One-day Conference on
Toyin Falola's In Praise of Greatness: A Poetics of African Adulation (2018)
Programme & Panels
First Concurrent Session 10.00 -- 11.30
Tea Break 11.30 – 12.00
Poetry: "Organize; Don't Agonize" --Dr Tunde Oseni
Cultural Performance
Opening Ceremony 12.00 – 2.00
Moderator: Dr Samson Ijaola
Light Music
Introduction of Guests
Ijuba (Homage)
Welcome Address
Chairman's Opening Address: Prof. Femi Osofisan
Ewi I
Ewi II
Keynote:
"'Every Pound of My Flesh is People' A Celebration of Friendship in Black and White"--Prof. Michael Afolayan
Ewi III
Cultural performance
Poetry
Lead Paper:
"Heroic Villainy: In Praise of Vice?" Prof Ademola Dasylva
Ewi IV: "I Kiss the Deities" --Princess Jumoke Owoola
Lunch break 2.00 – 3.00
Second Concurrent Session 3.00 – 4.30
Closing
10.00 – 11.30am
PANEL I:
Gender, Gendering and Adulation
Chairperson: Dr Omolara Owoeye
"Gendering Greatness: In Praise of Motherhood or Womanhood?"
Olayinka Oyeleye, Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan
"Afro-cultural Adulation of Women: Discourse Strategies in Mapping Gender Roles in Fela's Lady"
Yomi Philips Lawal, Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
"Image-ing the Woman through Social Expectations"
Victoria Alugbin, Department of Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University
"Oppressed Women, Tragic Men: Female Marginalization as Motif in Nigerian Drama"
Omolara Kikelomo Owoeye, Department of English and Literary Studies, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti
PANEL II:
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Chairperson: Dr Isaac Shittu
"Subtle Ironies: Falola's Poetics of (Auto) biographies and the Portraits of the Nigerian Condition"
Ndubuisi Martins Aniemeka, Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
"Autobiography as Vanity: On Self-Adulation and Self-Deception"
Adeshina Afolayan, Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan
"Between 'Idiots and Heroes': Exorcising the 'Lies and Silence' of Biographies in Toyin Falola's In Praise of Greatness"
Abayomi Awelewa, Department of Languages (English), McPherson University, Nigeria
"In Praise of Greatness as a Transcultural Autoethnobiography"
Ayodeji Isaac Shittu, Department of English, Redeemer's University, Ede
PANEL III:
Language of Adulation
Chairperson: Dr Mojisola Shodipe
"The Sociolinguistics of Adulation: Exploring Cultural Schemas in Toyin Falola's In Praise of Greatness"
Mojisola Shodipe, Department of English, University of Lagos, Akoka.
"Linguistic Expression of Stance and Intersubjective Positioning in Falola's In Praise of Greatness"
Akin Tella, Department of English, University of Ibadan
"Epistemic Indeterminacy of Praise Narratives"
Leye Komolafe, Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
"Revisiting the Proto-texts"
Duro Adeleke, Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan
PANEL IV:
Adulation as Poetics
Chairperson: Dr Doyin Aguoru
"Historico-Lit-Oral Modes in Falola's "Tributes": Towards A New Poetics in Onomastics"
Sola Afolayan, Ekiti State University
"Poetics of Pastiche: Falola's Art of Genre Bending in In Praise of Greatness"
Doyin Aguoru, Department of English, University of Ibadan.
"The Subtleties of Agency": Wole Soyinka and Femi Osofisan in the Eye of Toyin Falola.
Bosede Funke Afolayan, Department of English, University of Lagos
"Interrogating Africa's Future through Biographical Construction and Critique of 'the Other'"
Matthew Alugbin, Department of English, University of Ibadan
SECOND CONCURRENT SESSION
3.00 – 4.30PM
PANEL V
Greatness and Memory
Chairperson: Prof. Remi Raji-Oyelade
"Praise, Anti-Praise and the Limit of Memory"
Ayo Adeduntan, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
"The Problem of Greatness, the Problem with Greatness"
Remi Raji-Oyelade, Department of English, University of Ibadan
"Magic and Amazement: Inspiration and Transformation in Reading Toyin Falola's In Praise of Greatness"
Vincent Toyin Adepoju, Independent scholar—Compcros: Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems.
"Emplotment and Motif Codes in Falola's In Praise of Greatness"
Ibrahim Odugbemi,
PANEL VI:
Aesthetics and Metaphysics
Chairperson: Dr Ofure Aito
"Transition of Mortals or Transformation of Matter? A Perspective on Falola's 'Heavenly Beings'"
Samson Ijaola, Samuel Adegboyega University, Edo
"Aesthetic Evaluation of Toyin Falola's In Praise of Greatness"
Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa, Babcock University, Ilisan Remo
"The Living/Dead Consciousness: Yoruba Metaphysics and Kunle Afolayan's Roti"
Ofure O. M. Aito, Dora Mbuh, Kemi Emmanuel-Olowonubi, Federal University, Lokoja; Omolola Ladele, Lagos State University, Ojo
"From Living Soul to Egungun: Interrogating the Reincarnation Myth of the Yoruba"
Michael Ogundele, Fela Kuti Studies Group, University of Ibadan:
PANEL VII
Adulation, Intellectuals and the Society
Chairperson: Dr Ayo Adeduntan
"Societal Structures, Hierarchies and Language Use in Indigenous African Society: An Appraisal of Toyin Falola's In Praise of Greatness"
Akinadé Babáyẹmí, University of Ibadan
"Public Intellectuals and the Search for Social Order in Africa"
Temitope Fagunwa, Department of History and International Studies, Osun State University
"Dissident Imag(in)ings: African Aesthetics and Subversion in Toyin Falola's In Praise of Greatness"
Diekara Oloruntoba-Oju, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
"Mamdani and the Imperative for an African Intellectual 'Mode of Reasoning': Praises and Comple(i)ments"
'Táyọ̀ Ọládèbó, Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
"Strings of Narratives: Of Societal Struggles and Victories"
Adejoke Adetoro, Department of History, University of Ibadan
PANEL VIII
Literature and Identity
Chairperson: Prof. Duro Adeleke
"Representation of Literary Figures in Falola's In Praise of Greatness"
Toluwanimi Ibikunle, Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan
"Of Identity, Migration and Audience: Towards a Redefinition of Modern African Literature"
David Olorunsogo
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan
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