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Fourth Annual Claude Ake Memorial Awards Program
for Young & Mid-Career African Scholars-Activists
Deadline: June 25, 2003

The Claude Ake Memorial Awards Program seeks to encourage young and
mid-career African scholars-activists to carry out research, reflection
and
writing about their ideas and activities. The award is intended for
Africans, working in Africa, who are engaged in knowledge-based and
reality-informed problem solving to address the continent s
development
challenges, in the tradition of Claude Ake. It will support research
projects that are applicable to a country, region, or other defined
setting
within Africa. Successful applicants will receive stipends of $6,000
for
innovative research aimed at meeting challenges that face the continent
of
Africa. In addition, Ake Scholars will travel to the U.S. on or about
October 27 to attend the African Studies Association s (ASA) Annual
Meeting
in Boston, Massachusetts, where they will present their research to a
representative cross section of the Africanist community from around
the
world. Following the ASA Meeting, from October 31 to November 13,
award
recipients will travel to various American college campuses where they
will
network with community and faculty members who have similar research
or
advocacy interests.

Please help us get the word out to potential applicants by giving the
following announcement and application form to those whom you believe
might
be interested.

For further information and to download application forms, please logon
to
http://www.aaionline.org/akeclaude/whatClaudeAke.html. The deadline
for
receipt of applications is June 25, 2003.

Thank you for assisting AAI in our efforts to reach a wide network of
potential candidates.

Rachel Minka
Program Officer,
The Claude Ake Memorial Awards Program
The Africa America Institute
1625 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036 USA
(202) 667-5636