F.1 – Venue: Loria 250
Remembering Buchi Emecheta, 1944-2017
Sponsored by the Yale English Department
Roundtable (double-session, cont’d)
F.2 – Venue: 212 York, Room 04A
Early Written Literature in African Languages: Pre-1900 Texts
Panel
Wendy Belcher, Princeton University (Chair)
Morgan J. Robinson, Princeton University
In the Pages of Msimulizi: Tracing a Swahili Literary Magazine and Network of the Late-Nineteenth Century
Yideg Alemayehu, Mekelle University
Hybrid Narrative Technique in the Ethiopian Hagiography Gädlä Yəmˁatta
Wendy Belcher, Princeton University
Of Pregnant Abbesses and Cannibals: French and Ethiopic Medieval Marian Tales in Comparative Perspective
F.3 – Venue: 212 York, Room 106
“Stepping Over the Dead”: Towards a Global Analytic of the “Afterlife of Slavery”
Roundtable
Selamawit Terrefe, University of California, Irvine & University of Bremen, Germany (Chair)
Cecilio Cooper, Northwestern University
Janelle Rodriques, University of Bremen
Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, CUNY, Brooklyn College
Mlondolozi Zondi, Northwestern University
This panel will be accompanied by break-out session in the Afro-American Cultural Center, time & venue tbc at this session
F.4 – Venue: 212 York, Room 004
Imperfect Presents: A Roundtable on the Politics and Aesthetics of Disappointment In and Beyond South Africa
Roundtable
Andrew van der Vlies, Queen Mary University of London (Chair)
Brenna Munro, University of Miami
Lily Saint, Wesleyan University
Andrew van der Vlies, Queen Mary University of London
Khwezi Mhkize, University of Cape Town
F.5 – Venue: 220 York, Room 001
Student Human Rights in Africa
EC-sponsored Human Rights Panel 2 of 2
Samuel Zadi, Central Connecticut State University (Chair)
Jill Planche, Brock University
“Interlocutors and Sense-makers”: #Feesmustfall Protests as Theatrical Event in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Jamal Gabobe, University of Washington
Student Revolt and Diasporic Consciousness
Tsitsi Jaji, Duke University
Black Lives Matter: African Experiences of Police Violence and Student Activism
F.6 – Venue: Loria B51
Local Languages, World Readerships: East African Literary Translation
TRACALA Seminar: Roundtable 1 of 3
Meg Arenberg, Princeton University (Chair)
Sponsored by the Princeton African Humanities Colloquium
Ann Biersteker, Michigan State University
Selection from “Chuo cha Herekali”/ “Utendi wa Tambuka” (18th century poem), Bwana Mwengo Athmani
Annmarie Drury, Queens College CUNY
Selection from Kale ya Washairi wa Pemba (collection of late 19th-century and early 20th-century poetry), including poems by Kamange and Sarahani
Nathalie Arnold Koenings, Hampshire College
Selection from Mbali na Nyumbani (contemporary memoir), Adam Shafi
F.7 – Venue: LC 317
African Films and Global Analytical Frameworks II
FVM: Film and Visual Media Caucus Panel 2 of 2:
MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins, Pennsylvania State University (Chair)
Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS, University of London
“Worlding” African Cinema: A Gaze Through the Films of Jyoti Mistry
P. Julie Papaioannou, University of Rochester
A Global Perspective in a Crystal Ball: Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Naked Reality
MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins, Pennsylvania State University
“Worlding” the Closed Timeframes of Resilient Life in Yamina Bachir Chouikh’s Rachida and Judy Kibinge’s Something Necessary
Jean Ouédraogo, College of the Holy Cross (Discussant)
F.8 – Venue: LC 211
Le théâtre de Bernard Dadié: une esthétique dramatique originale pour l’éternité Littéraire
Panel
Roland Kouakou Kouassi, Université Alassane Ouattara (Chair)
Joachim Kei, Université Alassane Ouattara
Etude grammaticale de la nuisance environnementale: aspect lexical et interprétatif dans Béatrice du Congo de Bernard Dadié
N’da Kouakou Cyrille de Paul Yao, Université Alassane Ouattara
Les nuances causales dans les conversations de Mhoi Ceul: un jeu de la parole
Mathias Gohy Irié Bi, Université Alassane Ouattara
Le rire chez Bernard Dadié, le cas de Tôgô gnini
Roland Kouakou Kouassi, Université Alassane Ouattara
Le parallélisme discursif dans le texte dramatique dadien: vers un théâtre narré
F.9 – Venue: LC 105
Saharan Identities
Roundtable of Seminar
Kevin Hickey, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (Chair)
Sophia Azeb, New York University
Latifa Bounou, SUNY Oneonta
Mark Drury, Queens College CUNY
Mahan Ellison, Bridgewater College
Mohamed Ghousmane, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Christa Jones, Utah State University
Maria G. Traub, Neumann University
F.10 – Venue: LC 206
Representing Pain and Conflict in Nigeria: Comparative Perspectives
Aghogho Akpome, University of Zululand (Chair)
Akin Olaniyi, The Polytechnic, Ibadan
Redemptive Violence and the Niger Delta Question in Nigerian Literature
Aisha Umar, Ahmadu Bello University, Joyce Agofure, Ahmadu Bello University, and Keston Odiwo, Ahmadu Bello University
Conflict, Ecologies and Literature: An Appraisal of Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water
Kolawole Olaiya, Anderson University
Demonizing Madness: Mental Disorders as Deus Ex Machina in Nollywood Movies
Babasinmisola Fadirepo, Louisiana State University
Writing Pain: Reading Incidence of Sickle-Cell Disease in Egbokhare’s Dazzling Mirage
F.11 – Venue: Loria 360
Crime Literature (Popular Culture)
Colette Guildimann, University of Pretoria (Chair)
Karen Ferreira-Meyers, University of Swaziland
Chinese in Africa: How to Live Together, or Not? A Brief Reading of the Presence of China in African Crime Novel
Colette Guldimann, University of Pretoria
Crimes from the Cape to Casablanca: The Hypothetical Detective and the Emergence of the Postcolonial Police Novel in South and North Africa
Tyler Scott Ball, York University
The Sleuths of Sof’town: South Africa’s Drum Generation and the American Hard-boiled Tradition
F.12 – Venue: LC 104
Southern African Women Writers
Naomi Nkealah, University of South Africa (Chair)
Mbongeni Malaba, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Women’s Writing in Namibia: An Analysis of Coming on Strong and Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Naomi Nkealah, University of South Africa
Cameline Agency: A New Agenda for Social Transformation in South African Women’s Writing 2012-2014
Renee Schatteman, Georgia State University
When the Subaltern Speaks, She Has a Lot to Say: The Transformative Vision of Sindiwe Magona
F.13 – Venue: Loria 351
African Diasporas & the Production of Place
Panel 1 of 2
Lokangaka Losambe, University of Vermont (Chair)
Lokangaka Losambe, University of Vermont
Post-hybrid Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora
Kuldip Kuwahara, North Carolina Central University
Celebrating African Diasporic Cultural Consciousness: Soyinka’s Dance Motif and Zora’s Search for Sunshine
Chinasa Anokwuru, University of Texas, Austin
Asa’s Art: Yoruba Spirituality and Identity in the Neo-Diaspora
Kritish Rajbhandari, Northwestern University
Displacing Colonial Past through Metafiction: Affective Economies of the Indian Ocean in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Desertion
F.14 – Venue: LC 208
African Literature, World Literature
Cheryl Sterling, The City College of New York (Chair)
Stephen Ney, University of Sierra Leone
Manichaeism in the Age of Postcolonial Literary Criticism and Beyond: Augustine, Fanon, and Cheah
Samantha Pinto, Georgetown University
Re-Routing Afro-Pessimism through African Literature
Hilary Kowino, University of Minnesota, Duluth
African Regeneration: Thinking Beyond Global Disruptions
Anna Hill, Yale University
“Worlding” Place: Microcosmic Intimacies in José Eduardo Agualusa’s A General Theory of Oblivion and Ivan Vladislavić’s The Folly
F.15 – Venue: LC 318
Marxism and Adam Mayer’s Naija Marxism: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria
EC-sponsored Book Review Panel
Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Chair)
Akin Adesokan, Indiana University, Bloomington
Obi Nwakanma, University of Central Florida, Orlando
Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, Western University
Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin, Madison