Scholarship and African Languages

8:15–10:15 a.m.	22. Language/Identity *Anthonia C. Kalu University of Northern Colorado “Language and Identity: African Literature and the Legacies of Post-Independence” Mukhtar Hassan Mohamed University of Asmara “Dialectal Differences As an Identity Among Somali Clans” Maria Giovanna Salerno “Revolution Speaks Gikuyu: Matigari’s Call to Freedom” Clara Momanyi Kenyatta University “Utendi wa Mwanakupana; Sauti ya Utiifu” 23. Extending the African Word Didier Morin Centre d’Etude d’Afrique Noire (CEAN) “Is Fiction Possible in a Cushitic Language?” Adetayo Alabi Millikin University “African Oral Autobiographies in the Twenty-first Century: Evaluating a Neglected Genre” *Peter G. Mbugua Kenyatta University “Language and the Musical Arts in Kenya: A Linguistic Perspective” Richard Serrano Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey “Representations of Spoken Arabic in Francophone Novels of the Maghreb” 24. Specific African Languages/Universal Uses Gatua wa Mbugwa “African Languages and Farming” “Thiomi Cia Abirika Na Urimi” Aliyu Muhammad Bunza Usmmanu Danfodiyo University “Hausa Medicinal Literature: Its Origin and Development in the Twentieth Century” “Bunk’Asar Adabin Tsibbu A K’Arni Na Ashiri” Neelam Joel Luther University of Asmara Sammeta Bhaskara Lakshmi Isaak Tewoldemedhin School “Eritrean Unity in Diversity—Transactional Approach for Empirical Research in Behavioural Geography” *Peter J. M. Mugambi Kenyatta University “Kiswahili and Career Choice: Challenges and Opportunities” 25. Varieties of African Language Experience Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr Pratt Institute “Africanization of European Languages: Dynamism of African Languages and Thoughts in Literature” *Sarah Ogbay University of Asmara “Social and Linguistic Construction of Gendered Identities” Rocha M. Chimerah “Kiswahili: Against All Odds” “Kiswahili: Dhidi Ya Vipingi Vyote” Hassimi O. Maiga L’IFSRA, University of Mali “A Case Study of an African Language Taught in a Historically Black University in the United States: Songhoy-Senni” Leon Beachy “A Look at the Variation in How Languages Are Used”
10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.	26. Survive or Thrive: African Language Art Joseph C. Ogbodo University of Nigeria “The Language of Work and Leisure: Oral Poetry of the Igbo (Uzo-Egu)” Annie Gagiano University of Stellenbosch “Listening for the Mediated Voice of the Southern African Khoisan: Ironies and Wonders” Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru Loyola University, New Orleans “Mother Tongue: A Loser in Igbo Land” *Thomas Hale The Pennsylvania State University “Griotspeech: Learning to Live with Verbal Ambiguity, Opacity, and Obscurity” 27. African Languages Outside of Africa *Joseph McLaren Hofstra University “The Language Question: Ramifications for African Diaspora Literature” Edith M. Jackson Morgan State University “Subversion in Afro-Argentine Carnival Orature: Bantu Lexical Residuals of Cultural Memory” Julialynne Walker “The Real McCoy: Observations on the African Presence in American English” Nikki Azebe Tesfai African Community Resource Center “The Language of Africans in Los Angeles” 28. African Language Resources and Behaviours Kembo-Sure Moi University “African Language as an Intellectual and Cultural Resource” *Sibonile Edith Ellece University of Botswana “Politeness, Impoliteness, and Satire in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel: A Linguistic Perspective” Davies M. Mukuria Moi University “Using African Languages Against All Odds: Gikuyu Linguistic Ingenuity and Characterization in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Fiction” Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah Western Illinois University “Modern African Writers and the Challenge of Writing in African Languages” 29. African Language Histories, Constructions, and Practices Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle LLACAN-CNRS “Afar Spoken in Eritrea” Michel Denais INALF “Constructing an Ethio-Semitic Database” “Construction d’une Base de DonnŽes Ethio-Semitique” *Tekle Abraha Wende University of Asmara “A Preliminary Survey of Arabic in Eritrea” David L. Elias Harvard University “The Role of Language Study in the Theory of the Sabaean Conquest of Ethiopia and Eritrea”
12:30–2:00 p.m.	Lunch with three writers Ari Mwachofi Sherif Hetata Mohamed Adroub Mohamed (or Wambui Githiora if Mohamed Adroub Mohamed is not to be present).
4:15–6:15	30. African Languages, Literary Histories *Ghirmai Negash Universiteit Leiden “The Tigrinya Novel in Eritrea” Abasi Kiyimba University of Dar es Salaam “Half a Century of Creative Writing in African Languages in Uganda” Bairu Tafla Institut fuer Afrikanistik und Aethiopistik “Perspectives of Historical Anecdotes in Tigrinya Literature” Rainer Voigt Freie Universitat Berlin “Tigrinya Dialects: The State of the Art at the End of the Century” 31. Conserving and Comprehending African Languages Ann Biersteker Yale University Martin Benjamin “The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary and Issues of Decentralization and Empowerment” *Kidane M. Zerezghi University of Asmara “In Defense of an Endangered Species: the Geez Alphabets” Léonie Yangba Zowe “Littérature Historique Royale Africaine Générale” Sihawukele E. Ngubane University of Natal “Exploring the Status of IsiZulu in South Africa” 32. African Language Sounds and Naming Kiros Fre Woldu “A Note on the Production and Perception of Human Speech Sounds” *Alefesh G. Sellassie University of Asmara “Kunama Naming” Dick Hayward SOAS/University of London “Tone Marking in Kunama” Semere Ghebreab University of Asmara “The Tigriyna Articulatory System and Consonant Sounds” 33. Redrawing African Language Borders Robert W. Oduori Eregi T.T. College “African Languages Question: A Redefinition” *Abdul Salau Temple University “Diachronic Studies Between African Languages and Mdw Ntr: the Motor Force for Renaissance in African Literature” Chege Githiora Boston University “Breaking Linguistic Borders in the 21st Century: Diccionario Swahili-Espanol” Ossie Enekwe University of Nigeria, Nsukka P-J Ezeh University of Nigeria, Nsukka “Speaking in Tongues—Traditional African and World Literature”

U.Ed.OCE 98-1638/EB/SGK