Issa G. Shivji. Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism: Lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union. Dar es Dalaam, Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2008. Published in association with OSSREA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Distributed in the U.S. by Michigan State University Press, xx + 313 pp. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-208
Author(s):  
John W. Forje
Keyword(s):  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Establishment and Persistence of Sedum spp. and Native Taxa for Green Roof Applications

HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Monterusso ◽  
D. Bradley Rowe ◽  
Clayton L. Rugh
Keyword(s):  
Native Species ◽  
Green Roof ◽  
Green Roofs ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Native Plant ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
Extensive Green Roofs ◽  
The U.S

Although the economic, environmental, and aesthetic benefits of green roofs have been recognized for decades, research quantifying these benefits has been limited—particularly in the U.S. Green roof usage and research is most prevalent in Germany, but can also be seen in several other European countries and Canada. If green roof installations are to be successful in Michigan and the rest of the U.S., then a better understanding of what specific taxa will survive and thrive under harsh rooftop conditions in this geographic area is required. Nine simulated rooftop platforms containing three commercially available drainage systems were installed at Michigan State University. Eighteen Michigan native plants planted as plugs and nine Sedum spp. planted as either seed or plugs were evaluated over three years for growth, survival during both establishment and overwintering, and visual appearance. All Sedum spp. tested were found to be suitable for use on Midwestern green roofs. Of the eighteen native plant taxa tested, Allium cernuum L., Coreopsis lanceolata L., Opuntia humifosa Raf., and Tradescantia ohiensis L. are suitable for use on unirrigated extensive green roofs in Michigan. If irrigation is available, then other native species are potential selections.

Editor’s Introduction

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Harvey Glickman
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
State University ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
University Of Connecticut ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

This ISSUE is almost totally comprised of the first half of a two part publication series that relates Africanists to the Africa policy of the U.S. government. As a whole, the two parts—in this and the next ISSUE —review the relationship of the opinions and the activities of the Africanist community outside the U.S. government (mainly academics) to the thrust and substance of policy and the process of policy-making inside the U.S. government. The two major articles in the present ISSUE—on Africanists and U.S. foreign and national security policy by Larry Bowman of the University of Connecticut, and on Africanists and U.S. economic assistance policy by Michael Bratton of Michigan State University—represent the first part.

The Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union: A Bibliographic Essay

1966 ◽  
Vol 9 (02) ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Mark W. DeLancey
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Black Africa ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
American Reaction ◽  
Excellent Source

The appointment in March 1966 of Kwame Nkrumah as honorary president of Guinea was ostensibly made on the basis of an agreement signed by Nkrumah and Sékou Touré in 1958 which founded the Union of Independent African States (UIAS, Ghana-Guinea, 1958-1960). The UIAS, subsequently the Union of African States (UAS, Ghana-Guinea-Mali, 1960-1963), has not been of great importance in the development of Pan-Africanism. Nkrumah's recent appointment probably caused more publicity for the UIAS-UAS than any other event in its history, with the exception of its founding in 1958. Because of the quiet functioning of this organization, declared as no longer in existence by Touré in 1963, very little has been written about it. Thus a student of Africa is reduced to dependence upon short newspaper accounts of the various meetings of the leaders of the states involved, to brief references in more general works on African unity, and to conjecture. Yet there are several bibliographic sources which are useful. Among these is Peter Duignan, “Pan-Africanism: A Bibliographic Essay,” African Forum, I, No. 1 (Summer 1965), 105-107, a brief survey of the most important works on Pan-Africanism. The subject is divided into three phases--the American reaction to racism, the drive for African independence, and the dream of continental unity. For materials concerning Ghana, the best reference is Albert F. Johnson, A Bibliography of Ghana, 1930-1961 (Evanston, Ill., Published for the Ghana Library Board by the Northwestern University Press, 1964). Of a more general nature are W. J. Hanna and J. L. Hanna, Politics in Black Africa (East Lansing, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1964); the annual United States and Canadian Publications on Africa, for years from 1960 (Washington, Library of Congress, 1962; Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution, 1963-), an excellent source for references to periodical materials; and International Committee for Social Sciences Documentation, The International Bibliography of Political Science (Chicago, Aldine Publishing Co., 1952-).

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