Falola @ 60 Conference and Book Presentation
SCHEDULE OF PANELS AND EVENTS!
All roads lead to the University of Carolina Wilmington, USA where scholars from across three continents gather at a Conference and Book Presentation to honor Professor Toyin Falola on the occasion of his 60th Birthday. As the Program of Events and Schedule of Panels below shows, a total of sixty-three (63) academic papers, divided into 13 panels, will be presented over the course of two days (12th and 13th October 2013) at the Kenan Auditorium of the University.
Among so many others, dignitaries whose participations have been confirmed for the Conference and Book Presentation include Prof. Paul Townend and Ms. Jayd Eylce Buteaux, Prof. Dele Jegede and Prof. Steve Salm, Prof. Michael Vickers and Prof. Eva Mehl, Professor Amy Kirschke and Prof. Tammy Gordon, Professor Olayiwola M. Abegunrin and Prof. Abdul Karim Bangura.
Conference registration, billed for Kenan 1111 Auditorium, will begin as early as 7.30 AM while the Keynote Address, which will be delivered by Professor Akin Ogundiran, follows an hour later.
Dr. Nana Amponsah, an Assistant Professor at the University of Carolina Wilmington, USA, puts the Conference and Book Presentation together.
Below is the schedule of panels, events and conference program.
SCHEDULE OF PANELS AND EVENTS!
Registration – 7:30
Welcome to UNCW – 8:00
Keynote Address – 8:30-9:15, Kenan 1111, Auditorium
Coffee Break – 9:15-9:30
Session A – 9:30-11:00
Session B – 11:00-12:30
LUNCH – 12:30-1:30
Session C – 1:30-3:00
Session D – 3:00-4:30
Coffee Break – Morning till 4:30
Transportation Back to Hotel – 4:30-5:00
Transportation Back to Campus – 5:45-6:00
Dinner – 6:30
Dinner Speech – 7:30 by Prof. Steve Salm
Award Presentation - 8:00 by Prof. Paul Townend and Ms. Jayd Eylce Buteaux
Book Presentation – 8:30 by Prof. Dele Jegede
Remarks – by Prof. Toyin Falola
Toast by Prof. Michael Vickers
Music and Dance
Panel Session A – 9:30-11:00
A1: A VIEW INTO FALOLA'S HISTORICITY
Kenan 1005
Chair: Professor Eva Mehl, UNCW
1. Path to Stardom: The Early Career of Professor Toyin Falola
Adebayo Oyebade, (Tennessee State University)
2. Toyin Falola's Contributions to the Economic History of Nigeria
Ezekiel Ayodele Walker, (University of Central Florida)
3. Africa's Contemporary Challenges in Leadership and Socioeconomic Development: Lessons and Insights From Fanon and Falola
Samuel Zalanga, (Bethel University)
4. A Constant Companion: Toyin Falola and the Historiography of Violence
Charlie Thomas, (United States Military Academy at West Point)
A2: FALOLA AND THE PRODUCTION OF AFRICAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
Kenan 1112
Chair: Professor Amy Kirschke, UNCW
1. Pan Africanism, Knowledge Production and the Third Liberation of Africa: Toyin Falola as an Interlocutor
Samuel O. Oloruntoba, (University of Lagos)
2. Testing the Essentiality of the Axioms of Migrations and Movements in Mwalimu Toyin Falola's Work: An Ancient Egyptian behsâu-pehsa (Predator-Prey) Mathematical Treatise
Abdul Karim Bangura, (Howard University)
3. "The Paradoxes of Exiles: Toyin Falola's Examinations of Exile and Its Lessons for the South African Historiography"
Tyler Fleming, (University of Louisville)
4. Digging below the Surface and Reaching for the Rich Ores: Negotiating Falola's Historicism and Reconstructing the Provenance of Dress in Yorubaland
Adeyemi Bukola Oyeniyi, (Missouri State University)
A3: THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL AND SELF REFLECTION AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Kenan: 1114
Chair: Professor Tammy Gordon, UNCW
1. A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: Epistemic Reconstruction, Memory and Methodology in African Cultures
Tushabe wa Tushabe, (Kansas State University)
2. Fluid Representations of Women in Etches on Fresh Water
Hallie Ringle, (University of Texas at Austin)
3. From Du Bois to Falola: Historical Consciousness, Social Responsibility, and Africa's Development in the Minds of Her Children in the Diaspora
Ndu Life Njoku & Linda Chijioke Ihenacho (Imo State University/Radio Nigeria)
4. Naked and Made Ashamed: Oke'baedan and the Retrogression of Modernity
Abimbola Adelakun, (University of Texas at Austin)
Panel Session B – 11:00-12:30
B1: BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND AFRICAN NATIONALISM
Kenan 1211
Chair: Professor Roy Doron, Winston-Salem State University
1. Nyasaland: The Policing of a Native Uprising in a British Protectorate, 1915-1916
Paul C. Banda, (West Virginia University)
2. 'Caging' Nigerian Minorities: The British Government and the 1957 Minorities Commission
Michael Vickers, (United Kingdom)
3. British Imperialism: A Comparison of German Administrative System and the British Policy of Indirect Rule in Tanganyika
Ogechukwu Ezekwem, (University of Texas at Austin)
4. Rethinking African Nationalism: Lessons from Nineteenth Century West African Thinkers
Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, (Montclair State University)
B2: COLONIALISM, RESISTANCE, AND REPRESENTATION
Kenan 2112
Chair: Professor Matthew Heaton, Virginia Tech
1. Songs as Protest and Forms of Political Participation in the Colonial Era: Abeokuta Women's Engagement with Power and Change
Morenikeji Adisa, (Obafemi Awolowo University)
2. Imperialism, Racism, and Colonial Nationalism: Competing Representations of Akosua Baa at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924
Daniel Stephen, (University of Colorado Boulder)
3. Colonialism, Disability, and Welfare in Nigeria, 1900-1954
Uyilawa Usualele, (State University of New York)
4. Bakundu Traditional Authority System and European Colonialism, 1884-1961 Timothy Musima, (Ministry of Scientific Research, Republic of Cameroon)
B3: CREATIVE AND LITERARY EXPRESSIONS AND THE AFRICA PAST
Kenan 1004
Chair: Professor Kenneth P. Shefsiek, UNCW
1. For God and Country: Religion, Nation and History Writing in Nigeria
Richard M. Shain, (Philadelphia University)
2. Contextualizing African Art History: The Lion as Historian
dele jegede, (Miami University)
3. Poetry and the African Past
Tony E. Afejuku & Samson O. Eguavoen, (University of Benin, Nigeria)
4. Critiquing the Ethnomusicological Archive and Method in African Music History Mhoze Chikowero, (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Panel Session C – 1:30-3:00
C 1: AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Kenan 1005
Chair: Professor Samuel Murrell, UNCW
1. The Power of Words: Scoundrel, Values, and Meaning in the Context of the Historiography of the African Diaspora
Bessie House-Soremekun, (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
2. Towards a Comparative African Diaspora History: Abyssinians in Peru and India during the 17th century
Omar H. Ali, (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
3. Yoruba Diaspora in the Bahamas: The N'ongos of Bain Town and Fox Hill Rosalyn Howard, (University of Central Florida)
4. The Contradictions of a National Building Project in Malawi, 1964-2012 Gift Wasambo Kayira, (University of Malawi)
C2: GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION, AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Kenan 1112
Chair: Professor Nathan P. Crowe, UNCW
1. Imperial Language from Babel to Pentecost: Achebe's Dead Men's Path as Negotiation of Presences on the Verandahs of the Global Forum
Liwhu Betiang, (University of Calabar)
2. Cultural Identity for Effective Global Participation
Emmanuel Babatunde, (Lincoln University)
3. Reimagining Soccer: Nigerian Soccer Players, Migration, and Ambivalent Loyalty
Segun Obasa, (University of Texas at Austin)
4. Interrogating the Conflict between Boko Harm and Multinational Joint Task Force in Baga, Borno State, Nigeria
Lucky Igohosa Ugbudian, (Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria)
C 3: TRADITION, HEALTH, SURVIVAL
Kenan 1114
Chair: Professor Jacob Steere-Williams, College of Charleston
1. A Philosophical Analysis of Yemoja in Cross Cultural Context
Segun Ogungbemi, (Adekunle Ajasin University)
2. Setbacks in the Struggle Against HIV/AIDS in Africa: When Conspiracy Theories Remain Unchallenged
Ben Weiss, (University of Texas at Austin)
3. From Anathema to Asset: Colonialism and the Changing Conceptualization and Utility of Africa's Disease Environment
Sylvester Gundona, (University of Texas at Austin)
4. The Igala Phenomenon in the Niger-Benue Confluence: Recent Archaeological Research in Idah, Nigeria
Aribidesi Usman, (Arizona State University)
5. The Linguistic Form and Computational System of Numerals in Yoruba and Èkiròmì: A Comparison
Francis O Oyebade and Taiwo O Agoyi (Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria)
Panel Session D – 3:00-4:30
D1: COLONIALISM, NATIONALISM, AND THE POLITICS OF WRITING AFRICA
Kenan 1211
Chair: Professor Olayiwola M. Abegunrin, Howard University
1. War, Conflict and the African "Other": Colonial and Nationalist Historiography of Conflict
Roy S. Doron, (Winston-Salem State University)
2. African Historiography and the Mau Mau Oath
Mickie Mwanzia Koster, (University of Texas at Tyler)
3. Time to go Big: Revisiting Sources and Methods in African History Ten Years Later
Christian Jennings, (Washington and Lee University)
4. Selected Readings in the History of Science and British Colonial West Africa Daniel Jean-Jacques, (University of Texas at Austin)
D2: EMPIRE, ECONOMICS, AND COLONIAL IMITATIONS
Kenan 2112
Chair: Professor Tushabe wa Tushabe
1. Rethinking Urban Labor and Urban Workers in Colonial Africa: The Fall of Domestic Service in Colonial Dar es Salaam, 1919-1961
Robyn Pariser, (Emory University)
2. Collusion, Cooperation and Conflict: How Indigenous Gold Coast Merchants Shaped the Emergence of the State and Market Institutions, 1850-1950
Kofi Takyi Asante, (Northwestern University)
3. Gender and Jobs in the Making of a Colonial Economy
Bridget Teboh, (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth)
4. Africanizing Sports and Leisure in a White Settler Frontier: Early Colonial Livingstone, North Western Rhodesia
Andrea L. Arrington, (University of Arkansas)
D3: POLITICS OF SPACE, CONFLICT AND PEACE-BUILDING
Kenan 1004
Chair: Professor Candice Bredbenner, UNCW
1. African Ethics and Post Conflict Peace-building
Nathaniel Umukoro, (Delta State University)
2. Spatial Salvation as Crisis Resolution
Bisola Falola, (University of Texas at Austin)
3. Kenyan "Procreatocracy?" Ethnic Politics and Tyranny of Numbers
Nicholas Kariuki Githuku, (West Virginia University)
4. The Nigerian Youth Movement and the Cause of Political Discord in Nigeria Olayiwola M. Abegunrin, (Howard University)
D4: MIGRATION, MOVEMENTS AND THE POWER OF AFRICAN CULTURES
Kenan 1005
Chair: Professor Carolyn A. Jost Robinson, UNCW
1. Bringing Our Orisha with Us: African Religious Migration in Colonized Caribbean Nathaniel
Samuel Murrell, (UNC Wilmington)
2. Toyin Falola and the Power of African Cultures: Bridging African Diaspora knowledge in Brazil
Silvia Lorenso, (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
3. Beyond Survival: African Seamen, the Slave Trade and South Atlantic Commerce in Salvador, Brazil
Mary Hicks, (University of Virginia)
4. Performing the Hajj in Colonial Nigeria: The Pilgrimages of Muhaman Dikko, Emir of Katsina, 1921-1933
Matthew Heaton, (Virginia Tech)
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