We are happy to announce the following 2004 WARC Travel Grants Awards.
Six (6) WARC Research Members were awarded for this academic year 2003-2004:

Selected grantees for September 2003 session

• Ms Barrel Gueye
  Doctoral Student at SUNY Binghamton University
  Study an adolescent drop-outs in West Africa
  Senegal, West Africa
  E-mail: gbarrel@bughamton.edu
  
  
• Ms. Adeboye Olufunke Asake
  Professor at the University of Lagos, Nigeria
  Presents a paper on the perspectives history and culture, Texas, USA
  March 2004
  E-mail: Funks29adeboye@yahoo.co.uk
  
  
• Mr. Smart Egwu Otu
  Doctoral Student at University of the Western Cape Belleville Cape Town, South Africa
  Drugg trafficking and grug traffickers: a sociological analysis of selected inmates in Pollsmoor and Goodwood prisons, Cap Town USA, March 15 to April 18, 2004.
  E-mail: Smartotu@hotmail.com
  
  
• Mr. Amadou Tidiane Fofana
  Doctoral Student / Professor
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  E-mail: afofana@students.wisc.edu

Selected grantees for March 2004 session

• Moulaye Ismael KEITA
  PhD Candidate / Sociology at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar (Senegal)
  Mauritanian, he is in charge of all classes in Sociology and Anthropology at Ecole Nationale de Developpement Sanitaire et Social (ENDSS) in Dakar.
  Research at University of California, Los Angeles
  Presents a paper on "Les Haratin de Mauritanie: quelle approche?"
  E-mail: djoneba@hotmail.com / Phone: (221) 586 4122 / (221) 860 1817
  
  
• Mrs Marianne SOUMARE
  PhD. in Philosophy
  Senegalese, Researcher at RADDHO (African Network on Human Rights),
  Research at Northwestern University on "Nation and Peace: identity issue in Casamance conflict"
  E-mail: mariannesoumare@yahoo.com

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 fourth 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, twelve countries (Gambia, Mauritania, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroun, Kenya, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, 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