annual conference of african literature

A-2: 314 Ethics, Morality and Politics I Chair: Tanure Ojaide University of North Carolina Yvonne McIntosh Florida A&M University Social Inequality in the Works of Ousmane Sembène Tanur

40 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

OF THE

AFRICAN

LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

Texts, Modes and

WITS UNIVERSITY JOHANNESBURG

For full programme visit the conference website at: www.ala2014.co.za

Table of Contents

Governance & Officers

AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION GOVERNANCE & OFFICERS (2013-2014)

African Literature Association Officers

Officers

President: Soraya Mekerta

Vice President: Tejumola Olaniyan

Deputy Vice President: Huma Ibrahim

Past President: Anthonia Kalu

Secretary: Anne Carlson

Treasurer: Mohamed Kamara

Executive Councillors

Ghirmai Negash (term expires 2014)

Moussa Sow (term expires 2014)

Ato Quayson (term expires 2015)

Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi (term expires 2015)

Kwaku Korang (term expires 2016)

John Nimis (term expires 2016)

Felicity Palmer (term expires 2016)

Caucus Presidents and Chairs

WOCALA Catherine Kroll

TRACALA Ghirmai Negash

GSCALA J Coplen Rose

FRANCOPHONE Alix Pierre

LHPHONE Dorothy Odartey-Wellington

Headquarters / Secretariat

James McCorkle, Director

JALA Editor

Abioseh Porter

40 th Annual African Literature Association Conference Hosting School, Convener and Planning Committee

Hosting School

School of Literature, Language and Media

University of the Witwatersrand

Convener

Bhekizizwe Peterson

Department of African Literature

University of the Witwatersrand

Planning Committee

Libby Meintjes (Head of School of Literature, Language and Media)

Isabel Hofmeyr (Department of African Literature)

Dan Ojwang (Department of African Literature)

Sarah Chiumbu (Department of Media Studies)

Michael Titlestad (Department of English)

Pumla Gqola (Department of African Literature)

Veronique Tadjo (Department of French)

Innocentia Mhlambi (Department of African Languages)

James Ogude (University of Pretoria)

Litheko Modisane (Department of African Literature)

The Department of Arts and Culture

South African Airways

Tri-Continental Film Festival

The Steve Biko Foundation

African Studies Journal

Schedule of Daily Events

Wednesday 9 April 2014

and Pan-African Solidarity (Oxford University Press)

Partial Biography (Wits University Press) followed by Performance of

My Word: Redesigning Buckingham Palace (performed, written and

directed by Basil Appolis)

A-1: G14

Official and Informal Apartheids

Chair: Danson Kahyana (Makerere University / Stellenbosch University)

Sangita Ghodake (University of Pune) Alienation and Isolation: Post-Apartheid

Autobiographies of Zakes Mda and J M Coetzee

Enajite Ojaruega (Delta State University) Exile and Homecoming: A Comparative Study of South African and Nigerian Fictional Narratives

Danson Kahyana (Makerere University / Stellenbosch University) Authorship and Authority: The Fight Against ‘Unofficial Apartheid’ and the Quest for an Inclusive Ugandan Nation in Jameela Siddiqi’s Novels

Onyeka Iwuchukwu (National Open University of Nigeria) The Other Face of Apartheid in

Ifeoma Okoye’s The Fourth World and Festus Iyayi’s Violence

A-2: 314

Ethics, Morality and Politics I

Chair: Tanure Ojaide (University of North Carolina)

Yvonne McIntosh (Florida A&M University) Social Inequality in the Works of Ousmane Sembène

Tanure Ojaide (University of North Carolina) Contemporary Africa and the Politics in

Literature

Benge Okot (University of the Witwatersrand/Makerere University) Theorising the Social: The Question of Morality in Okot p’Bitek’s Writing

A-3: G07

Institutions of Literature and the Arts

Chair: Chris Ouma (University of Cape Town)

Camillus Ukah (Liu House of Excellence) Ana Teen Authorship Scheme as Vehicle for Renaissance

Mbwera Shereck (University of South Africa) & Livingstone Muchefa (National Archives of Zimbabwe, Harare) Stories for Life: Implications of the Canonisation of the Zimbabwean Story-telling Tradition, with Special Reference to Selected ChiShona Short Stories

Doseline Wanjiru Kiguru (Stellenbosch University) Production and Consumption of African Literary Culture through International Literary Prizes

Benjy Francis (Independent Theatre Director) The Arts under Siege in Post-apartheid South Africa

A-4: 215

Post-Apartheid Fiction 1

Chair: Kerry Bystrom (Bard College)

Kerry Bystrom (Bard College) Home, Family, and Relation in Post-apartheid Culture

Ronit Frenkel (University of Johannesburg) Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry

and the Idea of Newness in the South African Cultural Imaginary

Alan Muller (University of KwaZulu-Natal) A Handful of Spaghetti: Space, Place and

Identity in Imraan Coovadia’s The Wedding

Katharina Fink (University of Bayreuth) Less than 7500 Remixing Repertoire in the Short Story

Katie Reid (University of Sussex) Interminable ‘Post-apartheid’? Ivan Vladislavić’s

‘Collaborative’ Voice

A-5: G15

Ghosts, Zombies and the Uncanny

Chair: Megan Jones (Stellenbosch University)

Megan Jones (Stellenbosch University) Ghosts, Graveyards and the Contemporary Township Cynthia Ward (University of Hawai’i) Fetishizing Zombies, or the Self, Possessed?

Joshua Williams (University of California, Berkeley) Ghosts in Revolutionary Time: Julius Nyerere, Ebrahim Hussein and the (Anti-)Politics of the Uncanny

Roundtable: Innovative Networking Initiatives in African Literary Scholarship I

(Sponsored by the African Humanities Program)

Chair: Harry Garuba (University of Cape Town)

Kofi Anyidoho (University of Ghana)

Sola Olorunyomi (University of Ibadan)

Olabode Ibironke (Rutgers University)

Oyeniyi Okunoye (Obafemi Awolowo University)

Book Launch: Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music and Pan-African

Solidarity (Oxford University Press)

B-1: 111

Land and Ecological Poetics I

Chair: Chris Dunton (University of Lesotho)

Gustavo Brito (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil) Great Houses of Stone: The Body, Land and Memory in Chenjerai Hove’s Fiction

Cajetan Iheka (Michigan State University) Towards an Ecological African Postmodernism

Chris Wasike (Masinde Muliro University) Gendering the Global/Local and Postcolonial

Ecology in Wangari Maathai’s Unbowed: A Memoir

Chris Dunton (University of Lesotho) Dispossession and Re-Possession in the Published and

Unpublished Works of A.S Mopeli-Paulus

B-2: G 17

Nelson Mandela in Autobiography and Film l

Chair: Bayo Omolola (Community College of Baltimore, Maryland)

Chinyere Otuu Egbuta (Abia State Polytechnic) Mandela, the Anti-apartheid Struggle and

Chadwick’s Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

Okaka Dokotum (Kyambogo University) Celebrating Nelson Mandela: The Intertextual

Collage between William Hindley’s Poem, ‘Invictus’ (1875) and Clint Eastwood’s Film,

J M Coetzee: Perspectives on Disgrace

Chair: Khwezi Mkhize (University of Pennsylvania)

Psalms Chinaka (Imo State University) Re-Evincing Part of Sisyphus’ Dilemma in

Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Example of J M Coetzee’s Disgrace

Amaka Azuike (University of Jos) Female Frailties and Sexploitation in the ‘New South

Africa’: A Critical Appraisal of J.M Coetzee’s Disgrace

Karen King-Aribisala (University of Lagos) Coetzee’s Animal Welfare Clinic: An Analysis

of Disgrace (1999)

Derilene Marco (University of Warwick) ‘I’m not Leaving, I’m not Afraid’: Sexual Violence

and Rape as Allegories of Change in Post-apartheid Cinema, the Case of Disgrace

B-4:314

Journeys, Migration and Displacements

Chair: George Joseph (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

George Joseph (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Forced to Keep Separate Bedrooms in France: Fadel Dia’s “À mes chers parent gaulois…”

Kasongo M Kapanga (University of Richmond) The Narratives of Locality and

Impediments: Tạa, Mabanckou and Miano

Schahrazede Longou (Knox College) Du nazisme à l’int grisme religieux en Alg rie et dans les banlieues en France: Parallélisme des crimes/actes pour la paix et la justice humanitaires

dans Le village de l’Allemand ou le journal des frères Schiller, roman de Boualem Sansal

Yvonne-Marie Mokam (Denison University) L’ crivain exile at la Patrie ambivalente

Angela A Ajimase (University of Calabar) L’exploitation de la femme antillaise dans Solibo

Magnifique de Patrick Chamoiseau et Desirada de Maryse Condé

B-5: 215

New Books in African Literary & Cultural Studies I

(Sponsored by the Executive Committee of the ALA)

Chair: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California)

Anjali Prabhu (Wellesley College) On Litheko Modisane, South Africa’s Renegade Reels:

The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films (Palgrave)

Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California) On Innocentia J Mhlambi,

African-Language Literatures: Perspectives on isiZulu Fiction and Popular Black Television Series

(Wits University Press)

Shaun Viljoen (Stellenbosch University) On Brenna Munro’s South Africa and the Dream of

Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom (University of Minnesota

Press)

B-6: G07

Poetry Across South Africa and Nigeria I

Chair: Thomas Inyabri (University of Calabar)

Tony Afejuku and Samson Eguavoen (University of Benin) The Lingering Shadows of the Past in New Nigerian Poetry

Thomas Inyabri (University of Calabar) Memory, Narrative and the Significance of Dennis Brutus in (South) African Poetry

Florence O Orabueze (University of Nigeria) & Ifeyinwa Ogbazi (Nnamdi Azikiwe

University) The Echoes of Trauma: Foregrounding of Violence in Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s The

Voice of the Night Masquerade and Fidelis Okoro’s When the Bleeding Heart Breaks

Jeleel Ojuade (University of Ilorin) Unknotting Historical Crisis through Performance of Duro Ladipo’s Oba Ko So: Lessons for Post-Apartheid Literary Discourse

B-7: G14

Identity and Place in Bessie Head

Chair: Adetayo Alabi (University of Mississippi)

Itang Ede Egbung (University of Calabar) The Search for Identity in Bessie Head’s Maru

Romanus Nwom (University of Nigeria, Nsukka) Bessie Head and the Metaphor for Place

and Placelessness in When Rain Clouds Gather

Carol Ijeoma Njoku (University of Nigeria) & Ikenna Dieke (University of Nigeria) Charting

the Course to a Redemptive World: A Critique of Bessie Head’s Maru and Apartheid

Adetayo Alabi (University of Mississippi) Apartheid and the Global Dimensions of Bessie

Head’s A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writing

Hapsatou Wane (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Renegotiating Genealogies: The Dialectics of Diaspora Identification in Life-Writing Narratives by Women from Brazil and South Africa

B-8: 115

Translating ‘Africa’ in Local/Global Contexts

(Sponsored by TRACALA /SIDENSI): A Tribute to Professor Mbulelo Mzamane with whom this panel was conceived through ESAACH

Chair: Wangui wa Goro

Peggy Piesche (Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies) Text, Modes and

Repertoires in Translating Blackness in the Space of Virtual Communities

Raimi Gbadamosi (University of the Witwatersrand) You Know What I Mean?

Charles Dhewa (Knowledge Transfer Africa) Adaptation and Translation of Identities, Languages and Texts: How ‘Informal’ Traders and Farmers Cope with all Forms of

Exclusion

Mpalive Msiska (University of London)

Wangui wa Goro (Independent Scholar, Writer and Translator) Knowledge Management and Virtual Space as Text: The Role of Literature, Translation and Traducture in the Architecture

of Afro-futures

4:00-5:45 PM B-9: Bozzoli Hall

Performance and Book Launch of Shaun Viljoen’s Richard Rive: A Partial Biography

(Wits University Press) followed by performance of My Word: Redesigning Buckingham

Palace (performed, written and directed by Basil Appolis)

6:00-8:00 PM Bozzoli Hall

Official Opening and Reception

Welcome and Remarks by:

Witwatersrand

Professor Ruksana Osman – Dean of the Facultuy of Humanities

Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson – Convener

Music by Joe Makhanza and Thembinkosi Mavimbela Quintet

Schedule of Thursday’s Events

Thursday 10 April 2014

(eds.), Chinua Achebe: Tributes and Reflections (Ayebia Clarke

Individual, the Novel and the Idea of Home (James Currey Press)

Passed On – Bozzoli Hall

C-1: G14

Poetry Across South Africa and Nigeria II

Chair: Ngozi Chuma-Udeh (Anambra State University)

Joy Etiowo (Cross River University of Technology) South African Poetry in the Millennium:

Perspectives on Athol Fugard

Chair: Ronit Frenkel (University of Johannesburg)

Chinyelu Ojukwu (University of Port Harcourt) The Reverberations of Apartheid and the Essence of Forgiveness in the Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Critical Appraisal of Athol

Fugard’s Victory; Coming Home; and The Train Driver

Florence O Orabueze (University of Nigeria) The Representation of Otherness in Athol

Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Alex Asigbo’s The Reign of Pascal Amusu

Iris Chapman (North Carolina Central University) History, Violence, Trauma and Memory: Battle of the Tongues

C-3: G09

Ethics, Morality and Politics II

Chair: Mumbi Ngugi (Florida Atlantic University)

Michèle Chossat (Seton Hill University) Regarding Social Justice: Khadra, Algeria, and Daily Life

Mumbi Ngugi (Florida Atlantic University) Mocking Hobbes: Stand Your Ground Laws in the USA

Maurits van Bever Donker (University of the Western Cape) The Principle of Insufficiency: Ethics and Community at the Edge of the Social

Sindi-Leigh Tenielle McBride (Independent Scholar) A Fog of War: Protest, Poverty and Social Exclusion

C-4: 111

African Cinema on Land and Sea

Chair: Marie Kruger (University of Iowa)

John Nimis (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Greed, Sex And Violence: Viva Riva! in the

Context of Popular Culture in the Congo

Myronn Hardy (Al Akhawayn University) Memory, (Un) Memory and its Resulting

Land and Ecological Poetics II

Chair: Kasongo M Kapanga (University of Richmond)

Renzo Baas (Bayreuth University) Beyond the Shadows of Apartheid: Narrating Utopia in Namibia

Ng’ang’a Muchiri (University of Miami) Land as Material and Metaphor in Conventions of Ownership vs Fantasies of Emptiness

Molly Kiniry (University of Richmond) Old Ghosts: Postcolonial Discourse and Modern Africa in Two Documentaries

Chioma Toni-Duruaku (Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri) Environmental Neglect the

Recurrent Apartheid Decimal: Izuka’s The Travail of the Black Gold And Okpewho’s Tides

C-6: 314

Masculinities, Sexualities, Body Politics

Chair: Andy Carolin (University of Johannesburg)

Virginia Phiri (Independent Writer) The Dilemma of Hermaphrodites

Brian Fulela (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Desire, Place and Adolescence: Some

Coordinates in Sifiso Mzobe’s Young Blood

Meyre Ivone Santana da Silva (University of Oregon) Female Desire, Displacement and

Race in Bugul’s Le Baobab Fou

Andy Carolin (University of Johannesburg) This Viper in our Midst: Sexuality, Race, and the Immorality Act in Two Post-apartheid South African Novels

C-7: G17

Roundtable: Beyond the Literary Canon of Realist Writing: Chinua Achebe's There

Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Chair: Apollos O Nwauwa (Bowling Green State University)

Apollos O Nwauwa (Bowling Green State University)

Chima Korieh (Marquette University)

Gloria Chuku (University of Maryland)

E.C Ejiogu (University of the Free State)

Funso Afolayan (University of New Hampshire)

Ikeogu Oke (University of Nigeria)

C-8: 215

East African Interventions I

Chair: Grace A Musila (Stellenbosch University)

Tina Steiner (Stellenbosch University) The Language of Humour in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Fiction

Lillian Osaki (University of Dar es Salaam) Slavery and Cultural Exchange in Abdulrazak

Roundtable: Ngugi’s Weep Not, Child at 50

Chair: Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)

James Currey (James Currey Publishers)

Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)

Wangui wa Goro (Independent Scholar, Writer and Translator)

Susan Kiguli (Makerere University)

James Ogude (University of Pretoria)

Ndirangu Wachanga (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Documentalist)

LHCALA Luncheon: Speaker: Mia Cuoto

(Sponsored by the Goethe Institut and the School of Literature, Language and Media)

Introduced by Dorothy Odartey-Wellington (President of LHCALA)

D-2: 115

Roundtable: Culture of Personhood and Social Renewal in African Women’s

Literature: The South African Experience

Chair: Helen Chukwuma (Jackson State University)

Anthonia Kalu (Ohio State University)

Thelma Pinto (Formerly at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York)

Akachi Ezeigbo (University of Lagos)

Chioma Opara (Rivers State University of Science and Technology)

Irene Agunloye (University of Jos)

Rose A Sackeyfio (Winston Salem State University)

Blessing Ogamba (Coppin State University)

Patricia Emenyonu (University of Michigan-Flint)

Marie Umeh (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY)

Anthonia Adadevoh (Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama)

Sibongile B Dlamini (Indiana State University)

D-3:111

Twenty Years after the 1994 Genocide: The Artistic Production on and in Rwanda I

Co-Chairs: Odile Cazenave (Boston University) and Patricia-Pia Célérier (Vassar College) Patricia-Pia Célérier (Vassar College) Writing Cures/La cure par l’écrit

Frieda Ekotto (The University of Michigan) A Poetics of Memory: Reading the Rwandan

Film Grey Matter (2011)

Anna-Marie de Beer (University of Pretoria) Passing on the Baton: From Being Narrated by

Another, to Narrating with Another to Telling One’s Own Story

Jean-Pierre Karegeye (Macalester College) Rwanda Dangerous Memory

D-4: G14

East African Interventions II

Chair: Meg Samuelson

Okaka Opio Dokotum (Kyambogo University) Poetics of Memory and Healing in Songs about the LRA Atrocities in Northern Uganda

Lynda Gichanda Spencer (Rhodes University) Wartime Women: Revisiting Repressive Regimes and Resistance in Emerging Women’s Writing from Uganda and South Africa Grace A Musila (Stellenbosch University) Assassinations and Fictional Imaginaries of Kenya

D-5: G15

Memory, Violence and Voice in Rwanda

Chair: Mohamed Kamara (Washington and Lee University)

Rebecca Saunders (Illinois State University) Scale, Speechlessness and Itsembabwoko in Gilbert Gatore’s Le passé devant soi

Mohamed Kamara (Washington and Lee University) Re-membering the Future in Boubacar

Boris Diop’s Murambi, The Book of Bones

Chinnaya Ifi (Abia State Polytechnic) The Rwandan Genocide: History, Violence, Trauma

and Memory in Gilbert Gatore’s The Past Ahead

D-6: 314

Childhood, Violence and Redemption

Chair: Janice Spleth (West Virginia University)

Janice Spleth (West Virginia University) Birth and Rebirth: Parallel Quests for Redemption

in Kim Nguyen’s War Witch and Jamala Safari’s The Great Agony and Pure Laughter of The

Gods

Justina Okoye (Nnamdi Azikiwe University) Child Abuse and Endangered Life of Women in

Africa: A Psychoanalytical Study of Violence, Trauma and Memory in Calixthe Beyala’s Tu

t’appelleras Tanga

Benon Tugume (Kyambogo University) Images of Children’s Rights Violation in Ngugi wa

Thiongo’s Weep Not Child and Alex La Guma’s The Stone Country: A Comparative

Perspective

Christopher Ouma (University of Cape Town) ‘In my Blood is a Bright Chain of

Transfusion’: Childhood and Genealogies of Diaspora in The Opposite House

D-7: G07

India, Africa Latitudes

Chair: Betty Govinden (University of KwaZulu Natal)

Betty Govinden (University of KwaZulu Natal) The South African Gandhi

Mukta Mahajan (North Maharashtra University) Rewriting History and Identity in the Novels

of Amitav Ghosh and A.K Armah: A Comparative Critique

Mannarakkal Dasan (Kannur University) Poetry of Re(z)sisters: Militancy in South African Black Women and Indian Dalit Women Poems: A Comparison

D-8: 211

Alex La Guma I: Aesthetics of Resistance

Chair: Ojo O Olorunleke (Lagos State University)

Jude Aigbe Agho (Ambrose Alli University) Resistance, Liberation and Aesthetics in the Early Novels of Alex La Guma

Ayodele Bamidele (Kogi State University) Living in the Shadows of Apartheid: A Reading

of Alex La Guma’s A Walk in the Night

Sambo Da Silva (Gaboese University) Alex La Guma, a South African Novelist of Resistance Ojo O Olorunleke (Lagos State University) Alex La Guma’s Narratives, Realism, and the Antinomies of Apartheid

D-9: G16

Transnationalism and/as Relation l

Chair: Renée Larrier (Rutgers University)

Simone James Alexander (Seton Hall University) Migrating Bodies: Border and Consumerist Politics Revealed and Reimagined

Stéphane Robolin (Rutgers University) Gardening and the Cultivation of Black Transnational Community

Patricia J Saunders (University of Miami) Necropolitics and Necro-Romance in Popular Representations of Haiti

Renée Larrier (Rutgers University) 57 Years a Slave: Furcy as a Transnational Affair

D-10: 215

Roundtable: Translation and African Literary Renaissance: Celebrating Matigari @

25

Chair: Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)

Nana Ayebia Clarke (Publisher) The Significance of Literary Translation for Africa’s Future Vusi Mchunu (House of Memory) Translating Masizi Kunene: A Tribute

Ghirmai Negash (Ohio University) Translating Matigari into Tigrinya: A Reading and

Discussion

James Currey (Publisher) A Retrospective in Publishing

Wangui wa Goro (Independent Scholar, Writer and Translator) Respondent: A Literary

Translation Retrospective Since Matigari was Translated

D-11: Bozzoli Hall

Film Screening: 5 Broken Cameras

1:30-1:45 PM Break

1:45-3:15 PM Concurrent Session E

E-1: 111

War, Genocide and Violence I

Chair: Joya Uraizee (Saint Louis University)

Joya Uraizee (Saint Louis University) Trauma and Memory in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s

Half of a Yellow Sun

Elizabeth Onogwu and Emmanuel Inedu (Yokohama National University) May We Never See This Again: Two Accounts of the Nigerian Civil War

Bhakti Shringarpure (University of Connecticut) Specters of Fanon

Ifeyinwa Ogbonna-Nwaogu (National Open University of Nigeria) Sexualizing the Role of Women in the Media Reportage of the Communal Conflicts Of Ife/Modakeke and

Aguleri/Umuleri in Nigeria

Tony Simoes da Silva (University of Wollongong) Towards a Poetics of Civil Conflict: Violence and Gender in African Writing

E-2: G08

Sello Duiker: Body Politics

Chair: Ronit Frenkel (University of Johannesburg)

Andrea Spain (Mississippi State University) The Time of Encounter in K Sello Duiker’s

Thirteen Cents

Nonhlanhla Dlamini (Witwatersrand University) Negotiating Legitimacy: Writing Black

Male Homosexuality through Mythopoeia, Madness and Surrealism in Sello Duiker’s Quiet

Yolisa Amanda Kenqu (Rhodes University) Trauma, Liminality and the Paradox of

Disillusionment in K Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents

E-3: 211

Epistemologies and Knowledge Production

Chair: Cheikh Thiam (Ohio State University-Columbus)

Priya Narismulu (University of KwaZulu-Natal) African Contributions to Ontological,

Cultural and Epistemological Transformation

Daniel Matjila & Karen Haire (University of South Africa) Echoes of and Affinities with Bogosi (Kingship) in the Works of Sol T Plaatje

Eric Nyembezi Makoni (University of Johannesburg) Two Sides of Silence: The Poet and the Decolonial Epistemic Paradigm

Cheikh Thiam (Ohio State University-Columbus) Negritude Beyond Negritude: A New Renaissance?

E-4: G16

Black Internationalism & Networks of Resistance I

Chair: Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (University of Cape Town)

Khwezi Mkhize (University of Pennsylvania) ‘but through the biggest magnifying glass’: Sol Plaatje, Colonial Cosmopolitan

Onyemaechi Udumukwu (University of Port Harcourt) Adichie’s Americanah and the

Transnational Turn in the Nigerian Novel

Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (University of Cape Town) Empire and Diaspora: South Africa and Defining the African Diaspora

E-5: 314

Race and Identity

Chair: Kenneth Harrow (Michigan State University)

Bernard Ayo Oniwe (University of South Carolina) The Ruse of Post-Racial Society: Racial

Discourse in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Kayode Ogunfolabi (Obafemi Awolowo University) The Trauma of Liminality: Bi-racialism

and ‘Otherness’ in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow, Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come and Bessie Head’s A Question of Power

Isaac Joslin (St Olaf College) In Others’ Words: White Women’s (Post)colonial Africas Marcia Bastos (Mount Royal University) Negotiating the Liminal Space in Miriam Tlali’s

Between Two Worlds

Kenneth Harrow (Michigan State University) What if Teju Cole Were White? Racial Politics

in a Post Racial Open City

E-6: G17

Journeys, Displacements and Migrations I

Chair: Mildred Mortimer (University of Colorado)

Odun Balogun (Delaware State University) Zakes Mda’s Cion and Isidore Okpewho’s Call

Me by My Rightful Name: The Journey of the Alienated Self in Search of Wholeness

Anthonia Yakubu (National Open University of Nigeria) ‘Agaracha Must Come Home’: engaging the Myth of Mother Country in the Works of Chimamanda Adichie, Adimora Ezeigbo, and Mongane Wally Serote

Re-Mildred Mortimer (University of Colorado) Moving Beyond Boundaries: Aminata Sow Fall,

Douceurs du bercail (‘Comforts of the Fold’)

H Oby Okolocha (University of Benin) The Politics of Location: Home and Exile in Pede

Hollist’s So the Path Does Not Die

E-7: G14

The Practice of Language

Chair: Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson (Kennesaw State University)

Pierre Paulin O Atouba (Université De Yaoundé) Intertextuality and Linguistic Codes in the Cameronian Literary Discourse in Spanish

Rotimi Fasan (Osun State University) (M)Other Tongue, Popular Arts and Nationhood

Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson (Kennesaw State University) Enhancing Local & Global Foreign Language Literacy through Collaborative Virtual Libraries

E-8: G07

The Mourning After: Trauma, Transition and Healing I

Chair: Sarah Chiumbu (University of the Witwatersrand)

Francis Lukhele (University of Swaziland) The Anti-heroic After Tears Party: South African Post-Apartheid Culture

Coplen Rose (Wilfrid Laurier University) Women in Drama after the Truth Commission:

Breaking the Silence and Reclaiming History in Zakes Mda’s The Bells of Amersfoort and Lara Foot’s Reach

Danyela Demir (Universität Augsburg) Loss and Racial Melancholia in Marlene van

Niekerk’s Agaat

Loren Townshend (University of Johannesburg) Reviewing Current Post-Transitional Culture

in South Africa through the Works of Four South African Indian Writers

E-9: 215

Children’s Literature in Africa: Children, History, and Tales Told I: Creativity

Chair: Chimalum Nwankwo (Turkish Nile University, Abuja, Nigeria)

Eve Eisenberg (Indiana University-Bloomington) Makuchi’s The Sacred Door: Un-sourcing the Folktale

Julia Udofia (University of Uyo) Realism in Children’s Literature in Africa: A Study of

Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

Juliana Daniels (University of Education-Winneba) Canes, Whips, Rods and War: The

Epitome of Violence in Ghanaian Children’s Literature

Blessing Diala-Ogamba (Coppin State University) Archetypal Symbols in Children’s

Folklore in Nigeria

E-10: G15

The Nation and Contemporary African Short Story in English

Chair: Oyèníyì Okùnoyè (Obafemi Awolowo University)

Doseline Wanjiru Kiguru (Stellenbosch University) (Re)presentation of African Histories through Prize Winning Short Stories

Godwin Siundu (University of Nairobi) Childhood and Community in M.G Vassanji’s Short Stories

Obododimma Oha (University of Ibadan) Mia Couto, Humour, and the Semiosis of the Nation’s Becoming

Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) Space, Narrative

Voice and the Nation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around your Neck and Sefi Atta’s News from Home

Sule E Egya (Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Nigeria) Transcultural Anxieties in Contemporary Nigerian Short Fiction

E-11:115

Roundtable In Memoriam: Mbulelo Mzamane

Chair: Lokangaka Losambe (University of Vermont)

Kassahun Chikole (Africa World Press)

Wangui wa Goro (Independent Scholar, Writer and Translator)

Thelma Pinto (Formerly at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York)

Siphiwo Mahala (Writer)

Oty Agbajoh-Laoye (Monmouth University)

E-12: Bozzoli Hall

Reception and Book Launch of Nana Ayebia Clarke & James Currey (eds) Chinua Achebe: Tributes and Reflections (Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited)

Race and Identification: From South Africa to the Caribbean

Chair: Hein Willemse (University of Pretoria)

Debra Boyd (North Carolina Central University) Nothing New Under the Sun: Racial

Profiling in Selected Works of Francophone African and African-American Literature and Film

Hein Willemse (University of Pretoria) ‘This Shameful Box’: An Investigation of the narratives of ‘coloured Identity’in South African Auto/biographies

Self-Abdullahi A Kadir (Yobe State University) The Aesthetics of Blackness and Feminist

Signification in the Selected Novels of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker

Maina wa Mutonya (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia) Nadie Moreno:

Afromexican Identities and Representation of Blackness in Mexico

Carol A Beane (Howard University) Daily Life: Lo cuotidiano—Marking Identity in Cecilia

Valdés

F-2: 211

Crime and Popular Fiction in South Africa

Chair: Diana Mafe (Denison University)

Diana Mafe (Denison University) ‘Detecting’ Race in a South African Murder Mystery:

Malla Nunn’s A Beautiful Place to Die

Sabine Binder (University of Zürich, Switzerland / Stellenbosch University, South Africa) Narratives of Female Resistance: Women as Perpetrators in Contemporary South African Crime Fiction

Jonathan Amid (Stellenbosch University) Exploring Detection, Death and Difference in Four

Debut Post-apartheid Crime Fiction Texts by Four Female Authors: Exhibit A by Sarah Lotz,

The Lazarus Effect by H.J Golakai, What Hidden Lies by Michelle Rowe and Just Another Dead Man by Margaret Von Klemperer

Jane Starfield (University of Johannesburg) The Bildüng of Benny Griessel: Deon Meyer’s Detective and the Possibilities of Personal Renewal in Post-apartheid South Africa

F-3: G15

War, Genocide and Violence II

Chair: Shirley Hanshaw (Mississippi State University)

Mildred Barya (University of Denver) Fumbling Towards New Realities and Surprising Joy:

Two Texts—The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa and Death of a Son by

Njabulo Ndebele

Shirley Hanshaw (Mississippi State University) History, Violence, Trauma, and Memory:

Conjuration as Path to Empowerment in A R Flowers’ De Mojo Blues

Syned Mthatiwa (University of Malawi) Realities of the Time: Survival, Pain and Pleasure in

Niq Mlhongo’s Dog Eat Dog and After Tears

F-4: G17

Perspectives on Zakes Mda l

Chair: Paige Sweet (University of the Western Cape)

Jason Price (Arizona State University) Consumerism and the Ethics of ‘Eating’ in Zakes Mda

Paige Sweet (University of the Western Cape) Authors and Afterlives: Literature, History and

Appropriation Beyond Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness

Sarah Senk (University of Hartford) Zakes Mda and the Future of Melancholy

Victoria Alabi (University of Ilorin) Indexes of the Reality of the New and Democratic South

Africa in Zakes Mda’s The Heart Of Redness and The Whale Caller

F-5: 215

Oral Literature: Performance Across Media

Chair: Akintunde Akinyemi (University of Florida)

Akintunde Akinyemi (University of Florida) The Call to Revolt: Modern African Society and the Discourse of Tale Riddling

Jayne Owan (University of Calabar) Significance of Selected Songs in Inyang Nta Henshaw’s Music on the Efik Culture

Aaron Carter-Cohn (University of Lagos /The Ohio State University) Lùlù Fún Wọn: Oríkì in Contemporary Culture

Peter Shirga (College of Education, Oju) The Tiv Oral Poet and Taraba Crisis: Anger,

Frustration and Uncontrollable Emotionalism in Obadia Kehemen Orkor’s Ballads

F-6: G14

Slavery and Neo-Slavery

Chair: James McCorkle (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

Ezechi Onyerionwu (Abia State Polytechnic) The New Nigerian Novel and the Dislocate Feminity: Narrativising Sex Trafficking

Elisabeth Bekers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Britannia’s Heart of Darkness: Racism in Black British Women’s Neo-Slave Narratives

Adlai Murdoch (Tufts University) How to do Things with Words and Gunpowder: Cultural Codes and the Antigua Slave Rebellion of 1736

James McCorkle (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Narrating Memory: Jacobs,

Christiansë and Brink and the New Slave Narratives

F-7: 115

Roundtable: Imagining the African Future City l

Chair: Stephanie Bosch Santana (Harvard University)

Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwatersrand)

Sarah Nuttall (University of the Witwatersrand)

Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University)

Pamila Gupta (University of the Witwatersrand)

Stephanie Bosch Santana (Harvard University)

F-8: G07

Zimbabwean Transitions I

Chair: Carli Coetzee (Journal of African Cultural Studies)

Carli Coetzee (Journal of African Cultural Studies) We Need New Names, We Need New

Theories

Polo Belina Moji (University of Pretoria) ‘New Names, Translated Subjectivities’: (Dis)

location and (Re) naming in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names

Marcelline Massoua II (University of Pretoria) ‘Therapeutic Laughter’: Migration, Hope and

the Necessity for Translation in Bate Besong's Requiem for the Last Kaiser and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names

Jonas Akung (University of Calabar) A Post-Apartheid Voyage through Zimbabwe in Tendai

Huchu’s The Hairdresser of Harare

F-9: G09

Autobiography, Memoir, Testimonial I

Chair: Prishani Naidoo (University of the Witwatersrand)

Catherine Muhoma (Maseno University) & Peter Amuka (Moi University) History, Violence,

Trauma and Memory: Reading Kenya at 50 through the Lens of Raila’s Flame of Freedom

Prishani Naidoo (University of the Witwatersrand) ‘Mine’ and ‘Ours’ – Memoir and Myth in the Narration of Liberation

Vusi Mchunu (Independent Writer and Producer) Reclaiming Madiba for African Heritage

Juliet Ekpang (University of Calabar) Rhetoric and Social Constructionism in Selected

Speeches of Nelson Mandela

F-10: 314

Ruins, Remainders, Residues: Sierra Leonean Literature and the (De)Formation of Archives

Arthur Onipede Hollist (University of Tampa) Archiving a Nation: Spaces, Places, Bodies, and Identity Formation in the Novels of Sierra Leone’s Yema Lucilda Hunter

Mohamed Kamara (Washington & Lee University) Constructing a Nation and its Memory: Reinventing Sierra Leone’s Past in the Works of Aminatta Forna and Yema Lucilda Hunter Eustace Palmer (Georgia College & State University) Defining the Sierra Leonean Writer: The Case of Aminata Forna

Joyce Dixon-Fyle (Depauw University) Myth and History in A Tale of Three Women by E J

Palmer

F-11: GO8

Poetics and Politics of Resistance: Voices from African and African-Descendant Lusophone and Hispanic Cultures I

(Sponsored by LHCALA Caucus of the ALA)

Chair: Joanna Boampong (University of Ghana)

Stephen Henighan (University of Guelph) The Post-National State as a Form of Resistance in

Ondjaki’s Avó Dezanove e o Segredo do Soviético

Arthur Hughes (Ohio University) Space, Time, and Biology: Celebrating Promiscuity in Jose

Eduardo Agualusa’s My Father’s Wives

Dorothy Odartey-Wellington (University of Guelph) Voices of Resistance: From Colonial Places to Digital Spaces (The Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea)

F-12: G16

East African Interventions III

Chair: Lynda Gichanda Spencer (Rhodes University)

Monica Popescu (McGill University, Canada) ‘Children of the Cold War’: Writing against Neocolonialism in Kenya

Garnette Oluoch-Olunya (The GoDown Arts Centre, Nairobi) Simultaneous Geographies, Divergent Histories: Living Apart, Together

Mpale Y.M Silkiluwasha (University of Dar es Salaam) Representation of Childhood in Tanzanian Children’s Literature: Who is a Child?

Dina Ligaga (University of the Witwatersrand) The Public Life of the Goodtime Girl in Kenyan Popular Media

F-13: Bozzoli Hall

Roundtable: “Chinua Achebe – There was a Writer”

Chair: Nana Ayebia Clarke (Publisher)

Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)

Ernest Emenyonu (University of Michigan-Flint)

Abena P.A Busia (Rutgers University)

Carole Boyce Davies (Cornell University)

Wangui wa Goro (Independent Scholar, Writer and Translator)

Bernth Lindfors (University of Texas at Austin)

Véronique Tadjo (University of the Witwatersrand)

Maureen Ngozi Eke (Central Michigan University)

Harry Garuba (University of Cape Town)

F-14: 209

ALA Teaching Committee Business Meeting

Reception and Book Launch: Fiona Moolla, Nuruddin Farah: The

Individual, the Novel and the Idea of Home (James Currey Press)

Film Screening: The Bag on My Back

An Evening of Homage / Tribute to Writers and Artists who have Passed On

(Sponsored by the Department of Arts and Culture, Republic of South Africa)

Hosted by Professor Tawana Kupe – Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Finance) and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand

Schedule of Friday’s Events

Friday 11 April 2014

Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones (University of Illinois Press)

Performances of African Languages / Open to All Participants

G-1:G15

Otherness and Representation II

Chair: Kwaku Larbi Korang (Ohio State University)

Kwaku Larbi Korang (Ohio State University) Ama Ata Aidoo’s Literary Project: Retrieving Community and Identity

Billy Miller (Principia College) Ethnophaulic Hate Speech: Language, Literature and

Liberation

Ute Fendler (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Turning Perspectives: Filmic Reflections on the Relation with the ‘Other’

G-2: G09

Journeys, Displacements and Migrations II

Chair: Njeri Githire (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)

Njeri Githire (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities) Characters, Caricature and the

Afropolitan Imagination in Three African Novels

Livingstone Muchefa (National Archives of Zimbabwe) & Mbwera Shereck (Rhodes

University) Myths, Movements and Shameful Histories: Travellers and Biodata in Colonial and Post-colonial Zimbabwe

Ijeoma Nwajiaku (Federal Polytechnic) Beyond the Dreams: Life and Reality in Chika

Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street

Aaron Eastley (Brigham Young University) Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away and

October: Tracing New Trajectories in African Diasporic Literature

G-3: G14

The Mourning After: Trauma, Transition and Healing II

Chair: Jennifer Yusin (Drexel University)

Chinyelu Agwu (Federal University) Post-segregation Identity: Complexities of Trust and

Freedom in Bryony Rheam’s This September Sun

Sopelekae Maithufi (University of South Africa) Of Ashes and Re-Awakening: In Search of the Post- in ‘Post-Apartheid’

Jennifer Yusin (Drexel University) Trauma, Memory, and Alternative Futures

Osita Ezeliora (Olabisi Onabanjo University / University of the Witwatersrand) Historicizing Memory, Theorizing Recollection: African Literature and the Crisis of Remembering

G-4: 314

Oral Literature: Oral Testimonies across Media

Chair: Dale Byam (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)

Dale Byam (Brooklyn College, City University of New York) No Space for Fiction-

Caribbean Orature in the Age of Digital Storytelling

Adewole Adejayan (University of Ibadan) Inscribing Pain: Bonesetters’ Accounts as

Memoirs of Political Violence in Abeokuta, Nigeria, 1998-1999

Peterson Dewah (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Collective First-Hand Accounts of Female Combatant’s Traumatic Experiences: The Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle in Retrospect

Aluko Olufunmilayo (Affiliation Unknown) Portrait of a Bride – An Appraisal of Akeem

Lasisi’s Ekun Iyawo In Night of My Flight

G-5: G07

West African Popular Films

Chair: Dorcas Anima Donkor (University of Education – Winneba)

Francis Gbormittah (University of Ghana) Space, Place, Time and Spectacle in Ghanaian

Videos: An Appraisal of Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s The Perfect Picture (2008)

Dorcas Anima Donkor (University of Education - Winneba) I see Gender but I Acknowledge Reality: Educated Women’s Perspectives on the Portrayal of Women in Popular Ghanaian Local Movies

Victor Yankah (University of Cape Coast, Ghana) Contestations of the ‘Jocasta Syndrome’ in Contemporary Nigerian Home Video Films

G-6: G16

Writers, Memoirs and Literary Biography

Chair: Joseph McLaren (Hofstra University)

Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr (Independent Scholar) The Role of Art in the Anti-apartheid Struggle: Exiles Voices and Returnees

Manu Herbstein (Independent Author) Writing, Getting Published, Getting Noticed: Three

Novels which Address the Slave Trade and Colonialism

Eva Kowalska (Witwatersrand University) Out of Print: Wopko Jensma’s Life and Work in Retrospect

Joseph McLaren (Hofstra University) James Matthews: From Cry Rage to Post-Apartheid

Activism

G-7: 211

Children’s Literature in Africa: Children, History, and Tales Told II: Production

Chair: Maureen E Eke (Central Michigan University)

Ikeogu Oke (University of Nigeria, Nsukka) Folklore and the Future of African Children’s Literature: The Vision of a Writer and Publisher

Faith Ben-Daniels (University of Education-Winneba) Children’s Literature in Ghana:

Writers, Influences, Distribution and Challenges

Pat T Emenyonu (University of Michigan-Flint) Ifeoma Onyefulu: Pioneer Children’s

Author and Photographer – A Study of her Contributions and Impact on Contemporary Children's Literature in Africa

Lami C Adama (Texas A & M University-Commerce) Storytelling, Oral Performance and Adaptation in African Children’s Literature

G-8: G17

Poetics and Politics of Resistance: Voices from African and African-Descendant

Lusophone and Hispanic Cultures I

(Sponsored by LHCALA Caucus of the ALA)

Chair: Arthur Hughes (Ohio University)

Susan Martin-Márquez (Rutgers University) Transnational Dialogue in the Shadow of

Apartheid and Coloniality: Radical Film Practices in Newly-Independent Mozambique

Véronique Solange Okome-Beka (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Libreville Gabon)

Colonización y resistencia en las novelas guineanas Cuando los Combés luchaban de

Leoncio Evita Enoy y Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra de Donato Ndongo Bidyogo: una

selección de soportes didácticos para las clases de ELE en Gabón

Joanna Boampong (University of Ghana) Visual Representations of Strife and Resistance: A Study of the Works of Ramón Esono Ebalé

G-9: 115

“Africa, Pleasure”

(Sponsored by the Executive Committee of the ALA)

Chair: Tejumola Olaniyan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Anjali Prabhu (Wellesley College) Visual Pleasure and African Cinema

Tsitsi Jaji (University of Pennsylvania) Cassava Westerns: Theorizing the Pleasures of

Playing the Outlaw in Africa

Ad l k Ad e ko (The Ohio State University) Pleasantries at/of the Nigerian Book Launch Tejumola Olaniyan (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Thinking Africa and Pleasure

G-10: 215

TRACALA/SIDENSI/ESAACH Panel: Traducture as an Emerging Field and its

Practice and its Relevance to the Status of Translation

Chair: Ghirmai Negash (Ohio University)

Wangui wa Goro (Independent Scholar, Writer and Translator) Global Developments of Traducture in Africa and the Diaspora’s futures

Ghirmai Negash (Ohio University) Globalectics and Localectics: G Hailu’s The Conscript as

Sample of World Literature

Andreis Oliphant (University of South Africa) History and Practice: Literary Translation in South Africa

Marion Boers (International Federation of Translation) The Global Status of Translation Tomi Adeaga (TRACALA) The Significance of Localization on Africa

G-10:G14

‘Equality of Opportunities Must be [seen] Through Equality of Capabilities’: Gender

and Class in Post-apartheid (South) Africa

(Sponsored by the Women’s Caucus of the ALA)

Chair: Ada Uzoamaka Azodo (Purdue University Calumet)

G Oty Agbajoh-Laoye (Monmouth University) De-Rac(ing) Gender and Class in the Back of Beyond: Space, Power and Identity in Selected Post-Apartheid Literary and Filmic

Renditions

Rose A Sackeyfio (Winston Salem State University) Writing Life, Writing Self: Protest and Resistance in the Works of Nawal El Saadawi

Akachi T Ezeigbo (University of Lagos) Leadership and Gender Politics in Tess Onwueme's

The Reign of Wazobia

Ada Uzoamaka Azodo (Purdue University Calumet) On the Moral Philosophy of Social

Justice in South Africa: Revisiting Miriam Tlali in Point of No Return

FRANCOPHONE Luncheon: Tanella Boni

(Sponsored by The Institut Français and the School of Literature, Language and Media)

H-2: Bozzoli Hall

TRACALA Luncheon: Liz Gunner

(Sponsored by the Translation Caucus of the ALA)

Introduced by Ghirmai Negash (President of TRACALA)

H-3: 111

Indian Ocean (Durban)

Chair: Lindy Stiebel (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Modhumita Roy (Tufts University) Beyond the Kala Pani: The Indian Ocean and ‘Coolitude’

in Recent Indian, South African and Caribbean Fiction

Margaret J Daymond (University of KwaZulu-Natal) ‘Chasing the Wild Goose’: Language

and Idiom Cross the Indian Ocean in The Wedding (2001) by Imraan Coovadia

Felicity Hand (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Aziz Hassim’s Casbah: Community and

Survival in the Indian Ocean World

Rachel Matteau Matsha (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Mapping an Interoceanic Landscape:

H-4: G07

New Mediations & Consumptions

Chair: Mehita Iqani (University of the Witwatersrand)

Rockie Sibanda (University of Johannesburg) A Taxi Ride to Critical Literacy Awareness through Bumper Stickers

Mehita Iqani (University of the Witwatersrand) Being Black and ‘Middle Class’ in South Africa in 1989

Izuu Nwankwọ (Gombe State University) Nigerian Stand-up Comedy and the Carnivalesque: What People Do When the Government is Irresponsible

Alex Wanjala (University of Nairobi) Emerging from the Barriers Erected by the Canon: Contemporary Forms of Kenyan Literature

H-5: G14

Music I: From South Africa to Kenya to Nigeria

Chair: Michael Mboya (Moi University / University of the Witwatersrand)

Michael Mboya (Moi University / University of the Witwatersrand) Ethnicity as a Significant Element in the ‘Way of Seeing’ Dominant in Early Twenty-first Century Kenya:

Categorizing ‘Riziki’ by Ja-mnazi Afrika

Eugene Skeef (Umoya Creations) Ancient Well

Austin Emielu (University of Ilorin) The Forgotten [Anti-Apartheid] ‘Freedom Fighters’: Memories of Nigerian Reggae Music and Musicians in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Leah Creque-Harris (Morehouse College) Scripts Punctuated with Politics and Peppered with Dance: African Derived Movement in Twentieth Century American Theatre: From the Early

Black Musical to Sarafina

H-6: G16

Theatre, Drama and Dance I

Chair: Ketu Katrak (University of California, Irvine)

Ketu Katrak (University of California, Irvine) Re-imagining Cartographies of Belonging: Jay Pather’s Site-Specific Artistic Creations

Nadia Anwar (The University of Northampton) Manipulating Dramatic Distance through

Historical Meta-theatre: The Case of Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi and Hopes of the Living Dead

Allia Abdullah-Matta (CUNY LaGuardia Community) ‘Black Cultural Traffic’ Artistic Announcements, Scenes, and Sightings

Jill Planche (Brock University, Canada) A Certain Stage: Theatre’s Performance, Praxis and Potential in South Africa

H-7: G08

Gender and Writing I: Challenging Patriarchy at Home

Chair: Grace Musila (Stellenbosch University)

Adebanjo Adebagbo (OAU, Ile-Ife) Patriarchy and Women’s Survival in Lola Shoney’s

Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives and Abimbola Adelakun’s Under the Brown Rusted Roofs

Yunusy Ng’umbi (Stellenbosch University) Familial Change and Arrangements: Gender Role

Negotiation

Edward Nanbigne (University of Ghana) ‘Unearthing the Ostrich’s Head’: A Close Reading

of Amma Darko’s Novels

Elizabeth A Nyager (The University of Jos) Domestic Apartheid: An Examination of

Patriarchy in Sefi Attah’s Everything Good Will Come

H-8: 211

Perspectives on Post-Apartheid Fiction II: Genre, Nation and the Law

Chair: Michelle Kelly (University of Oxford)

Michelle Kelly (University of Oxford) ‘Decades Worth of Folly Trapped in these Pages’:

Reading and Interpreting Legal and Literary Texts in Niq Mhlongo’s Dog Eat Dog and Zoe Wicomb’s Playing in the Light