We are happy to announce the following 2004 WARC Travel Grants Awards.
Three (3) WARC Research Members were awarded for the academic year 2005:

Selected grantees for September 2004 session

• Mr Solange BANDIAKY
  Doctoral Student at Clark University
  The Gendered Interconnections among the World Bank, the Senegalese government, and Local Communities in Natural Resource Management
  Research in Senegal, West Africa
  

• Mr Amigun BAMIKOLE
  Doctoral Student, Chemical Engineering Department at University of Cape Town, South Africa
  Economics and Cost Estimation of Biofuel
  Research in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, February 2005
  E-mail: amigunb@chemeng.uct.ac.za
  
  
• Mr. Ademola OLASUPO ABASS
  Doctoral Student at University of Ibadan
  Impact of the World Wie Web (Internet) on the coaching ability of elite African coaches at the 8th all African games Abuja Nigeria
  Research in Botswana, February 15 to 18, 2005.
  E-mail: abassupy@yahoo.com

Alternates:

• Jude Thaddeus Dingbobga Fokwang,
  Doctoral Student, University of Toronto
  Youth and Citizenship in Bawenda, Cameroon
  Research in Cameroon, january 2005
  E-mail: jude.fokwang@utoronto.edu
  
  
• Aderemi Raji-Oyelade
  Senior Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
  "Sexclusion", subalternity and women's writing in nigerian and South African poetry
  South Africa, February - March 2005
  E-mail: remraj1@yahoo.com
  
  
• Awa BA
  Doctoral Student, Uppsala University - Sweden
  Little Senegal in Harlem: Associational life among senegalese women in New York
  USA, November 2004
  E-mail : awa.ba@teol.uu.se
  

Selected grantees for March 2005 session

(candidates shoud send their application from january 1st to march 15th 2005)

The West African Research Association (AROA), on behalf of its member associations (The West African Research Association/WARA; West African Research Center /WARC; and CAORC, Council of American Overseas Research Centers) would like to thank you for your recent submission to the grant committee. The Travel Grant awards were generally of a high quality. Unfortunately, we have limited funds, and are able to award only a few per academic year.
We would like to encourage researchers who are not among the grantees to re-apply for future consideration. As this is our fifth year it is up to us to demonstrate that there is a great demand for these grants by consistently demonstrating the significant demand coming from West Africa, we have a better chance of securing additional funding to increase the amount available for grants.
For your information, ten countries (Gambia, Mauritania, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroun, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, USA, Mali) were represented among the submission which we received this year.

Write us if you have any more questions, at warc_croa@yahoo.fr