annual conference of african literature

40
TH
ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
OF THE
AFRICAN
LITERATURE
ASSOCIATION
Texts, Modes and
Repertoires of Living In
and Beyond the Shadows
of Apartheid
SPEAKERS:
Simon Gikandi
Njabulo Ndebele
Mia Couto
Sindiwe Magona
Liz Gunner
Tanella Boni
9-13 APRIL 2014
WITS PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT HUB
WITS UNIVERSITY JOHANNESBURG
For full programme visit the conference
website at: www.ala2014.co.za



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Table of Contents

African Literature Association 2
Governance & Officers

Hosting School 3

Conference Partners 3

Summary of Events 5

Daily Schedule of Events 6

Keynotes and Caucus Speakers 59

Artists 62

Theatre 63

Musicians 64

Film Schedule and Descriptions 65

Advertisements 70

Conference Center Floor Plan

Index of Participants

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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






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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)


Event Planners
Shireen Rubenstein

and

Merle Govind
Antonette Gouws
Robert Nagy
Kathleen Ripamonti
Margaret Berns
Eunice Sediti
Delia Rossouw

Partners
University of the Witwatersrand
Goethe Institut
Institute Francais
The Department of Arts and Culture

South African Airways
Tri-Continental Film Festival
The Steve Biko Foundation
African Studies Journal





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Special Thanks
Y. Obenewa Amponsah
Sinenhlanhla Buthelezi
Samia Chasi
Jerome Chevrier
Brigitte Doellgast
Kgomotso Kasonkola
Anita Khanna
Ian Lotter
Siphiwo Mahala
Gita Patel

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Schedule of Daily Events

Wednesday 9 April 2014


9:00 AM-5:00 PM LG10 Phases and Faces and ‘We Live in Fear’

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Bozzoli Hall #Harambee63


11:00-12:30 AM Special Screening: Miners Shot Down  Bozzoli Hall

1:30-3:00 PM Concurrent Session A

1:30-3:00 PM Book Launch: Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music
and Pan-African Solidarity (Oxford University Press)

3:00- 3:15 PM Break

3:15-4:45 PM Concurrent Session B

4:45-5:00 PM Break

4:30-6:00 PM Performance and Book Launch: Shaun Viljoen, 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 Official Opening and Reception – Bozzoli Hall

1:30-3:00 PM Concurrent Session A

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:
n in


Onyeka Iwuchukwu (National Open University of Nigeria) The Other Face of Apartheid in
s The Fourth World and s Violence




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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:



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

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
s The Wedding
Katharina Fink (University of Bayreuth) Less than 7500. Remixing Repertoire in the Short
Story



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Katie Reid (UnivPost-s



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 ?

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


A-6: 211
Reconstructive Memory through Myth, Poetry and History

Chair: Chris Awuyah (West Chester University)

Geetha Ramanathan (West Chester University) Narrating Living Beyond Apartheid in Nadine
Gordimer and Select Contemporary Fiction

John Hanson (West Chester University) Writing from Memory: Literary Contributions of
s Noted Abolitionist and Suffragist Frederick Douglass

Padmore Agbemabiese (Cuyahoga Community College) Awoonor and the Role of the Poet in
the Community: A Close Study of the Guardians of the Sacred Word

Chris Kwame Awuyah (West Chester University) Kofi Awoonor: The Ancestral Memory and
its Resonance and Continuance in Contemporary Realities


A-7: 111
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)

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(Ohio State University)
Olabode Ibironke (Rutgers University)
Oyeniyi Okunoye (Obafemi Awolowo University)



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A-8: G17
African Literary and Cultural Journals Reception (African Studies and Journal of African
Cultural Studies)

(Sponsored by Taylor and Francis and Routledge)

A-9: 115
Book Launch: Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music and Pan-African
Solidarity (Oxford University Press)


3:00-3:15 PM Break

3:15-4:45 PM Concurrent Session B

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,
Las Fiction

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

Chris Wasike (Masinde Muliro University) Gendering the Global/Local and Postcolonial
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
s Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

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Okaka Dokotum (Kyambogo University) Celebrating Nelson Mandela: The Intertextual
Invictus’ Film,
Invictus (2010)

Bayo Omolola (Community College of Baltimore, Maryland) Digital Perception of Nelson
Mandela: Contrasting Representation of South Africa

Litheko Modisane (University of the Witwatersrand) Cinematic De-liberations on Liberation
and Mandela

Donald Morales (Mercy College) Mandela in Film


B-3: 211
J. M. Coetzee: Perspectives on Disgrace

Chair: Khwezi Mkhize (University of Pennsylvania)

Psalms Chinaka (Imo State University) Re- Dilemma in Post-
Apartheid South Africs Disgrace

Amaka Azuike (University of Jos
Africa: A Critical Appraisal of J.M. Disgrace

Karen King-Aribisala (University of Lagos) : An Analysis
of Disgrace (1999)

Derilene Marco (University of Warwick) L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


Kasongo M. Kapanga (University of Richmond) The Narratives of Locality and
Impediments: Taïa, Mabanckou and Miano

Sc
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) 

Angela A. Ajimase (University of Calabar) exploitation de la femme antillaise dans Solibo
Magnifique de Patrick Chamoiseau et Desirada de Maryse Condé



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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)

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-The
Voice of the Night Masquerade When the Bleeding Heart Breaks

Jeleel Ojuade (University of Ilorin) Unknotting Historical Crisis through Performance of
-Apartheid Literary Discourse


B-7: G14
Identity and Place in Bessie Head

Chair: Adetayo Alabi (University of Mississippi)

Itang Ede Egbung 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




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Adetayo Alabi (University of Mississippi) Apartheid and the Global Dimensions of Bessie
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,
raders 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 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:

Professor Adam Habib  Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the
Witwatersrand
Professor Ruksana Osman  Dean of the Facultuy of Humanities

Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson  Convener
Music by Joe Makhanza and Thembinkosi Mavimbela Quintet




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Schedule of Thursday’s Events

Thursday 10 April 2014

6:30-8:30 AM ALA Executive Council Meeting, Meridian, Parktonian

9:00 AM-5:00 PM LG10 Faces and Phases and ‘We live in Fear’

9:00 AM -5:00 PM Bozzoli Hall #Harambee63
09:00-10:30 AM Concurrent Session C

10:30-10:45 AM Break

10:45-11:45AM Keynote Address: Njabulo Ndebele

11:45-12:00 AM Break

12:00-1:30 PM Concurrent Session D

12:00-1:30 PM LHCALA Luncheon: Mia Couto

1:30-1:45 PM Break

1:45-3:15 PM Concurrent Session E

1:45-3:15 PM Reception and Book Launch: Nana Ayebia Clarke & James Currey
(eds.), Chinua Achebe: Tributes and Reflections (Ayebia Clarke
Publishing Limited)

3:15- 3:30 PM Break

3:30-5:00 PM Concurrent Session F

3:30-5:00 PM ALA Teaching Committee Business Meeting

5:00-5:15 PM Break

5:00-6:00 PM Reception and Book Launch: Fiona Moolla, Nuruddin Farah: The
Individual, the Novel and the Idea of Home (James Currey Press)

6:00-8:00 PM An Evening of Homage / Tribute to Writers and Artists who have
Passed On – Bozzoli Hall



09:00-10:30 AM Concurrent Session C




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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:
A Critical Assessment

Ngozi Chuma-Udeh (Anambra State University) Space and the Poetics and Politics of the
athe Niger Delta Experience in Nigeria

Kontein Trinya (University of Education) Fresh Dance Steps to Old Drum Beats: Reassessing
the Post--Apartheid Rhythms


C-2: GO7
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
Victory; Coming Home; and The Train Driver

Florence O. Orabueze (University of Nigeria) The Representation of Otherness in Athol
Sizwe Bansi is Dead 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






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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
Loneliness

Claudia Hoffmann (University of Toronto Scarborough) Beyond the Sea as Border: Migrant
Sea Travel and Maritime Contexts in Transnational African Cinema

Marie Kruger (University of Iowa: Urban Landscapes and the
Legacies of Apartheid in South African Cinema


C-5: 211
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

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
The Travail of the Black Gold 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 is Young Blood

Meyre Ivone Santana da Silva (University of Oregon) Female Desire, Displacement and
Race is Le Baobab Fou






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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)


Fiction

Lillian Osaki (University of Dar es Salaam) Slavery and Cultural Exchange in Abdulrazak
Paradise

Pamila Gupta (University of the Witwatersrand) Cultural Studies from Littoral Africa: Case
Studies from Zanzibar and Mozambique

Meg Samuelson (University of Cape Town) Framing the Eastern African Seaboard: From
Zanzibar to the South African Beach


C-9: 115
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)



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Ndirangu Wachanga (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Documentalist)

C-10: G15
WOCALA Business Meeting

10:30-10:45 AM Break

10:45-11:45 AM Keynote Adress - Bozzoli Hall: Njabulo Ndebele

11:45-12:00 AM Break

12:00-1:30 PM Concurrent Session D


D-1: G17
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)









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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 Colle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
tory

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
Regime
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
Le passé devant soi

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

Murambi, The Book of Bones

Chinnaya Ifi (Abia State Polytechnic) The Rwandan Genocide: History, Violence, Trauma
and Memory is The Past Ahead









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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
is War Witch as The Great Agony and Pure Laughter of The
Gods

Justina Okoye (Nnamdi Azikiwe University) Child Abuse and Endangered Life of Women in
AfricaTu
t’appelleras Tanga


Weep Not Child and Alex La The Stone Country: A Comparative
Perspective

Christopher Ouma (University of Cape Town) 
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
A Walk in the Night

Sambo Da Silva (Gaboese University) Alex La Guma, a South African Novelist of Resistance

Ojo O Olorunleke (Lagos s Narratives, Realism, and the
Antinomies of Apartheid



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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 T
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










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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 
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. s
Thirteen Cents

Nonhlanhla Dlamini (Witwatersrand University) Negotiating Legitimacy: Writing Black
s Quiet
Violence of Dreams

Kazeem Adebiyi (University of Ibadan) Patterns of Power Relation in the Motifs of Sex and
Sexuality is Fiction

Edgar Nabutanyi (Makerere University) Powerful Men, Moments of National Crisis and
Boyhood Sexuality: Writing Pederasty in the Fiction of Behr and Duiker

Yolisa Amanda Kenqu (Rhodes University) Trauma, Liminality and the Paradox of
Dis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




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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

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
Discous Americanah

Kayode Ogunfolabi (Obafemi Awolowo University) The Trauma of Liminality: Bi-racialism
and Otherness Yellow-Yellow, Everything Good Will Come
and BeA Question of Power

Post)colonial Africas


Between Two Worlds

Kenneth Harrow (Michigan State University) What if Teju Cole Were White? Racial Politics
in a Post Racial Open City

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E-6: G17
Journeys, Displacements and Migrations I

Chair: Mildred Mortimer (University of Colorado)

Cion 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: Re-
engaging the Myth of Mother Country in the Works of Chimamanda Adichie, Adimora
Ezeigbo, and Mongane Wally Serote

Mildred Mortimer (University of Colorado) Moving Beyond Boundaries: Aminata Sow Fall,
Douceurs du bercail )

H. Oby Okolocha (University of Benin) The Politics of Location: Home and Exile in Pede
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:
The Bells of Amersfoort and
Reach

Danyela Demir (Universität Augsburg) Loss and Racial Melancholia in Marlene van
NiekerAgaat

Loren Townshend (University of Johannesburg) Reviewing Current Post-Transitional Culture
in South Africa through the Works of Four South African Indian Writers