Friday, June 16, 9:00-11:00pm
An Evening of Readings in Mother Tongue African Languages
Af-Am House
(TRACALA: Translation Caucus of the ALA)
Hosted by Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith, University of Nebraska, Omaha & Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford
- Akintunde Akinyemi, University of Florida - Yoruba (Nigeria)
- Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford - Kenyang (Cameroon)
- Ada Azodo, Indiana University Northwest - Igbo (Nigeria)
- Kassahun Checole, Africa World Press -Tigrinya (Eritrea)
- Irène D’Almeida, The University of Arizona - Fon (Benin)
- Joyce Dixon-Fyle, DePauw University - Krio (Sierra Leone)
- Arthur Onipede Hollist, University of Tampa - Krio (Sierra Leone)
- Eustace Palmer, Georgia College and State University - Krio (Sierra Leone)
- Ousseynou Traore, William Paterson University - Wolof (Senegal)
- Wangui Wa Goro, Translator/Translation Theorist and Promoter: SIDENSI - Gikuyu (Kenya)
- Ikeogu Oke, University of Nigeria, Nsuka (Igbo)