Ndiouga Lexan Adrien Henri Benga (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal)
Submitted: Fri, June 13, 2008
Ndiouga Lexan Adrien Henri Benga
Maître-assistant
Département d'Histoire
Faculté des Lettres
Université Cheikh Anta Diop
B.P. 5005
Dakar-Fann
Dakar
Sénégal
phone: 221.33.864.0329 / 221.77.328.5595
fax: 221.33.824.2379
e-mail: nabenga@refer.sn
Education
Doctorat d'Université en Histoire (décembre 1995),
Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, Groupe Afrique Noire
Laboratoire << Les sociétés en développement dans
l'espace et le temps >>, SEDET-CNRS (ex-Laboratoire Tiers Mondes,
Afrique)
Thèse de doctorat: << Pouvoir central et pouvoir local: la gestion
municipale à l'épreuve, Rufisque, Sénégal,
1924-1964. >> (Mention Très Honorable avec félicitations du
jury, Directeur de recherche, Professeur Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch)
Edited thesis, Université de Lille III
ISSN 0294-1767, no. 1356.24603/97
Awards and Honours
Fall 2006 and 2007 Professor of History, CIEE (Council on
International Educational Exchange), Suffolk University, Dakar Campus
January-May 2005 Visiting Fellow Five College African Scholars
Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Theme: Power and Representation
May-June 1999 and 2004 Visiting Professor, Laboratoire SEDET
(Developing Societies in the Space and the Time), University Paris VII
Denis-Diderot, France
Spring 2004 Professor of History, Georgetown Program, Dakar
July 2001-July 2002 Fellow Africa Program, Social Science Research
Council, New York; Theme: Understanding Exclusion, Creating Value :
African Youth in a Global Age
Teaching
Methodology in History of African societies
City in Africa: History Issues (XVI-XVIII centuries)
Slavery, City and Demography in Africa South of the Sahara (XVI-XVIII centuries)
Urban History: West African Cities in the XIX-XXI centuries
Urban Society: Les lieux de mémoire--Comparative Perspectives
Local Elites and Urban Modernization in West Africa (XIX-XX centuries)
Dirty Water, Miasmas and Odors. Public Health and Urban Space in Africa (XIX-XX centuries)
Powers and Urban Societies in West Africa (XIX-XXI centuries)
Ongoing Research
* Citizenship, Social Contract, Nation-State, Dissidences
* Relations between Central Power and Local Power (XIX-XXI centuries)
* City and Violence
* Individualization Process in the African City
* Urban Cultures: Music, Theater, Clothing and Fashion
Latest Publications
2001, "Entre Jérusalem et Babylone. Jeunes et espace public
à Dakar," Pp. 169-178 in R. Collignon et M. Diouf (éds),
Les jeunes, hantise de l'espace public dans les sociétés
du Sud, Autrepart. (ex-Cahiers Sciences Humaines de l'Orstom): no. 18,
Paris, Edition de l'Aube, IRD.
2002, "Dakar et ses tempos. Significations et enjeux de la musique
urbaine (ca 1960--années 1990)," Pp. 289-308 in M.-C. Diop
(éd.) Le Sénégal contemporain. Paris, Karthala.
2003a, "Le diplômé et la commune. Itinéraires pour
l'emploi, individualisations et pratiques citoyennes à Dakar,"
Pp. 293-310 in F. Leimdorfer et A. Marie (éds), L'Afrique des
citadins; Sociétés civiles en chantier (Abidjan, Dakar). Paris,
Karthala.
2003b, "'The Air of the City Makes Free': Urban Music Bands from the 1950s
to the 1990s in Senegal," Pp. 75-85 in M. Palmberg and A. Kirkegaard
(eds) Playing With Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa. Uppsala, Nordic
Africa Institute.
2003c, Citoyenneté française, citoyenneté locale. La
municipalité en Haute-Volta (1926-1960)," Pp. 973-987 in Y. G. Madiega
et O. Nao (éds) Burkina Faso. Cent ans d'histoire, 1895-1995. Paris,
Karthala.
2005a, "Meanings and Challenges of Modern Urban Music. Dakar, Senegal
(1960-2000)," in T. Falola and S. Salm (eds), Urbanization and African
Cultures. Carolina Academic Press.
2005b, "Un homme de (contre-) pouvoir dans la ville. L'Affaire Justin
Devès à Saint-Louis du Sénégal (1910-1911)," in Chantal
Chanson-Jabeur et Odile Goerg (éds.) Mama Africa. Hommage à Catherine
Coquery-Vidrovitch. Paris, L'Harmattan.
Forthcoming
"How to be known by others and how to assert oneself as an actor in
society. Rap Music and Medias in Senegal," in F. Wittmann et M. Taureg
(eds), The Construction of Media Environment in Senegal. Dakar, Goethe
Institute.
"Controlling Space: Land Ownership and Dynamics in Dakar (1906-1980s)"
Activities
* Co-ordinator research program (2007-2009) "When States Use Culture.
Cultural Politics in Senegal and Zare (1960-1990s), Comparative
Perspectives." Department of History, University Cheikh Anta Diop,
Dakar - Dept of Anthropology, University of Montreal (Bob White).
* Co-coordinator CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social
Sciences Research in Africa) Multinational Working Group ((MWG)
"Youth and Identity in Africa\" (2007-2009). Funded by tne Canadian
Council for Social Sciences Research
* CODESRIA, Governance Institute, Urban Governance in Africa,
resource-person, August-September 2004
* SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History
of Development), Amsterdam -- CODESRIA, Dakar. Resource-person of
Extended Workshop on Social History: Labour, Gender and Family,
September-October 2002
Books reviewer
* Africa, The Journal of the International African Institute, London
* Africa Development, Codesria, Dakar, Sénégal
* African Studies Review, Journal of the African Studies Association, Smith College,
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
* Canadian Journal of African Studies, Université de Laval, Québec
* Revue Sénégalaise d'Histoire, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
* Sociétés Africaines et Diaspora, Paris, L'Harmattan
Languages Skills
Fluent in French, English and Wolof (my native language)