dissertation write-up at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (January 1974 to August 1975). Assistant Lecturer in Political Science, Congo Free University, Kisangani, March to October 1971: Courses taught: Introduction to Political Science; Political Sociology; Advanced Political Sociology. Teaching Assistant in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January to June, 1970: I served as a teaching assistant for the introductory course on African politics. I was also a member of the UW Teaching Assistants Association (TAA), which won recognition in February 1970 as the first trade union of university teaching assistants in the United States. EMPLOYMENT RECORD (2): PUBLIC SERVICE (DR Congo, then Zaire) Deputy President of the National Electoral Commission, Kinshasa, March 17-September 3, 1996: As chief representative and leader of the democratic opposition on the bipartisan electoral commission (with 22 members each for the Mobutu camp and for the opposition) from January 1, 1996, I held the number two position as deputy president in charge of administration and personnel. I resigned from the Commission because of political interference in its work on September 3, 1996. Diplomatic Adviser to the Transitional Government of Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi from September 1992 to October 1993: Major missions included participation in the United Nations Mission to Verify the Referendum in Eritrea (UNOVER), April 1993, and in the Tshisekedi government's lobbying efforts at the OAU Summit in Cairo (June 28-July 3, 1993) and the UN General Assembly in New York (September-October 1993). Delegate to the Sovereign National Conference, Kinshasa, April to December 1992: This was a democratic reforms forum held from August 1991 to December 1992. Co-opted by delegates representing political parties, civil society organizations and state institutions in the category of world renowned academics, I served as chair of the Sub-committee on major historical events of the Political Affairs Committee. EMPLOYMENT RECORD (3): INTERNATIONAL SERVICE Interim Director of the Africa Governance Institute (AGI), an independent pan-African think tank based in Dakar, Senegal, from June 5, 2009 to March 31, 2010: My duties included (1) setting up the AGI as an effective forum for policy dialogue and advocacy on democratic and developmental governance in Africa, including the organization of its inaugural workshop on November 3-4, 2009; (2) liaison with other think tanks on governance in Africa and Europe (including missions to Rome, Geneva and London); and (3) launching its 2010 activities program with a high-level seminar on Current African Thinking on Developmental Governance on March 10-12, 2010. Facilitator for the Africa Governance Institute (AGI), August 1, 2005 to July 31, 2007. As a senior official (D2) in the Africa Bureau of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York, I was entrusted with the task of establishing the AGI as an independent pan-African think tank on governance. My tasks included defining the work of the Institute, establishing networking with existing African governance centers and institutes, drafting the necessary legal documents for incorporating it in Senegal, and managing the recruitment of its first Executive Director. Consultations included meetings in New York, Addis Ababa, Brussels, Dakar, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Oslo, Ota (Nigeria), Paris, Pretoria, Stockholm, and The Hague. Director of the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (OGC), a unit of the Democratic Governance Group of the UNDP Bureau for Development Policy, August 1, 2002 to July 31, 2005: I was responsible for guiding the research and documentation work of a small team of policy advisers and the support staff to provide UNDP country offices with the new ideas and policy tools they needed to promote democratic governance in developing countries. A component of this process of knowledge production involved staff training through a competitive fellowship program designed to allow selected UNDP program officers to spend two to three months in Oslo to write a paper on an important governance issue based on their experience in a country office. My duties also involved representing the United Nations in Norway, and UNDP at several international conferences on governance. Senior Adviser on Governance to the Federal Government of Nigeria in Abuja, Nigeria, March 20, 2000 to May 22, 2002: I served as a UNDP technical assistant to the Federal Government of Nigeria for the development and implementation of a comprehensive national program on governance through the National Planning Commission. Other duties included setting up a think tank for President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Independent Policy Group (IPG), and assistance in the capacity development of four federal agencies: the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Officer in Charge of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS) in Harare, Zimbabwe, June 1, 1994 to September 30, 1995: My duties were to establish a permanent office for the Association in Harare and to strengthen AAPS institutional capacity. This included moving AAPS headquarters from Nairobi to Harare; defining the structures and operations of a permanent secretariat; and strengthening the Association by revitalizing national chapters and creating new ones. To realize the latter objective, I obtained an institutional strengthening grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for missions to 21 countries: Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Cte dIvoire, DRC (then Zaire), Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Tunisia. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS African Studies Association (ASA) of the United States, 1974 to present President, 1987-88 Board Member, 1981-84 and 1986-89 Member of the Herskovits (or Best Book Award) Committee in 2005, 2006 and 2007 Program Director, 25th Anniversary Meeting, 1982 Current Issues Committee Member in 1978 and 1979 African Association of Political Science (AAPS), 1973-2008 President, 1995-97 Deputy President and Vice President for Central Africa, 1993-95 Interim Secretary General, September 30, 1994 to October 15, 1995 Ordinary Member of the Executive Committee, 1985-93 Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA): Member since 1995 International Political Science Association (IPSA), 1991-2003 Executive Committee and Council Member, 1994-97 African Academy of Sciences (AAS), 1989 to present Fellow of the Academy Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS), USA, 1978-98 Co-Chair, 1989-91 Board Member, 1979-83, 1989-93 Co-Chair, Education and Political Affairs Committee, 1981-83 Center for Research on the Congo (CEREC), formerly the Center for Research on Zaire (CEREZ), an advocacy NGO of US-based Congolese professionals, 1979 to present Founding and Board Member, 1979 to present Executive Director, 1981 to 1991 Centre de Recherche et de Formation sur lEtat en Afrique (CREA), Abidjan-based research and training NGO on public policy and development: Member since 2005 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), a governance assessment project of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation: Member of the Advisory Council since 2007 Institut Canadien de Recherches en Dveloppement et tudes Stratgiques sur lAfrique (ICREDESA), a research and advocacy network established by Congolese professionals in North America: Member since 2009 ACADEMIC OR POLICY DIALOGUE AND SHORT-TERM CONSULTANCIES 1970-1979 Research Assistant on the New Towns Project at Dr. Kenneth B. Clarks Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC), New York, from November 1970 to February 1971 Participant in the Congress of Congolese university teachers on the reform of higher education in the Congo, convened by the Mobutu Regime at the NSele Conference Center near Kinshasa, July 1971 Co-organizer of the International Symposium on the reform of the public administration curriculum in higher education in Zaire, National University of Zaire (UNAZA), Lubumbashi Campus, April 1972 Participant in the 8th Annual Conference of the East African Universities Social Science Council held at the University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, Dec. 19-23, 1972 LAsie du Sud-Est, Contribution to the UNAZA Political Science Departments Lecture Series on President Mobutus 1973 speech to the UN General Assembly, Lubumbashi, Zaire, November 1973 Participant in the 9th Annual Conference of the East African Universities Social Science Council hosted by the University of Dar es Salaam at the Kunduchi Beach Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dec. 18-20, 1973 UNAZA representative at the founding meeting of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), held at the Africana Village Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Dec. 20-21, 1973 President of the African Students Union (ASU), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974-75 Member and resource person for Southern Africa in the Black Issues Community Forum, Atlanta, GA, 1975-77 Faculty Advisor for the Marxist Students Club, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, 1977-78 Lecture on the postcolonial state in Africa for the Department of Political Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, March 1978 Participant in the Annual Meeting of the Nigerian Political Science Association held at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, April 1978 Empirical research on the political attitudes, perceptions and behavior of African university teachers at Ahmadu Bello University; Bayero University, Kano; and the University of Maiduguri between April and July 1978 African University Teachers and Political Change, Paper presented at the Rockefeller Foundations Conference on Higher Education and Political Change in Africa, held at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, Aug. 16-21, 1978 Co-Editor, as a member of the Current Issues Committee, of the Spring and Summer 1979 issue of Issue: A Quarterly Journal of Africanist Opinion (a publication of the African Studies Association, ASA) on Southern Africa. Panelist for the U.S. Department of State Colloquium on Zaire for Ambassador Robert Oakley, Washington, DC, October 1979 1980-89 Paper on Africa and the Question of Palestine presented at the UN Conference on Palestinian Rights held in Arusha, Tanzania, July 14-18, 1980 Program Director or chief organizer of the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the ASA, hosted by Howard University in November 1982 in Washington, DC: August 1981 to November 1982 Participant in the UN Secretariat/UNESCO consultation on apartheid South Africa held in Paris, France, March-April 1982 Paper on Amilcar Cabral and the Theory of the National Liberation Struggle, presented at the First Amilcar Cabral International Symposium held in Praia, Cape Verde, Jan. 17-20, 1983 Lead panelist for the Dissenting Views from the Zairean Community at the Zaire Symposium sponsored by the Africa Committee of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA and held at the Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC, Nov. 2-3, 1983 Panelist in research workshops organized in commemoration of the 1964 popular insurrections for a second independence in Congo-Kinshasa at the University of Paris 1 and at Columbia University: Paris and New York, April and October 1984 Research paper for UNESCO on The Arms Race and the Process of National Reconstruction in Developing Countries: Washington, DC, Sept. 1 to Dec. 15, 1984 Chief organizer of the CEREZ international research workshop on Myths and Realities of the Zairian Crisis, held at Howard University to examine the multifaceted crisis in Mobutus Zaire, Washington, DC, Oct. 4-6, 1984 Paper on The National Question and the Crisis of Instability in Africa on research contract with the United Nations University (UNU) between October 15 and November 30, 1984, and presented at the UNU Seminar on Peace, Development and Regional Security in Africa, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 1985 Paper on The Second Independence Movement in Congo-Kinshasa on research contract with UNU between May 1 and July 31, 1985 Chair of the panel on Southern Africa at the Dialogue between Soviet and American Regional Specialists on Conflicts in Central America and Southern Africa, sponsored by the International Center for Development Policy and held at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC, Oct. 15-17, 1987 Keynote address to the Fourth Symposium of the Special Commission on Africa of the African Academy of Sciences on Nation-Building and State Building in Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe, June 1988 Presidential Address at the 31st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association on The African Crisis: The Way Out, Chicago, Il, October 1988 Team leader for the evaluation of Samir Amins Third World Forum (TWF) on behalf of the Swedish Agency for Research Collaboration with Developing Countries (SAREC), including consultations in Dakar, Nairobi and Harare: October 1988 to March 1989 Chief organizer of the AAPS-ASA International Conference on Conflict in the Horn of Africa, hosted by the University of Alcala near Madrid for scholars from Africa, America and Europe to exchange views on armed conflict and prospects for a lasting peace in the region, Alcala de Henares, Spain, Sept. 12-14, 1989 Work with Oxford University Press (New York) as Section Editor of the Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, in charge of approximately 100 reference articles, mostly on Africa but including major topics in political economy and comparative politics such as development and underdevelopment, imperialism, and Marxism, 1989 to 1993. 1990-99 Lectures on public policy and development in Africa for the World Bank Institute, formerly the Economic Development Institute, Washington, DC, May 1990 Advocate for the poor and vulnerable groups for the World Banks Social Division of Adjustment in the Banks Assessment Mission for the second structural adjustment loan (SAL II) to Congo-Brazzaville: Washington and Brazzaville, May 25 to June 3, 1990 Chief organizer of the CEREZ International Conference on Prospects for Democracy in Zaire, held at Howard University to help promote the democratization process in the Congo, with the major pro-democracy leader Etienne Tshisekedi as keynote speaker, Washington, DC, Nov. 16-17, 1990 Collaboration with World Bank staff member Lual Deng on a research paper for the Banks Technical Department on the study of poverty in Africa, Washington, DC, 1991 Participant in a World Bank Workshop on Governance, Washington, DC, Feb. 21, 1991 Paper on Les changements lEst et leur impact sur les pays dAfrique for a Catholic University of Louvain conference on Changes in Eastern Europe and their Impact on the Third World, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, Feb. 27, 1991 Chair of a conclave of intellectuals from the Congolese Diaspora on their role in the democratic transition in their homeland: Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 28-Jan. 1, 1991 Discussant for Robert McNamaras keynote address for the Institute of African Affairs Symposium on agricultural policy for Africa, Washington, DC, April 3, 1991 Participant in a workshop on democracy at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, June 17, 1991 Participant in the National Research Council workshops on democracy held in Washington, DC and Cotonou, Benin, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 1991 and Jan. 14-17, 1992, respectively Research paper on The Disintegration of the Mobutu Regime and Future Trends in Zaire for the Technical Department of the World Bank, Washington, DC, Feb. 1 to March 31, 1993 Leader of one of the electoral observation teams in the Keren District for the Independence Referendum in Eritrea, April 1993 Panelist in the Protestant Church of Senegals Conference on LEglise et la dmocratisation en Afrique, Dakar, Aug. 17-20, 1993 Testimony on Zaire to the House Subcommittee on Africa, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, Oct. 26, 1993 Lecture on French neocolonialism in Africa at the Monthly Public Forum of AAPS/Zimbabwe, Harare, June 30, 1994 AAPS Executive Committee representative at the launching of the Tanzanian Chapter of the Association in Dar es Salaam, July 4-6, 1994 Lecture and briefings on the Great Lakes Region as a visiting scholar at the Africa Institute of South Africa, Pretoria, July 11-12, 1994 Paper on The Democracy Movement in Congo-Kinshasa, 1956-1994 presented at the History Workshop Conference at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 13-15, 1994 Discussant for the French Ambassadors presentation on France and the Rwandan genocide at a Southern Africa Political and Economic Series Trust (SAPES) Seminar in Harare, Zimbabwe, July 28, 1994 AAPS representative at the 1994 World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), where I was elected to the Associations Executive Committee, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 21-24, 1994 AAPS Executive Committee representative at the launching of the Zairian Chapter of the Association in Kinshasa, Oct. 11, 1994 Keynote address at the AAPS Forum on The State and Democracy in Africa: Lessons for South Africa, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, Oct. 26, 1994 AAPS Executive Committee representative at the INEP/Bissau-Guinean Political Science Association conference on democracy and development, Bissau, Nov. 21-23, 1994 Keynote address to a public forum on democratization in Africa organized by Professor Bereket Habte Selassie, with approximately 500 people at the Eritrean Officers Club, Asmara, Dec. 26, 1994 Public lecture on democratization in Africa hosted by Dr. Helmi Sharawy at the Arab-African Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 28, 1994 Participant in the meeting of the IPSA Executive Committee in Taipei, Taiwan, January 1995 Participant in the UNESCO Africa Consultation in preparation of the World Social Forum, Paris, France, Feb. 6-10, 1995 Participant in the inaugural workshop of the African Centre for Democratic Governance (AFRIGOV) at the Plateau State House of Assembly, Jos, Nigeria, Feb. 24, 1995 Participant in the SAREC Consultation on Higher Education in Africa, Stockholm, Sweden, May 3-4, 1995 Participant in the Carnegie Corporation of New Yorks Consultation on governance and democracy in Africa, New York, March 6-7, 1995 Lectures on governance for a regional training workshop for UNDP program officers, Nairobi, Kenya, June 5-9, 1995 AAPS representative at the 8th General Meeting of CODESRIA, held in Dakar, June 26 to July 2, 1995 AAPS Forum on the democratization process in DR Congo (then Zaire) since the Sovereign National Conference, Kinshasa, Aug. 3-4, 1995 Hosted, on behalf of AAPS, the meeting of the IPSA Research Committee on Political Philosophy on The Politics of Identity: Tribe, Nation, State in Harare, Aug. 16-18, 1995 Elected AAPS President at the 10th Biennial Congress of the Association, which was held at the Premier Hotel in Ibadan, Nigeria, Aug. 21-24, 1995 Participant in the World Bank Consultation on capacity building in Africa, Nairobi, Dec. 4-6, 1995 Participant in the OAU Consultation on Early Warning Signals, Addis Ababa, Jan. 15-18, 1996 AAPS Forum on the economic and social consequences of democratization in DR Congo, Kinshasa, February 1996 Inaugural Address at the launching of the Ghana Chapter of AAPS on Democracy in Africa, Accra, June 12, 1996 Participant in the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) policy dialogue on a new Swedish governments white paper on development assistance, Stockholm, Aug. 19, 1996 Research paper for the UNDP Africa Bureau on Background to the Crisis in Zaire: Harare and New York, October-November 1996 International expert on the Advisory Board of the Research and Education for Democracy in Tanzania (REDET), a Dar es Salaam based independent project on democracy promotion funded by the Danish International Development Cooperation Agency (DANIDA), 1996-98 Participant in the U.S. Department of State/U.S. Institute of Peace Consultation on Zaire, Washington, DC, Jan. 16, 1997 Participant in the IPSA Executive Committee Meeting held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 5-7, 1997 Team leader to design a project document for UNDP support to the OAU Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution: Addis Ababa and New York, March 8 to April 9, 1997 Presidential Address at the 11th AAPS Biennial Congress on The Role of Intellectuals in the Struggle for Democracy, Peace and Reconstruction in Africa, Durban, South Africa, June 23-26, 1997 Participant in the German Research Institute for International Affairs seminar on the Great Lakes Region, Berlin, July 4-6, 1997 Team leader for a Needs Assessment Mission for UNDP and the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) on the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, which is located in Lom, Togo. A retired Canadian general and I prepared the mission in New York and, beginning on Aug. 23, held consultations on revitalizing the center with the OAU and the governments of Cameroon, Cte dIvoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo and Zimbabwe. The entire mission lasted from July 26 to Sept. 30, 1997. Participant in the IPSA World Congress, including the academic conference and meetings of the Council and the Executive Committee, held in Seoul, Korea, Aug. 17-21, 1997 Lead expert for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) project on Governance in Africa: Consolidating the Institutional Foundations. Duties included writing the background paper for an international conference held in Addis Ababa (March 2-6, 1998); serving as rapporteur general and technical assistant to the convener, former Tanzanian President Mwalimu Julius Nyerere; and writing the final report: Silver Spring (MD), Addis Ababa and New York, Nov. 13, 1997 to March 31, 1998. Member of the UN Secretary Generals Resource Group for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an advisory panel set up by the UN Department of Political Affairs to help shape UN response to the crisis in the DRC, New York, 1997-98 Section Editor for the second edition of the Oxford Companion to Politics of the World for Oxford University Press, New York, 1997-2001 International consultant to evaluate UN and UNDP response to crises in the wake of repeated mutinies in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 1996-97. My duties included consultations with CAR government, political parties and civil society representatives; Gen. Amadou Toumani Tour, the international mediator for the CAR; UN agencies working in the field; and selected diplomatic missions: New York, Bamako and Bangui: April 5-May 8, 1998 International consultant for an OAU study mission to evaluate the capacities of sub-regional security mechanisms in Central Africa: Libreville, Gabon and Addis Ababa, May 16-31, 1998 Participant in the Swedish Institute of International Affairs Seminar on conflicts in Africa, Stockholm, June 1998 Paper on Ethnic Identification in the Great Lakes Region presented at the Conference on Shifting African Identities, co-sponsored by the Foundation for Global Dialogue (FGD), the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), the African Studies Association of South Africa, AAPS and CODESRIA, and held in Cape Town, July 1-3, 1998 DR Congo civil society lobbyist for peace in the Great Lakes Region at the 12th Non-Aligned Movement Summit, Durban, South Africa, Sept. 2-3, 1998 Banquet speaker on The Crisis in the Great Lakes Region at the African Renaissance Conference, held under the patronage of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sept. 28-29, 1998 Participant in the AAPS Consultation on the Indian Ocean Region, held at Pointe Aux Piments, Mauritius, Oct. 1-3, 1998 Participant in a conference of Congolese civil society representatives on the crisis in the DRC, held in Morat, Switzerland, Nov. 22-23, 1998 Research paper for the UNDP Africa Bureau on The DRC Crisis and its Regional Context, Silver Spring (MD) and New York, September-November 1998 DR Congo civil society observer at the OAU Central Organ Summit on Conflicts in Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Dec. 17-18, 1998 Member of the Organizing Committee of the Conference on the Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, held at the University of Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium, Jan. 15-16, 1999 Facilitator for the project on Support to Capacity Building for Conflict Management in West Africa by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). Duties included consultations with government officials and civil society organizations in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and Senegal in preparation of a sub-regional capacity building workshop held later at Gore, Senegal, and serving as rapporteur general for the workshop: March 26-April 7 and Aug. 1-5, 1999 Conflict resolution expert for the Sierra Leone Peace Talks in Lom between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels under the mediation of the Economic Commission for West African States (ECOWAS). As a consultant for USAIDs Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI), my duties were to provide technical assistance in conflict mediation, legal issues, principles of peacekeeping and legal drafting. Panelist in the UNDP Workshop on Countries Emerging from Crises, Geneva, July 29-30, 1999 Lectures on conflict analysis in training workshops for UNDP program officers in the Great Lakes Region, Kinshasa and Kigali, Oct. 1-16, 1999 Consultant to the OAU International Panel of Eminent Personalities on the Rwandan Genocide and its Repercussions in the Region, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1999-2000 Member of the Inter-Regional Working Group on International Scholarly Collaboration for the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York. In addition to attending several group meetings on the issue, I directed a research assistants assessment of the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) as a case study of best practices in North-South scholarly collaboration: 1999-2000. 2000-2007 Social science research expert and technical assistant to Professor Albert Tevoedjr for the UNDP-funded project on Africa and the Challenges of the New Millennium: Cotonou and Abuja, Jan. 16 to Feb. 3, 2000 Paper on Re-Establishing Peace in Sierra Leone presented at a conference organized by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) to review the peace process in Sierra Leone, London, September 2000 International Expert for the Fourth International Conference of New and Restored Democracies (ICNRD-4), held in Cotonou, Benin on Dec. 4-6, 2000. As a UNDP officer on detachment to the UN Secretariat between Oct. 24 and Dec. 6, my assignment was to assist the national organizing committee in strengthening the intellectual content of the conference. I was surprised to be elected rapporteur general, with the duty of writing the final report and reading it at the closing ceremony. Africa and the Continuing Challenge of the Congo, The Fourth Claude Ake Memorial Lecture for the Centre for Advanced Social Science (CASS), Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Nov. 6, 2000 Democracy and Development in Africa: A Tribute to Claude Ake, The Claude Ake Memorial Lecture for AFRIGOV, held at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, Nov. 30, 2000 Paper on Les dimensions politiques de la situation de lAfrique dans le systme mondial presented at the Third World Forum Seminar on Rgionalisation, mouvements sociaux et politiques Pour une alternative effective la crise africaine, Dakar, April 9-11, 2001 Keynote address to the Swedish Mission Council (an umbrella body of Protestant Churches) conference on the crisis in the DRC, Stockholm, May 11, 2001 Keynote address on Africa in the New Millennium for a Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) Forum for African heads of diplomatic missions, Stockholm, May 14, 2001 Regional Integration and Africas Development in the 21st Century: Issues and Strategies, Graduation Lecture at the National War College for Nigerian and other West African military officers completing an 11-month course, Abuja, July 24, 2001 Member of the UNDP delegation to the International Conference on Development in the Niger Delta, Port Harcourt, Dec. 10-12, 2001 Participant in the 4th Global Forum on Reinventing Government, on the theme of Partnerships for Development and Democracy, held in Marrakech, Morocco, Dec. 11-13, 2002 Panelist on conflicts in Africa at the 2003 IPSA World Congress, held in Durban, South Africa, June 29-July 4, 2003 Panel presentation on The Main Challenges and Opportunities for the Developing World Today at the UNUs World Institute for Development Economics (WIDER) conference on the world economy, Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 6-7, 2003 Member of the UNDP delegation at the Fifth International Conference of New and Restored Democracies (ICNRD-5), where I was assigned the task of drafting the final report, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Sept. 8-12, 2003 Keynote address on Les intellectuels africains et la crise politique en Afrique centrale to the 30th Anniversary Celebration of CODESRIA in Central Africa, held in Douala, Cameroon, Oct. 4-5, 2003 Panel presentation on the fight against corruption at the 5th Global Forum on Reinventing Government, on the theme of Innovation and Quality in the Government of the 21st Century, held in Mexico City, Nov. 3-6, 2003 Keynote address to the Joint Monthly Assembly of the Finnish Advisory Board for Human Rights and the Finnish Development Policy Committee on Democratic Governance and Human Rights in the International Context, Helsinki, June 15, 2004 Paper on Challenges to State Building in Africa presented at the Second Amilcar Cabral International Symposium, Praia, Cape Verde, Sept. 9-11, 2004 Panelist for the debate on democracy and poverty at the 2004 Barcelona Forum, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 22, 2004 Participant in the Wilson Center Seminar on The Cold War and the Congo Crisis, Washington, DC, Sept. 23-24, 2004 Participant in the African Unions Forum for Intellectuals of Africa and the African Diaspora, Dakar, Oct. 7-9, 2004 Chair of the Second Plenary Session of the African Development Forum (ADF), organized by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in collaboration with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union, Addis Ababa, Oct. 11-13, 2004 Chair of the inaugural seminar of the Centre de recherches sur ltat en Afrique (CREA) on Les dfis de ltat en Afrique, Milan, Italy, Nov. 3-4, 2005 Participant in the UNDP Democratic Governance Group (DGG) Global Community of Practice Meeting in Maputo, Mozambique, Dec. 1-4, 2005 Democratic Transitions in Africa, Annual Democracy Lecture for the Centre for Constitutionalism and Democratisation (CENCOD), Lagos, Nigeria, Dec. 7, 2005 Participant in the CREA Workshop on Les mouvements de population en Afrique de lOuest, Abidjan, Cte dIvoire, July 27-28, 2006 Presentation on the electoral process in the DRC to the annual meeting of the African Forum, an organization of former African heads of state and government, held in Johannesburg, Nov. 2-3, 2006 Keynote address on governance and conflict prevention to a technical workshop on the subject organized by the Oslo Governance Centre in Katmandu, Nepal, Nov. 6-7, 2006 Member of the UNDP delegation to the 2nd Summit of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), held in Nairobi, Dec. 14-15, 2006 Member of the Advisory Team for the book on The Challenges of Restoring Governance in Crisis and Post-Conflict Countries, authored for DESA by Professor Dennis A. Rondinelli as background material for the 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government, on the theme of Building Trust in Government, and participant in the forum, which was held in Vienna, Austria, June 26-29, 2007 2007-2012 Paper on Capacity Building in Crisis and Post-Conflict African Countries: Strategies, Lessons Learned and Guides to Intervention presented at the Second Pan-African Capacity Building Forum of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), held in Maputo, Mozambique, Aug. 1-3, 2007 Panelist in the Roundtable on Peace and Development in the DRC, Open Society Institutes Africa Forum, Dakar, Feb. 4-7, 2008 The 2008 Billy J. Dudley Memorial Lecture for the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA), Abuja, March 11, 2008 Participant in the 12th CODESRIA General Assembly, held in Yaound, Cameroon, Dec. 7-11, 2008 Participant in the meeting of the Advisory Council of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (then still under contract to Professor Robert Rotberg of the Kennedy School of Government), held in Lilongwe, Malawi, Jan. 16-17, 2009 Keynote address on Leadership for DRC Reconstruction and Development to the Workshop on Capacity Building for DRC Civil Society sponsored by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), a unit of the Soros Foundation, and held in Johannesburg, South Africa, Feb. 13-14, 2009 Participant in the CREA International Colloquium on Les changements climatiques en Afrique de lOuest, Grand-Bassam, Cte dIvoire, Feb. 9-11, 2009 Visiting Professor at the University of Pavia for a graduate-level course module on the democratic transition in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, in Pavia, Italy, March 3-6, 2009 Lectures on Congolese Political History for the DRC Diaspora in South Africa, delivered at the invitation of OSISA and held in Johannesburg, July 4-5, 2009 Participant in the meetings of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation in Cape Town, including the launching on Oct. 5 of the first Index not produced at Harvard, Oct. 3-5, 2009 Member of the international organizing committee (on behalf of AGI and CREA) for the Conference on Ensuring Peace and Security in Africa: Implementing the New Africa-EU Partnership and Developing Cooperation in Demining and Development, hosted by the Rome International Affairs Institute (IAI) and held at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, Oct. 7-9, 2009 Chief organizer of the International Conference on Rethinking Governance in Africa, the Inaugural Workshop of the Africa Governance Institute, held in Dakar, Nov. 3-4, 2009 The Politics of Regional Integration in the Great Lakes Region: Two training sessions in English for civil servants from the region and a public lecture in French, delivered at the invitation of the Geneva based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in Bujumbura, Burundi, Nov. 12, 2009 Participant in the meeting of the Advisory Council of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Discussion Forum on Africa and global warming, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Nov. 14-15, 2009 Panelist in the ASA Board Plenary Session on Africa in the Age of Obama, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, La, Nov. 20, 2009 Lecture on The Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Transition to Nowhere? sponsored by the Institute of Development Policy and Management of the University of Antwerp, and held in Antwerp, Belgium, Nov. 23, 2009 Chair of the panel on Contributions of AU Organs, the RECs, APRM and the ECA to the African Governance Architecture, at the African Union (AU) Consultation on the African Governance Architecture, held in Nairobi, Kenya, Dec. 10-12, 2009 Discussant for the panel on The Role of the State in Africa, at the UNDP Democratic Governance Global Community of Practice Meeting held in Dakar, Feb. 15-19, 2010 Opening presentation on Overview: A State in Search of Governance, A People in Search of Leadership for the Panel on Understanding Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Crisis of Leadership and Governance, sponsored by the Harvard Africa Caucus and held at the John F. Kennedy of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Feb. 24, 2010 Chief organizer of the High-Level Seminar of the Africa Governance Institute on Current African Thinking on Developmental Governance, held in Dakar, March 10-12, 2010 Lecture on The Limitations of Humanitarian Intervention in Africa delivered at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, followed by a public lecture in San Francisco on the resource war in the DRC, March 19, 2010 Lecture on Conflict Resolution and Peace Building in Africa Today delivered for the Great Decisions Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 20, 2010 Opening address on Overview and History of the Current DRC Conflict for the Conflict Minerals Forum organized by Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), a network of over 250 businesses, Washington, DC, May 12-13, 2010 Keynote address on The Politics of the International Community in the Resource War in the DRC to the Congo Symposium on Resource Wars and their Impact on Women and Children, organized by the Global Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ, the Center for Research on the Congo, and the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis, held in Indianapolis, IN, May 21-22, 2010 Meeting with Ambassador Johnnie Carson, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, to discuss U.S. policy on democratization in the DRC, U.S. Department of State, Washington, July 1, 2010 Participant in the African Center for Strategic Studies Seminar on AFRICOM, held in Dakar, July 12-15, 2010 Participant in the meeting of the Advisory Council of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sept. 11-12, 2010 Lecture on Governance in Post-Conflict DRC: Constraints and Opportunities for the African Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Oct. 13, 2010 Presentation on Democratic Consolidation in Senegal: Challenges and Opportunities for the First AFRI/AFAM Faculty Colloquium, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, Nov. 10, 2010 Participant in the meeting of the Advisory Council of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance and the Mo Ibrahim Foundations Discussion Forum on Regional Economic Integration in Africa held in Port Louis, Mauritius, Nov. 20-21, 2010 Lecture on The Future of Democracy as Engine of Development in Africa for the African Studies Program of Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, Nov. 29, 2010 Brainstorming on U.S. policy on the DRC with Assistant Secretary Carson at the State Department and U.S. Ambassador to the DRC James Entwistle and his deputy in Kinshasa by videoconference. I was the only non-US citizen invited to this daylong policy dialogue on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Keynote address to the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) National Workshop on Citizenship and Indigeneity Conflicts in Nigeria, Abuja, Feb. 8-9, 2011 Public lecture for the Dallas Chapter of UDPS on the 2011 DRC elections, Dallas, TX, March 26, 2011 Participant in a panel discussion on Africa in Crisis, sponsored by the Rothermel Foundation and held at the First Presbyterian Church of New Bern, NC, April 3, 2011 Keynote address on The Continuing Struggle for Liberation in Africa to the 8th Annual Spring Forum of the African Studies Organization (ASO) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, April 23, 2011 Consultant for the Democratic Governance Group (DGG) of UNDPs Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) on a UNDP Programming Mission to Cte dIvoire: Abidjan and Bouak, May 29 to June 8, 2011 Participant in the first meeting of the Joint Africa-EU Working Group on the governance of natural resources, Dakar, June 9, 2011 Facilitator of meetings for UDPS leader Etienne Tshisekedi (DRC) at the U.S. Department of State, the World Bank, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the National Democratic Institute, Washington, DC, June 20-22, 2011 Resource person for the 7th CAFRAD (African Centre for Training and Research in Development Administration) Pan-African Forum on the Modernization of Public Services and State Institutions in Africa, Rabat, Morocco, June 27-29, 2011 Consultations with CREA President Paolo Sannella on the work plan of the Center and resource mobilization requirements for 2012, Rome, Italy, July 3-5, 2011 Member of the Country Review Team for the Second African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Review of Governance in Kenya: Nairobi, Garissa, Kitela, Mombasa, Isiolo, Meru, and Nyeri, July 16-31, 2011 Resource person for the 2nd African Leadership, Governance and Management Convention, organized by the African Leadership Forum and the Kenya Institute of Management, and held in Mombasa, Aug. 2-5, 2011. Panelist at the Young African Leadership Forum of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, Sept. 16-18, 2011 Participant in the second meeting of the Joint Africa-EU Working Group on the governance of natural resources, Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 27-28, 2011 Paper on Frantz Fanons Political Legacy for Africa presented at the UNC-Chapel Hill Conference on Frantz Fanon, organized by and held at the Stone Center, Chapel Hill, NC, Oct. 6-7, 2011 Keynote address on the political situation in the DRC to the Congo Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church, US, meeting in Virginia Beach, VA, on Oct. 8, 2011 Lecture on Understanding the Root Causes of Conflict in Africa for the World View K-12 Global Education Symposium on Peace and Conflict in Ten Years after 9/11 held at the Friday Center for Continuing Education, UNC-Chapel Hill, Oct. 19-20, 2011. Participant in the 2011 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), including panel presentation on the DRC crisis, Washington, DC, Nov. 17-20, 2011 Meeting with Assistant Secretary Carson at the State Department, Washington, Nov. 18, 2011 Participant in the 13th General Assembly of CODESRIA, including panel presentation on the Casablanca Conference of 1961 on Africa, Rabat, Morocco, December 5-9, 2011 Participant in the 2012 annual meeting of the Southeastern Seminar on African Studies (SERSAS), hosted by the African Studies Center at UNC-Chapel Hill on Feb. 3-4, 2012 Lecture on Africa: Greatest Challenges and Promises for the World View K-12 Global Education Spring Seminar on The Complexity and Vibrancy of Africa, held at the Friday Center for Continuing Education, UNC-Chapel Hill, March 28-29, 2012 Keynote address on Elections and the Future of Democracy in the DRC at the Conference on The Congo: Reclaiming its Destiny, organized by the Department of French and Francophone Studies and the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, March 30-31, 2012 Panel presentation on Peace and Conflict Resolution: the Nexus of Resources and Conflict at the Sankofa 54 African Youth Empowerment Conference, organized by the Yale Undergraduate Association for African Peace and Development (YAAPD), and held at Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 13-14, 2012 Participant in the 50/Forward Conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the African Studies Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, April 20-22, 2012 Consultant to the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center of the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) of Bergen, Norway, as a facilitator for a pilot online course in French on the Essentials of the Fight against Corruption, April 20 to May 4, 2012 Participant in Freedom Houses Countries at the Crossroads 2012 Ratings Review Meeting for Africa, New York, May 9, 2012 Meeting of the Advisory Council of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance plus a Roundtable Discussion on Oil Wealth and Governance co-sponsored with the Ghanaian Center for Democracy and Development (CDD-Ghana), Accra, May 12-14, 2012 Closing Lecture on Les abordages thoriques sur les dfis du dveloppement des pays africains et les leons quon peut en tirer at the International Seminar on Research and Teaching in African Universities in the Context of Globalization and the Interface with Brazil: Emerging Epistemological Perspectives, New Horizons and Challenges, held at the University of So Paulo, in So Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 3-5, 2012. COMMUNITY SERVICE/OUTREACH Public lectures on African politics and development issues to community groups and educational institutions; and interviews with the news media, including CNN International, the BBC, Radio France Internationale, Voice of America, PBS's Newshour (USA), the National Public Radio (USA), and several television and radio stations in Africa. Currently, I am also serving a three-year term (2011-2013) as a member of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of Davidson College, my Alma Mater. MAJOR PUBLICATIONS Books The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A Peoples History (London and New York: Zed Books, 2002). 2004 Best Book Award from the African Politics Conference Group (APCG), an organization of American political scientists specializing on Africa. The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, 2nd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), Co-editor. I am also a co-editor of the first edition, 1993. The State and Democracy in Africa (Harare: AAPS Books, 1997; Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998), Co-editor Conflict in the Horn of Africa (Atlanta: African Studies Association Press, 1991), Editor Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Africa: Essays in Contemporary Politics (London: Zed Books and Institute for African Alternatives, 1987) The Crisis in Zaire: Myths and Realities (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1986), Editor Proletarianization and Class Struggle in Africa (San Francisco: Synthesis Publications, 1983), Co-editor Class Struggles and National Liberation in Africa (Roxbury, MA: Omenana, 1982) Monographs From Zaire to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Second and Revised Edition (Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2004), Current African Issues No. 28. Le mouvement dmocratique au Zare, 1956-1996 (Mexico City: UNAM, 1997), Contemporary World Monographs, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Nation-Building and State Building in Africa (Harare: SAPES Books, 1993), Occasional Papers Series No. 3. Introduction la science politique (Lubumbashi, Editions du Mont Noir, 1972). A condensed textbook on political science. Essai sur le Dahomey, in Les Cahiers du CEDAF (Brussels: CEDAF, 1971), No. 5. Journal Articles The Failing State in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Global Dialogue, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2011), Special Issue on Failed States. The Pan-African Project: Betrayal and Revival, Chemchemi (Journal of the Mwalimu Nyerere Professorial Chair in Pan-African Studies, University of Dar es Salaam), Issue No. 4 (April 2011), pp. 20-26. Putting Africas House in Order to Deal with Developmental Challenges ASR Forum on Africa in the Age of Obama, African Studies Review, Vol. 52. No. 2 (September 2010), pp. 12-15. Challenges to State Building in Africa, African Identities, Vol. 4, No. 1 (April 2006), Special Issue on Amilcar Cabral, with Carlos Lopes as Guest Editor, pp. 71-88. The Great Lakes Region since the Genocide of 1994 in Rwanda, Africa Review of Books, Vol. 1, No. 2 (September 2005), pp. 18-19. Citizenship, Political Violence, and Democratization in Africa, Global Governance, Vol. 10, No. 4 (October-December 2004), pp. 403-409. The International Dimensions of the Congo Crisis, Global Dialogue, Vol. 6, No. 3-4 (Summer-Autumn 2004), pp. 116-126. La guerre, la paix et la dmocratie au Congo, Journal of African Elections, Vol. 2, No. 1 (April 2003), pp. 1-11. Les dimensions politiques de la situation de lAfrique dans le systme mondial, Alternatives Sud, Vol. VIII, No. 3 (2001), pp. 89-115. Re-establishing Peace in Sierra Leone, Democracy & Development, Vol. 2, No. 4 (September-December 2000), pp. 4-9. Holocauste congolais et gnocide rwandais, Bulletin du Codesria, No. 3-4, 1999, pp. 80-85. English version, The Congo Holocaust and the Rwanda Genocide, in Codesria Bulletin, No. 3-4, 1999, pp. 66-70. The Role of Intellectuals in the Struggle for Democracy, Peace and Reconstruction in Africa, Presidential Address at the 11th Biennial Congress of the African Association of Political Science, Durban, South Africa, June 1997, in African Journal of Political Science, Vol. 2, No. 2 (December 1997), pp. 1-14. The African Crisis: The Way Out, Presidential Address at the 31st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Chicago, IL, October 1988, in African Studies Review, Vol. 32, No. 1 (April 1989), pp. 115-128. Reprinted in the SAPES Seminar Paper Series as The African Crisis: The Way Out (Harare: SAPES Books, 1992). The National Question and the Crisis of Instability in Africa, Alternatives, Vol. 10, No. 4 (1985), Special UN Commemorative Issue, pp. 533-563. Also published in Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1985), pp. 73-101. Zaire: The Obstacles to Reform, Harvard International Review, Vol. 5, No. 6 (1983), pp. 30-32. The Continuing Struggle for National Liberation in Zaire, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 1979), pp. 595-614. Internal Settlement, Neocolonialism and the Liberation of Southern Africa, Journal of Southern African Affairs, Vol. 4, No 2 (1979), pp. 133-151. Also published in Cahiers Economiques et Sociaux (Kinshasa), Vol. 17, No. 2 (1979), pp. 235-260. The Authenticity of Neocolonialism: Ideology and Class Struggle in Zaire, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, No. 22 (1977-78), pp. 115-130. Les chefs traditionnels dans l'administration locale coloniale au Dahomey et en Sierra Leone, Cahiers Zarois d'Etudes Politiques et Sociales (Lubumbashi), No. 1 (1973), pp. 95-116. The Bourgeoisie and Revolution in the Congo, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 8, No.4 (December 1970), pp. 511-530. French version: Les classes sociales et la rvolution anticoloniale au Congo-Kinshasa: le rle de la bourgeoisie, Cahiers Economiques et Sociaux, Vol. 8, No. 3 (September 1970), pp. 371-388. Chapters in Edited Volumes Restructurer ltat congolais, in Philomne Ntumba Makolo (ed.) Reconstruire la Rpublique dmocratique du Congo (Ottawa: Editions Muhoka, 2012), pp. 33-75. Ensuring Peace and Security in Africa: Implementing the New Africa-EU Partnership An African Perspective, in Nicoletta Pirozzi (ed.) Ensuring Peace and Security in Africa: Implementing the New Africa-EU Partnership (Rome: Istituto Affari Internazionali, 2010), pp. 15-27. Ralph Bunche, Patrice Lumumba, and the First Congo Crisis, in Robert A. Hill and Edmond J. Keller (eds.) Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010), pp. 148-157. Citizenship, Democratization and the State in Africa, in George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Pita Ogaba Agbese (eds.) The State in Africa: Issues and Perspectives (Ibadan: Kraft Books, 2008), pp. 46-76. The Politics of Citizenship in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett and Paul Nugent (eds.) Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007), pp. 69-80. Pour une alternative africaine la pense unique, in Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua, Sams Dine Sy and Amady A. Dieng (eds.) Pense sociale critique pour le XXIe sicle: Mlanges en lhonneur de Samir Amin (Paris: LHarmattan, 2003), pp. 445-459. Civil War, Peacekeeping, and the Great Lakes Region, in Ricardo Ren Laremont (ed.) The Causes of War and the Consequences of Peacekeeping in Africa (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002). Les dimensions politiques de la situation de lAfrique dans le systme mondial, in Franois Houtart (ed.) Et si lAfrique refusait le march?, Point de Vue du Sud Collection of Centre Tricontinental, Louvain-la-Neuve (Paris: LHarmattan, 2001), pp. 89-115. Political Reforms and Conflict Management in the African Democratic Transition, in Raymond Suttner (ed.) Africa in the New Millennium (Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2001), Discussion Paper 13, pp. 12-27. Ethnic Identification in the Great Lakes Region, in Simon Bekker, Martine Dodds and Meshack Khosa (eds.) Shifting African Identities (Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council, 2001), pp. 61-80. The Crisis in the Great Lakes Region, in Malegapuru William Makgoba (ed.) African Renaissance: The New Struggle (Sandton: Mafube Publishing, and Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers, 1999), pp. 62-76. The Democracy Movement in Congo-Kinshasa, 1956-1994, in Jonathan Hyslop (ed.) African Democracy in the Era of Globalisation (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1999), pp. 289-313. The Arms Race and the Process of National Construction in Developing Countries, Part III (Ch. 12-14) in Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies 1987 (Paris: UNESCO, 1989), pp. 219-271. Co-author. The Second Independence Movement in Congo-Kinshasa, in Peter Anyang' Nyong'o (ed.) Popular Struggles for Democracy in Africa (London: United Nations University and Zed Books, 1987), pp. 113-141. French trans. Le mouvement pour la seconde indpendance au Congo-Kinshasa (Zare) de 1963-1968, in Afrique: la longue marche vers la dmocratie (Paris: Publisud, 1988), pp. 208-232. The National Question and the Crisis of Instability in Africa, in Emmanuel Hansen (ed.) Africa: Perspectives on Peace and Development (London: United Nations University and Zed Books, 1987), pp. 55-86. Amilcar Cabral et la thorie de la lutte de libration nationale, in Pour Cabral: Symposium international Amilcar Cabral, Praia, Cap-Vert, 17-20 janvier 1983 (Paris: Prsence Africaine, 1987), pp. 132-143. Also published in English and in Portuguese. HONORIFIC TITLES AND AWARDS 2004 Best Book Award for The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A Peoples History, by the APCG (See Publications, above) Distinguished Service in Support of Democracy in the DRC, CEREC, 1998 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute of the US School of Foreign Service (Rosslyn, VA), 1993 Award for Scholarship and Commitment to Pan-Africanism, Pan-African Studies Conference, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 1992 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Davidson College, 1990 Freedom Award, International Center for Development Policy, Washington, DC, 1987 Rockefeller Foundation Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973-75 Wisconsin Ford Area Fellow, UW-Madison, 1968-69 Fellow, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky, 1967-68 Charles A. Dana Scholar, Davidson College, 1965-67 BIODATA Born: February 3, 1944 in Kasha, DR Congo Nationality: Congolese Languages: Tshiluba, French, English CONTACT DETAILS Department of African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 201 Battle Hall Campus Box 3395 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3395 USA Telephone: +1 919 537-3210 Mobile: +1 919 599 9839 E-mail:  HYPERLINK "mailto:nzongola@email.unc.edu" nzongola@email.unc.edu September 17, 2012  Only current and most important memberships are shown, thus excluding organizations to which I belonged for a few years such as the American Political Science Association (APSA), the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH), the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists (ASBS), and the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA).  A full listing of publications is available upon request.     PAGE 7 PAGE 1 &bip  > @   ! 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