DRAFT CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, MARCH 31
Panel Session A: 10:30am – 12 noon
A1: Rethinking Colonialism and Neocolonialism UTC 3.110
Chair: Augustine Ayuk, Clayton State University
African Political and Economic Relationships to the Americas, Asia, and Europe
Bernard Oppong - Kumi, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Gyasi Kwadwo Samuel, Valley View University, Ghana
A Colonizing Agricultural Company in Somalia. The Duke of Abruzzi's Società Agricola Italo-Somala in the Italian colonial fascist system
Alberto Cauli, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Images of Colonialism in the Text of Two African Female Poets
Gabriel Bamgbose, Rutgers University
Persistent Colonial Fictions: Africa and the Specter of Development
P. S. Polanah, Virginia Tech
A2: Nationalist Movements and Decolonization UTC 3.122
Chair: Arinpe G. Adejumo, University of Ibadan
Rupturing Neocolonial Legacies in the African Novel: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Matigari as a Paradigm
Damlegue Lare, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
From Gun to Guitar: The Performance of Tuareg Nationalism
Bonnie Bates, Carleton University, Ottawa
Decolonizing the Network: Art and Communication in Akinola Lasekan's Nigeria
Perrin Lathrop, Princeton University
Mistaken identities: Unpacking African and black identities.
Fileve T. Palmer, Purdue University
Rupturing Colonial Legacies: Colonialism and Decolonization of Africa and the African Diaspora
Peris Muthoni Githuthu, Independent Scholar
A3: Lingering Legacies: Poverty and Underdevelopment UTC 3.124
Chair: Wanjala S. Nasong'o, Rhodes College
Ghana's Effort towards the Emergence of Green Economy and Poverty Alleviation
Samuel Adu Boahen, Nanchang University
Underdevelopment and Poverty in Africa: The Effectiveness of Development Programs In Nigeria, 2000-2015
Omokanye Okikidayo Ayotunde, University of Lagos
The Impact of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth in Nigeria
Lawal Nurudeen Abiodun, Tai Solarin University of Education
Colonial Legacies on Food Dependency: The Case of Ghana
Tahar Abbou, African University Ahmed Draia Adrar, Algeria
Development, Underdevelopment and Poverty
Akanmu Sulaimon, Independent Scholar
A4: Lives Matter: Migration, Movement, and the Struggle for Survival UTC 3.134
Chair: Ann Albuyeh, University of Puerto Rico
Migration and Exile: The Exotic Essence of Life
Joshua Agbo, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
African Communities in the Diaspora: Health Literacy and the Declining Significance of Nutrition
Tina Jordan, Bowie State University
Interrogating Livelihoods, Cultural Survival and Development of Homeland among the Aro in the United States
Chinedu Okoro, Independent Scholar
The Transatlantic Stage: The Debate Surrounding Diasporic Drama
Kerry Goldmann, The University of Texas at Dallas
Syncretic Religions of the African Diaspora
Edward Asare, Kumasi Polytechnic
A5: Food, Minds and Bodies: Economic Development Strategies UTC 4.102
Chair: Samuel Zalanga, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
An Empirical Study of Yoruba Traditional Economic System of Southwestern Nigeria as an Heritage
Oyewale Peter Oluwaseun, Ekiti State University
Precolonial Imaginaries and Colonial Legacies in Mobutu's "Authentic" Zaïre
Daviel Lazure-Vieira, University of Toronto
Farmers and Acacias in the Sahel: Understanding Africa's Great Green Wall Initiative from a Local Perspective
Karen S. Barton, University of Northern Colorado
Cottage Food Industries: A Viable Solution to Food Crises and Hunger in Nigeria
Ihuoma Chinyere Onunyere, Independent Scholar
Poverty Alleviation Efforts in Kenya: Combining the top-down approach and the bottom-up approach
Dominic Williams, Nanchang University
Productivity and Profitability Analyses of Various Aquaculture Ventures in Nigeria: Towards Improved Livelihood
Olusegun Ayorinde, Tai Solarin University of Education
A6: Remaking Gender and Development UTC 4.104
Chair: Olufunke Adeboye, University of Lagos
Remaking Feminine Respectability: Yoruba Christian Women in Colonial and Post-Colonial Nigeria
Olufunke Adeboye, University of Lagos
Feminine Gender Identity in Nigerian Music Education: Trends, Challenges and Prospects
Michael Olutayo Olatunji, Obafemi Awolowo Univeristy, Ile-Ife
The Concepts of Feminism and Motherhood: (Gender Issue)
Titi Christianah Falana, Ekiti State University
Black Bodies and Black Motherhood in Slavery and Post/Neo-Slavery Brazil
Fernando Rocha, Middlebury College
Women Etched in Stone: The 1956 Women's March and Women's Representation in Public History in South Africa
Sara Sanders, Sarah Lawrence College, NY
Reproductive Health Issues in Disaster Management: A Reflection on the Impact of Disaster on Women and Girls' Health in Nigeria
Victoria A. Undelikwo, University of Calabar
Michael Ihwo, University of Calabar
A7: Africa Works: Traditional Institutions and their Aftermath UTC 4.124
Chair: Mesut Yilmaz, Regents University, Accra
Tracing the Transnational: The body and its metaphors in Chris Abani's fiction
Rebekah Cumpsty, University of York
Transatlantic Slave Trade and The Impact of British Industrial Revolution in Africa.
Mesut Yilmaz, Regents University, Accra
Entrepreneurial Practices and History of the Ijebus in Yoruba Kingdom 1885-1914 (From the Root of Resource Heterogeneity)
Rasheed A. Oyedeji, Tai Solarin University of Education
Kaolat O. Odunaike, Tai Solarin University of Education
The Changing Colonial Rule and the Socio-Political Institutions in Esanland.
O. F. Adesina, Independent Scholar
Colonial Legacy and its Implications for Public Administration and State Building in Nigeria: The Indigenous Governance Structures Option
Gafar Idowu Ayodeji and Ibidapo S. Odukoya, Tai Solarin University of Education
Ajami Manuscripts as Major Sources of African Knowledge
Fallou Ngom, Boston University
LUNCH – 12noon – 1:30pm (Sanchez Building, SZB 104)
Panel Session B: 1:30pm – 3:00pm
B1: Oil and (In)Dependence in Africa: Strategies for Rupturing Economic Inequities – Past, Present, and Future UTC 3.110
Chair: Kairn A. Klieman, University of Houston
International Oil Companies and Struggles for (In)Dependence in Africa: A Case Study from Angola
Kairn A. Klieman, University of Houston
Bunkering (Oil Lifting): Protest, Empowerment, and (De)Colonization in the Niger Delta of Nigeria
Rebecca Golden Timsar, University of Houston
Local Content in the Sub-Saharan African Petroleum Industry: Reinforcing or Breaking Free from the Neo-Colonial Model?
Thomas Mitro, University of Houston
Analyzing the African Gap: New Solutions through New Thinking about Leadership and Sustainability
Doyin Olutona, U-Turn Africa Forums/Mzuzah
B2: Crisis and Violence in African Societies UTC 3.122
Chair: Melike Yilmaz, Regents University, Accra
Triangulation Approach in the Management of School-Based Violence in South African Schools
Eke Chidi Idi, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Black African immigrants' perception of police-citizens' deadly encounters in North America: An exploratory study
Damilohun Ayoyo, University of Alberta
Police brutality
Dickson Adom, ISBC, Bahrain
Assumpta Nnochiri, Independent Scholar
Psychosocial Determinants of Illicit Drug Use by Nigeria University Athletes
Ipinmoroti Olanrewaju Adeola, Tai Solarin University of Education
Oworu Olugbemiga Olufolahan, Tai Solarin University of Education
Combating Violence Through Girls' Education in Nigeria
Melike Yilmaz, Regents University, Accra
B3: Religion and Ethnicity UTC 3.124
Chair: Egodi Uchendo, University of Nigeria
Food representations in inter-group identity labelling among Nigeria's ethnic Nationalities: An Analysis of ndi ofe mmanu and a j'okuta ma m'omi labels of the Igbo and Yoruba ethnic groups in Lagos
Cecilia Titilayo Clement, University of Ibadan
Race and Identity Politics
Jonathan Okeke, Regent University, Virginia
The Resolution of Chieftaincy Disputes by Esan Customary Law and the Media: Ewu Kingdom as a Case Study
Senny O. Oso, Ekiti State University
Interrogating Islamic Propagation (Da'awah) In Eastern Nigeria
Egodi Uchendo and Emmanuel Ibuot, University of Nigeria, and African Humanities Research and Development Circle
Chukwuemeka Agbo, University of Texas at Austin
Ethnic Politics and Nationalism in Africa: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis of the Nigerian Political System
Akeju Babatunde Oluwafemi, Olabisi Onabanjo University
B4: Education for Development UTC 3.134
Chair: Michael Sharp, University of Puerto Rico
Legacies from Colonialism and Current Trends in making Education Truly Vocational in African Countries - Lessons from Nigeria
Edwards A. Alademerin, Tai Solarin University of Education
Educational Policies
Atta Kofi Raymond, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
The Colonialism and Policy of Education in Nigeria- An Overview
Ojebiyi Olufemi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
School Management Team and Organizational Climate as a Correlate of National Policy Implementation in Primary Schools' in Ogun State
Yonlonfun Ebun, Tai Solarin University of Education
Influence of Broken Homes on Academic Performance of Students in Mathematics
Abisola O. Lawani, Tai Solarin University of Education
How Basic is Universal Basic Education? Troubling Nigerian Educational System
Queen Ogbomo, Tennessee Technological University
Rufaro Chitiyo, Tennessee Technological University
B5: Strategies for Poverty Alleviation and Economic Empowerment UTC 4.102
Chair: Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University
Examining the contribution of micro-finance institutions to poverty reduction in the Kasoa district of the Central Region of Ghana
Samuel Acheampong, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Colonial Economic Reversal, Neo-Colonialism and the Question of African Development: Towards an Afro-Optimistic Futurism
Peter Sule, Federal University Lafia
The Role of Technology in National Integration and Development in Nigeria
Ikotun Taibat Olusola, Tai Solarin University of Education
The Use of Indigenous Sheep as Panacea for Malnutrition in Nigeria
Ettu Rotimi Olatunji, Tai Solarin University of Education
Tourism Development: Challenges of Sustainable Tourism in Mombasa and Badagry, 2000-2015
Adeyemi Joel Oyetola, Tai Solarin University of Education
Socio-Economic Contributions of Tourism and Agriculture to Economic Development of Ogun State, Nigeria
Banjo Oluwole, A. T. Olawumi, and O. A. Odusina, Tai Solarin University of Education
B6: Examining Africa's History of Exploitation UTC 4.104
Chair: Susan Rasmussen, University of Houston
The Omnipresent Past: Memories of Colonialism vs Slavery and the Relationship between African Americans and Africans in the US
Dmitry Bondarenko, Russian Academy of Sciences
Tangled Roots - Black Canadian Women's Hair & Belonging in Canada
Shaunasea Brown, York University, Toronto
"Our Church is Like a Village": Ritual Therapy Among Kabyle Converts to Christianity in France
Susan Rasmussen, University of Houston
Oral History in African Culture: The Prevalence of Proverbs as a Value System among the Yoruba of Nigeria
Folasade Caroline Omokanye, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho
Cultural and Artistic Tourism
Funmilah Sally Ahmed, Center for Black and African Arts and Civilization, Abuja
B7: Decolonizing Africa's History and Culture UTC 4.124
Chair: Edgard Sankara, The University of Delaware
Carter G. Woodson, Kenneth O. Dike and the Decolonization of Black History
Undiyaundeye A. Udida, University of Uyo
On the Postcolonial Ruins: On the Work of African Speculative and Science Fiction
Raquel Baker, Rhodes College
Yoruba Religious Identity and Colonialism: Yoruba Playwrights' View
Aderibigbe Moronmubo Martina, Federal College of Education, Abeokuta
Decolonizing the Body: Women's Testimonies in Opposition to Sexual Occupation
Fongang Delphine, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Postcolonial African life narratives and their mirror effect
Edgard Sankara, The University of Delaware
Abel Conder and Mahamut: Captive Narratives and Colonial Erasures in the Caribbean and Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic
Neal D. Polhemus, University of South Carolina
Panel Session C: 3:15pm – 4:45pm
C1: Race and Human Rights in Africa and the Diaspora UTC 3.110
Chair: Augustine Ayuk, Clayton State University
The Justice Conundrum: Africa, human rights and the International Criminal Court
Jon Silverman, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Civil Society and the Democratic Space in Africa: Cameroon, Challenges and Prospects
Augustine Ayuk, Clayton State University
Searching for a Commonplace: Analyzing the Limits of Deliberation and Decolonization in the Midst of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement
Joseph L. Lewis, Wayne State University & Delta College
Identity, the 'Passing' Novel, and the Phenomenology of "Race."
Mawuena Kossi Logan, University of Louisville
Causes of Poverty in Africa
Peprah Emmanuel Adusei, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
C2: Yoruba Culture and Adaptation to Modernity UTC 3.122
Chair: Olufunke Adeboye, University of Lagos
The Effects of Colonization on the Cultural Values of The Yoruba People: Focus on the Use of The Traditional Drums in Yoruba Land
Omobola Agnes Aladesanmi, Ekiti State University
The Unceasing Effect of Linguistic Imperialism in African Countries: The Yoruba Case
Timothy Adeyemi Akanbi, Ekiti State University
The 'Health Is Wealth' Syndrome Among the Yoruba of Nigeria: Beyond Orthodox Medicine in Health Care Delivery
Babatunde Olanrewaju, Tai Solarin University of Education
Speciation and Ecological Risk Assessment of Some Heavy Metals in Surficial Sediments from Isheri and Ijora River, Lagos, Nigeria
Ogunbanjo Oriyomi, Tai Solarin University of Education
Relevance and Utilitarian roles of Adire Textile in Yorubaland: A Historical Perspective 1960 - 2010
Adewale Adepoju, Tai Solarin University of Education
The Portability of the Orisha: The Proliferation of Yoruba Religion in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic
Sheneese Thompson, The Ohio State University
C3: Colonization, Language, and Conflict UTC 3.124
Chair: Ann Albuyeh, University of Puerto Rico
Afro-Caribbean Responses to Linguistic and Cultural Colonialism
Ann Albuyeh, University of Puerto Rico
Sociolinguistic Development of Loan Words in Yoruba: English and French as Donor Languages
Samuel Babatunde, Tai Solarin University of Education
Lepoon, Naamu, and De-Colonizing Rhetorics of Audience in the Contemporary African Novel
Jeffrey Dodd, Gonzaga University
Convergent Narratives of Displacement in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet
Foteini Dimirouli, Princeton University
Globalization and Modern Forms of Slavery in Nigeria
Peter Olusegun Alokan, Joseph Ayo Babalola University
C4: Culture, Gender, and Governance UTC 3.134
Chair: Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, Baylor University
To Be Free: Black Women Activists and the Broader Vision of Democracy
Courtney Thompson, Sewanee: University of the South
The Shameless Consorts; the Queen MacZims: Women in the Age of Dictatorship in Nigerian Drama
Bosede Funke Afolayan, University of Lagos
Bakkies and the Impermanent Black body: Performance and symbolism of transient labor in South Africa
Keegan Medrano, San Francisco State University
Exploring Orthodox Medicine for Advancement in African Traditional Medicine: A Case of Hypertension Management in Nigeria
Esther Opeyemi Adebowale, University College Hospital, Ibadan
Ijaola Oluwatope Samson, Samuel Adegboyega University
Development, Underdevelopment and Poverty in Contemporary Africa
Austin Aghemelo and Jane Onimhmawo, Ambrose Alli University
Separate Space: An approach to addressing gender inequality in the workplace
Zuziwe Khuzwayo, Human Sciences Research Council
C5: Films, Social Media, and Mass Mobilization UTC 4.102
Chair: Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe, Southwestern University
Cultural Identity and Films: Orality in Selected Nollywood Films
Morenike Adeniran, Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan
Adeyeye Hezekiah, Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan
From Grass to Grandeur: Nollywood, Self-Reflexivity and the Igbo Gospel Music Video Genre in Nigeria
Nduka Otiono, Carleton University, Ottawa
#HowTheyRobbedUs: confession as protest and social media witnessing as active resistance in post-colonial Zimbabwe
Shona Kambarami, The New School for Public Management, NY
Internet Memes and the De-spiritification of God-Man Relations in Nigerian Christian Adverts.
Bandele A. Sogbesan and Catherine O. Williams, Tai Solarin University of Education
Gender Representation and Ideologies in Hip-Hop Music; The Nigerian Perspective
Olutoyin C. Williams and Sogbesan Bamidele Adeboye, Tai Solarin University of Education
Genre Preferences among the Benin Language Video-Film Audience in Nollywood
Osakue Omoera, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria
C6: Re-imagining Hispanic African Diaspora identities in the Americas: History, Religion and Philosophy UTC 4.104
Chair: Alain Lawo-Sukam, Texas A&M University
Afro-Latinos in the US: An (Un)even Playing Field.
Alain Lawo-Sukam, Texas A&M University
Tobacco, Struggle, and Solidarity: A Genealogy of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg's Hispanic Heritage
Daniela Abraham, Texas A&M University
Representación y Relación de las deidades de agua Ochún, Yemayá y Mami Wata y su palimpsesto iconográfico con la Virgen María
Yumary Alfonso, Texas A&M University
Multiplicidad y reinterpretación de la religión yoruba en Cuba y su diáspora
René Rubí Cordoví, Texas A&M University
C7: Reimaging Health and Social Services UTC 4.124
Chair: Wanjala S. Nasong'o, Rhodes College
Local and Global Dynamics in the Transformation of Ports Health Services in Nigeria Since 1925
Benjamin Uchenna Anaemene, United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health, Malaysia
Empirical Investigation of Life Cancer Risk Within the Black Race Due to Ingestion Radionuclides from African Medicinal Herbs
Kunle Giwa, Tai Solarin University of Education
Johnson Olufemi Adepitan, Tai Solarin University of Education
Information Needs of Albinos in Yoruba Ethnic Group
Adenekan Tolulope, Lead City University, Ibadan
The Study of Choice of Maternity Birth Centres and Family Planning Techniques among Married Women in the South-Western Part of Nigeria
Tolu Ogunleye, Tai Solarin University of Education
African Traditional Medicine: From Representation to Practice in Formal Education Processes
Alant Busisiwe, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Chinenye Godson, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Determinants of participation of rural women in off-farm economic activities and rural farming households' food poverty status
Odusina Olaniyi Adegoke, Tai Solarin University of Education
4:45pm – 5:45pm Conference Keynote - UTC 2.102A (All are invited)
6:00pm – 7:30pm Conference Dinner - SZB 104 (Registered participants only)
Saturday - April 1, 2017
D Panels 10:00am – 11:30am
D1: Instruments of Colonial Domination GAR 0.120
Chair: Bamidele Aly, Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1)
"Civilization, Commerce, and Christianity": How British Abolitionists Understood Slavery and Slave Trade in Central and East Africa, 1860s and 1890s
William Skidmore, Rice University
Our English, Not Theirs: The Decolonization of the English Language in Nigeria and the Politics ff Native Versus Non-Native Englishes
Beatrice Egwuogu, Tai Solarin University of Education
Growth of Predatory Open Access Journals and Implications: Call for Decolonisation Of Scholarly Communication by African Scholars
Niran Adetoro, Tai Solarin University of Education
Cultural Imperialism and the Struggle for National Consciousness in Wole Soyinka's Childe Internationale
Adeyi Muftiat Oyindamola, University of Ilorin
The decimalization and metrication behind the new monetary sovereignty of Nigeria in the early 1970s
Bamidele Aly, Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1)
Colonial Educational Policy and Teachers Professional Development in Nigeria: An Historical Discourse
Olukunle Olagunju Balogun, Tai Solarin University of Education
Ojebiyi Olufemi Adesola, Obafemi Awolowo University
D2: Historicizing the Individual in African History GAR 0.128
Chair: Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, Baylor University
Julius Nyerere and Postcolonial Canonization
Paul Bjerk, History Department, Texas Tech University
Mickey Leland: Humanitarian for all – from Houston to Africa
John Brundrett, University of Houston
Bantustan Biography: Apartheid Networks in the Making of Anti-Apartheid Chiefs
Jill E. Kelly, Southern Methodist University
The Foremost Authority on Mental Illness in the African: A Biography of John Colin Carothers
Jack McAfee, Baylor University
When History Is Written, the Cameroonian Women Will Have an Honorable Place in its Pages: Biographing Anglophone Cameroonian Women's Lives
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, Baylor University
D3: Arts, Creativity, and Emerging Technologies GAR 0.132
Chair: Susan Rasmussen, University of Houston
Music and Language: The Onomatopoeic Development of the Yoruba Konkolo Rhythm
Olupemi Oludare, University of Lagos
Indian-African marriages in World War Two Nigeria
Oliver Coates, Cambridge University
More than a Willow's Song: Rokia Traoré's Performance as Lyrical Narrator
Nicole Frisbey, Texas A&M University San Antonio
A Reconnaissance Study of Lamidi Olonade Fakeye Wood Carvings in Retrospect
Ademola Victor Fakeye, Obafemi Awolowo University
Decolonizing the Mental and the Physical through Human Cognitive and Expressive Processes – Dance
Olokodana-James Oluwatoyin, University of Lagos
D4: Religion and Religious Change GAR 1.134
Chair: Edgard Sankara, The University of Delaware
Islam in Africa and the Diaspora: The impact of Islam in Africa and Nigeria Diaspora
Olawale Rafiu Babatunde, Independent Scholar
The Aladura Christians among the Yoruba of Nigeria: Symbol of a (De)colonized people
Saheed Adeniyi Ogunkoya, Tai Solarin University of Education
The Impacts of Religious Colonialism and Culture on Theories of African Sexuality: A case study of queer culture in Nigeria
Peter Okeugo, Independent Scholar
Ecological Movements in Buddhism
Kenneth Lee, California State University
Brokering the Politics of Religious Difference: North African Muslims and Jews and European Christian Settlers in French Algeria, 1830-1870
Rachel Schley, Harvard Business School
Making Sense of Religious Change in Postcolonial Africa: Conversion to Mormonism in Southeastern Nigeria
Dima Hurlbut, Boston University
D5: Technology, Social Progress, and Governance GAR 2.112
Chair: Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University
Mainstreaming Climate-Smart Technology Adaptation in South African's Farmers' Everyday Agricultural Practices: The Place and Space for Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Busisiwe Alant, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Standardization and the Endangerment of Language Varieties in Nigeria
Imelda Udoh, University of Uyo
Pre- and Post-Colonial Political Structures in Africa Compared: Forging A More Sustainable Path
Adebayo Opeyemi Emmanuel, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
Decolonizing the Housing Delivery in a Developing Economy: The Case of Nigeria
Babatunde E. Jaiyeoba, Obafemi Awolowo University
Hunger and Malnutrition: Eliminating Food Crisis in Nigeria
Omobolaji Samuel Ajisola, Achievers University
Mobile Technology Development in Nigeria; the Advent of New Colonialism
Olayiwola Ademola David, University of Lagos
D6: Trajectories in Social and Cultural Practices GAR 2.128
Chair: Abimbola Asojo, University of Minnesota
Decolonizing the Marriage Institution in Nigeria: A Socological Survey.
Agosa Olufunke and Samson Olalekan Fowowe, The Polytechnic, Ibadan
Ibrahim Koroma, Federal College of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Remodeling Ethno-centric Art Traditions of the Nigerian Headdress: Post-Colonial Purviews at the Crux of Occidental Modernist Interventions
Chinenye Emelogu and Kurotamunonye Ibanibo William-West, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Local cultures, foreign language, and decolonizing pedagogy: French teaching in Madagascar
Andriamanana Rijasoa, University of New Mexico
Catherine Rasoafara, Lycée Philibert Tsiranana Mahajanga, Madagascar
Postmodernism, Postcoloniality and the Female Subject: Breaking the master narrative through performance
Lebogang Disele, University of Alberta
Cultural Expressions in the Work of Contemporary African-American and Nigerian Architects
Abimbola Asojo, University of Minnesota
Africa's Children in Armed Conflict: Implications against Fundamental Human Rights
Yakubu Moses Oboh, University of Benin
D7: Resistance, Adaptation, and Development GAR 3.116
Chair: Gashawbeza Bekele, Tennessee State University
Getting Out from the Shadow of Colonialism: Challenges and Prospects for Nigeria
Bolaji Omitola, Osun State University
Decolonization in Africa as an Institution of Bedevilled Cultural Protestation
Ayodeji Akintunde Giwa, Tai Solarin University of Education
#YouthMovements #AfricanTwitter: Tweeting and Tagging the Affirmative Repositioning Movement in Namibia
Kelly Fulkerson Dikuua, The Ohio State University
Alexandrian Orthodoxy and the Hinterlands of Africa
Joshua Georgy, University of Massachusetts
Impacts of the Closure of Dadaab Refugee Camps on Somali Refugees
Aida M. Mwanzia, University of British Columbia
E Panels 11:45am – 1:15pm
E1: Changing Patterns of Adaptation to Modernity GAR 0.120
Chair: Oladele A Balogun, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Black Panther Praxis and State Repression
Navid Farnia, Ohio State University
Challenges and Prospects of Alternative Medicine in Post-Colonial Southwestern Nigeria
Olabode Oshadare, Kogi State University
Decolonizing the Concept of Naming in Contemporary Yoruba Thought: A Philosophical Enquiry
Oladele A Balogun, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Decolonizing the African Mind as a Panacea to Rupturing Colonial Legacies: Linguistic Perspectives
Balogun Temitope Abiodun, Osun State University
A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Social Justice Songs by Bob Marley and the Wailers
Joseph Oluwole Akinbode, Tai Solarin University of Education
Economics of the Livelihoods of the Forest Dependent People in Ondo State of Nigeria
Olawumi, A. T. Odusina O. A and Banjo, O.S, Tai Solarin University of Education
E2: Considerations in Marxism and Form GAR 0.128
Chair: Auritro Majumder, University of Houston
Creating an Indigenous Utopia: Buchi Emecheta's The Rape of Shavi's Marxist-inspired Utopian Impulse
Eugene Penzien, University of Houston
The Gendered Individual in the West African Postcolonial Novel
Maurine Ogbaa, University of Houston
Allegories of Space, Spaces of Allegory: Landscapes of Africa in Chander Pahad and King Solomon's Mines
Sandeep Banerjee, McGill University, Montreal
The Struggle over History and Realizing a Fanonian-Marxist Utopia in 21st Century Zimbabwe
Novuyo Tshuma, University of Houston
Dramatic Connections: North Ireland and South Africa
Sreya Chatterjee, West Virginia University
Modernism-Realism: pace Third Cinema
Auritro Majumder, University of Houston
E3: Issues of Race, Gender, and Decolonization GAR 0.132
Chair: Elizabeth Jacob, Stanford University
Militant Mothers: Gender and Political Participation in Postwar Côte d'Ivoire
Elizabeth Jacob, Stanford University
Re-reading Anders Breivik and Dylann Roof at the dawn of "Trumpism"
Sadaf Mirzahi and Temitope B. Oriola; University of Alberta
Waldensian Missionaries in Colonial Abyssinia (1880s-1941)
Caterina Scalvedi, University of Illinois at Chicago
Clamour for Women Empowerment in Nigeria: The Need for Cognitive Restructuring
Samuel Ekundayo Oladipo, Tai Solarin University of Education
Nigerian Women's Drama as Cultural Intervention
Bosede Funke Afolayan, University of Lagos
E4: Decoloniality, Politics, and Rhetoric in African Contexts GAR 1.134
Chair: Nancy Henaku, Michigan Technological
Decolonial Visions in Mid-Twentieth Century African Rhetoric: Perspectives from Kwame Nkrumah's Consciencism
Nancy Henaku, Michigan Technological University
The Rhetoric of Akan Adinkra Symbols
Ruby Pappoe, University of Texas at El Paso
Re-Imagining Alternative Rhetorics for "Apartheid" South Africa
Sidouane Patcha Lum, University of Texas at El Paso
Towards a Decolonial Approach to African Political Rhetoric: The Case of Nigerian Election Campaign
Yunana Ahmed, Michigan Technological University
E5: Challenges of Poverty and Social Programs GAR 2.112
Chair: Consoler Teboh, St. Cloud State University
History of HIV as Communicable Disease and the efforts towards its management among the refugee and asylum seekers in South Africa
Kulubrehan A. Teweldemedhin, University of South Africa
Determinants of Acculturation Stress: A Family Separation Perspective on Refugee and Immigrant Challenges in New Homelands
Consoler Teboh, St. Cloud State University
Guiding and Counseling the Youth in a Developing Economy: The Nigerian Perspective
Adenigba Damilola, University of Lagos
The Motivational Effects of Secondary School Teachers' Disciplinary Styles in Nigeria
Ocheho ThankGod, Lancaster University
Rupturing colonial legacies; attractions and limits of Fulani herdsmen activities in Nigeria
Bolaji Omitola, Osun State University, Nigeria
Forced Migration: Boko Haram's Induced Migration in Northern Nigeria
Mujtaba Ali Muhammad, Walden University
E6: Emerging Challenges of Governance and Development GAR 2.128
Chair: Nduka Otiono, Carleton University, Ottawa
Colonial Ideology and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience
Bright Alozie, West Virginia University
Decolonizing Zimbabwe's Archives in the Age of Authoritarianism
Chido Muchemwa, The University of Texas at Austin
Zuma, Sex 'witch doctors', and interracial relations: Sexuality, the nation-state and bodies in post-apartheid South Africa
Keegan Medrano, San Francisco State University
Name, Identity and History in Africa: The Esan People Experience
Ebhomienlen Thomas Oseyi, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Kunle Afolayan's "October 1st" as a Postcolonial Text
Folasade Justinah Adegbembo, The Polytechnic, Ibadan
Impact of Weather and Global Warming on Indigenous African Musical Instruments
Egunjobi Abiodun, Tai Solarin University
E7: Knowledge, Creativity, and Governance GAR 3.116
Chair: Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe, Southwestern University
Topics in Pedagogy, visual and Acoustic Practices in African Cinema: Thoughts on Bamako (2006), The President (2014) and A Leaf in the Wind (2014)
Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe, Southwestern University
Sleight of Hand: Late 19th Century Carved Ivory Sculptures and Postcards
Jessica Stephenson, Kennesaw State University
I did not know if was 'ÈÈWọ̀': Exploring Knowledge and Adherence to Pregnancy and Childbirth Taboo Across Two Generations in Nigeria
Adenike Adegbayi, Redeemer's University
Perceptions of academic staff and students on the implementation of the language policy at the university of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College campus.
Balungile Shandu, Human Sciences Research Council
The Inter-play between Colonialism and Contemporary Land Rights in Nigeria
Adekunbi Adeleye, University of Ilorin
Education Policies
Ajala Kazeem Olatunde, Independent Scholar
1:30pm – 3:00pm LUNCH (GAR0.102)
F – Panels: 3:00pm – 4:30pm
F1: Politics of Cultural Practices GAR 0.120
Chair: Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, Baylor University
Coming Home: Carnival and the Trinidadian Diaspora
Dan Castilow, Tulane University
De[re]constructing African's role in the global history of innovation and technology: Understanding the complexities of early glass/glass bead making technology in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Babalola Abidemi Babatunde, Harvard University
Neo colonialism and the silencing of traditional medicine
Noumbouwo Danielle, Virginia Tech
Ojagbe: A Content and Contextual Analysis of a Nigerian Indigenous Burial Dance in the Eyes of Contemporaneity
Felix Damilola Emoruwa, University of Lagos
African Politics and the Way Forward: A Study of the Language of Politics in Wale Okediran's Tenants of the House
Grace Omo-Ojugo, Ambrose Alli University
F2: Culture and Normativity GAR 0.128
Chair: Adeshina Afolayan, University of Ibadan
On Postcolonial Knowledge: Ifá and Otto von Neurath in Conversation
Adeshina Afolayan, University of Ibadan
Cultural Identity and Representations of the "Other" in Yoruba Oral Literature
Arinpe G. Adejumo, University of Ibadan
The Role of Civil of Societies in Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in Extractive Economies of Africa
Destiny Oghayerio Enabulele, University of Benin
Iatrophobia and the African American Experience
Rosalie Black Kiah, Norfolk State University
Cultural Colonialism in Selected Yorùbá Prose Narratives
Abidemi O. Bolarinwa, University of Ibadan
F3: Race and Religion GAR 0.132
Chair: Gashawbeza Bekele, Tennessee State University
Racism Must Fall: Decolonizing the South African University
Marzia Milazzo, Vanderbilt University
Race, Genetics, Epigenetics and Health: Science and pseudoscience and the health of Africans in the diaspora and the continent
Oluwatoyin Asojo, Baylor College of Medicine
The Role of Religion in Eradicating Sexual Violence in Nigeria
Amos A. Adediran and F. A. Abimbola, Federal College of Education, Abeokuta
Secondary School Teachers and Mass Cheating in Public Examinations: Implications for Educational Policies
Jimoh Wale Owoyele, Tai Solarin University of Education
Language Policy and French Studies in Benin and Nigeria: The Anglo-Francophone Interface
Oladele Tanitolorun, Tai Solarin University of Education
F4: Decolonization, Democracy, and Development GAR 1.134
Chair: Chris Agoha, United Nations Mission in Liberia
Historical Overview of Decolonization and Democratization Efforts and Challenges in Eritrea: A critical review of literature
Kulubrehan A. Teweldemedhin, University of South Africa
Beyond the Mythology of Imperialism and Colonialism: Interrogating the Paradox of Post-Colonial Underdeveloped in Africa
Soj Ojo, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma
Restructuring of Nigeria Educational System Towards Self Reliance
Abiodun Ojo, Tai Solarin University of Education
The Role of Neo-Colonial Power Structures in Cote d'Ivoire Civil Conflict (2010-2011)
Chris Agoha, United Nations Mission in Liberia
Underdevelopment, Poverty and Migration in Nigeria: Is Colonization a Maleficent Influence?
Sunday Funmilola Babalola, Joseph Ayo Babalola University
Post-colonial Budgetary Expenditures on Agriculture and its Impacts on Economic Growth in Nigeria
Inyang Okorie Ayi, Abia State University
F5: Interrogating Emerging Issues of Culture, Gender and Development GAR 2.112
Chair: Samuel Zalanga, Bethel University
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth: Insights and Lessons for Contemporary Africa
Samuel Zalanga, Bethel University
Gender, Education and Poverty in Nigeria
Sophia O. Ojo, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma
One Million in One Hundred Days: Propaganda and the Colonial Roots of the Rwandan Genocide
Wanjala S. Nasong'o, Rhodes College
Towards Decolonizing Africa: The Role of African Films in The Decolonization of Africa
Yusuf Adeniyi Liadi, Osun State Polytechnic
A Marriage of Convenience: Multinational telecommunication companies and the informal economy
Ojong Nathanael, Tyndale University College, Toronto
Corporate social responsibility & socio-economic development of Lagos 2005-2015
Bisayo Omoniyi, Independent Scholar
F6: Race, Culture, and Human Rights GAR 2.128
Chair: Alberto Cauli, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Lubabasu & Baptism: Slavery and Freedom in the Life of Onesimos Nasib
Ethan Key, Georgia State University
St. Louis and the Black Body From the World's Fair to Ferguson
Terlona Knife, Washington State University
Borrowing, Improvising, and Inventing National Traditions: The Annual Commemorations of Rhodesia's and Transkei's Independence Days
Josiah Brownell, Pratt Institute
Traditional Practices and Techniques of the Yoruba Agidigbo Instrument: The African Pianism Perspective
Olupemi Oludare, University of Lagos
Reinvigorating Supervisions as Innovation in Teaching and Learning Cultural Values as Panacea for Moral Decadence in African Society
Amos A. Adeniran, Federal College of Education, Abeokuata
F7: Frontiers of Epistemologies GAR 3.116
Chair: Michael Sharp, University of Puerto Rico
Erasing the Legacy of Colonialism and Apartheid: The South African poet Ingrid de Kok's "A Room Full of Questions
Michael Sharp, University of Puerto Rico
Reevaluando el legado: raza y clase en las obras fundacionales de la lexicografía en Cuba
Armando Chávez-Rivera, University of Houston, Victoria
Descolonizacion discursiva y sexualidad en la mujer afrodescendiente en la Cuba contemporanea
Maybel Mesa Morales, Texas A&M University
Rupturing Colonial Legacies: Paradigm Shift in Women's Vocations and Professions in Southwestern Nigeria
Ndidi Okpara, University of Lagos
Indigenous Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development in Kenya
Augustine Agwuele, Texas State University
6:45pm --- CONFERENCE BANQUET (Holiday Inn, Town Lake)
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Panel Session 9:00am – 10:30am
G1: Africa and the World CLA 0.102
Chair: Adeshina Afolayan, University of Ibadan
Chinese neocolonialism: a comparison of selected African crime novels
Karen Ferreira-Meyers, University of Swaziland
China and Africa: Strategic Partnership or Crypto-Imperialism?
Nse Akpan, Federal University, Wukari
The Emirati – Kenyan relations: An Arab African model of cooperation
Hala Thabet, Zayed University, UAE
The Indians are our Best Friends": How Indians' Struggle for Parity with European Settlers in Colonial Kenya opened up the Political Space for Africans' Participation.
Catherine Odari, Georgia State University
Rural Level Impact of China free-aid water project in Nigeria
Rosemary Eneji, University of Calabar
Veronica A. Undelikwo, University of Calabar
G2: Decolonization, Independence, and Governance CLA 0.128
Chair: Bosede Funke Afolayan, University of Lagos
Brick by Brick: Forging Solidarity through Afro-Turkish Identity in Modern Turkey
Zavier Wingham, New York University
Rapturing Colonial Legacies: Colonialism and De-Colonialisation In Africa And the African Diaspora
Yusufu Muwanga, Independent Scholar
The Nexus between Governance and Economic Development in Nigeria
Ikenna Victor Maduka, Independent Scholar
Natural Resources Management in Nigeria and the issues of Development
Martins Samuel Onyejieke, University of Regina
Fanon, Cabral, and the Question of Foreign Volunteers in the Struggle for National Liberation
Abel Djassi Amado, Simmons College, Boston
Colonial Legal Systems and Their Impacts on Development in Africa
Charles Mbema Njomson, Independent Scholar
G3: Science, Innovation, and Creativity CLA 1.104
Chair: Arinpe G. Adejumo, University of Ibadan
A New Squalene Derivative from Physalis Angulata
Odusina Babatope Oluseun, Tai Solarin University of Education
Student Related Factors as Determinant of Chemistry Academic Achievement
Abudu Kamoli Adewale, Tai Solarin University of Education
Repositioning Colonial Legacy Towards Promoting Indigenous Technology Education in Nigeria: A Panacea for Unemployment and National Development
Chiamaka Ifenna Isaac, Independent Scholar
Product Adaptation in the Ghanaian Automobile Market
Asihene Ethel, Independent Scholar
The Influence of science and technology on society and economic development.
J.D. Ayanda, Tai Solarin University of Education
The role of weather and climate on Socio-economic development
J. O. Adepitan and K. A. Egunjobi, Tai Solarin University of Education
G4: Education, Media, and Mass Mobilization; CLA 1.106
Chair: Olufunke Adeboye, University of Lagos
Technology of the Social Media for Social Mobilization in Africa
Adenubi Ademola, Tai Solarin University of Education
Teaching Cultural Diplomacy to Rupture the Vestiges of Colonially Induced Ethnic Nationalism in Nigeria
Ogundare Samuel, Tai Solarin University of Education
Sofadekan Adedayo Oyewole, Tai Solarin University of Education
Peer Pressure, Social Media Influences and Self-Esteem as Predictors of Adolescents' Disposition to Drug Abuse in Senior Secondary Schools In Ogun State, Nigeria
Abosede Ewumi, Tai Solarin University of Education
The Effectiveness of Vocational Studies in Poverty Alleviation in Lagos State
Busari Adeyemi Abiodun, Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State
Colonization of Visual Art Education in Nigeria: New Art, New Artists in the Contemporary Globalised Art World
Rod Adoh Emi, Tai Solarin University of Education
Reforming Technical and Vocational Education (Tve) Towards Technological Demands
Oyenuga Anthony, B. M. Efuwape and A. O. Shodeinde, Tai Solarin University of Education
Strengthening Sexuality Education Through Social Networking
Adeogun Adekunle Olanrewaju, Tai Solarin University
H Panels 10:45am – 12:15pm
H1: Contemporary Innovations and Encounters CLA 0.102
Chair: Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University
Development of Zoxazolamine for Precolumn Derivatization of Vanillin in Commonly Consumed Africa Food Samples Using High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Technique
Muideen R. Gbadamosi and Adeyemi Lawrence Ogunneye, Tai Solarin University of Education
Equilibrium and Kinetics Studies of Heavy metal ions Sequestration onto African Citrulluslanatus Seed Biomass.
Oluwakemi Oluwabunmi Banjoko, Tai Solarin University of Education
Antifungi Properties of The Aqueous and Methanol Extracts of Morinda Lucida Leaves And Stem Bark
Oluwaseun Hannah Anselm, Tai Solarin University of Education
O. O. Banjoko, and A. D. Osinubi, Tai Solarin University of Education
Awareness and Use of Nutrition Information on Labeled Packaged Snacks among Undergraduates and Staff of Higher Institution in Nigeria
Rachael Abisola Akano, Bukola Adeowo and M. O. Odusina, Tai Solarin University of Education
Transfer of Radionuclides from Soil to Ocimum Gratissimum and Vernonia Amygdalina Medicinal Plants and Evaluation of Radiological Health Risk to The Consumers
Olusegun Sowole, Jacob Dele Ayanda and Kolawole Abiodun Egunjobi, Tai Solarin University of Education
Implications of Indigenous Scientific Practices on Science Education in Nigeria
Oladipupo Adekunle Bamiro, Tai Solarin University of Education
H2: Localization and Globalization CLA 0.128
Chair: Nduka Otiono, Carleton University, Ottawa
Globalization of Innovation and the Africa Indigenous Knowledge Question: An Historical Exposition
Adeoye Akinola and Henry Wissink, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Rupture coloniale, pouvoir des mots et énonciation politique à Tokombéré (Nord-Cameroun)
Simon Kevin Baskouda Shelley, Universitye de Maroua / COREDEC
Rupturing Colonial Legacies: Colonialisms and Decolonizations in Africa and the African Diaspora
Olubunmi Toyin Gbadebo, Independent Scholar
Wale Okediran's Tenants of the House: A Reflective Narrative of Political Compromise and Maneuvering in Nigeria
Philomena O. Ojo, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma
Dismantling the Frontier of "Otherness": African Literature and the Implantation of a Canon
Stella Tope Olaniyan Stella, The Polytechnic, Ibadan
Gender and Colonialism in Africa: A Study of Women Political and Economic Participation in Colonial Nigeria
Ajisola Abiola Kolade, Lagos State University
H3: Religion and Social Life Among the Yoruba CLA 1.104
Chair: Abimbola Asojo, University of Minnesota
The Search for an Unadulterated Yoruba Traditional Religion in a Westernized Nigeria: A Study of Odun Moko Festival
Hammed Hassan, Oduduwa University, Ile-Ife
Plantation Agriculture in Colonial Ijebu, 1951 – 1966: A Historical Exposition
Osiyale Babatunde Olabiyi, Tai Solarin University of Education
Sacred Places and the Decolonization of Christianity in Afro-centric Churches in Yorubaland
David Oladunjoye Alabi, Joseph Ayo Babalola University
Disease Outbreaks in the Urbanisation Process of Lagos
Mufutau Oluwasegun Jimoh, Federal University, Brinin-Kebbi
Medicinal Plants and Ethno-Medicine in Yoruba Land of South Western Nigeria
Niyi Adefala, Tai Solarin University of Education
Language Endangerment: The Case of Yoruba in Rural and Urban Settlements
Feyi Ademola-Adeoye and Victor Arijeniwa, University of Lagos
Kinship Networks
Ahmed Jamal, Kumasi Secondary
H4: Governance and Economic Systems CLA 1.106
Chair: Oluwafemi Mimiko, Obafemi Awolowo University
Crude Oil Extraction and Crises in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: A Linguistic Study of Helon Habila's Oil on Water
Justina Ngozi Edokpayi, Ambrose Alli University
Public Service Dynamism as a Catalyst for National Development in Nigeria
Risikat Abimbola Akinseye, The Polytechnic, Ibadan
The Role of Women in Nigeria's Democratic Development
Patience Orji Ukah, Independent Scholar
An appraisal of the past, present and the future of Early Childhood Education through Education Policy Reforms in Nigeria.
Adefunke Ekine, Tai Solarin University of Education
Foreign Direct Investment as a Re-Invigoration of Colonial Ties and Dependency Syndrome in Contemporary International Economic Relations: Some Critical Issues
Christopher Orngu Stanley, Benue State University
African Politics and the Way Forward: A Study of the Language of Politics in Wale Okediran's "Tenants of the House"
Justina Ngozi Edokpayi, Ambrose Alli University
7:00pm - Farewell Dinner
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