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AfricanLiteratureAssociation45th AnnualConference &Meeting15-18 May 2019Columbus, OhioInstitutions of African Literature:Future, Present, Past

It is a great privilege for me, proudgraduate of The Ohio State University, towelcome you in Columbus, the dynamiccapital city of the Great Buckeye State ofOhio. Of course, our friends from thatschool up north in Ann Arbor,Michigan, are assured that they wouldbe treated with the utmost respect andaffection, in the spirit of the ALA family.The ALA is 45 years old. Our associationhas reached the age of maturity. Thismoment calls for taking stock of ourjourney. Taking stock of the road travelledalso presents us the opportunity to chart the future with confidence.Looking back offers us a platform to celebrate our achievements andaddress challenges. Professor Adélékè Adéẹk̀ ọ́ , and his team have wiselyfocused our attention on a theme that is consistent with this age ofmaturity: “Institutions of African Literature: Future, Present, Past.” Wewill be analyzing, constructing, deconstructing, or reinventing theseinstitutions with our illustrious guests, including Tsitsi Dangarembga,writer, filmmaker, and activist, Carole Boyce Davies, a former Presidentof our association and respected scholar, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, awriter for our times who embodies both the present and the future ofAfrican literature. On behalf of the ALA, I extend my heartfeltcongratulations to Lékè and his entire team for the great work they havedone to make this annual meeting possible.Homed here at Ohio State University, and edited by ALAmembers,is Research in African Literatures a journal which, over the past150 years, has come to be a reference for excellence in our field. Also,ALA has been fortunate to have the affairs of African Literature Today,already in its 51st year, entrusted to the steady hands of its members.Our founding mothers and fathers gifted us with the African LiteratureAssociation.We are collectively charged with protecting and passing this11precious foundational institution to the coming generations.ALA Executive CouncilPresident: Cilas KemedjioRochester UniversityVice President:Beth WilleyUniversity of LouisvilleSecretary: Ann CarlsonSpelman CollegeTreasurer: Akíntúndé AkínyẹmíUniversity of FloridaPast President: Adélékè Adéẹk̀ ọ́The Ohio State UniversityTerm Expiring 2019Joyce AshuntantangUniversity of HartfordGrace MusilaUniversity of theWitwatersrandJoya UraizeeSt Louis University, MissouriKetu KatrakUniversity of California, IrvineTerm Expiring 2020Gaurav DesaiUniversity of MichiganStephanie NewellYale UniversityP. Julie PapaioannouRochester UniversityTerm Expiring 2021Helen ChukwumaJackson State UniversityMũkoma wa NgũgĩCornell UniversityWe are dedicated teachers and scholars of African literature. Weare also, as my own experience has taught me over the years, very good atmentoring. During this annual meeting, I suggest that each of usconsider attending a panel, sharing suggestions with younger colleagues,asking relevant questions, or simply saying good morning or goodafternoon. We have created a sustainable family atmosphere, and that isone the most remarkable strengths of the ALA. Mentoring, I believe, hasbeen and should continue to be a major part of the institutionalinfrastructure of our present and future.Editor:Journal of the African LiteratureAssociation (JALA)Tejumola OlaniyanUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonWelcome to Columbus! Welcome to the spring with the verses ofLéopold Sedar Senghor:ALA HeadquartersJames McCorkleHobart & William Smith Colleges300 Pulteney Street, Geneva, NY 14456Phone: 315-7581-3491 Fax315-781-3822The sweet melting of clear evening,Around five o’clock in the month of May.And the scent of roses rises.2WebmasterMatthew H. BrownUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

2019 Conference MakersAdélékè Adéẹk̀ ọ́Ohio State University, Columbus, OhioKwaku Larbi KorangOhio State University, Columbus, OhioArthur HughesOhio University, Athens, OhioYvonne-Marie MokamDennison University, Granville, OhioDosinda AlviteDennison University, Granville, OhioKwawisi TekpeteyCentral State University, Wilberforce, OhioKelly Jo Fulkerson DikuuaOhio State University, Columbus, OhioBook ExhibitStephanie NewellYale UniversityWeb MattersMatt BrownUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonAccounting MattersAkíntúnd́é AkínyemíUniversity of FloridaProgram Cover ArtMoyo OkedijiUniversity of Texas, AustinKora MusicRyan SkinnerOhio State University, Columbus3

The support of the followingindividuals and offices a t The OhioState University is herebyacknowledged with much gratitude.This conference is, because they are.Office of the Vice President for Diversity & InclusionProfessor James Moore, III, Vice ProvostDr Tayo Clyburn, Executive DirectorResearch in African LiteraturesProfessor Kwaku Larbi Korang, Editor,Department of African American and African StudiesProfessor Simone Drake, ChairJaminque Adams, Graduate AssistantCenter for African StudiesLaura Joseph, Assistant DirectorDepartment of EnglishProfessor Robyn Warhol, ChairWayne Lovely, Administrative ManagerDepartment of French and ItalianProfessor Dana Renga, ChairDepartment of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality StudiesProfessor Shannon Winnubst, ChairDepartment of Comparative StudiesProfessor Barry Shank, Chair4

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Schedule of EventsWednesday, May 15, 201910:00AM-4:00PMRegistration, 2nd Floor Foyer12:00 NOON-4:00PMBook Exhibits, 2nd Floor Foyer12:00NOON-1:30PMSession A Panels1:45PM-3:15PMSession B Panels4:00PM-6:30PMKeynote Lecture 1: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ohio Union, OSU Campus7:30PM-9:00PMOpening Reception, Renaissance Hotel, Hayes CDEThursday, May 16, 20197:00AM-9:00AMExecutive Committee Meeting, Renaissance Conference Room9:00AM-4:00PMRegistration, 2nd Floor Foyer9:00AM-5:00PMBook Exhibits, 2nd Floor Foyer9:00AM-10:30AMSession D Panels10:45-12:15PMSession E Panels12:15PM-1:15PMLunch Break12:15PM-1:15PMFRACALA Luncheon, Hayes CDE12:15PM-1:15PMAfrican Literature Today (ALT) Editorial Board Meeting: Renaissance Conference Room1:30PM-3:00PMSession F Panels3:15PM-4:45PMSession G Panels5:00PM-6:30PMKeynote Lecture 2: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Hayes CDE7:30PM-9:00PMCaucus Meetings: GSCALA, FVMCALA, WOCALA, LHCALA, NACALAALA Thanks the Following Publishers for their Support:MJ Simms-Maddox Africa World Press & Red Sea Press BenBosah Books, Ohio Boydell and Brewer Casemate Group CissusWorld Press Books Michigan State Michigan University Press Ohio University Press Taylor and Francis Group6

Friday, May 17, 20197:00AM-9:00AMExecutive Committee Meeting, Renaissance Conference Room9:00AM-4:00PMRegistration, 2nd Floor Foyer9:00AM-5:00PMBook Exhibits, 2nd Floor Foyer9:00AM-10:30AMSession I Panels10:45-12:15PMSession J Panels12:15PM-1:15PMLunch Break12:15PM-1:15PMWOCALA Luncheon, Hayes CDE1:30PM-3:00PMSession K Panels3:15PM-4:45PMSession L Panels5:00PM-6:30PMKeynote Lecture 3: Carole Boyce Davies, Hayes CDE7:30PM-9:00PMCaucus Meetings: FRACALA, PATCALA, AFCALA, TRACALA7:30PM-9:00PMJALA Editorial Board Meeting, Renaissance Conference Room9:00PM-10:00PMSoundings: Readings in Mother TongueSaturday, May 18, 20197:00AM-9:00AMExecutive Committee Meeting, Renaissance Conference Room9:00AM-12:00NOONRegistration, 2nd Floor Foyer9:00AM-4:00PMBook Exhibits, 2nd Floor Foyer8:00AM-9:30AMSession N Panels9:45AM-11:15AMSession O Panels11:30AM:12:30PMLunch Break12:00NOON-1:30PMFilm: Manthia Diawara’s “An Opera on the World” (Sponsored by the Film Caucus)12:30PM-2:00PMSession P2:15PM-3:45PMSession Q Panels4:00PM-6:00PMANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING, Hayes CDE7:00PM-MidnightBanquet/Awards/Dance/New President’s Speech, Hayes CDESunday, May 19, 20197:00AM-9:00AMRenaissance Conference Room7

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Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieKeynote 1Wednesday, May 15, 2019Ohio UnionChimamanda Ngozie Adichie is awidely acclaimed and multipleaward winning novelist whoseopinion is sought on the mostpressing global issues. Her widelyread novels and collection of shortstories are: Purple Hibiscus, Half of aYellow Sun, That Thing Around YourNeck, and Americanah. Hercollections of critical essays includeWe Should All Be Feminists and DearIjeawele: A Feminist Manifesto in 15Suggestions. Her TED Talk, “TheDanger of a Single Story,” has gainedmore than 20 million views onyoutube!Tsitsi DangarembgaKeynote 2Thursday, May 16, 2019Hayes CDECarole Boyce DaviesKeynote 3Friday, May 17, 2019Hayes CDEINSTITUTIONS OF INCLUSION OREXCLUSION: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLEECOSYSTEMS OF AFRICANLITERATURE WITH SPECIALREFERENCE TO ZIMBABWEDECOLONIAL GAPS AND ‘HALF THEWORLD’ DISCOURSESSince the publication of NervousConditions in 1988—followed bytwo other novels (The Book of Notand The Mournable Body) in theTambudzai trilogy—TsitsiDangarembga has been a frontlinewriter and leading voice in globalgender equity advocacies. Hernovels and films have garneredall the accolades. Besideswriting and making films, TsitsiDangarembga is Director of theInstitute of Creative Arts forProgress in Africa (ICAPA)Trust, Harare.9Past president of ALA (2000/01)and founding force in WOCALA,Carole Boyce Davies is Professor ofAfricana Studies and English atCornell University. Among hermost recent books are Left of KarlMarx: the Political Life of BlackCommunist Claudia Jones andCaribbena Spaces: Escapes fromTwilight Zone. She coedited—withAnne Adams Graves—one of themost influential collections ofessays on feminist criticism inAfrican literature, Ngambika:Studies of Women in AfricanLiterature. Professor Daviesreceived The Franz Fanon LifetimeAchievement Award from theCaribbean Philosophical Associationin 2017

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SESSION A WEDNESDAY 15 MAY 2019 12:00 -1:30 PMDynamics of Submission in PolygamousInstitutions in Lola Shoneyin's The SecretLives of Baba Segi's Wives4: Tereza Kidane, Ohio University, The NewWoman: The Notion of Modernity DuringThe Eritrean Nationalist MovementA1: WRITING RIGHTS/ RIGHTING WRONGSVenue: Room 20Chair: Chielozona Eze, Northeastern IllinoisUniversity1: Carol Njoku & Loretta Okpara, Universityof Nigeria & Alvan Ikoku College ofEducation, Nigeria, Migration, CulturalIdentity and Human Rights Issues inChimamanda Adichie’s Americanah2: Chielozona Eze, Northeastern IllinoisUniversity, Albinism, Disability, and theFuture of Human Rights in Africa3: Ernest Cole, Hope College, Mapping theOther: The Colonial Mindset and RePresentation of Minority IdentitiesA4: RELIGIOUS/THEOLOGICAL SITES OFPRODUCTION & PRODUCTIVITYVenue: Room 30Chair: Temitope Abisoye Noah, New YorkUniversity1: Ellison Domkap, Gordon-ConwellTheological Seminary, Ministry or Industry:Between Faith, Entertainment, and Theology2: Temitope Abisoye Noah, New YorkUniversity, What Is a Yoruba ChristianMovie?3: Ama Boatemaa & Appiah-Kubi, Universityof Education, Winneba, GenderPerformativities and Identity Construction:Quest for Healing, Salvation and Prosperityin an African Pentecostal ChurchA2: READING NIGERIA: NATIONAL, REGIONAL,FEMINIST, STUDIESVenue: Room 21Chair: Ngozi O. Iloh, University of Benin, Nigeria1: Ngozi O. Iloh, University of Benin, Nigeria.Nigerian Literature in French: Past, Present,& Future2: Loretta Chikaodi Opara, Alvan IkokuFederal College of Education, Nigeria,Reviewing the African Woman's Identity inContemporary African Culture: A Study ofZaynab Alkali's Stillborn and ChimamandaAdichie's Americanah3: Joseph Abel, Federal University Lokoja,Nigeria, Provinciality and NationalDiscourse in the Postcolonial Novel inEnglish in Northern NigeriaA5: ETHICS AND FEMINISMVenue: Room 31Chair: Ijeoma Ann Ngwaba, Federal UniversityOye-Ekiti, Nigeria.1: Nonyelum Mba, University of Abuja,African Feminist Theories’ Motif andEmerging Perspectives in AfricanLiterature2: Ijeoma Ann Ngwaba, Federal UniversityOye-Ekiti, Nigeria, InterrogatingObjectivity in Amma Darko's Beyond theHorizon and Chika Unigwe's On BlackSisters StreetA3: FEMINISM & WOMANISMVenue: Room 22Chair: Tereza Kidane, Ohio University1: Maureen Amaka Azuike, University of Jos,Nigeria, Cultural Patriarchy and MythicalStereotypes About Women in AfricanLiterature2: Ojel Anidi, Institute of Management andTechnology (IMT), Enugu, Nigeria, RoleRedefinition in Flora Nwapa's Efuru andImplications for Gender Balance in ModernAfrican Society3: Ethel N. Okeke & Abigail O. Eruaga, EnuguState University of Science and Technology,Nigeria & University of Benin, Nigeria,3: Chukwu Romanus Nwoma & OnyekachiEni, Alex Ekwueme Federal University,Nigeria, Hegemonic Masculinity:Sexploitation in Amma Darko’s Beyond theHorizon4: Abha Sood, Monmouth University, QueenMothers of Ghana in the New Media11

A6: GROUNDS OF LITERARY AND CULTURALHISTORYA7: TOPICALITY, COMMUNICATION, & ALLIEDSITUATIONSVenue: Room 32Chair: Aisha Umar, Federal University, BirninKebbi, Nigeria,1: Ojo Olorunleke, Lagos State University, TheMaterialist Template and NigerianLiterature of the 1970s to the 1990s2: Aisha Umar, Federal University, BirninKebbi, Nigeria, Women in the NorthernNigerian Novel in English: Trends andDevelopment3: Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku, Federal Polytechnic,Oko, Nigeria, Reflections and Retrospectivesof the Female Impulse in African Women’sWriting: The Nigerian Example4: Abiodun Adeniji, University of Lagos,Medium, Theme and Technique: Transitionsin African LiteratureVenue: Room 33Chair: Akosua Asantewaa, University of Education,Winneba1: Akosua Asantewaa, University ofEducation, Winneba, Doctor-PatientCommunication Culture in the ConsultingRoom: A Study of Two University HealthFacilities in Ghana2: Delight Agboada, Ohio University,Exploration of Ohio University’s Initiativesin Integrating Domestic and InternationalStudents Towards a Healthy InterculturalExperience3: Brayonie Sagoe, University of Education,Winneba, Gender Mainstreaming: Equalityand Equity in Professional Progression inHigher Educational Institutions in Ghana12

SESSION B WEDNESDAY 15 MAY 2019 1:45-3:15 PMB1: TRANSFORMATIONS IN PERFORMANCE &THEATERTeaching African Literature in the AmericanSouth2: Afam Ebeogu, Abia State University,Nigeria, Teaching Folklore in a NigerianUniversity: A Tentative Mode3: Marzia, Milazzo, Vanderbilt University,Mark Mathabane’s Kaffir Boy, Steve Biko,and the Politics of White Liberal Tutelage4: Chiji Akoma, Villanova University, EnterStage Left: Video and Igbo Literary DramaSurvivalVenue: Room 20Chair: Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang, University ofToronto1: Faith Ben-Daniels, University of Education,Winneba, The Akan Art of TraditionalStorytelling and Its Role in ModernGhanaian Theatre2: Rasheed Ismaila, University of Lagos /University of Louisville, Dramaturgy ofViolence and Generations of Playwrights inNigeria: A Critical and Historical Appraisal3: Paul Kennedy Enesha, Imo StateUniversity, Owerri, Nigeria, Navigating theContours and the Niceties of theContemporary African Satirical Drama: AStudy of Jerry Alagbaoso’s Collected Plays Iand II.4: Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang, University ofToronto, "Tradition" and Humour in Sekyi'sThe BlinkardsB4: WRITING NATION: COTE D’IVOIREVenue: Room 21Chair: Adam Schoene, Cornell University1: Stella Omonigho, University of Benin,Nigeria, New Structures in FrancophoneAfrican Drama: A Critique of Koffi Kwahuléand Moussa Kounaté's Plays2: Viviane Uetto, Morehouse College, Jeunesseet violence dans le théâtre africain ensituation d’interterritorialité: Le cas deBintou de Koffi Kwahule3: Adam Schoene, Cornell University, Legendand Sacrifice in TadjoB2: FESTIVAL & PERFORMANCEVenue: Room 30Chair: Tom Olali, University of Nairobi1: Adewale Ajayi, Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro,Nigeria, Beyond Spectacle in the Colours andPageantry of Yoruba Town Festivals2: Tom Olali, University of Nairobi, Ritualand Spectacle: The Grandiloquent Display ofParadoxical Metamessage during the LamuMaulidi Festival3: Anya Egwu, University of Nigeria, Drama,Performance, Performativity, and theConversation on Igbo (South-EasternNigeria) Festival Drama4: Thaddeus Uzoma Nwannaju, Ambrose AlliUniversity, Nigeria, Interrogating the Futureof Festivals in AfricaB5: PUBLISHING & OTHER SITES OFPRODUCTION IN AFRICAN LITERATURE:Venue: Room 22Chair: Ketu Katrak, University of California, Irvine1: Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, Cornell University, TheMakerere Generation and Heinemann: AReassessment?2: Akachi, Ezeigbo, Alex Ekwueme FederalUniversity, Nigeria, Who Wields the Knifeand Who Owns the Yam: Publishers andAuthors in Nigeria.3: Unionmwan Edebiri, University of Benin,Nigeria, Drama in Festivals: Some Examplesfrom Francophone West and Central Africa4: Morufu B. Omigbule, Obafemi AwolowoUniversity, Nigeria, Whither IsYoruba Ritual Studies?B3: LITERATURE, DRAMA, & PEDAGOGY INCONTEXTSVenue: Room 35Chair: Chiji Akoma, Villanova University1: Kolawole Olaiya, Anderson University,“The World Is Like a Mask Dancing”:“Writing Back” as a Pedagogical Tool for13

B6: HUMAN RIGHTS AND CHILDREN INAFRICAN LITERATUREB7: ILLUSTRIOUS INSTITUTIONS WITH WOMENAT THE HELMVenue: Room 32Chair: Joya Uraizee, Saint Louis University1: Funmi Aluko, University of Ibadan,Nigeria, Live Performance as Intervention inCorrectional Homes for Minors2: Joya Uraizee, Saint Louis University, After theWar: Beatrice Lamwaka’s "ButterflyDreams" and Children in Post-ConflictSocieties3: Perpetua Woda, University of Calabar,Nigeria, Assets Or Liabilities? Configuringthe Family and the School in Tackling SocioEconomic Securities: An IntegrativeHumanistic Study of Selected NigerianChildren’s Literature4: Obala Fanuel Musumba, HumboldtUniversity, Re-Situating the Child Figure inZones of Violence in the Eastern AfricanNovelVenue: Room 33Chair: Marie Umeh, CUNY1: Carole Gregory, CUNY2: Oty Agbajoh Laoye, Monmouth University3: Sidney Davis, Jr, Independent Scholar4: Marie Umeh, CUNY5: Sylvester, Onwordi, Buchi EmechetaFoundationB8: DIANA ADESOLA MAFE'S Where No BlackWoman Has Gone BeforeVenue: Room 34Chair: Lily Saint, Wesleyan University1: Mahriana Rofheart, Georgia GwinnettCollege2: Lily Saint, Wesleyan University3: Louisa Egbunike, City University, LondonUKB9: CONTEMPORARY LESSONS FROM OFFICIALFESTIVALSVenue: Room 31Chair: Adeola Adijat Faleye, Obafemi AwolowoUniversity, Nigeria1: Adeola Adijat Faleye, Obafemi AwolowoUniversity, Nigeria2: Donatus Fai Tangem, University ofYaounde, Cameroon3: Anthony Chiedozie, University of Nigeria4: Lami Adama, Claflin University5: Denja Abdullahi, National Council forArts & Culture, Nigeria4:00-6:30PM: Keynote LectureChimamanda Ngozi AdichieOhio Union, 1739 N. High St, OSU Campus7:30-9:00PM: Opening ReceptionRenaissance Hotel, Hayes CDE14

7:00AM-9:00AM: ALA Exec Council Meeting--Renaissance Conference RoomSESSION D THURSDAY 16 MAY 2019 9:00-10:10:30AMD1: NO PAST, NO PRESENT, NO FUTURE?SIERRA LEONE LITERATURE, VISIONS, ANDREVISIONS OF NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ID3: MARRIAGE INSTITUTIONS: PAST, PRESENTAND FUTUREVenue: Room 21Chair: Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin StateUniversity1: Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin StateUniversity, Marriage Relationship: AnExpression of Choice in Mariama Ba's SoLong a Letter2: Juliana Daniels, University of Education,Winneba, Ghana, "No Pain No Gain":African Women's Pragmatic Consent toHyper-Masculinities in Pede Hollist's So thePath Does Not Die3: Irene Agunloye, Georgia State University,Marriage Institution: Past, Present, andFuture4: Chioma Opara, Rivers State University,Port-Harcourt, Nigeria, In Defiance of HolyMatrimony: Subversion of Tradition andPropriety in Adichie's FictionVenue: Room 34Chair: Ernest Cole, Hope College1: Ernest Cole, Hope College, MappingInstitutional Dichotomies in Sierra LeoneLiterature: The Memory of Love and TheDevil that Danced on the Water2: Arthur Onipede Hollist, University ofTampa, An Analysis of InstitutionalizedTropes in Selected Sierra Leonean ShortStories3: Elizabeth Kamara, Fourah Bay College,University of Sierra Leone, Eldred DurosimiJones: A Humanist and Critic4: Eustace Palmer, Georgia College & StateUniversity, Syl Cheney-Coker: Writer andActivist Wrestling with His Country’sAgonyD2: MÉMOIRE ET TEMPORALITÉ: APPROCHESPLURIDISCIPLINAIRES DANS LA LITTÉRATUREET CINÉMA ALGÉRIENS (NACALA)D4: LA LITTÉRATURE ORALE ET ÉCRITEAFRICAINE: L’ECRIVAIN ET LES DROITSD’AUTEURVenue: Room 30Chair: Karen Bouwer, University of San Francisco1: Karen Bouwer, University of San Francisco,Le temps de l'enfance coloniale: l'impossibleinnocence2: Priscilla Charrat Nelson, BradleyUniversity, La Responsabilité éthique aucoeur de la postmémoire: “Sommes-nousresponsables des crimes de nos pères, descrimes de nos frères et de nos enfants?”3: Amel Derragui, Université d’Oran 2: Tempshistorique, Temps mythique dans L’étoiled’Alger d’Aziz Chouaki4: Anne Donadey, San Diego State University,Le retour du cinéma moudjahid en Algériecinquante ans après la guerred’indépendance algérienne: Mostefa BenBoulaïd de Ahmed Rachedi (2008) etZabana! de Saïd Ould Khelifa (2012)Venue: Room 32Chair & Discussant: Clokou Anoha, École NormaleSupérieur d’Abidjan (ENS)1: Sagnan Nina Appia, Université FélixHouphouet Boigny, L’image de la femmedans les traditions orales et dans lalittérature africaine des origines à nos jours.2: Tedje Dieudonne Dogo, École NormaleSupérieure d’Abidjan, La littératureanglophone dans l’univers francophone enCôte d’Ivoire: Les enjeux et les pratiques etles limites3: Utsilamy Bouz Anoha, Université FélixHouphouet Boigny, La femme dans lachanson populaire africaine en tant quechanteuse et objet de représentation sociale15

D5: QUEER AFRICAN SCREEN MEDIA3: Stephanie Selvick, University of WisconsinWhitewater, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s FeministBildungsroman TrilogyVenue: Room 31Chair: Z'étoile Imma, Tulane UniversityDiscussant: Lindsey Green-Simms, AmericanUniversity1: Ivy Mills, UC Berkeley, The Queer Thingabout Djibril Diop Mambety Revisited:Hyena Iconographies in Senegalese Cinema2: Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch Institute ofAdvanced Study, Queer(ing) Silence inFrancophone North African Cinema3: Lyn Johnstone, Royal Holloway Universityof London, Praised Abroad but Banned atHome: Rafiki and the Politics of "PromotingHomosexuality" in Kenya4: Thato Magano, Rutgers University, Fuckingwith [the] Family: The Queer Promise inTsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous ConditionsD8: DE DEPORTATION DE GBAGBO LAURENTPAR LA FRANCE: RETOUR SUR LA PSEUDOCRISE POSTELECTORALE IVOIRIENNE HUITANS APREVenue: Executive Meeting RoomChair: Marc Adoux Papé, St. John Fisher College1: Viviane Uetto, Morehouse College2: Marc Adoux Papé, St. John Fisher College3: Eyiwumi Bolutito Olayinka, University ofIbadanD6: INSTITUTIONS & SITES: PRIVATION ANDPRECARITYVenue: Room 20Chair: Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, University ofTennessse, Knoxville1: Emilie Diouf, Brandeis University, At theTime of the Border: African Literature andthe Refugee Regime2: Hillary Kowino, University of Minnesota,Duluth, Prisoner Number 1323/69, WinnieMadikizela Mandela: A Legacy of FightingBack and Overcoming Apartheid3: Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, University ofTennessse, Knoxville, Wrestling with theDevil: Redefining Performance Space inNgũgĩ’s Recontructed Prison Memoir4: Chioma Toni-Duruaku & Anthony B. C.Duruaku, Alvan Ikoku Federal College ofEducation, Nigeria & Federal Polytechnic,Nekede, Nigeria, Cartoon NetworksEnhancing Literary ApathyD9: LANGUAGE, RACE, COLORVenue: Room 35Chair: Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town1: Ndirangu Wachanga, University ofWisconsin, Politics of Language in Ngũgĩ waThiong’o’s Biography2: Chinaka Mgbojirikwe, University ofCalabar, Nigeria, The Dialogics ofGlobalism: African Socio-PoliticalInstitutions and the West3: Mandisa Haarhorff, University of CapeTown, "White Indegeneity" and BlackAbsenting in the Farm Novel/PlaasromanGenre4: Carolyn Hamilton, University of CapeTown, Exiled Writings, Consecrated Sources,and the Institutional Displacement ofPolitically Potent Historical DiscourseD7: CONFRONTING OPPRESSIVE INSTITUTIONS:ON TSITSI DANGAREMBGAD10: INSTITUTIONAL INSTABILITY: TEACHINGAFRICAN TEXTS OFF THE TENURE TRACKVenue: Room 33Chair: Stephanie Selvick, University of WisconsinWhitewater1: Carolyn Martin Shaw, University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz, A Thousand Deaths:The Space of Terror in Dangarembga’sZimbabwean Trilogy2: Pauline Ada Uwakweh, North Carolina A &T State University, From NervousConditions to Mournable Body: Tambu’sQuest for Voice and Place in the(Post)ColonyVenue: Room 22Chair: Uchechi Okereke-Beshel, University ofMaryland1: Uchechi Okereke-Beshel, University ofMaryland2: Bernard Oniwe, University of SouthCarolina3: Megan-Cole Paustian, North CentralCollege4: Nicole Cesare, Rowan University16

SESSION E THURSDAY 16 May 2019 10:45-12:15PME1: INSTITUTIONAL HISTORIES OF AFRICANLITERATURE PRE-1990de l’Atlantique de Fatou Diome: Uneécriture entre deux continents.3: Pius Ngandu Nkashama, Louisiana StateUniversity, Préalables méthodologiques pourdes littératures en “situation”4: Aliko Songolo, University of WisconsinMadison, La Revue du Monde Noir entreNégrophilie et NégritudeVenue: Room 35Chair: Julie Cyzewski, Murray State University1: Tobias Warner, University of California,Davis, Rethinking the 1962 MakerereWriters Conference: A ComparativeApproach to the Rise of the LanguageQuestion in African Literatures2: Madeline Bedecarré, Bowdoin College, OnProducing the African Canon: The UnitedStates Research Library as Collector of, andGatekeeper to, Francophone AfricanLiterature3: Julie Cyzewski, Murray State University,Mediascapes of Twentieth-Century AfricanLiterature: The London-Based TranscriptionCentre’s Anglophone Radio Program AfricaAbroad4: Olabode Ibironke, Rutgers University, NewBrunswick, On the Contribution to EarlyAfrican Literary Studies of the University ofIfe’s Odu: Journal of West African StudiesE4: NO, AFRICAN THEATRE IS NOT DEAD(PATCALA)Venue: Room 20Chair: Judith Miller, NYUDiscussant: Christian Flaugh, SUNY, Buffalo1: Thom Murphy, New York University,Prophetic Voice in Francophone AfricanTheatre2: Tony Haouam, New York University,Humor as Revolt in Sénouvo AgbotaZinsou's On joue la comédie3: Alicen Weida, CUNY Graduate Center,Racing and Un-racing Papa doit manger byMarie NDiaye4: Rachel Watson, New York University, KoffiKwahulé's Intermedial "African" TheatreE2: NEW BOOK FORUM: ON CARLI COETZEE'SWritten Under the Skin: Blood andIntergenerational Memory in South AfricaE5: AFROPOLITANISM REBOOTVenue: Room 22Chair: Amatoritsero Ede, University of theBahamas1: Amatoritsero Ede, University of theBahamas, Transcontinental Drift:Afropolitanisms2: Kayode Odumboni, Ohio State University,“The ‘High Anxiety’ of Belonging”: ReadingAfropolitanism in Adichie’s Americanahand Bulawayo’s We Need New Names3: Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, University ofGhana, “Localized” Afropolitanism andViews from Flash Fiction Ghana4: Mosunmola Adeojo, University of Florida,“Peasant Fingers Masked with a Patina ofGentility”: Masculinity in Afropolitan LagosVenue: Room 34Chair: Grace Musila, University of theWitwatersrand1: Susan Andrade, University of Pittsburgh2: Anne Gulick, University of South Carolina3: Bhakti Shringarpure, University ofConnecticut4: Gabeba Baderoon, Penn State University5: Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, Centre forAfrican Cultural ExcellenceE3: DU CONTEXTE À L’HISTOIRE : A LA (RE)DÉCOUVERTE DES TEXTES FONDATEURS.(FRACALA)Venue: Executive Meeting RoomChair: Aliko Songolo University of WisconsinMadison1: Patoimbasba Nikiema, University ofPittsburgh, Poétique des Identités et desFrontières dans Traversée de la Mangrove.2: Aimé Angui, Université Félix HouphouëtBoigny, La Préférence nationale et Le ventre12:15-1:15PM: FRACALALuncheon, Hayes CDE17

E8: THE MEANING OF PETER ABRAHAMS, NONIJABAVU AND ES'KIA MPHAHLELE ACROSS ACENTURY (1)12:15-1:15PM: Editorial BoardVenue: Room 33Chair: Bhekizizwe Peterson, University of theWitswatersrand1: Makhosazana Xaba, University of theWitwatersrand, Self and Identity: NoniJabavu, the Nomadic Columnist of the DailyDispatch, 19772: Khwezi Mkhize, University of theWitwatersrand, Es'kia Mphahlele, SouthAfrica and the Question of the Aesthetic3: Stéphane Robolin, Rutgers University,Es'kia Mphahlele's Writing in the Whirlwind4: Christopher Ouma, University of CapeTown, Es’kia Mphahlele, Chemchemi, andPan-African Literary PublicsAfrican Literature Today (ALT),Renaissance Conference RoomE6: THEORIES: COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS,COLONIAL DISCOURSEVenue: Room 31Chair: Mohamed Kamara, Washington and LeeUniversity1: Mohamed Kamara, Washington and LeeUniversity, Two White Men in the Heart ofDarkness: William McCutchan Morrisonand Albert Schweitzer2: Kunle Olalere, The Polytechnic, Ibadan,Nigeria, Cultural Imperialism and AfricanLiterature: Rethinking Edward Said'sOrientalism Within a Cultural Milieu3: Marina Vlahaki, University of CaliforniaSan Diego, Women, Nation, and Empire in“A Black and White Encounter” by AdelaideCasely Hayford4: Antoinette Hayden, Mississippi StateUniversity, Who Speaks for the Enslaved?:Reclaiming Voice in Octavia Butler’sKindredE9: FRANCOPHONIEVenue: Room 30Chair: Etienne-Marie Lassi, University of Manitoba1: Josiane Banini, Florida State University,Ton pied, mon pied Asso ! : L’esthétiquede l’hybridité linguistique dans l’écritureromanesque de Léonora Miano2: Clokou Anoha, École Normale Supérieured’Abidjan, Musique, poésie et signification:Les instruments de musique occidentauxdans la poésie negroafricaine3: Etienne-Marie Lassi, University ofManitoba, Mémoires de porc-épic d’AlainMabanckou : Réécriture romanesque delégendes africaines?E7: TOPICS IN AFRIPHONE LITERATURE: ÒKÉDJ̀Í,YORÙBÁ FICTION, MAASAI ORALITYVenue: Room 32Chair: Akínyẹmí Akíntúndé, University of Florida1: Olúṣẹgun Ṣóẹ̀tán, University of WisconsinMadison, The Last Centurion: Òkédìjí andthe Nigerian Literary Culture2: Àrìnpé Adéjùmọ̀, University of Ibadan,Framing Violence: Crime and Security inỌládẹ̀jọ Òkédìjí’s Novels3: Abídèmí Bọ́lárìnwá, University of Ibadan,Realism in Ọládẹ̀jọ Òkédìj

7:00AM-9:00AM Executive Committee Meeting, Renaissance Conference Room 9:00AM-4:00PM Registration, 2nd Floor Foyer 9:00AM-5:00PM Book Exhibits, 2nd Floor Foyer 9:00AM-10:30AM Session I Panels 10:45-12:15PM Session J Panels 12:15PM-1:15PM Lunch Break 12:15PM-1:15PM WOCALA Luncheon, Hayes CDE 1:30PM-3:00PM Session K Panels 3:15PM-4:45PM Session L .