AASR Bulletin 35 - The African Association for the Study of Religions

AASR BULLETIN 35 (NOVEMBER 2011)
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Dr. Benhardt Yemo Quarshie, former Senior Lecturer, Dept. for the Study of Religions,
University of Ghana, (cf. also http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=376 ), has been
appointed Rector of the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture,
P.O. Box 76, Akropong-Akuapem, Ghana. His current e-mail addresses are:
bquarshie@acighana.org; byquarshie@yahoo.com). He delivered the third Kwame Bediako
Memorial Lecture at British Council Auditorium at Accra on June 8, 2011. Its
title was: ‘The Bible in African Christianity: Kwame Bediako and Reshaping of an African
Heritage’. See:
http://www.acighana.org/site/contents/photogallery/index.phppagenumber=4&album=
3rd+Kwame+Bediako+Memorial+Lecture%2C+British+Council%2C+Accra.+%5B8th
+June%2C+2011%5D .
Dr. Brigid Maa Sackey (cf. also http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=377), who served
as Acting Director of the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana in
2008 and 2009, was promoted to Full Professor in 2009, shortly before her compulsory
retirement. She delivered her inaugural lecture on February 3, 2011. For the summary
of its contents, see above. She is on a post-retirement contract now with the Centre of
Social Policy Studies in the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Ghana.
Dr. Cephas N. Omenyo, Associate Professor in the Dept. for the Study of Religions
(cf. also http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=460), has been appointed Acting Dean of
the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ghana in August 2011.
Dr. Elom Dovlo, Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religions (cf.
also http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=453), served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of
Arts of the University of Ghana till August 2011. He has now been appointed Acting
Deputy Director in charge of the Distance Learning Programme of the University of
Ghana. In addition, he teaches and supervises research students in the Department for
the Study of Religions.
Marja Hinfelaar, PhD (2001) in History (Utrecht University, Netherlands;
http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=370) resided as an historian and an independent
academic in Zambia since 1997. Her projects there include the coordination of
digitization projects at the National Archives of Zambia, Livingstone Museum and
ANC/UNIP archives. Research topics are post-colonial history, church-state relations,
politics and elections She is also the coordinator of longitudinal study on political party
dynamics at the constituency level in the run-up to the 2011 elections in Zambia; a
founder member and editor of The Lembani Trust, a Zambian academic publishing
house; and Member of the advisory board of Journal of Southern African Studies. In
2012 she will take up a new appointment as Director of Programs and Research of the
newly established Southern Africa Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR) at
Lusaka, Zambia.