CONFERENCE SITE on FRIDAY APRIL 1st at The City College (CUNY) – AARON DAVIS HALL, 135TH and Convent Avenue.

8:00 AM-5:00 PM Registration at Aaron Davis Hall Lobby, The City College

9:15 AM-9:30 AM Opening Remarks Aaron Davis Hall (Theatre B), The City College

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Keynote Address – Prof. Deborah Willis Recipient of NYASA Distinguished Africanist Award Aaron Davis Hall (Theatre B), The City College

10:45 AM-12:15 PM Plenary Session I - Theatre B – Aaron Davis Hall

Senegalese Mbalax & World Music -- Abdou Mboup (feat. Abdou Mbaye), singer Sissiko Tapani Moroccan Gnawa Fusion -- Innov Gnawa Samir Langus, Amino Belyamani, Maalem Hassan, Ben Jaafer Zimbabwean Chimurenga -- Banning Eyre, Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe

12:30 – 1:45 – Lunch - ROOF DECK - Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College, 141 Convent Avenue, off. 135th street and Amsterdam

In performance: KEVIN TUCKER AND HIS JAZZ TRIO

Panel Sessions

Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture (all sessions)

2:00 – 3:15 - Panel Session I

Panel A: Musical Blackness across Generational Streams Chair: Mark Christian, Lehman College, CUNY, rm. 111

Damian Scott, John Jay College of Criminal Justice – CUNY, “Sonic Realism, Sonic Actualism and Black Electronic Music” Mark Christian, CUNY Graduate Center/Lehman College, “The Temptations: Psychedelic Blackness in 1968-1974” Aja Burrell Wood, University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance, “We Got the Jazz: Next Generation Jazz & Reviving the Scene in the Digital Era” Janee A Moses, University of Michigan, “Amina Baraka Sings the Blues”

Panel B: Art in Social Dialogue Chair: Stanley Thangaraj, The City College, CUNY, rm. 2M23

Kayla Coleman, The City College of New York – CUNY, “Why Have There Been on Great Black Artists?” Tau Battice, Guttman Community College – CUNY, “Afro-Latina: Intimacies and Identities: A Visual Ethnography” Nicole Goodwin, The City College of New York – CUNY, “He Who Buys your Wares, Buys Your Tongue: The Necessity for Artispreneurs” Victoria Juste, The City College of New York – CUNY, “Exploring of 1960’s -1970’s Black Films and Its Impact”

Panel C: Music Theory, Spirituality and Technology Chair: Adrienne Petty, The City College, CUNY, rm. 3M11A

Florencia V. Cornet, University of South Carolina, “Contemplations on Curaçaoan Consciousness Poetics: An Examination of Oswin “Chin” Behila’s Lyrical Ideologies and Levi Silvanie’s Ami Ta Kòrsou Shelby E. Carpenter, Roger Williams University, “The Transformative Power of Ogun: Performance, Music and Spirituality” Austin C. Okigbo, University of Colorado – Boulder, College of Music, “Ahiajioku in Chicago: Festival, Music, and Nigerian Igbo Identity Performance in a North American City” Timothy Mangin, The City College of New York – CUNY, “Muslim Practices in Senegalese Urban Dance Music”

Panel D: - The City College Student Panel – Literature in the Africana World Chair: Cheryl Sterling, The City College, CUNY, rm. 3M11B

Sophia Monegro, The City College of New York – CUNY, “Oligarch and Peasant: Mediating National Trauma in Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents and Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones” Wendyliz Martinez, The City College of New York – CUNY, “Geographies of Caribbean Bodies in Queer Time: Sirena Selena and Geographies of Home” Marie Brewer, The City College of New York – CUNY, “The Weight of Inheritance: From Mothers to Daughters, Passing Oppressions from One Generation to the Next” Bilha Njuguna, The City College of New York – CUNY, “Love and Malady in Wizard of the Crow’s Postcolonial Aburiria”

Panel E: Artistic and Spiritual Narratives of Africa and the Diaspora Chair: Kathleen O’Mara, SUNY – Oneonta, rm. 3M23

David Jamison, Miami University, “Carving out a New Life: Design Motifs of the Surinam Maroons” Kathleen O’Mara, SUNY – Oneonta, “Spirit Practices in the Making of Queer Community in Ghana” T.J. Desch-Obi, Baruch College – CUNY, “La Batalla Sagrada: Sacred Martial Arts in the Venezuelan Son de Negros” Amidu Sanni, Lagos State University, “Yoruba Islamic Verse ‘Waka’ between Spirituality and Profanity: Issues in Expressive Performance”

3:30 – 4:45 – Panel Sessions II

Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture 141 Convent Avenue, off of 135th and Amsterdam

Panel A: The Politics in Music Chair: Joseph McClaren, Hofstra University, rm. 111

Joseph McClaren, Hofstra University, “Rethinking the African Link: Nationalism and Ethnicity as Jazz Signifiers” Simone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University, “The Politics of Song: Creolization as an Art Form” Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Cornell University, “The Congolese Music and Its Soci0- Political Significance: A Comparative Reflection on the Works of Luambo Makiadi a.k.a. Franco, Tabu Ley, a.k.a. Rochereau and Abeti Masekeni a.k.a. the Queen of Rumba” Segun Shabaka, International African Arts Festival, “The International African Arts Festival as a s Premier Musical and Artistic Expression of Cultural Nationalism and Pan-Africanism”

Panel B: Music in the Contemporary Diaspora Chair: Jerry Persaud, SUNY – New Paltz, rm. 2M23

Timothy McGhee, The City College of New York – CUNY, “The Harlem Sound of Music” X’ene Taylor, University of Texas, “The Weeknd, Cardi B and Why We Need Stripper Narratives” Carmelo J. Cintrón Vivas, Rutgers University, “Usa La Razón” Keevin Brown, The City College of New York – CUNY, “Kanye West’s Lyrics of Mobility”

Panel C: Gender and the Role of the Creative Artist Chair: Remi Alapo, National Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals, rm. 3M11A

Bridgette Kariuki, Makerere University, “The Nature of Women: Does Being a Woman Change Artistic Output?” Kiana Miller, Union College, “Black Feminist Art Poster Presentation and Spoken Word Performance” Patience Agwu Uzoma, Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, “The Relationship Between Music and Gender in a Globalised World” Remi Alapo, National Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals, “Generation X: The Role of Culture on the Leadership Styles of Women in Leadership Positions” Edilza Sotero, Brown University, “Black Women’s Voices in Brazilian Art” (1940-1950)”

Panel D: Politics, Music and the Arts Chair: Yayra Sumah, Columbia University, rm. 3M11B

Yayra Sumah, Columbia University, “Postcolonial Fabrics in Contemporary African Art” Claire Mouflard, Union College, “Abdellatif Kechiche and the Spectacle of Otherness: Music and Dance in Venus Noire (2010)” Henry Williams, The City College of New York – CUNY, “Deeds, Words, and Music: Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, and the Turn to Black Power” Dionne M. Bennett, New York City College of Technology – CUNY, “Beyoncé and Barack in Formation: How do Freedom, Gender & Black Media Matter in the Final Year of the Obama Administration?”

Panel E: Music and Art as a Force of Political Expressivity Chair: Kevin Hickey, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS), rm. 3M23

Lewis Rosengarten, SUNY – Cortland, “Free Jazz and Freedom: Oppression and Breaking the Bonds” Seth Asumah, SUNY – Cortland, “Reggae, Afro-Beat and Socio-Political Resistance: Reimmortalizing Bob Marley and Fela Kuti” Mecke Nagel, SUNY – Cortland, "Black Athena and the Play of Imagination,” Kevin Hickey, ACPHS, Jazzed Images—The Ornithological Arguments of Jean-Michel Basquiat

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm NYASA E-BOARD MEETING

6:30pm - until – GATHERING at SUGAR BAR – 254 WEST 72ND Street, bet. Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue

CONFERENCE SITE on SATURDAY APRIL 2nd at Columbia University

LOCATION: KNOX HALL, 606 WEST 122ND STREET

8:00 am – 2:00 pm – Registration, Lobby - Knox Hall 8:30 am – 9:30 am – NYASA Business Meeting, rm. 403 – Knox Hall

Panel Sessions Columbia University

All Panel Sessions will be Held in Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street

9:30 am – 10:45 am – Panel Sessions III

Panel A: Music as a Social Force in the Africana World Chair: Deidre Butler, Union College, rm. C01

Karen M. Wilson-Ama’Echefu, University of Calabar, “How Can We Tell That Africa Is in The House? Introducing The West African Diasporic Blues Complex” Hawthorne Smith, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, “Healing Arts and the Arts of Healing” Latifa Bounou, SUNY – Oneonta, “Gnawa and their Spiritual Music” Deidre Butler and Jermaine Wells, Union College, Schenectady, New York, “#Blacklives Matter: Hip Hop Connections”

Panel B: ‘Is Africa Rising? Re-Thinking Development Economics on The Continent” Chair: Seth Asumah, SUNY – Cortland, rm. 101

Karl Botchway, New York City College of Technology/CUNY, and Jamee Moudud, Sarah Lawrence College, “Capacity Development in Africa: Reflections on some of the Pre-requisites” Kwame Akonor, Seton Hall University, “The African Union’s Foreign Economic Policy: Taking Stock through the Decade and Half” Naaborle Sackeyfio, Pennsylvania State University – Behrend, Resource Capitalism and Runaway Development: Power and Class Consequences in West Africa” Richard Severin, “The Political Economy of Local Inequalities: Toward Shared Growth and Development in Ghana” John Karefah Marah, SUNY –Brockport, "The Political Economy of Contemporary Africa: Lessons from the Scrambles for Africa”

Panel C: Women, Music, Power and Gender Equality in the Africana World Chair: N’Dri T. Assie-Lumumba, Cornell University, rm. 103

N’Dri T. Assie-Lumumba, Cornell University, “Women, Music and Power in Africa: Enduring Aesthetic and Declining Significance of in the Political Arena” Shamila Namulindwa, Makerere University, “Marginalization of Women’s Humor in Everyday Life: Gender, Culture and Humor in Africa” Diedre Kirkem, SUNY – Cortland, “Gender and Art”

Panel D: Rethinking Africana Economic Development Chair: Seifudein Adem, Binghamton University, rm. 104

Seifudein Adem, Binghamton University, “Towards a New Paradigm of Economic Modernization” Darryl C. Thomas, Pennsylvania State University, “Global Africa, Black Nationalism, Jazz Improvisation and Critical Political Economy Approaches, Africana Studies” Kelly Ndubuka, Independent Scholar, “The Rising Tide of Africa’s Population, There Is No Strength in Numbers” Alice Jones-Nelson, The Cooper Union, “Redesigning the Family? National Planning for Resettlement Housing in Ghana”

Panel E: Performance, Politics and Development in Post-Colonial Africa Chair: M. M. Fadakine, University of Lagos, rm. 114

Ayala Levin, Columbia University, “Popular Art and the Semiotics of Citizenship: Julian Beinart’s Documentation of the Western Native Township, Johannesburg” Richard Oko Ajah, University of Uyo, “Okumkpo Masquerade Concert: Traditional Public Theatre and Social Commitment in Afikpo, Southeastern Nigeria” M. M. Fadakine, University of Lagos, “State Development and The Arts, The Dilemma of Africa” Milton Wabyona, Makerere University, “Kabaari (The Arena): Cultural Performing Arts as a medium of Peace Building and Social Harmony”

Panel F: Music, Language and Literature Chair: (TBA) rm. 116

Cheryl Toman, Case Western Reserve University, “Wassoulou Music and Women Writers From Mali” Adesola Belo, Imperial College London, “How Traditional African Music has Influenced Hip Hop Today” John Kimo Reder, Borough of Manhattan Community College – CUNY, “Language is a Fruit the Skin of Which is Called Chatter: Nathaniel Mackey’s Diasporic Tales of Diet-as-Dialect and Dialect-as-Drum”

Panel G: Art in Social Dialogue II Chair: Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Cornell University, rm. 202

Nina Perpetua Waapela, Benue State University, “From Cloth Types to Cloth Meaning and Symbolism among the Tiv, Idoma, Igede and Etulo of Central Nigeria” Odongkara Barnabas, Makerere University, “Olubugo (Bark Cloth) Sculptor/Visual Artists” Nakayiza Agnes Kalule, Makerere University, “Music and the Arts in Application: Case Studies – Rwanda and Uganda” Tibirusya Rolands Roldan, Makerere Univeristy, “Interactive Event Painting and Exhibition”

11:00 am – 12:15 am - Panel Sessions IV

Panel A: Images, Performance, Resistance, in Political Art and Culture Chair: Kwame Akonor, Seton Hall University, rm. 601

George White, York College – CUNY, “‘Say What One Mo’ Time!: Racial Violence in The 21st Century Through the Lens of The BOONDOCKS” Viola Karungi, Makerere University, “Theatre and Socio-Political Consciousness: Performing Trauma and Memory to Legitimize the Claim for Restorative Justice in Northern Uganda” Serena Thomas, The City College of New York – CUNY, “The Secrets of Survive in Salloum Refugee Camp Project” Abdou Kane Ndaw and Momodou Bah, “The Representation of Pressing Issues in Senegambia through the Painting: Terrorism as a Case in Point”

Panel B: Music, Lyrics, and Spirituality in the African World Chair: Cheikh M. Ndiaye, Union College, rm. 101

Cheikh M. Ndiaye, Union College, “Hizbut Tarqiyya: Songs and Spirituality” Ngozi U. Emeka-Nwobia, Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, “A Discourse Study of Selected Nigerian Hip Hop Music” Sarwuan Daniel Shishima, The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies – Kuru, “The Role of Songs, Music and Dance Among the Adzov in Tiv Religion” Louis Ngozi Ekezie, “Influence of Tonal Inflection on Igbo Church Vocal Music of Nigeria: The Art of Africa and The Diaspora”

Panel C – Music, Literature and the Arts Chair: Jerry Persaud, SUNY – New Paltz, rm. 103

Thomas Uthup, and Verlaine D. Soobroydoo, Baldwin Wallace University, “The Seven Functions of Music in Africa and the Diaspora” Jerry Persaud, SUNY – New Paltz, “Hit me with Music: Caribbean and African Music in the Virtual Diaspora of You Tube Culture” Garhe Osiebe, University of Birmingham, “Paranoia as a catalyst for creativity: a Tale of an African ‘Oliver Twist’” Aminah Wallace, SUNY – Albany, “Pan –Africanism in the Music of the New World Enslaved”

Panel D – Diaspora Subjectivities Chair: Assefaw Bariagaber, Seton Hall University, rm. 104

Gabrielle Alcindor, SUNY – Cortland, “Afro-Asian and the Effects of Globalization” Gillian Maris Jones, Brown University, “‘They Don’t Care About Us’: An Examination of Cultural Citizenship and Political Activism Among Afro-Brazilian Youth in Salvador, Bahia” Amadou Jacky Kaba, Seton Hall University, “An Analysis of Carnegie Corporation’s Great Immigrants Honorees, 2006-2015: Gender, Race, Ancestry, Educational Attainment, Previous Citizenship, Month and Year of Birth, and Net Worth” Michael Boston, SUNY – Brockport, “Booker T. Washington and the New National Negro Business League”

Panel E: Art, Spirituality and Migration Chair: John Karefah Marah, SUNY - Brockport, rm. 114

Katsina Robert Iornenge, Benue State University, “The Role of Religious Art in Tiv Religion and Culture” Grace Aneiza Ali, New York University, “Un/Fixed Homeland” Sonia Cristina Hart, University of California – Berkeley, “Painting the Many Faces of Eshu” Matteo Salvadore, Gulf University for Science and Technology, “A Diaspora of Opportunities: Ethiopians in Counter – Reformation Rome, 1540-1560”

Panel F: Traditional and Popular Music and Culture in Post-Colonial Africa Chair: Olaide Juniad, NYASA, rm. 116

Samuel Afriyie, SUNY – Oneonta, “Music in Ghana Before Colonialism and Post Colonial Era” Brempong Osei-Tutu, Syracuse University, “Interrogating Tour Narratives in Ghana’s Castles” James Tar Tsaaior, Pan-Atlantic University School of Media and Communication, “Expressions of Popular Musical Culture in Postcolonial Nigeria” Samuel Elikem and Kwame Nyamuame, Binghamton University, “Traditional Music in Ghana Churches: Transformations and Problems”

Panel G: Intersections Between Music and Education Chair: (TBA) rm. 208

Lynne Stillings, CUNY Graduate Center, “Socially Conscious Children’s Music: A New Perspective on Senegalese ‘Youth’” Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Gettysburg College, “Re-Appropriating Violent Caribbean Music as Praxis of Care” Janis Massa, Lehman College – CUNY, “Education, Curriculum and the Under- represented Students” Rachel Rubin, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, “Teaching Hip Hop History and Practice Together in the Public Urban Classroom”

LOCATION FOR LUNCH AND AFTERNOON PROGRAM:

UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY – SOCIAL ROOM 3041 Broadway, bet. 120th and 122nd street, adjacent to Knox Hall, Columbia University

12:30 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch In Performance: Chris Washburne

2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Plenary Session II

Moderator -- Dr. James Conyers, Chair – Africana Studies, Kean University

In conversation with artists: Randy Weston Dr. Rashida Ismaili Kewulay Kamara Rene McLean

3:30 pm – 4:45 pm Plenary Session III – Performances

Taoufik Ben-Amor, Columbia University, “Into the Diaspora and Back From the Diaspora: The National Status of Maluf andStambeli Music in Tunisia” Matthew Morrison, Princeton University, "Black Resonance in European Cosmopolitan Performance and Identity."

Imani Uzuri in Performance

Closing Remarks

SPECIAL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AFRICAN LANGUAGE PROGRAM SESSIONS—Saturday April 2nd, 2016, Knox Hall

10:00am – 10:30am, Language Specific Sessions: Kiswahili (Swahili), rm. 707

Intermediate Swahili Class; “Wanawake Mashuhuri wa Karne ya

Ishirini na Moja” (Famous Women in 21st Century)

Moderator: Omnia Saed

Presenters: Briana Alston; Nia Brown; Elizabeth Runtz; Nia Saed; Nia

Hollister

10:35 – 11:05 Advance Swahili Class; “Maswala ya Utamaduni Afrika” (Culture

Issues in Africa), rm. 707

Moderator: Sara Weschler; MESAAS, Columbia University

Presenters:

Adam Sebastian Cole; SIPA, Columbia University; “Mawazo ya Jumia ya Afrika Mashariki”

Yayra Sumah; MESAAS, Columbia University; “Mabadiliko ya Muziki wa Kisasa katika Ghana”

Sara Weschler; MESAAS, Columbia University; “Utamaduni wa Nguo

Khanga”

11:15am – 11:55am “Ufundishaji wa Kiswahili kwenye Vyuo Vikuu Marekani” (Teaching

Swahili in American Universities), rm. 707

Moderator: Joe Sadallah; Hofstra University

Presenters: John Mtembezi Innis; Delaware State University

Mahiri Mwita; Princeton University

Joe Sadallah; Hofstra University

12:00pm – 12:50 English Session - “What Future for African Languages in US Institutions of Higher

Learning,” rm. 707

Moderator: Marriame Sy; Columbia University

Presenters: John Mtembezi; Delaware State University

Mahiri Mwita; Princeton University

Marriame Sy; Columbia University

1:00pm – 2:30pm, Lunch and Elementary Swahili/Yoruba/Wolof class, rm. 707 Presentations

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SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO SPONSORS OF NYASA 2016 and the Friends who Supported Conference 2016.

The City College (CUNY)

President Lisa Coico, The City College, City University of New York Acting Dean Doris Cintrón, School of Humanities and the Arts Prof. Eric Weitz, Distinguished Professor, History Prof. Adrienne Petty, Associate Professor, History Prof. Stanley Thangaraj, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Prof. Timothy Mangin, Adjunct Professor, Black Studies Greg Shanck, Director, Aaron Davis Hall

Michael Miller, Director of Operations, The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

Black Studies Staff

Jodi-Ann Francis, Assistant Director

Kevin Tucker

Kwanashia Shambley

Victoria Juste

Fariha Ambia

Marie Brewer

Roseanear Nurse

Columbia University

Prof. Mamadou Diouf, Director, Institute of African Studies, Prof. Sheldon Pollack, Chair, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) Prof. Alondra Nelson, Dean of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science, Prof. Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Chair, French and Romance Philology Department Prof. Rashid Khalidi, Chair, History Department Prof. Samuel Roberts, Director of The Institute for Research in African American Studies Prof. Marriame Sy, Director of African Language Program

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Jacqueline Kirkpatrick, Administrative Assistant