H.1 – Venue: Loria 250
Prepositioning African Literature as World Literature
Roundtable
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University (Chair)
Simon Gikandi, Princeton University
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University
Rosemary Jolly, Pennsylvania State University
Loka Losambe, University of Vermont
H.2 – Venue: 220 York 001
The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla, Swahili Poet and Activist
accompanied by readings in English (by translators) and Swahili by Abdilatif Abdalla
TRACALA Seminar: Roundtable 3 of 3 (Sponsored by the Princeton African Humanities Colloquium)
Kai Kresse (Chair)
Abdilatif Abdalla – Guest of Honor: Reading in Swahili
Meg Arenberg, Princeton University
Imagining Eve: Abdilatif Abdalla’s Utenzi wa Maisha ya Adamu na Hawaa (1971; Epic on the Life of Adam and Eve)
Annmarie Drury, Queens College CUNY
On Sauti ya Dhiki (1973; Voice of Agony), a monument of existential prison poetry
Kai Kresse, Columbia University
On Kenya: Twendapi? (1968; Kenya: where are we heading?), a bold political pamphlet speaking to our present
H.3 – Venue: 212 York 04A
Book Review Panel: Grace Musila’s A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour
EC-sponsored Panel
Ato Quayson, University of Toronto (Chair)
Tsitsi Jaji, Duke University
Grace Musila, Stellenbosch University
Ato Quayson, University of Toronto
H.4 – Venue: LC 211
Remembering Professor Bole Butake (1947-2016): Playwright, Human Rights Activist, Scholar
EC-sponsored Roundtable
Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford (Chair)
Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford
Perpetual Chiangong, Humboldt University
Benn Bongang, Savannah State University
Victor Gomia, Delaware State University
Joseph Bannavti, Independent Scholar
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University
Paddy Ndole, Independent Scholar
H.5 – Venue: 212 York, Room 106
Feminist Narratives in Africa: African Literature, World Literature
Roundtable
Helen Chukwuma, Jackson State University (Chair)
Helen Chukwuma, Jackson State University
Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University
Asabe Kabir Usman, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto
H.6 – Venue: 212 York, Room 004
Teaching African Literature in the Twenty-First Century
Roundtable
Shola Adenekan, University of Bremen (Chair)
Tomi Adeaga, University of Vienna
Rebecca Jones, University of Birmingham
Ifeyinwa Okolo, Federal University Lokoja
Inappropriate and Vile?: Teaching Sexuality in African Literature in a Nigerian University
H.7 – Venue: LC 317
Thinking Senegalese and Pan-African Futures with Boubacar Boris Diop
Panel
Jonathon Repinecz, George Mason University (Chair)
Fatoumata Seck, College of Staten Island CUNY
Reading the Postcolonial City in Ken Bugul’s Aller et Retour (2013)
Cullen Goldblatt, Brown University
Griots and Slaves in Wolof and French: Moussa Ka’s “Century” to a Pan-African Decolonized Mind
Ivy Mills, University of California, Berkeley
Donkey Wives and Monkey Mothers: Gender, Race, and the Human/Animal Boundary in Senegalese Cultural Production
Jonathon Repinecz, George Mason University
“This Time for Africa:” Shakira and Afromodernity, A View From Dakar
H.8 – Venue: LC 104
Imaging Africa beyond the French Hegemony: L’Afrique et l’Éloge de la Post-Francophonie
FRACALA-sponsored Roundtable
Marc Adoux Papé, St. John Fisher College& Kanaté Dahouda, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Chairs)
Kanaté Dahouda, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Marc Adoux Papé, St. John Fisher College
William Spurlin, Brunel University London
H.9 – Venue: Loria 351
Topographies of Sound and Music in African Film
FVM: Film and Visual Media Caucus Panel
P. Julie Papaioannou, University of Rochester (Chair)
Olivier J. Tchouaffe, Southwestern University
Topics in Visual and Acoustic Practices in African Cinema: Thoughts on Bamako (2006), The President (2014), and A Leaf in the Wind (2014)
Boukary Sawadogo, City College of New York
Space and Time Dimensions of Film Music in Black Girl
Carmela Garritano, Texas A&M University
Sound and Affect: Digital Sound Effects in Ghanaian Ghost Movies
Daniela Ricci, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
Subjectivities and Soundscapes in Diasporic African Films Today
H.10 – Venue: Loria B51
Isidore Okpewho (1941-2016): Scholar, Writer
EC-sponsored Roundtable
Adélékè Adéèkó (Chair)
Adélékè Adéèkó, Ohio State University
Chiji Akoma, Villanova University
Carole Boyce-Davies, Cornell University
Olakunle George, Brown University
Marame Gueye, East Carolina University
Nduka Otiono, Carleton University
H.11 – Venue: Loria B50
Locating the Un/Popular Arts in Africa and the World
Panel 2 of 2
Lynda Spencer, Rhodes University (Chair)
Brendon Nicholls
Bessie Head, Popular Children’s Literature, and the Erotics of Power
Nedine Moonsamy, University of Pretoria
A Case for Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard as Science Fiction
Sope Maithufi, UNISA
Selby Mvusi: The Unrecognised Black African Modernist
Olusegun Soetan, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Auteuring Trash: African Cinema and the Nollywood Phenomenon
H.12 – Venue: LC 105
Creative Writing
Panel 1 of 2
Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu, Cornell University (Chair)
Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu, Cornell University
Douglas E. Kazé, Rhodes University
Bird: Meditations on Flight
Elinettie Chabwera, Independent
Our Times
Mohamed Kamara, Washington and Lee University
Lipstick Man
Shola Balogun, Independent
The Road
H.13 – Venue: LC 205
Memory, Migration, and Home
Agatha Ukata, American University of Nigeria Yola (Chair)
Adedoyin Aguoru, University of Ibadan
Migrant Experience as Tales in the Novels of Nigerian Migrant Writers
Agatha Ukata, American University of Nigeria-Yola; Jonas Akung, University of Calabar; and Brian Reed, American University of Nigeria Yola
Re-deepening Diasporic Identity in Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me by My Rightful Name
Brian Reed, American University of Nigeria Yola; Agatha Ukata, American University of Nigeria Yola; and Jonas Akung, University of Calabar
Being and Not Being: How Society Negotiates Humanity a Report of Boy, Snow, Bird and Passing
H.14 – Venue: LC 206
Literary Activism in East Africa
Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, King’s College, London (Chair)
Wandia Njoya, Daystar University
Chaining Imaginations: The Struggle for Creativity in Kenya
Lester Mwetu and Ali Mohamud, University of Kabianga
Struggling Gender: Women and Politics in Kenya
Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, King’s College, London
The Literary Activist Responsibility of the African Writer: A Profile of Goretti Kyomuhendo
Deborah Nyangulu, University of Muenster
Necropolitan Spaces in Meja Mwangi’s The Big Chiefs
H.15 – Venue: Loria 360
Writing Identity and Inequality: Bessie Head & NoViolet Bulawayo
Elinor Rooks, University of Leeds (Chair)
Elinor Rooks, University of Leeds
Neither Medusa nor the Phallus: Bessie Head’s Anxious Deconstructions of Sex
Edwin Tangwa, University of Yaounde 1
Deconstructing Post-Independence “Ethnic” Identities in Selected Works of Bessie Head and John Nkemngong Nkengasong
Senayon Olaoluwa, University of Ibadan
Transnationalism and Nuances of Global Inequality in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
H.16 – Venue: LC 208
Palimpsests and Openings
Edgard Coly, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (Chair)
Edgard Coly, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Planète à vendre: l’accaparement des terres en Afrique
Jamiella Brooks, University of California, Davis
Nomenculture: Proper Names as Palimpsest in Francophone African Literature
Karim Sagna, Eralham College
Une kora décloisonnée et le pouvoir des mots dans la musique de Jali-ba Kouyaté
Awah Mfossi Sidjeck, University of Calgary
Altérite en image: Perceptions et représentations chez Euzhan Palcy et Ousmane Sembene
H.17 – Venue: 220 York, Room 002
Literary Lessons
Martina Kopf, University of Vienna (Chair)
Faith Ben-Daniels, University of Education, Winneba
The Social, Political, and Economic Displacement of Africa: A Discussion of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe’s Prison Graduates and Upstairs and Downstairs
Abigail Eruaga, University of Benin
Volenti non Fit Injuria: The Tragic Implications of Rebelling against Ancestral Presence in Camus’ The Stranger and Okey Ndibe’s Arrows of Rain
Gabrielle Lewis, Kennesaw University
One Among Many: Identity and Agency in Farah’s Novel, Sweet and Sour Milk
Martina Kopf, University of Vienna
Understanding the World through the Memoir
H.18 – Venue: 220 York, Room 003
London Diasporas/Black British Writing
Andrew Armstrong, University of the West Indies (Chair)
Jennifer Leetsch, University of Wuerzburg
Her Body is a Flooding Home: Transnational Trajectories in Warsan Shire
Ijeoma Odoh, Howard University
The Female Body as a Site of Production in Black British Women’s Writing
Andrew Armstrong, University of the West Indies
Traversing London: Urban Aesthetics in Leila Aboulela and Abdulrazak Gurnah