Schedule of Events

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 10:00AM-4:00PM Registration, 2nd Floor Foyer 12:00NOON-1:30PM Session A Panels 4:45PM-3:15PM Session B Panels 4:00PM-6:30PM Keynote Lecture 1: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ohio Union, Ohio State University Campus 7:30PM-9:00PM Opening Reception, Renaissance Hotel, Hayes CDE

Thursday, May 16, 2019 7:00AM-9:00AM Executive Committee Meeting, Renaissance Conference Room 9:00AM-4:00PM Registration, 2nd Floor Foyer 9:00AM-10:30AM Session D Panels 10:45-12:15PM Session E Panels 12:15PM-1:15PM Lunch Break 12:15PM-1:15PM FRACALA Luncheon, Hayes CDE 12:15PM-1:15PM African Literature Today (ALT) Editorial Board Meeting: Renaissance Conference Room 1:30PM-3:00PM Session F Panels 3:15PM-4:45PM Session G Panels 5:00PM-6:30PM Keynote Lecture 2: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Hayes CDE 7:30PM-9:00PM Caucus Meetings: GSCALA, FVMCALA, WOCALA, LHCALA, NACALA 9:00PM-10:00PM Writers Reading

1 Friday, May 17, 2019 7:00AM-9:00AM Executive Committee Meeting, Renaissance Conference Room 9:00AM-4:00PM Registration, 2nd Floor Foyer 9:00AM-10:30AM Session I Panels 10:45-12:15PM Session J Panels 12:15PM-!:15PM Lunch Break 12:15PM-!:15PM WOCALA Luncheon, Hayes CDE 1:30PM-3:00PM Session K Panels 3:15PM-4:45PM Session L Panels 5:00PM-6:30PM Keynote Lecture 3: Carole Boyce Davies, Hayes CDE 7:30PM-9:00PM Caucus Meetings: FRACALA, PATCALA, AFCALA, TRACALA 7:30PM-9:00PM JALA Editorial Board Meeting, Renaissance Conference Room 9:00PM-10:00PM Soundings: Readings in Mother Tongue

Saturday, May 18, 2019 7:00AM-9:00AM 7:00AM-9:00AM, Renaissance Conference Room 9:00AM-12:00NOON Registration, 2nd Floor Foyer 8:00AM-9:30AM Session N Panels 9:45AM-11:15AM Session O Panels 11:30AM:12:30PM Lunch Break 12:00NOON-1:30PM Film: Manthia Diawara’s “An Opera on the World” (Sponsored by the Film Caucus), Hayes CDE 12:30PM-2:00PM Session P 2:15PM-3:45PM Session Q Panels 4:00PM-6:00PM ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING, Hayes CDE 7:00PM-Midnight Banquet/Awards/Dance/New President’s Speech, Hayes CDE

Sunday, May 19, 2019 7:00AM-9:00AM Renaissance Conference Room 2 SESSION A | WEDNESDAY | 15 MAY 2019 | 12:00 -1:1:30 PM

A1: WRITING RIGHTS/ RIGHTING WRONGS 2: Ojel Anidi, Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, Nigeria, Role Venue: Redefinition in Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Chair: Chielozona Eze, Northeastern Illinois University Implications for Gender Balance in Modern 1: Carol Njoku & Loretta Okpara, University of African Society Nigeria & Alvan Ikoku College of Education, 3: & , Enugu State Nigeria. Migration, Cultural Identity and Human Abigail O. Eruaga Ethel N. Okeke University of Science and Technology, Nigeria, Rights Issues in Chimamanda Adichie’s Dynamics of Submission in Polygamous Americanah Institutions in Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of 2: Chielozona Eze, Northeastern Illinois University. Baba Segi's Wives Albinism, Disability, and the Future of Human 4: , Ohio University, The New Rights in Africa Tereza Kidane Woman: The Notion of Modernity During The 3: Chukwu Romanus Nwoma & Onyekachi Eni, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria. Eritrean Nationalist Movement Hegemonic Masculinity: Sexploitation in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon A4: SITES OF PRODUCTION & PRODUCTIVITY: 4: Ernest Cole, Hope College. Mapping the Other: CHRISTIAN EVANGELISM The Colonial Mindset and Re-Presentation of Venue: Minority Identities Chair: Temitope Abisoye Noah, New York University 1: Ellison Domkap, Gordon-Conwell Theological A2: READING NIGERIA: NATIONAL, REGIONAL, Seminary, Ministry or Industry: Between Faith, FEMINIST, STUDIES Entertainment and Theology Venue: 2: Temitope Abisoye Noah, New York University, Chair: Ngozi O. Iloh, University of Benin, Nigeria What is a Yoruba Christian Movie? 1: Ngozi O. Iloh, University of Benin, Nigeria. 3: Ama Boatemaa & Appiah-Kubi, University of Nigerian Literature in French: Past, Present, & Education, Winneba, Gender Performativities and Future Identity Construction: Quest for Healing, 2: Maria Iyere, Aisha Umar, & Halima Idris Amali, Salvation and Prosperity in an African Pentecostal Federal College of Education, Zaria, Nigeria; Church Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria; Federal University, Lafia, Nigeria, Women and the A5: ETHICS AND FEMINISM Environment: An Eco-Feminist Reading of Venue: Selected Recent Northern Nigerian Fiction Chair: Ijeoma Ann Ngwaba, Federal University Oye- 3: Loretta Chikaodi Opara, Alvan Ikoku Federal Ekiti, Nigeria. College of Education, Nigeria, Reviewing the 1: Nonyelum Mba, University of Abuja, African African Woman's Identity in Contemporary Feminist Theories’ Motif and Emerging African Culture: A Study of Zaynab Alkali's Stillborn and Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah Perspectives in African Literature 4: Joseph Abel, Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria. 2: Ijeoma Ann Ngwaba, Federal University Provinciality and National Discourse in the Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria Interrogating Objectivity in Postcolonial Novel in English in Northern Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon and Chika Nigeria Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street

A3: FEMINISM & WOMANISM A6: GROUNDS OF LITERARY AND CULTURAL Venue: HISTORY Chair: Tereza Kidane, Ohio University Venue: 1: Maureen Amaka Azuike, University of Jos, Chair: Cultural Patriarchy and Mythical Stereotypes 1: Ojo Olorunleke, Lagos State University, The About Women in African Literature Materialist Template and Nigerian Literature of the 1970s to the 1990s 3 2: Aisha Umar, Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, 3: Anita Rosenblithe, Raritan Valley Community Nigeria, Women in the Northern Nigerian Novel College, Getting Back to Nature: Queer Ecology in in English: Trends and Development Chris Abani's The Secret Life of Las Vegas 3: Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, 4: Abiodun Oluseye, Covenant University, Nigeria, Nigeria, Reflections and Retrospectives of the “Ecocricitysm” And The Banal Artificiality Of Female Impulse in African Women’s Writing: The African City Space: A Reading Of Selected Poems Nigerian Example 4: Abiodun Adeniji, University of Lagos, Medium, A8: TOPICALITY, COMMUNICATION, & ALLIED Theme and Technique: Transitions in African Literature SITUATIONS Venue: Chair: , University of Education, A7: ECOCRITICISM/ECOLOGY Akosua Asantewaa Winneba Venue: 1: Akosua Asantewaa, University of Education, Chair: Joyce Agoifure, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria. Winneba, Doctor-Patient Communication 1: Chukwu Romanus Nwoma, Alex Ekwueme Culture in the Consulting Room: A Study of Two Federal University, Nigeria, The Battered Hearts University Health Facilities in Ghana that Throb in Agony: Eco-critical Study of 2: Delight Agboada, Ohio University, Exploration of Environmental Pollution in Tanure Ojaide’s The Ohio University’s Initiatives in Integrating Activist and Isidore Okpewho’s Tides Domestic and International Students Towards a 2: Joyce Agoifure, Ahmadu Bello University, Healthy Intercultural Experience Nigeria, Endangered Landscape, 3: Brayonie Sagoe, University of Education, Transcorporeality: An Assessment of Nnimmo Winneba, Gender mainstreaming: Equality and Bassey's We Thought it was Oil but it was Blood Equity in Professional Progression in Higher Educational Institutions in Ghana

4 SESSION B | WEDNESDAY | 15 MAY 2019 |1:45-3:15 PM B1: TRANSFORMATIONS IN PERFORMANCE & 3: Marzia, Milazzo, Vanderbilt University, Mark Mathabane’s Kaffir Boy, Steve Biko, and The THEATER Politics of White Liberal Tutelage Venue: 4: Chiji Akoma, Villanova University, Enter Stage Chair: Adwoa, Opoku-Agyemang, University of Toronto Left: Video and Igbo Literary Drama Survival 1: Faith Ben-Daniels, University of Education, Winneba, The Akan art of traditional storytelling B4: WRITING NATION: COTE D’IVOIRE and its role in modern Ghanaian theatre Venue: 2: Rasheed, Ismaila, University of Lagos / University Chair: Adam Schoene, Cornell University of Louisville, Dramaturgy of Violence and 1: Stella Omonigho, University of Benin, New Generations of Playwrights in Nigeria: A Critical Structures in Francophone African Drama:A and Historical Appraisal Critique of Koffi Kwahulé and Moussa Kounaté's 3: Paul Kennedy Enesha, Imo State University, Plays Owerri, Nigeria, Navigating the contours and the 2: Viviane Uetto, Morehouse College, Jeunesse et niceties of the contemporary African Satirical violence dans le théâtre africain en situation drama: A study of Jerry Alagbaoso’s Collected d’interterritorialité : le cas de Bintou de Koffi Plays I and II. Kwahule 4: Adwoa, Opoku-Agyemang, University of 3: Adam Schoene, Cornell University, Legend and Toronto, "Tradition" and Humour in Sekyi's The Sacrifice in Tadjo Blinkards

B5: PUBLISHING IN THE FIELD OF AFRICAN LITERATURE: B2: FESTIVALS: PERFORMANCE Venue: OLD AND NEW PARADIGMS Chair: Venue: 1: Adewale Ajayi, Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Chair: Ketu Katrak, University of California, Irvine Nigeria, Beyond Spectacle in the Colours and 1: Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, Cornell University, The Pageantry of Yoruba Town Festivals Makerere Generation and Heinemann: A 2: Tom Olali, University of Nairobi, Ritual and Reassessment? Spectacle: The Grandiloquent Display of 2: Akachi, Ezeigbo, Alex Ekwueme Federal Paradoxical Metamessage during the Lamu University, Nigeria, Who wields the knife and Maulidi Festival who owns the yam: Publishers and Authors in 3: Anya Egwu, University of Nigeria, Drama, Nigeria. Performance, Performativity and the Conversation on Igbo (South-Eastern Nigeria) B6: HUMAN RIGHTS AND CHILDREN IN AFRICAN Festival Drama 4: Morufu B. Omigbule, Obafemi Awolowo LITERATURE University, Nigeria, Whither is Yoruba Ritual Venue: Studies? Chair: Joya Uraizee, Saint Louis University 5: Thaddeus Uzoma Nwannaju, Ambrose Alli 1: Funmi, Aluko, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Live University, Nigeria, Interrogating the Future of Performance as Intervention in Correctional Festivals in Africa Homes for Minors 2: Joya, Uraizee, St Louis University, Saint Louis B3: PEDAGOGY: THE LITERARY TEXT AS TEACHER University, After the War: Beatrice Lamwaka’s Venue: ‘Butterfly Dreams’ and Children in Post-Conflict Chair: Chiji Akoma, Villanova University Societies 1: Kolawole, Olaiya, Anderson University, 3: Perpetua Woda, University of Calabar, Assets Or Anderson, SC, “The World is Like a Mask Liabilities? Configuring The Family And The Dancing”: “Writing Back” as a Pedagogical Tool School In Tackling Socio-Economic Securities: for Teaching of African Literature in the An Integrative Humanistic Study Of Selected American South Nigerian Children’s Literature 2: Afam , Ebeogu, Abia State University, Teaching Folkore in a Nigerian University: A Tentative Mode 5 4: Obala Fanuel Musumba, Humboldt University, Chair: Louisa Egbunike, City University, London Re-Situating the Child Figure in Zones of 1: Obi Nwakanma, University of Central Florida Violence in the Eastern African Novel 2: Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Jr, SOAS, University of London B7: ILLUSTRIOUS INSTITUTIONS WITH WOMEN AT 3: Kadija George, University of Brighton 4: Louisa Egbunike, City University, London THE HELM Venue: B9: CONTEMPORARY LESSONS FROM OFFICIAL Chair: Marie Umeh, CUNY 1: Carole Gregory, CUNY, FESTIVALS 2: Oty Agbajoh Laoye, Monmouth Univesity Chair: Adeola Adijat Faleye Obafemi Awolowo 3: Sidney Davis, Jr, Independent Scholar University, Nigeria 4: Marie Umeh, CUNY, 1: Adeola Adijat Faleye, Obafemi Awolowo 5: Sylvester, Onwordi, Buchi Emecheta Foundation University, Nigeria 2:, Donatus Fai Tangem, University of Yaounde, B8: OBI EGBUNA: WRITER AND ACTIVIST Cameroon 3: Anthony Chiedozie, University of Nigeria Venue: 4: Lami Adama, Claflin University

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SESSION D | THURSDAY | 16 MAY 2019 | 9:00-10:10:30AM D1: NO PAST, NO PRESENT, NO FUTURE? SIERRA Expression of Choice in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter LEONE LITERATURE, VISIONS AND REVISIONS OF 2: Juliana Daniels, University of Education, NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS I Winneba, Ghana, "No Pain No Gain": African Venue: Women's Pragmatic Consent to Hyper- Chair: Ernest Cole Hope College, masculinities in Pede Hollist's So the Path Does 1: Ernest Cole, Hope College, Mapping Institutional Not Die Dichotomies in Sierra Leone Literature: The 3: Irene Agunloye, Georgia State University, Memory of Love and The Devil that Danced on the Marriage Institution: Past, Present and Future Water 4: Chioma Opara, Rivers State University, Port- 2: Arthur Onipede Hollist, University of Tampa, An Harcourt, Nigeria, In Defiance of Holy Analytic Survey of Secrecy, Magic, Fertility, Matrimony: Subversion of Tradition and Oaths and other Institutionalized Tropes in Propriety in Adichie's Fiction Selected Sierra Leonean Short Stories 3: Elizabeth Kamara, Fourah Bay College, D4: LA LITTÉRATURE ORALE ET ÉCRITE AFRICAINE: University of Sierra Leone, Eldred Durosimi L’ECRIVAIN ET LES DROITS D’AUTEUR Jones: A Humanist and Critic Venue: 4: Eustace Palmer, Georgia College & State Chair & Discussant: Clokou Anoha École Normale University, Syl Cheney-Coker: Writer and Supérieur d’Abidjan (ENS) Activist Wrestling with his Country’s Agony 1: Sagnan Nina Appia, Université Félix Houphouet Boigny, L’image de la femme dans les traditions D2: MÉMOIRE ET TEMPORALITÉ: APPROCHES orales et dans la littérature africaine des origines à PLURIDISCIPLINAIRES DANS LA LITTÉRATURE ET nos jours. CINÉMA ALGÉRIENS (NACALA) 2: Tedje Dieudonne Dogo, École Normale Venue: Supérieure d’Abidjan, La littérature anglophone Chair: Karen Bouwer, University of San Francisco dans l’univers francophone en Côte d’Ivoire: les 1: Karen Bouwer, University of San Francisco, Le enjeux et les pratiques et les limites temps de l'enfance coloniale: l'impossible 3: Utsilamy Bouz Anoha, Université Félix innocence Houphouet Boigny, La femme dans la chanson 2: Priscilla Charrat Nelson, Bradley University, La populaire africaine en tant que chanteuse et objet Responsabilité éthique au coeur de la de représentation sociale

postmémoire: “Sommes-nous responsables des crimes de nos pères, des crimes de nos frères et de D5: QUEER AFRICAN SCREEN MEDIA nos enfants?” Venue: 3: Amel Derragui, Université d’Oran 2: Temps Chair: Z'étoile Imma, Tulane University historique, Temps mythique dans L’étoile d’Alger Discussant: Lindsey Green-Simms, American University d’Aziz Chouaki 1: Ivy Mills UC Berkeley, The Queer Thing about 4: Anna Donadey, San Diego State University, Le Djibril Diop Mambety, Revisited: Hyena retour du cinéma moudjahid en Algérie Iconographies in Senegalese Cinema cinquante ans après la guerre d’indépendance 2: Katlego Disemelo, University of the algérienne: Mostefa Ben Boulaïd de Ahmed Witwatersrand, Queens of Colour & the White Rachedi (2008) et Zabana ! de Saïd Ould Khelifa Gaze: A Discourse Analysis of Three South (2012) African Film Documentaries on Drag Queen Pageants D3: MARRIAGE INSTITUTIONS: PAST, PRESENT AND 3: Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, Queer(ing) silence in FUTURE Francophone North African cinema Venue: 4: Lyn Johnstone, Royal Holloway University of Chair: Blessing Diala-Ogamba Coppin State University, London, Praised abroad but banned at home: Baltimore, MD Rafiki and the politics of ‘promoting 1: Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University, homosexuality’ in Kenya Baltimore, MD, Marriage Relationship: An 7 5: Marame Gueye, East Carolina University, Just a Man: Queerness as a Tool to Challenge Gendered D8: DE DEPORTATION DE GBAGBO LAURENT PAR Language in Senegal LA FRANCE: RETOUR SUR LA PSEUDO CRISE

POSTELECTORALE IVOIRIENNE HUIT ANS APRE D6: "IN A STRANGE PLACE, THE WORLD THEY Venue: MADE AND UNMADE TOGETHER": IMMIGRANT Chair: VOICES IN SHORT STORIES 1: Viviane Uetto, Morehouse College, Venue: 2: Marc Adoux Papé, St John Fisher College, Chair: Tomi Adeaga University of Vienna, Austria 3: Wumi Olayinka, University of Ibadan, 1: Anthonia Kalu, University of California, Riverside, Breaking D9: LANGUAGE, RACE, COLOR 2: Tomi Adeaga, University of Vienna, Austria, The Lady and the Goat Venue: 3: Arthur Onipede Hollist, University of Tampa, Chair: Carolyn Hamilton Snips in Time Make Families 1: Ndirangu Wachanga, University of Wisconsin, 4: Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, Politics of Language in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Indiana University Northwest, Mother: Biography Ruminates Her Roles 2: Chinaka Mgbojirikwe, University of Calabar, The 5: H. Oby Okolocha, University of Benin, Nigeria, Dialogics of Globalism: African Socio-Political The Londoner Goes Home Institutions and the West 3: Mandisa Haarhorf, University of Cape Town, "White Indegeneity" and Black Absenting in the D7: CONFRONTING OPPRESSIVE INSTITUTIONS: ON Farm Novel/Plaasroman Genre TSITSI DANGAREMBGA 4: Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town, Venue: Exiled writings, consecrated sources and the Chair: Stephanie Selvick, University of Wisconsin- institutional displacement of politically potent Whitewater historical discourse 1: Carolyn Martin Shaw, University of California, Santa Cruz, A Thousand Deaths: The Space of D10: Institutional Instability: Teaching African Terror in Dangarembga’s Zimbabwean Trilogy Texts off the Tenure Track 2: Pauline Ada Uwakweh, North Carolina A & T Venue: State University, From Nervous Conditions to Chair: Uchechi Okereke-Beshel University of Maryland Mournable Body: Tambu’s Quest for Voice and 1: Uchechi Okereke-Beshel, University of Maryland Place in the (Post)Colony 2: Bernard Oniwe, University of South Carolina 3: Stephanie Selvick, University of Wisconsin- 3: Megan-Cole Paustian, North Central College Whitewater, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Feminist 4: Nicole Cesare, Rowan University Bildungsroman Trilogy 4: Thato Magano, Rutgers University, Fucking With [The] Family: The Queer Promise in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions

8 SESSION E | THURSDAY | 16 May 2019 | 10:45-12:15PM

E1: INSTITUTIONAL HISTORIES OF AFRICAN 4: Aliko Songolo, University of Wisconsin- Madison, La Revue du Monde Noir entre LITERATURE PRE-1990 Négrophilie et Négritude Venue: Chair: Julie Cyzewski, Murray State University E4: NO, AFRICAN THEATRE IS NOT DEAD 1: Tobias Warner, University of California, Davis, Rethinking the 1962 Makerere Writers (PATCALA) Conference: A Comparative Approach to the Rise Venue: of the Language Question in African Literatures Chair: Judith Miller, NYU 2: Madeline Bedecarré, Bowdoin College, On Discussant: Christian Flaugh, SUNY, Buffalo Producing the African Canon: The United States 1: Thom Murphy, New York University, Prophetic Research Library as Collector of and Gatekeeper Voice in Francophone African Theatre to Francophone African Literature 2: Tony Haouam, New York University, Humor as 3: Julie Cyzewski, Murray State University, Revolt in Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou's On joue la Mediascapes of Twentieth-Century African comédie Literature: The London-Based Transcription 3: Alicen Weida, CUNY Graduate Center, Racing Centre’s Anglophone Radio Program Africa and Un-racing Papa doit manger by Marie Abroad NDiaye 4: Olabode Ibironke, Rutgers University, New 4: Rachel Watson, New York University, Koffi Brunswick, On the Contribution to Early African Kwahulé's Intermedial 'African' Theatre Literary Studies of the University of Ife’s Odu: Journal of West African Studies E5: AFROPOLITANISM REBOOT

Venue: E2: NEW BOOK FORUM: ON CARLI COETZEE'S Chair: Amatoritsero Ede, University of the Bahamas Written Under the Skin: Blood and 1: Amatoritsero Ede, University of the Bahamas, Intergenerational Memory in South Africa Transcontinental Drift: Afropolitanisms Venue: 2: Kayode Odumboni, Ohio State University, “The Chair: Grace Musila, University of the Witwatersrand ‘High Anxiety’ of Belonging”: Reading 1: Susan Andrade, University of Pittsburgh Afropolitanism in Adichie’s Americanah and 2: Anne Gulick, University of South Carolina Bulawayo’s We Need New Names. 3: Bhakti Shringarpure, University of Connecticut 3: Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, University of 4: Gabeba Baderoon, Penn State University Ghana, Legon, “Localized” Afropolitanism and 5: Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, Centre for African Views from Flash Fiction Ghana Cultural Excellence 4: Mosunmola Adeojo, University of Florida, “Peasant Fingers masked with a patina of E3: DU CONTEXTE À L’HISTOIRE : A LA (RE) DÉCOUVERTE gentility”: Masculinity in Afropolitan Lagos

DES TEXTES FONDATEURS. (FRACALA) E6: THEORIES: COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS, COLONIAL Venue: Chair: Aliko Songolo University of Wisconsin-Madison DISCOURSE 1: Patoimbasba Nikiema, University of Pittsburgh, Venue: Poétique des Identités et des Frontières dans Chair: Mohamed Kamara Traversée de la Mangrove. 1: Mohamed Kamara, Washington and Lee 2: Aimé Angui, Université Félix Houphouët Boigny, University, Two White Men in the Heart of La Préférence nationale et Le ventre de Darkness: William McCutchan Morrison and l’Atlantique de Fatou Diome : une écriture entre Albert Schweitzer deux continents. 2: Kunle Olalere, The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Cultural 3: Pius Ngandu Nkashama, Louisiana State Imperialism and African Literature: Rethinking University, Préalables méthodologiques pour des Edward Said's Orientalism Within a Cultural littératures en “situation” Milieu 3: Marina Vlahaki, University of California San Diego, Women, Nation, and Empire in “A Black 9 and White Encounter” by Adelaide Casely 4: Christopher Ouma, University of Cape Town, Hayford Es’kia Mphahlele, Chemchemi and Pan-African 4: Antoinette Hayden, Mississippi State University, Literary Publics Who Speaks for the Enslaved?: Reclaiming Voice in Octavia Butler’s Kindred E9: FRANCOPHONIE

Venue: HREE HEMES IN FRIPHONE ITERATURE E7:T T A L : Chair: Etienne-Marie Lassi, University of Manitoba ÒKÉDJ̀Í, YORÙBÁ FICTION, MAASAI ORALITY 1: Josiane Banini., Florida State University, Ton Venue: pied, mon pied… Asso ! : L’esthétique de Chair: Akínyẹmí Akíntúndé University of Florida l’hybridité linguistique dans l’écriture 1: Olúṣẹgun Ṣóẹ̀tán, University of Wisconsin- romanesque de Léonora Miano Madison, The Last Centurion: Òkédìjí and the 2: Clokou Anoha. , École Normale Supérieure Nigerian Literary Culture d’Abidjan, Musique, poésie et signification: les 2: Àrìnpé Adéjùmọ̀, University of Ibadan, Framing instruments de musique occidentaux dans la Violence: Crime and Security in Ọládẹ̀jọ Òkédìjí’s poésie negroafricaine. Novels 3: Etienne-Marie Lassi. , University of Manitoba, 3: Abídèmí Bọ́lárìnwá, University of Ibadan, Mémoires de porc-épic d’Alain Mabanckou : Realism in Ọládẹ̀jọ Òkédìjí’s Crime Novels Réécriture romanesque de légendes africaines? 4: Edna Olondo & Kimingichi Wabende, University of Nairobi, The Maasai Proverb as an Expression E10: BERNTH LINDFORS AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF of Cultural Heritage AFRICAN LITERARY CRITICISM E8: THE MEANING OF PETER ABRAHAMS, NONI JABAVU Venue: Chair & Discussant: Supriya Nair University of Michigan AND SKIA PHAHLELE CROSS ENTURY E ' M A AC (1) 1: Olabode Ibironke, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Venue: Bernth Lindfors's Archive Fever Chair: Bhekizizwe Peterson University of the 2: Mary Ellen, Higgins, Penn State Greater Witswatersrand Allegheny, For the Love of the Archive 1: Makhosazana Xaba, University of the 3: Ernest Emenyonu, University of Michigan-Flint, Witwatersrand, Self and Identity: Noni Jabavu, Bernth Lindfors: Architect and Mediator in the Nomadic Columnist of the Daily Dispatch, Criticism of African Literature 1977 4: Daniel Chukwuemeka, University of Bristol, 2: Khwezi Mkhize, University of the Witwatersrand, Chinweizu and the Rest of Us: Towards an Es'kia Mphahlele, South Africa and the Question Institutionalized Fortress for African Models of of the Aesthetic Literary and Critical Thought 3: Stéphane Robolin, Rutgers University, Es'kia Mphahlele's Writing in the Whirlwind

10 SESSION F | THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019 | 1:15-2:45PM

F1: THE RESILIENCE OF CHINUA ACHEBE F4: MEMORY, HISTORY, AND REBELLION: TWENTIETH Venue: CENTURY NORTH AFRICA IN LITERATURE AND Chair: CULTURE (NACALA) 1: Christopher Okonkwo, University of Missouri, Venue: Columbia, MUGA—Make Umuofia Great Chair: Ziad Bentahar Towson University Again! Rereading Things Fall Apart’s Okonkwo 1: Anouar El Younssi, Oxford College of Emory , in the Age of Trump When Literary Rebellion and Political Rebellion 2: Abdallah Abormealeh, Lancaster University. UK, Converge: The Case of the Twin-Magazine Struggle of Centers: Affiliation Crisis in Achebe's Souffles-Anfas Things Fall Apart 2: Lamia Benyoussef, Birmingham-Southern 3: Ashraf Abdelbaky , University of Newcastle, College, From Al-Jāḥi to the Memory of the Australia, Class and Ideology in Chinua Achebe’s Black Panthers’ Exile in Algiers: Exploring the Things Fall Apart: A Marxist study Frontiers between Blacknessẓ and Arabitude 3: Ziad Bentahar, Towson University, Remembering F2: THEORIES & APPROACHES: SOCIOLOGICAL the Maghreb: Memory and the Privilege of Nostalgia in French songs in the 1990s MAGINATION I 4: Matthew Brauer, Northwestern University, Venue: Historiography as critique in Jamel Eddine Chair: Bencheikh’s Rose noire sans parfum (1998) 1: Bernard Ayo Oniwe, Dominican University, Ibadan, Nigeria, Literary Sociology and the 21st NSTITUTIONS ITES UBLISHERS Century African Novel F5: I & S : P 2: Kyle Wanberg, New York University, Reading Venue: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross as Chair: Oluwole Coker, Obafemi Awololowo University, Critique of Gore Capitalism Nigeria 3: Vivan Steemers, Western Michigan University, 1: Mary Bosede Ayetoro, Bowen University, Early Francophone African women writers in Nigeria, Cassava Republic and New Post Millenial English translation: feminists or “ordinary” Genres of Nigerian Fiction women? 2: Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov, University of 4: H. Oby Okolocha, University of Benin, Nigeria, Oregon, “Writing…For the First Time”: The Past and Present: Religion, Capitalism and Politics of Literary Production in the Collection Women in of Namibian Women’s Writing Coming on Strong F3: SITES OF PRODUCTION & PRODUCTIVITY: 3: Savannah Hall, Indiana University, Dambudzo Marechera’s Literary Alterity and Drum UNIVERSITIES & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Magazine Venue: 4: Oluwole Coker, Obafemi Awololowo University, Chair: Katherine Hallemeier, Oklahoma State University Nigeria, The Dearth of Academic Journals: 1: Tyler Ball, York University, A Tale of Two Contestations and Critical Reception of Worlds: the IWL and ALA in Radical Alternative Traditions in Nigeria Juxtaposition

2: Nancy Henaku & J. Novisi Yao Dzitrie, Michigan Technological University, Writers Projects of F6: PASSION, GENDER, WOMAN-BEING, AND Ghana (WPG): A Decade of Promoting Ghanaian POLITICS IN Joyce Ash’s Beautiful Fire. Literature Venue: 3: Katherine Hallemeier, Oklahoma State Chair: Otymeyin Agbajoh-Laoye Monmouth University University, U.S. Universities and New African 1: Faith Ben-Daniels, University of Education, Fiction Winneba, Ghana 4: Rokhaya Aballa Dieng, University Of South 2: Yvonne-Marie Mokam, Dennison University, Carolina, Analyzing University studies in Africa Subversion et audace dans Beautiful Fire de Joy Through Ngugi wa Thiongo's Decolonising the Ash Mind

11 3: Gilbert Shang Ndi, Universidad de los Word Project, IGO Poetry Prizes, and the Andes/Universidad Bayreuth, “Beautyful Fire”: Establishment of Digital African Poetry Networks Towards the Ethics of Being Beyond Self 3: Kofi Anyidoho, University of Ghana, Legon, 4: Otymeyin Agbajoh-Laoye, Monmouth From the BBC “Arts & Africa” Poetry Prize to the University, Outside Motherland: Reaching Back Nigeria Prize for Literature: Reflections on to/From America Literary Competitions and Canon Formation in African Literature F7: GROUNDS OF READING 4: Chike Okoye, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Venue: Nigeria, The House that Tradition Built: From Chair: Amany Dahab, University of Western Ontario Chants and Minstrelsy to the the Spoken Word 1: Amany Dahab, University of Western Ontario, Poet, Against Institution: Qur'anic Hermeneutics from the Esoteric Reading of Dhū l-Nūn al-Miṣrī to the F9: NEW BOOK FORUM: ON Phyllis Taoua's Literary Reading of Nasr Hamed Abu Zaid African Freedom: How Africa Responded to 2: Sheneese Thompson, Ohio State University, Independence Don’t Hurt Yourself: Odù Ọ̣̀sẹ́ẹ́turá as a Method Venue: for Analyzing Fault, Retribution and Chair: Moradewun Adejunmobi University of California, Accountability Davis 3: Obala Fanuela Musumba, Humboldt University, 1: Eleni Coundouriotis, University of Connecticut Re-Situating the African Novel in Sites of 2: Simon Lewis, College of Charleston Knowledge in East Africa 3: Cilas Kemedjio, University of Rochester 4: Joy Wrolson & Stephanie Guirand-Arhin, 4: Phyllis Taoua, University of Arizona Independent Scholar & University of London, Homing African-ness: Mythical Africa, Politics F10: MEET YOUR Journal of the African Literature and Spatio-temporality in Political Theater: A Association (JALA) EDITORS Case Study of “She and He” Venue:

Chair: Tejumola Olaniyan, Editor, JALA F8: PRIZE & PREJUDICE 1: Odile Cazenave, Boston University Venue: 2: Gaurav Desai, University of Michigan Chair: Kofi Anyidoho 3: Grace Musila, University of the Witwatersrand 1: Katherine Hummel, University of Michigan, Ann 4: Ghirmai Negash, Ohio University Arbor, For the Postcolonial or for the “World”? 5: Stephanie Newell, Yale Univesity Reading Ben Okri’s The Famished Road beyond 6: Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of the Booker Prize California, Davis 2: Susanna Sacks, Northwestern University, The 7: Julie Papaiannou, University of Rochester Promise of a Pan-African Poetics: The Spoken

12 SESSION G | THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019 | 3:00-4:30PM

G1: PERFORMING AFRICANA FUTURES: WOMEN’S African Feminist Knowledge: A Critique of PRACTICES WITH INSTITUTIONS PAST AND PRESENT Chielozona Eze's African Feminist Ethical Theory Venue: Chair: Christian Flaugh SUNY-University at Buffalo G4: Discussant: Judith Miller New York University Venue: 1: Maria-Gratias Sinon, SUNY-University at Chair: Buffalo, Performing Transnational Female 1: Blackness: Institutions of In/Visibility in Calixthe 2: Beyala’s Les honneurs perdus and Soyica Diggs 3: Colbert’s Black Movements 4: 2: Guillaume Yoboué, SUNY-University at Buffalo, Performing African Institutions: The G5: FESTIVALS, CULTURE, & THE LITERARY Enchevêtrement of Futures and Faith in the Theater of Werewere Liking Venue: 3: Naila Ansari Mary Sullivan, Matthew Chair: 1: Muftiat Adeyi, University of Ilorin, Womanist Skrzypczyk, & Diana Cortés-Evans, SUNY- University at Buffalo, “‘[I]n the service of Aesthetics in Yemoja Festival of Ibadan, Nigerian 2: Ruben Onyishi, University of Nigeria, Sex and institutional memory’: Marie Chauvet and the Sexuality in Ika Performative songs of Obimo and Practice of Revolutionary Bodies” Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

3: Debra Boyd, Wake Forest University, G2: INTER-GENERATIONAL READINGS OF TSITSI Retrospectives on FESPACO 1969-2019 DANGAREMBGA'S TAMBUDZAI TRILOGY 4: Kimingichi Wabende, University of Nairobi, Venue: Performing The Oral Narrative In Conventional Chair: Grace A. Musila, University of the Witwatersrand Spaces: Case Study Of Kenya National Drama 1: Carli Coetzee, Journal of African Cultural Studies Festival 2: Eleni Coundouriotis, University of Connecticut 3: Anne Gulick, University of South Carolina G6: DISCOURSE FOUNDERS IN AFRICAN LITERARY 4: Tadiwa Madenga, Harvard University CRITICISM: LINDFORS, PALMER, KESTELOOT, & 5: Bhakti Shringarpure, University of Connecticut THERS 6: Lily Saint, Wesleyan University O Venue: Chair: Kwaku Korang, Editor, Research in African G3: BRIDGING WOMANIST SPACES IN AFRICA AND HER Literatures DIASPORAS — IN CELEBRATION OF PROFESSOR 1: Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas at Austin, CHIKWENYE OKONJO OGUNYEMI the first twenty years of Research in African Venue: Chair: Modupe Olaogun York University Literatures Discussant: Chioma Opara Rivers State University of 2: Kandioura Drame, University of Virgiana, Science and Technology,, Nigeria Kesteloot (1931-2018) in African Literary 1: Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University, Criticism Baltimore, MD, Complementary Gender Roles in 3: Ernest Emenyonu, Unniversity of Michigan, Akachi-Ezeigbo’s The Last Strong Ones Flint, "Institutional Histories of African 2: Otymeyin, Agbajoh-Laoye, Monmouth Literature: A Brief History of the University of University, “Engaging the Wo/Man in Calabar (Nigeria) International Conference on Ogunyemi’s African Brand of Feminism: African Literature and the English Language Problematizing Gender in Emecheta’s ‘Back to (ICALEL) 1980-1990 Africa’ Novels. 4: Janice Spleth, West Virginia University, "In an 3: Modupe, Olaogun, York University, “From African Context:" Eustace Palmer's Critical Vernacular Theory to Universal Language: Studies of African Women's Writing Exploring Critical Spaces Opened by Ogunyemi’s Womanism” 4: Gabriel, Bámgbóṣé, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Of Afrocentric Abstractions and 13 G7: THE WRITTEN AND THE DRAWN: CARTOONS & 4: Chioma Toni-Duruaku & Anthony B.C. Duruaku, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of COMICS Education, Nigeria & Federal Polytechnic, Venue: Nekede, Nigeria, Cartoon Networks Enhancing Chair: Njeri Githire, University of Minnesota Twin-Cities Literary Apathy 1: Njeri Githire, University of Minnesota Twin- Cities, African Cartoons in the Globalized Present G9: NEW BOOK FORUM: Lily Saint's Black Cultural 2: Honorine Rouiller, Florida State University, Life in South Africa Comics as another support to convey collective Venue: and national memory Chair: Carli Coetzee Journal of African Cultural Studies 3: Ted Phido, The Write Note Limited, DC Jihadists 1: Khwezi Mkhize, University of the Witwatersrand vs Marvel Mujaheddin: A look at Nigerian 2: Stephane Robolin, Rutgers University Comics Fandom. 3: Ruth, Bush Bristol University 4: Celia Kyalo & Vincent Ogoti, University of 4: Eleni Coundouriotis, University of Connecticut Wisconsin-Madison, Cartooning Kenyan Education: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Gado’s ENRE AND ITUAL Works G10: G R (WOCALA) Venue: Chair: P. Jane Splawn Livingstone College G8: INSTITUTIONS & SITES: PRIVATION AND 1: Ngozi Chuma-Udeh & Bryan Udeh, PRECARITY Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Venue: Conceptualizing Rituals and Retributive Justice in Chair: Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, University Of Tennessse, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of Knoxville God 1: Emilie Diouf, Brandeis University, At the Time of 2: P. Jane Splawn, Livingstone College, Ritual in the Border: African Literature and the Refugee Ntozake Shange's Selected Plays and Novels Regime 3: Anthonia Ezeugo Ugochukwu & J.M. Ezeugo, 2: Hillary Kowino, University of Minnesota Duluth, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu University, Nigeria, Prisoner Number 1323/69, Winnie Madikizela Dramaturgy and Ritual: Portraiture of Two Mandela: A Legacy of Fighting Back and Nigerian Playwrights Overcoming Apartheid 4: Nonyelum Mba, University of Abuja, Glancing 3: Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, University Of Tennessse, Back and Forging Ahead: Proofs of African Knoxville, Wrestling with the Devil: Redefining Drama Performance Space in Ngũgĩ’s Recontructed Prison Memo

14 SESSION I |FRIDAY | 17 May 2019 |9:00-10:10:30AM

I1: ILLUMINATIONS of Icons with Film Essays: Femi Odugbemi’s D.O Fagunwa and Tunde Kelani’s Akinwunmi Isola Venue: and the Rest of Us Chair: Marie Umeh BMCC , , 1: Marie Umeh, BMCC, 4: Van Kelly University of Kansas Re- 2: Sidney Davis, BMCC, imagining/Re-instituting the City: Writing and 3: Carole Gregory, BMCC, Filming the Dakar that is and the Dakar that is to come

I2: DU contexte à l’Histoire : A la re(découverte) des textes fondateurs. (FRACALA) I5: ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION IN Venue: LITERATURE AND CRITICISM Chair: Lise Mba Ekani, Hobart and William Smith Venue: Colleges Chair: Byron Santangelo, University of Kansas 1: Ena Vulor, University of Massachusetts, 1: Byron Santangelo, University of Kansas, Francophone African Writers and the French Decolonizing Climate Fiction Literary Landscape: Exile, Resistance, and 2: Hodabalou Anate, University of Lomé, Togo & Appropriation University of Michigan-Flint , The Poet as an 2: Emmanuel Yewah, Albion College, Peuples noirs Eco- critic: A Reading of Alex Kangnivi Kodjovi’s Peuples africains: From "la malédiction du The Voyage of the Eagle silence" to Speaking Back 3: Katherine Hummel, University of Michigan, Ann 3: Kasongo Kapanga, University of Richmond, The Arbor, Spatial Entanglements: Reading Ecologies Two-Way Street of Orality in Some Francophone of Infrastructure in Ben Okri’s The Famished Fiction: Kourouma, Nganang, Mabanckou and Road Mujila. I6: GENDERING THE AFRICAN NOVEL: CREATIVITY, I3: AFRICAN LITERATURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: PRODUCTION AND WOMEN’S IDENTITIES PAST AND FUTURES Venue: Venue: Chair: Rose Sackeyfio, Winston Salem State University Chair: Shola Adenekan, University of Bremen 1: Wangui Wa Goro, Independent Scholar 1: Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, University of Ghana 2: Nana Ayebia Clarke, Ayebia Clarke Publishers 2: Tomi Adeaga, University of Vienna 3: Tomi Adeaga, University of Vienna Austria 3: Anthonia Kalu, University of California Riverside 4: Rose Sackeyfio, Winston Salem State University 4: James Yeku, University of Saskatchewan 5: Amatoritsero Ede, University of the Bahamas I7: RADICAL GENRES: FILM, VISUAL, MEDIA 6: Shola Adenekan, University of Bremen Venue: Chair: MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins Pennsylvania State I4: DRAMATIC CHALLENGES: A CRITICAL University DISCOURSE ON THE STATE OF AFRICAN THEATRE 1: Ken Harrow, Michigan State University, Time AND THE PERFORMING ARTS (PATCALA) and Death in “The Opera of the Venue: World” and “Nine Muses” Chair: Yvette Hutchison University of Warwick 2: Manthia Diawara, New York University, Genres, Discussant: Ketu Katrak University of California, Irvine Crossovers and Becomings 1: Yvette Hutchison, University of Warwick, 3: Mary Ellen (Ellie) Higgins, Pennsylvania State African Women Playwrights’ Network (AWPN) University, Not a Genre: Kivu Ruhorahoza’s – the journey to connecting women theatre Europa practitioners across the continent and beyond 2: Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, University of Kansas, I8: THE MEANING OF PETER ABRAHAMS, NONI Sankofa and the Gendered Aesthetics of Self-Rule JABAVU AND ES'KIA MPHAHLELE ACROSS A in Aidoo’s Anowa CENTURY (2) 3: Babatunde Onikoyi, Adeleke University, Nigeria, Venue: Upholding the Yoruba Language and the Legacies Chair: Mandisa Haarhoff, University of Cape Town 15 1: Athambile Masola, University of Pretoria, The 2: Alexie Tcheuyap, University of Toronto, Film Language of Noni Jabavu Festivals in Africa. Issues, Challenges and 2: Obi Nwakanma, University of Central Florida, Opportunities Es'kia Mphahlele and Peter Abrahams: African 3: Henrietta Okafor, University of Nigeria, Literature, Foundational Discourse and the Dedicated African Writers and Prestige/Reward Dimensions of Authority System: the Place of Poverty Porn? 3: Bhekizizwe Peterson, University of the Witswatersrand, Pathways and Fissures of Black I10: JOURNALS IN AFRICAN LITERARY STUDIES: Transnationalism: A reflection on the Works of EARLY-CAREER QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION Abrahams, Jabavu and Mphahlele between 1948 (GSCALA) and 1968 Venue: 4: Simon Lewis, College of Charleston, Conning the Chair: Chair: Fiona Farnsworth, University of Warwick Contours of South African Poetry, 1960-2010 1: Bhakti Shringarpure, University of Connecticut 2: Ernest Emenyonu, University of Michigan, Flint I9: PRIZE & PREJUDICE 3: Susan Andrade, University of Pittsburgh Venue: 4: Teju Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Henrietta Okafor, University of Nigeria, 5: Fiona Farnsworth, University of Warwick 1: Unionmwan Edebiri, University of Benin, 6: Adeleke Adeeko, Ohio State University Nigeria, Playwriting Competition and The Development Of Francophone African Drama

16 SESSION J | FRIDAY | 17 May 2019 | 10:45-12:15PM

J1: NATION & NARRATION J4: SUBVERSIVE WRITING: COLONIAL & Venue: POSTCOLONIAL TROPES (LHCALA) Chair: Lesley Cowling, University of the Witwatersrand Venue: 1: Adeline Tutuwan. , University of Buea, Of Chair: Dosinda Alvite, Dennison University Literature of Combat: Vestiges of Colonial 1: Samuel Mate-Kodjo, Central College, Language Legacies and the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon and Epistemological Challenges to Post-colonial 2: Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manie, University of Systems Ghana, Legon, Representations of Ghana in John 2: Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, University of Dramani Mahama’s My First Coup D'etat: Guelph, Mother Africa’ Redux: Male Pens on Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa Female Bodies in Hispanosaharawi Culture 3: Rodwell Makombe, University of the Free State, 3: Joanna Boampong, University of Ghana, Symbolic violence and the patriotic novel: the (Un)Telling the (His)tory of Blacks in Latin case of Nyaradzo Mutizira-Nondo’s The America Chimurenga Protocol (2008) and Mashingaidze 4: Estelle Finley, Spelman College, The Gomo’s A fine madness (2010) Environments of African Literature: Victoria 4: Lesley Cowling, University of the Witwatersrand, Evita Iká Writing Africa in Spain Laying it “On the Line”: Aggrey Klaaste and the

use of literary tactics for nation-building in South Africa J5: REALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS IN AFRICAN LITERATURE J2: RESEARCH METHODS IN AFRICAN LITERARY Venue: STUDIES (GSCALA) Chair: Moradewun Adejunmobi University of California Davis Venue: 1: Carmen McCain, Westmont College, When the Chair: Alexander Fyfe Pennsylvania State University spiritual is the norm: defining a Hausa literary 1: Gaurav Desai, University of Michigan tradition in a time of Afrofuturism 2: Stephanie Bosch, Santana, UCLA, 2: Ian McDonald, Florida Atlantic University, 3: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Pennsylvania University Provincializing the Pulps: On the Extrapolative 4: Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of Speculation of African Mythopoesi(sf) California, Davis 3: Mahriana Rofheart, Georgia Gwinnett College, Waste, Realism, and Science Fiction J3: AFRIPHONE LITERATURE: PROMISES, CHALLENGES, AND LEGACIES: IN MEMORIAM OF 4: Matthew Omelsky, Pennsylvania State University, AKINWUNMI ISOLA (AFCALA) African Experiments: The Digital and the Venue: Speculative Chair: Akinyemi Akintunde University of Florida Discussant: Olusegun Soetan University of Wisconsin, J6: FEMINISMS AND AFRICAN TRADITIONAL Madison 1: Oyebamiji Kolawole, Federal College of INSTITUTIONS Education, Zaria, Nigeria, Animism in Akinwumi Venue: Isola's Novels Chair: Chinyere Okafor Wichita State University 2: Arinpe Adejumo, University of Ibadan, Tropes of 1: Christiana Okechukwu, Montgomery College, Patriotism and Governance in Selected Plays of Rockville, MD Akinwumii Isola 2: Anthonia Kalu, University of California Riverside 3: Abidemi Bolarinwa, University of Ibadan, Yoruba 3: Chioma Opara, Rivers State University of Science Indigenous Knowledge in Akinwumi Isola's & Tech Novels 4: Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, Purdue University 4: Lateef Raji, Obafemi Awolowo University, CalumetIndiana Nigeria, The Languages of Ìṣọ̀lá’s Ikú Olókùn Ẹṣin 5: Chinyere Okafor, Wichita State University and Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman 6: Christine Ohale, Chicago State University

17 J7: TEXTUATION Venue: J9: THE ANGLOPHONE-FRANCOPHONE PROBLEM IN Chair: Boneace Chagara, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin CAMEROON 1: Alexis Finet, Florida State University, The culture Venue: of sound as a participatory character in the Chair: Gilbert Doho Case Western Reserve University African novel: The case of Congolese Literature 1: Gilbert Doho, Case Western Reserve University, 2: Boneace Chagara, Humboldt Universität zu From a Literary Concept to an Auto-proclaimed Berlin, Subversive Aesthetics in Shifting ‘New State: Three Generations of Anglophones at War. Media’ Contexts 2: Arnaud Tchetou, Louisiana State University, The 3: Githire Njeri, University of Minnesota Twin- Question of Rhetoric in the Anglophone Problem Cities, African Experience of Migration through in Cameroon Fiction & Films 3: Jacob Tatsitsa, University of Ottawa, Occultism, 4: Joelle Vitiello, Macalester College, French National Liberation War and Secessionist Institutions and Francophone Writers from Movement in the English-speaking Regions of Africa and the African Diaspora Cameroon J8: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE EDITORS OF 4: Andre Djiffack, University of Oregon, Mongo JOURNALS OF AFRICAN & AFRICAN DIASPORA Beti et l'institutionnalisation des Peuples Noirs : LITERATURES revue, édition, librairie Venue: Chair: Ernest Emenyonu University of Michigan-Flint J10: ON BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL, INDEPENDENT BOOK 1: Ernest Emenyonu, African Literature Today AUTHOR—INDIE PUBLISHER 2: Eustace Palmer, African Literature Today Venue: 3: Bernth Lindfors, Research in African Literatures Chair: Virginia Phiri, Zimbabwe Women Writers 4: Kwaku Korang, Research in African Literatures 1: Elinettie Chabwera, Independent Writer 5: Tejumola Olaniyan, Journal of the African 2: Virginia Phiri, Zimbabwe Women Writers Literature Association 3: Marie Umeh, John Jay College at CUNY

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SESSION K |FRIDAY | 17 May 2019 | 1:15-2:45PM

K1: BERNTH LINDFORS AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF 3: Adebisi Ademakinwa, University of Lagos, AFRICAN LITERARY CRITICISM II African Literature of the Past and its transition Venue: into Science Fiction in Contemporary Time Chair & Discussant: Supriya Nair, University of 4: Unifieer Dyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michigan-Ann Arbor Postcolonial Temporality and an Afrofuturist 1: Stephanie Newell, Yale University, Bringing in reading of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon the 'Trash': Bernth Lindfors and the Rejection of Literary Hierarchies K4: CULTURAL PRODUCTION, PERFORMANCE, & 2: Salah Hassan, Michigan State University, NATIONAL IDENTITY (LHCALA) Signifying Anti-Apartheid Politics: Ben Lindfors, Venue: Dennis Brutus and the African Literature Chair: Arthur Hughes, Ohio University Association 1: Jordan, Rodgers, University of Miami, Tracking 3: Supriya Nair, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Sound in Post-Colonial Angola: The Poetics of Continuing the Palaver: Looking Back and Nation-Building Forward 2: Torin Spangler, Brown University, The Press and 4: Pelumi Folajimi, University of Hawai'I, Manoa, Literary Production in Angola The Nigerian Political Landscape and the 3: Stefania Licata, Converse College, Performances Nigerian Novel: Discourse of the Nigerian June and Art works in Pocho Guimaraes 12: 1993 general elections, as published in 4: Alice Girotto, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Research in African Literatures Angola at La Biennale di Venezia: what self- image?

K2: SITES OF PRODUCTION: RESIDUAL AND K5: THE PERSISTENCE OF THE SPOKEN MERGENT E Venue: Venue: Chair: Joya Uraizee Chair: Madeline Bedecarre Bowdoin College 1: Joya Uraizee., Saint Louis University, Discussant: Michelle Burmatay Beloit College Institutionalizing Afro-Bubblegum? Kahiu’s 1: Madeline Bedecarre, Bowdoin College, "Rafiki" and Gender Politics in Kenya Ethnography of a Literary Ritual 2: Douglas Kazé, University of Jos, How African 2: Kristen Stern, Davidson College, Theorizing Spoken-Word Poets Complicate Literary Francophone Book Festivals on the African Traditions and African Identity Continent 3: Chioma Toni-Duruaku & Anthony B.C. 3: Susanna Sacks, Northwestern University, Social Duruaku, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Media Canons: The Digitization of Literary Education, Nigeria, Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Prestige in South Africa and Koleka Putuma’s Nigeria, Beyond Literature for the Extension of Collective Amnesia the African Oral Heritage 4: Babasimisola Fadirepo, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Laughing to Resist: UEERNESS EXUALITY Activism in Stand-up Comedy Performances in K6: Q / S Nigeria Venue: Chair: Z’étoile Imma, Tulane University 1: Michelle Decker, Scripps College, Tatamkhulu K3: SCIENCE FICTION (2) Afrika, Queer Desire, and the Poetic Gap Venue: 2: Kate Harlin, University of Missouri, "Let Man Be Chair: Alexander Fyfe Man": Mental Illness and Queer Futures in 1: Alexander Fyfe, Pennsylvania State University, Nigerian Fiction Said Ahmed Mohamed's Dunia Yao and the 3: Z’étoile Imma, Tulane University, Queering the Problem of the Human Archive of Black Resistance and (South) African 2: Tanya Cerovski, Texas Tech University, Nalo Prison Writing Hopkinson's Midnight Robber 4: Romeo Oriogun, Harvard University, Walking into the Past with the Future: The Emergence of Young Nigerian Queer Writers 19

K7: CONTESTED NATIONS & THE LITERARY 4: Doris Obieje & Bridget Yakubu, National Open Venue: University of Nigeria Abuja, Cutting the Rope: Chair: Armel Mbon, Marien Ngouabi University, Reading Pede Hollist's So the Path Does Not Die Republic of the Congo 1: Deena Dinat, University of British Columbia, K9: MIGRATIONS & NARRATIVE CONSEQUENCES Before the State: Truth-telling, the Emergent Venue: Subject, and the South African Truth and Chair: Cary Campbell, Antioch College, Reconciliation Commission 1: Cary Campbell, Antioch College, Africa is a 2: Dele Maxwell, Ugwanyi, Enugu State University Country: Fatou Diome's Diasporic Conceptions of Science and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria, of Nation in Préférence National and Kétala Chinua Achebe's Writings: A Critical Reflection 2: Mouhamedoul A Niang, Colby Colleege, Doing of the Nigerian State and Historical Cosmopolitanism or Transcending Race, Nation Developments and Ethnicity : Fatou Diome’s Inspirational Re- 3: Armel Mbon & Benjamin Evayoulou, Marien imagining of Human Encounters in Inassouvies’ Ngouabi University, Republic of the Congo, nos vies Squealer or the Sophism Working for Modern 3: Abayomi Awelewa, McPherson University, Dictatorship: A Re-visitation of Orwell’s Animal Nigeria, (Re)Negotiating Space for the Lost Farm Literature of Nigerian Diaspora 4: Harrison Okogun., Ambrose Ali University, Nigeria, The Dialogics of Globalism: African K10: LA LITTÉRATURE AFRICAINE D’HIER ET Socio-Political Institutions and the West D’AUJOURD’HUI OU LA NÉGRITUDE EN MUTATION (FRACALA 2) K8: RE-IMAGINING AFRICAN FUTURE(S) THROUGH Venue: AFRICAN LITERATURE: EMERGENT VOICES Chair: Mathias Irié Bi Gohy Université Alassane Venue: Ouattara Chair: Vincent Ogoti University of Wisconsin-Madison 1: Mathias Irié Bi Gohy, Université Alassane 1: Angeline Peterson, University of Wisconsin- Ouattara, La laïcité comme nouvelle perspective Madison, Dystopian Fiction in the Age of de la littérature négritudienne Information: Decoding the Divine Network of 2: Célestin Dadí Djah, Université Alassane Ouattara, The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz La pérennité acquise de la poésie négritudienne 2: Astou Fall Gueye, University of Wisconsin- par l’analyse des comportements humains Madison, Jonge: Prospects of Feminism in 3: Rosalind Kouassi Kouakou, Université Alassane Senegalese Literature Ouattara, La négritude comme l’âme de 3: Tolulope Akinwole, University of Wisconsin- l’esthétique littéraire africaine Madison, Impossible Objectivity and the 4: Joachim Kéi, Universite Alassane Ouattara, Reimagining of the African Urban Future: Adiaffi ou la littérature-philosophie pour une Afropolitan Sensibilities of Lagos in Igoni négritude véritable Barrett’s Blackass

20 SESSION L |FRIDAY | 17 May 2019 | 3:00-4:30PM

L1: MATTERS ARISING FROM POSTCOLONIAL Chair: Beth Willey. University of Louisville 1: Beth Willey, University of Louisville, THEORY Genrification and gentrification in the novels of Venue: Deji Olukotun Chair: Oumar Diop, Kennesaw State State 2: Rose Sackeyfio, Winston Salem State University, 1: Siddarth Srikanth, Ohio State University, Blacktopia Re-imagined: Afrofuturistic Vision in Aesthetic Ambiguity and the Belatedness of the Nnedi Okrafor's Lagoon Postcolonial Novel 3: Rachel Wilson, University of Michigan, What 2: Keith Phetlhe, Ohio University, The Translation should we do for the snail without its shell?: Question in Postcolonial African Language Interspecies cosmopolitanism in Coetzee’s Life & Literatures and Cinema Times of Michael K. 3: Oumar Diop, Kennesaw State State, Challenging 4: Andrew, Armstrong, University of the West Silencing Institutions: A Study of Silence in the Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, Journey to Postcolonial African Novel an Expectation: Back to the Future? 4: Daniel Mengara, Montclair State University, From "Africa, I Will Fleece You" to “Africa, I L5: NO PAST, NO PRESENT, NO FUTURE? SIERRA Have Fleeced You”: The “Nos Ancêtres Sont des LEONE LITERATURE, VISIONS AND REVISIONS OF Gaulois” Model and The Institutional Challenges NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS II of African Literature Venue: Chair: Joyce Dixon-Fyle Depauw University 1: Joyce Dixon-Fyle, Depauw University, The L2: FEMINISM, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND AFRICAN Diseased Body: Eustace Palmer’s Exploration of DRAMA/THEATER (PATCALA) Sickness in Sierra Leone Venue: 2: Iyunolu Osagie, Oregon State University, Promise Chair: Chinyere Okafor Wichita State University and Peril: Theatricality in Beah's A Long Way Discussant: Chioma Opara Rivers State University of Gone and Jarrett-Macauley's Moses Citizen & Me Science & Tech, Nigeria 3: Mohamed Kamara, Washington & Lee 1: Chinyere Okafor, Wichita State University, The University, The Unholy Trinity: The Critique of Lion and the Iroko - Feminist Theater in pre- Church, Family, and Educational Institutions in feminist context the Plays of Yulisa Amadu Maddy 2: Akachi Ezeigbo, Alex Ekwueme Federal 4: Rita Dandridge, Virginia State University, How University, Nigeria, "Women's Revolt in Hands Has Literature Shaped SLWS in Sierra Leone, that Crush Stone: Using Drama to Fight Gender West Africa? Oppression and Social Injustice" 3: Betty Sibongile, Dlamini, Indiana University, Sitting on a man: Intersections of Traditional L6: WRITING ETHIOPIA African Feminisms and Modern African Venue: Feministic Drama Chair: Demeke Dires, Debre Markos University 4: Isaac Lar, A Critical View of Emmy Idegu’s Great 1: Yewulsew Endalew, University of Oregon, Odolu Kingdom Hydropoetics: The Past, Present, and Future of the Nile Hydro-politics through Ethiopian and L3: NEW BOOK FORUM: Olabode Ibironke's Egyptian songs and Poems. 2: Demeke Dires, Debre Markos University, Remapping African Literature (Re)defining Ethiopian Literature: A quest for Venue: identity in the age of globalization Chair: Taiwo A Osinubi University of Western Ontario 3: Fiona Farnsworth, University of Warwick, Empty 1: Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas-Austin Aisles: Foodways and The (In)Convenience Store 2: Akin Adesokan, Indiana University in Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things that 3: Kayode Odumboni, Ohio State University Heaven Bears

L4: AFROFUTURISM Venue: 21 L7: EVOLVING MORES IN SEXUALITY, DESIRE, & 2: Peace Longdet, Federal College of Education Pankshin, Plateau State, Nigeria, Portraiture Of GENDER Gender Construction And Spaces In Mangu Venue: Puuskat Festival Chair: Cheryl Sterling, Pennsylvania State University 3: Christian Flaugh, SUNY-University at Buffalo, 1: Rasheeda Saka, Princeton University, "Things I Carnival Returns: The Performance of Revolting Had Refused to See": Reformulating Masculinity, Subjects in Côte d’Ivoire’s Festival Market Motherhood, and Agency in Ayobami Adebayo's 4: Unionmwan Edebiri, University of Benin, Stay with Me Nigeria, Drama In Festivals: Some Examples 2: Eunita Ochola, Allen University, From Francophone West And Central Africa Mischaracterization of the Powerful and Strong (Black) Women: A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis of L9: SCIENCE FICTION the Depiction of the Woman’s Power and Strength Politically and Sexually in Selected Post- Venue: Colonial and Modern Literatures Chair: Ifeoluwa Adeniyi, University of Manitoba 3: Cheryl Sterling, Pennsylvania State University, 1: Ifeoluwa Adeniyi, University of Manitoba, Female Desire in “An African City:” Feminism Beyond Tokenism: Black Panther’s Africa and the and AutoEroticism in the Making of the Failure of Representation Afropolitan 2: Ebenezer Nyamekye Nkrumah, Independent 4: Thato Magano, Rutgers University, “Apparently Scholar, On the Blackness of the Panther: Queer Love/Intimacy/Sex is Porn”: On Interrogating Afrofuturistic Reality in a Inxeba/The Wound and the Phantoms of Diasporan Fantasy Meaning(s) in/about Manhood and South 3: Chimalum Nwankwo, Nnamdi Azikiwe Africa’s “Progressive” Exceptionalism University, Nigeria, The Arts of Blackness and the Vibranium Desideratum

L8: FESTIVALS: CARNIVALESQUE & DRAMATIC L10: CHIKWENYE OKONJO OGUNYEMI Venue: Chair: Gilbert Tarka Fai, University of Bamenda, Venue: Cameroon Chair: Nduka Otiono, Carleton University 1: Gilbert Tarka Fai, University of Bamenda, 1: Chioma Opara, Rivers State University Cameroon, Traditional African Festivals in Wole 2: Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University Soyinka’s Theatre: Globalization and Polemics of 3: Marie Umeh, CUNY, Authenticity 4: Chinyelu Ojukwu, Rivers State University 5: Chiji Akoma, Villanova University 6: Nduka Otiono, Carleton University

22 SESSION N | SATURDAY | 18 MAY 2019 | 8:00-9:30AM

N1: REFLECTING ON THE DIGITIZATION OF AWA: Chair: Dosinda Alvite, Denison University LA REVUE DE LA FEMME NOIRE. METHODS, ETHICS 1: Ellen Ryan Robinson, Indiana University, AND PEDAGOGY Premiadas poscoloniales: Are We Reading Venue: Award-Winning Equatoguinean and Chair: Ruth Bush University of Bristol Mozambican Novelists? 1: Debra Boyd, Independent Scholar 2: Pedro Lopes de Almeida, Brown University, 2: Eileen Julien, Indiana University Regimes líquidos, estados gasosos: morte, política 3: Tobias Warner, UC Davis e quotidiano em Ondjaki (Os Transparentes) 4: Kandioura Dramé, University of Virginia 3: Richard Ayodeji Olugbuyiro, Ohio State 5: Beth Buggenhagen, Indiana University University, The Enduring Paradigm of

Resistance: Continuities of Negritude in N2: CONTESTED NATIONS & THE LITERARY Contemporary Afro-Portuguese Poetry Venue: 4: Luana Lamberti, Ohio State University, Helvécia Chair: Juliet Ekpang, University of Calabar Afro-Brazilian Portuguese: a linguistic and 1: Juliet Ekpang, University of Calabar, sociohistorical overview of an understudied Globalisation and modernisation in the naming variety of Portuguese culture of Afrike people: A sociolinguistic study 2: Alex Wanjala. , University of Nairobi, N5: MIDDLE PASSAGE & AFTER Historiography or Imagination? [Re] reading Venue: Representations of Indigenous Kikuyu Culture in Chair: James McCorkle, Hobart & William Smith Elspeth Huxley’s Red Strangers: A Story of Kenya Colleges 3: Meredith Shephard, Yale University, The Tutsi 1: James McCorkle, Hobart & William Smith Curse in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu Colleges, Narrated Silence: in the Wake of the 4: Nonye Ahuymbe, Imo State University, Nigeira, Middle Passage Stand-up comic performances in Africa: An 2: Marian Ofori-Amoafo. , University of Bayreuth, escape from despair or a masking of it? From Movement to Form: African Literatures and Diaspora Connections N3: ELECTRONIC WORDS: DIGITAL & ANALOG 3: Utitofon Inyang, University of California, Venue: Riverside, Re-Membering the Dead, Confronting Chair: Robert Cancel, University of California, San Diego the Archive: Language, Law and Performativity in 1: Robert Cancel, University of California, San M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! Diego, Zambian Oral Narrative Traditions Online: Digitzing and Availability N6: FILMS: MAKING, CLASSIFYING, CONSUMING from UCSD's Library Venue: 2: Julie Cyzewski, Murray State University, Chair: Matthew H. Brown, University of Wisconsin- Producing Postcolonial Orality: The BBC's West Madison African Voices and African Writers' Club 1: Kenneth Harrow, Michigan State University, The 2: David Lukhachi, University of Wisconsin- Challenge of Space-Time: an attempt to relate Madison, Politics of Space and Informality: How Special Relativity to (African) Cinema Studies Television reimages urban-Nairobi 2: Edgard Sankara, University of Delaware, Le 3: Emmanuel Ngwira, University of Malawi, thème policier dans la filmographie et la critique Chiwetel Ejiofor’s ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the cinématographique du Burkina Faso Wind’ and the Politics of Language in 3: Olusegun Soetan, University of Wisconsin- Postcolonial Malawi Madison, The Dissident Auteur: Tunde Kelani 4: Vincent Ogoti, University of Wisconsin- and The Corporatization of Nollywood’s Madison, African Literature and Aurality in the Economy Era of Audiobooks 4: Matthew H. Brown, University of Wisconsin-

Madison, The Bloody Machete as Paradigmatic N4: AWARDS: HISPANOPHONE AND LUSOPHONE Figure of Violence: From Achebe to Nollywood WRITERS (LHCALA) Venue: 23 N7: DIGITAL: BORN & ADOPTED 2: Samuel Zadi, Central Connecticut State Venue: University, Celles Qui Attendent de Fatou Chair: Steven Almquist, Spring Hill College Diome, ou L'Individu dans les Mailles de la 1: Steven Almquist, Spring Hill College, Talkin’ Communaute TED and Flawless Bey: Popular Complementing 3: Aissata Sidikou, US Naval Academy, Langage, of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie corps et identité dans La vie sans fards et Je 2: Grace A. Musila, University of the m'appelle Nina Witwatersrand, Migrancy and the Literary 4: Alioune Badara Fall, Ohio State University, From Marketplace in Dinaw Mengestu's How to Read Negritude to Migritude: Reconsidering the the Air Relevance of “Métissage Culturel” in Migritude Literature. 3: Dele Bamidele, Federal University, Lokoja, Nigeria, Pop Culture and the Challenges of African Literature in a Digital World N9: WRITING/READING NERVOUS CONDITIONS 4: Michael Oshindoro, Bowling Green State Venue: University, Gender Power and Solidarity Chair: Chinyelu Ojukwu, University of Port Harcourt, Between Women in Chimamanda Adichie's Nigeria Purple Hibiscus 1: Chinyelu Ojukwu, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, The Psychological Dimensions of the Female Condition in the Institution of Marriage: N8: IDENTITY QUESTION: FRANCOPHONE An Analytical Appraisal of Zainabu Jallo's Onions REPRESENTATIONS Make Us Cry and Julie Okoh's Mask Venue: 2: Eyiwumi Bolutito, University of Ibadan, Chair: Samuel Zadi, Central Connecticut State University Navigating racial, gender spaces, sexuality, 1: Aline Skrzeszewski, University of Cincinnati, migration and unequal spaces for survival: a Esprit communautaire africain versus postcolonial investigation of Tahar Ben Jelloun’s individualisme européen: entre désir Partir d’assimilation et rejet de "l'Autre"

24 SESSION O | SATURDAY | 18 MAY 2019 | 9:45AM-11:15AM

O1: SCIENCE FICTION 4: Taiwo Adetunji, Osinubi, University of Western Venue: Ontario, Social Fractures in African University Fiction Chair: Jacinth Howard, University of the West Indies -

Cave Hill Campus 1: Jacinth Howard, University of the West Indies - O4: FROM PRINT TO SCREEN Cave Hill Campus, Societal Disguises: An analysis Venue: of Stephanie Saulter's (R)evolution trilogy using Chair: Irene Agunloye, Georgia State University Raymond Williams' framework 1: Irene Agunloye, Georgia State University, 2: Erin Fehskens, Towson University, Is the Afr- in Shaping the Craft of Screenwriting: Women Afrofuturism the same as the Afr- in African SF Screen Writers in Nollywood 3: Lafleur Cockburn, The UWI, Cave Hill Campus, 2: Anthere Nzabatsinda, Vanderbilt University, Perceptions of “Non-Space” in Selected L’humour chez Ousmane Sembène, engagement Vincentian Works à l’écrit et sur l’écran : Guelwaa 4: Theophilus Okunlola, Mississippi State 3: Joseph Pomp, Harvard University, Constructing University, Invisible Violence and Visible the Auteur: The Centre national du cinéma and Urbanization: Afrofuturism and the the African Literary Field representations of the Postcolony in Nnedi 4: Dennis Moot, Ohio University, Posters in Action: Okorafor's African science fictions Visuality and Folkloric Narrative in Hand- Painted Movie Posters from Ghana O2: ELECTRONIC WORDS & THE NATION: DIGITAL ENRE ORM ITERARINESS & ANALOG O5: G , F , L Venue: Venue: Chair: Esther de Bruijn, University of Lethbridge Chair: T. Obinkaram Echewa, West Chester University 1: Ernest Patrick, Kabarak University, 1: T. Obinkaram Echewa, West Chester University, Music, Festivity and Nationhood in Kenya Aesthetics and Syllogistics in Traditional Igbo 2: Babacar Mbaye, Kent State University, Pan- Village Oration Africanism in Senegambian Musical Literature: 2: David Hoegbeerg, IUPUI, Reading at an Angle: Lyrical and Sonic Interpretations Intertextuality in Zoe Wicomb's October 3: Ted Phido, The Write Note Limited, The use of 3: Olga Zavyalova & Jontan Keita, Saint Petersburg traditional African storytelling in Social And State University, Russian Federation, To the Behavioral Change Communication. Problem of Determining the Genre of an Anecdote in Manden 4: Esther de Bruijn, University of Lethbridge, Too 4: Daniel Chukwuemeka, University of Bristol, Much of Melodrama: Historicizing the Advance Fee Fraud as an Emergent Perspective Denigration of Sensation in Ghanaian Narrative towards the Corpus of African Hustler Narratives Arts

RIDGING ERFORMANCE ONTEMPORIZING O3: INSTITUTIONS OF AFRICAN LITERATURE: O6: B P : C AND ISTORICIZING OMEN IN FRICAN RAL CAMPUS FORMS H W A O Venue: EPIC NARRATOLOGY: J P Clark-Bekederemo’s The Chair: Anne Gulick, University of South Carolina Ozidi Saga AS COMPASS 1: Anne Gulick, University of South Carolina, Venue: Structurally Maladjusted: The Twenty-First- Chair: Otymeyin Agbajoh-Laoye Monmouth University Century University Bildungsroman Discussant: Ousseynou Traore Independent Scholar 2: Louisa Uchum Egbunike, City University, 1: Maureen N. Eke, Central Michigan University, London, Writing the University of Nigeria, “My grandmother is a witch! Language, Nsukka: Perspectives from the Igbo-Nigerian Mythology, and the Construction of Oreame Novel 2: Otymeyin Agbajoh-Laoye, Monmouth 3: Ruth Bush, Bristol University, UK, The University, What is Wrong With a Woman As undisciplined campus forms of Cheikh Anta Heroic Epic Character: Oreame as Epic Creator Diop and Character 25 3: Oumarou Adamou Idé, Abdou Moumouni and Convergences in the Landscape of Women’s University (Niamey/Niger), Oral Epic: A Cradle Oppression of Cultural Renaissance in Nige" O9: AFROPOLITANISM & POLITICS O7: ANALYZING POETRY, POETICS, & MUSIC Venue: Venue: Chair: Oladipupo Oyeleye, University of Wisconsin- Chair: Quintina Carter-Enyi, University of Georgia Madison 1: Joy Etiowo, Cross River University of 1: Tolulope Akinwole, University of Wisconsin- Technology, Calabar, African Cyber-Space Madison, Troubling Africa: Afropolitanism as Poetry: Issues and Prospects Post-Afrocentric Discourse 2: Clokou Anoha, École Normale Supérieure 2: Oladipupo Oyeleye, University of Wisconsin- d’Abidjan, Poésie et organologie dans l’oeuvre Madison, (Dis)Entangled Histories: Algorithms poétique de Léopold Sedar Senghor of Ancestry and the Afropolitan Sensibility of 3: Quintina Carter-Enyi, University of Georgia, The Global Africanness in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Language Agenda in Post-Colonial African Music and Black Diasporic Music 3: Denis Waswa, Louisiana State University, O8: OPPRESSORS, SUPPRESSORS, DISSENTERS Constructing Afropolitanism: A Response to the Venue: Clash of Cultures in the Selected Works of Femi Chair: Katherine Mooney, Ohio State University Euba, Wole Soyinka, and Ama Ata Aidoo 1: Friday Nwafor, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, The real oppressors and the oppressed: O10: AROUND Joyce Ash's Beautiful Fire Miesoinuma Minima's Odumegege and King Jaja Venue: 2: Katherine Mooney, Ohio State University, Chair: Trésor S. Yoassi UNCG Politico-Literature, French Intellectualism, and 1: Trésor S. Yoassi, UNCG, the Relationship Between Algeria and France 2: Giftus Nkam, Independent Scholar Through the Eyes of Albert Camus 3: Naomie Nkealah, University of the 3: Eyiwumi, Bolutito, University of Ibadan, The Witwatersrand Female Condition in the Interstices of Time and 4: Ernest Cole, Hope College Space in African Novels: Cultural Divergences

26 SESSION P | SATURDAY | 18 MAY 2019 | 12:30-2:00 PM

P1: Diana Adesola Mafe's Where No Black 1: Carli Coetzee, Journal of African Cultural Studies 2: Monica Popescu, McGill University Woman Has Gone Before 3: Stephanie Bosch Santana, UCLA, Venue: 4: Chielozona Eze, Northeastern Illinois University Chair: Lily Saint, Wesleyan University 5: Cajetan Iheka, University of Alabama 1: Mahriana Rofheart, Georgia Gwinnett College 2: Lily Saint, Wesleyan University P6: TECHNOLOGY, NEW MEDIA, & POLITICS 3: Louisa Egbunike, City University, London UK Chair: Sue Houchins, Bates College 1: Giftus Ntambo, Independent Scholar, Social P2: Manthia Diawara’s “Opera of the World” Media, Democratic Practice and Political Change: Venue: Facebook and the Political Crisis in Cameroon Chair: Ken Harrow Michigan State University 2: Serah Kasembeli, Independent Scholar, 1: Manthia Diawara, New York University Disruption: Reading Online South African 2: Ruhorahoza, Independent filmmaker Student Protest Movement Platforms as 3: Ken Harrow, Michigan State University Literature 4: Akin Adesokan, Indiana University, Bloomington 3: Sue Houchins, Bates College, Novices in the 5: Mary Ellen (Ellie), Higgins, Pennsylvania State Archives: Restoring, Preserving and Digitizing an University African Institution 4: Cheikh Ndiaye, Union College, Spiritual Oral P3: TRANSLATION PRACTICE: NEWS AND VIEWS Performance and Electronic Media: Sweet Honey FROM THE FIELD (TRACALA) in the Rock and Hyzbut Tarqiyyah Venue: Chair: Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford 1: Wangui Wa Goro, Independent Scholar P7: WRITING/READING RACE INTERSECTING WITH 2: Pamela Olúbùnmi Smith, University of Nebraska GENDER, SEXUALITY at Omaha Venue: 3: Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford Chair: Jean Hugues Bita'a Menye, University of Arkansas, 4: Frederick Firaki, United States International Fayetteville University, Kenya 1: Jean Hugues Bita'a Menye, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Racial Perspectives In P4: THE DIFFERENCE OF TECHNOLOGIES African Literature: A Comparative Analysis Of Venue: Criminality In Mariama Bâ’s Scarlet Song And Chair: Aaron Carter-Enyi Patrice Nganang’s Mount Pleasant 1: Dorcas Donkor, Ohio University, Women’s 2: Asmaa Alshehri, Indiana University of Activism in the New Millennium: The Rise of Pennsylvania, Resisting Intersectional Cyber Feminism in Africa Oppressions in the Life Writing of Political 2: Abha Sood, Monmouth University, Queen Activist Angela Davis Mothers of Ghana in the New Media 3: Jesutofunmi Omowumi, University of Missouri, 3: Aaron Carter-Enyi, Morehouse College, Pitch The Racialized Unconscious, Yoruba Archetypes Polarity in Praise-Singing and Hip-Hop of Two(s) and the Esu-Elegbara Interventions in 4: Oladipupo Oyeleye, University of Wisconsin, Toni Morrison’s Paradise and Song of Solomon Madison, Afropolitan Anti-Hero, the Dark Web, and Postcolonial Self-making in Tricia P8: COSMOPOLITANISM & REIMAGINING AFRICA Nwaubani’s I Do Not Come to You by Chance and Venue: Nigerian Popular Music. Chair: Kwaku Gyasi, University of Alabama in Huntsville 1: Kwaku Gyasi, University of Alabama in P5: NEW BOOK FORUM: ON The Routledge Huntsville, Henri Lopes and the Search for a Handbook of African Literature Hybrid Identity in Le Lys et le Flamboyant 2: Patoimbasba Nikiema, University of Pittsburgh, Venue: The Resilience of Exile and the Opening to Chair: Moradewun Adejunmobi University of California, Davis 27 Transnational Experience in Contemporary 3: Tembi Charles, Pennsylvania State University, Francophone Literature "Writing the Postcolonial Extractive Zone" in 3: Constance Vottero, Boston University, Black Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83 Travelling And Travelling Blackness In Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazar And Teju Cole’s Open P10: HOW TO TO DO THINGS WITH POETRY: FORM City 4: Omar Dieng, Ohio State University, AS EFFECT Cosmopolitanism and Politics of Blackness in Venue: Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazaar Chair: Adeleke Adeeko Ohio State University 1: Kudzai Ngara, University of the Free State, South P9: READING FOR THE POSTCOLONIAL & THE Africa, And now the poets do not speak: the schizophrenias of story-telling in Zimbabwean DECOLONIAL Literature Venue: 2: Vincent Odamtten, Hamilton College, What Chair: Moustapha Ndour, Butler University Happened to the Poetry -- Revisited 1: Ezechi Onyerionwu & Martins Amaechi, Birbeck 3: Derek Gideon, Pennsylvania State University, College & Abia State Polytechnic, Nigeria, The Swahili Free Verse Poetry Controversy Obioma’s The Fishermen and the Redefinition of Revisited: Poetic Form as Revolutionary Practice African Postcolonial Narrative Tragedy in the Journals Umma and Majimaji 2: Moustapha Ndour, Butler University, Literary 4: Edoama Odueme, University of Lagos, Living in Criticism: Rereading the Postmodern and the Interstices: Afropolitanism and the Poetry of Postcolonial in Appiah’s and Mbembe’s Writing Tanure Ojaide and Alfred Kisubi

28 SESSION Q | SATURDAY | 18 MAY 2019 |2:15-3:45

Q1: PUBLISH YOUR ARTICLE! THE MECHANICS 2: Tolu Akinwole, University of Wisconsin- Madison Venue: 3: Olusegun Soetan, University of Wisconsin- Chair: Tejumola Olaniyan Editor in Chief, Journal of the Madison African Literature Association 4: James Yeku, University of Saskatchewan, 1: Ernest Emenyonu, Editor, African Literature 5: David Lukhachi, University of Wisconsin- Today Madison 2: Carli Coetzee, Editor, Journal of African Cultural 6, Oladipupo Oyeleye, University of Wisconsin- Studies Madison 3: Grace A. Musila, Editor, Journal of African

Literature Association & Editor at Large, Journal of African Cultural Studies Q5: SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN'S TEXTS AFTER 2010 4: Kwaku Korang, Editor, Research in African (WOCALA) Literatures Venue: 5: Benjamin Lawrance, Editor in Chief, African Chair: Thelma Pinto, Hobart William Smith College Studies Review 1: Thelma Pinto, Hobart William Smith College, 6: Tejumola Olaniyan, Editor in Chief, Journal of the C.A. David’s The Blacks of Cape Town African Literature Association 2: Keiko Kusunose, Kyoto Seika University, So Big

Gap between the Generations in South African Q2: TEACHING AFRICAN LITERATURE TO UNDERGRADUATES: ENGAGED LEARNING Women Writings STRATEGIES 3: Huma Ibrahim, Regarding Bessie Head and Venue: Contemporary South African Women Writers Chair: Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford, 1: Julie Papaioannou, University of Rochester, Q6: 2: Victor Gomia, Delaware State University Venue: 3: Ernest Cole, Hope College, Chair: 4: Tressor Yoassi, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Q3: ECO-FEMINISM, DECOLONIZATION, APOCALYPTIC WORLDVIEWS (LHCALA) Venue: Chair: Samuel Mate-Kodjo, Central College 1: Dosinda G. Alvite, Denison University, Decolonization of Equatorial Guinea in the work of José Siale Djangany 2. Gilbert Shang Ndi, Universidad de los Andes/Universidad Bayreuth, The End(ing): A Comparative Analysis of Apocalyptic Worldviews in the Texts of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Sony Labou Tansi 3. Arthur Hughes, Ohio University, Reading Mia Couto Within Mozambique’s Literary Awards 4. Beatriz Celaya-Carrillo, U of Cincinnati, The Forest and the City in Equatorial Guinea: An Ecofeminist approach

Q4: PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE ON ELECTIONS IN AFRICA Venue: Chair: Shola Adenekan University of Bremen, 1: Amatoritse Ede, University of the Bahamas, 29