Culture, Politics, and Performance

8:15–10:15 a.m.	6. Contested Terrains Chibiko Ndubisi Okebalama University of Nigeria “Igbo Rhetoric in Hunting and War” “Nkaokwu Mbem Nta na Agha Ndi Igbo” *Abuelgassim Gor Khartoum University “The Death of Culture: A Study of the Effects of War Upon Two Sudanese Tribes and Cultures, the Myssarih and the Dinka” Dennis Hickey “Truth and Reconciliation? Mandela, de Klerk, and the Contested Terrain of South Africa’s Future” Cornelius Wambi Gulere Makerere University “Orature and Human Development: The Case of Poverty in Busoga” 7. Joining the Ranks Katariina Maija Heinonen Abo Akedemi University “Rai Concerts as Ambassadors of Algerianity” William J. Spurlin Columbia University “The Politics of Sexuality and Social Change: Emerging Lesbian and Gay Literatures and Cultural Practices in Southern Africa” *Andrea Assaf New York University “Mzungu Atajifunza Lini: Possibilities and Challenges of Mzungu Participation in the Performance of Resistance Aesthetics” Les Gottesman Golden Gate University “Reading Behind Enemy Lines: Fighter-Teachers of Eritrea’s Independence War” 8. Between the Mind and Seeing *S. Krishnarao University of Asmara Yosief Libseqal University of Asmara “Cultural Histories of Ancient Eritrea: Against All Odds of Ecological Variations” Naomi L. Shitemi Moi University “Emergent Culture and Society: A Bird’s Eye View Through Literary Genre” Clara Momanyi Kenyatta University “Utendi wa Mwanakupana; Sauti ya Utiifu” Andre Siamundele Louisiana State University “Decolonising the Mind/Colonizing the Language” 9. European/African Perspectives Liora Moshe Georgia State University “The Perception of the Colonial City in the “Europhone” Colonial Novel” *Cristina Lombardi-Diop “Against All the Odds of Fortress Europe: African Migrant Cultures in Italy” Sandra Ponzanesi University of Amsterdam “African Diaspora and Colonial Memories: Post Colonial Literature in Italian from the Horn of Africa” Wolbert G.C. Smidt University of Hamburg “The Perception of Eritrea and Ethiopia in European Belletristic Literature of the 1990s”
10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.	10. African Drama and Theatre Bole Botake University of Yaounde “Theatre of Conscientisation: Facilitating Communication at the Grassroots” Donatus Fai Tangem University of Yaounde “The Socio-Political Evolution and Cameroonian Drama” Mbugua wa Mungai Kenyatta University “Vernacular Theatre in Kenya” *Yonathan Estefanos University of Asmara “The History of Eritrean Drama” Jane Plastow University of Leeds “The Eritrea Community-Based Theatre Project: Voices from the Margins” 11. Translation and Value *Mariantonietta Saracino University of Rome, La Sapienza “Jugglers: Translating and Post Colonial Literatures” Joceline Clemencia Cultural Institute Independence “Idioma ta mas ku idioma. Language is More than Language. The Challenge of the Powerful Papiamentu Language in the New Millennium” Edna Simms University of the District of Columbia “The Value of Translation for Transmitting Culture: A Case in Point” Wangui wa Goro “The Place of Translation in the Politics of Transformation in Africa” 12. Africa, Latin and America Celma Aguero El Colegio de Mexico “The South Atlantic Space for Dialogues and Exchanges between Latin America and Africa: History and Prospects” Hernán Taboada Centro de Estudios de Asia y Africa “Nayib Mahfuz in the Mirror of Mexican Cinema” Guadalupe Polo Centro de Estudios de Asia y Africa “Nairobi and African Revolution in Maria Luisa Puga’s Las Posibilidades del Odio” *Jorge Roman-Lagunas Purdue University (Calumet) “Africa in Nicolas Guillen’s Poetry: Another View” 13. Author and Perspectives Cristina Boscolo “Odun Edi: An Oyinbo’s Interpretation” Sam Onuigbo University of Nigeria “Semantic Projection of Bridges of God as Poetry of Reconciliation” Joyce W. Nyairo Moi University “Reading and Teaching Ngugi at Kenyan Universities in the 90s: The Obstacles and Rewards” *Mwangi Wa Mutahi “Time to Write a Story: Joys and Tribulations while Writing Ngoima” “Ihinda Ria Kwandika Rugano: Ikeno Na Magerio Ngiandika Ngoima”
4:15–6:15	14. Cultural Heritage Project (Eritrea) *Alemseged Tesfai PFDJ “Oral History and Literature” Yosef Libsekal National Museum of Eritrea/University of Asmara “Archaeological Heritage” Haile-Michael Mesginna “Folkloric History” Naigzy Gebremedhin Cultural Heritage Project “Building Culture” Peter Dewees The World Bank “Cultural Heritage Preservation” 15. African American Perspectives Kokahvah Zauditu-Sealssie Morris Brown College “Remembrance Has Not Left Us: An Examination of African Spiritual Ideas in African American Literature” James E. Kelly University of Arkansas “The Emerging Voice: Langston Hughes, Nicolas Guillen, and Pan-African Identity” Deborah Zeringue Georgia State University “African American Discourse: The Rhetoric of Zora Neal Hurston” *Adele S. Newson University of Michigan–Flint “Fight Against the Grain: Representatives of the Black Privileged Class in African American Literature” 16. Performance and Value in Old and New Poetries Frances Harding University of London “Performance as Knowledge: Performance in the Articulation of Individual Collective and National Confidence” *Samba Diop Harvard University “African Languages in Epic Literature and Politics: Wolof in Senegal” Lupenga Mphande Ohio State University “Praise Poetry and the National Conference: A Case of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa” Tanure Ojaide University of North Carolina at Charlotte “Writing in an Oral Tradition: My Experience of Writing Poems in Urhobo” 17. Old and New Visions Bernth Lindfors University of Texas “Beware the Ides of March: Amending Julius Nyerere’s Julius Caesar” *Simone Bencheikh Universidad de las Americas-Puebla “De la Difficulte de (ra)Conter, de l’Art de Percevoir” Zerai Haile Howard University “EPLF’s Use of Cinema” Hanna Toivainen “Sudan Story”

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