Friday, March 30, 2007
Panel Session A, 11 am – 12:30 pm
A1: Reinventing Musical and Cultural Traditions, Location: 2.228, Texas Union Theatre
Chair: Samuel Obeng, Indiana University
Reconstructing Africa’s Popular Culture through Music
David Otieno Akombo, University of Florida
Revisiting Country Music in Zimbabwe to Reflect on the History of the Study of African Popular Culture
Jonathan Zilberg, Jakarta Institute of the Arts ( Indonesia)
Confessional Popular Songs and the Quest for Authenticity in Postcolonial Africa: Notes on Grand Kale’s ‘Independence Cha Cha,’ Prince Nico Mbarga’s ‘Sweet Mother’ (1974) and Corneille’s ‘Je suis seul au monde’ (2005)
Olivier Tchouaffe, University of Texas at Austin
Reflection on Migration and Refugeeism as Depicted in the Ethiopian Popular Culture, Music
Solomon Addis Getahun, Central Michigan University
Myths, Reality and Relevance of a Popular Culture: Tribal Marks Among The Oyo Yoruba of South Western Nigeria In The 21 st Century
Elizabeth Adenike Ajayi, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education ( Nigeria)
A2: Transnationalism and Cultural Production, Location: 4.224, Asian Culture Room
Chair: Kenneth Harrow, Michigan State University
The Diamond Pipeline and Literary Production: Conceptions of “Lineage” and Afro-Arab Transnational Alliances
Nahrain Al-Mousawi, UCLA
Omar El Mukhtar: The formation of memory and the case of the insurrection group that bears his name
Marco Boggero, Yale University
Reconstructing Identity and Popular Cultural Reproductions: Shifting Arena and the Reframing Homeland Memories among Nigerian Igala Immigrants in North America
Anthony Attah Agbali, Wayne State University
A3: Customs and Modernity, 4.110, African-American Culture Room
Chair: Robert Baum, University of Missouri-Columbia
Devil Worship as a Moral Discourse on Youth in Kenya
David A. Samper, Oklahoma University
From Primitive to Popular Culture: Why Kant Never Made it to Africa
Hetty ter Haar, Independent Scholar
Dak’Art, Biennale of Contemporary African Art: Conflicting and Unifying Forces of the ‘In’ and ‘Off’
Hélène Tissières, University of Texas at Austin
Performing Custom as Popular Culture in Ghana: Questions of Authority, Politics and Participation
Beverly J. Stoeltje, Indiana University
Panel Session B, 2-3:30pm
B1: Women’s Visibility and Activism, Location 2.228, Texas Union Theatre
Chair: Fehintola Mosadomi, University of Texas at Austin
Popular Culture in Transition: Law, Women and Social Cohesion Among the Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria
Bosede S. Mimiko, Ministry of Justice ( Ondo State, Nigeria)
African Women, the Christian Church, and Their Ministerial Role: Myth or Historical
Theresa T. Asojo, Olabisi Onabanjo University ( Nigeria)
Women’s Songs in Sudan: Negotiating Identity, Sexuality, Gender and Power Relations
Saadia Malik, The University of Kansas
Resistance education: Activism in Popular Culture
Roberta K. Timothy, University of Toronto
Umhlanga Reed Dance Ceremony in Swaziland: Singing Sparrows or Parrots, People or Zombies?
Betty Sbongile Dlamini, School of Oriental and African Studies ( United Kingdom)
B2: Historical Memory and Popular Culture, Location: 4.224, Asian Culture Room
Chair: Hannington Ochwada, Marquette University
History, Memory, and Diaspora in contemporary South African Popular Music
Xavier Livermon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Historical Understanding of Radio Drama in Kenya: The Case of Radio Theatre
Dina Ligaga, University of the Witwatersrand ( South Africa)
Drinking and Conviviality in Sorghum Beer (pito) Bars: Popular Culture at the Rural-Urban Interface in Contemporary Ghana
Isidore Lobnibe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Popular Music in Cape Verde: Resistance or Conciliation?
Juliana Braz Dias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso ( Brazil)
B3: Literature-Literacy as Cultural Development, Location: 4.110, African-American Culture Room
Chair: Ann Albuyeh, University of Puerto Rico
Popular Culture and Reading for Pleasure in Modern Africa
Charles Ambler, University of Texas at El Paso
Narrative Weave of Community in the ‘Tiseroman’
Gretchen Kellough, Northwestern University
Chisels that Cause Blisters in the Eardrums of Society: Spoken Word Poetry in South Africa
Francis F. Lukhele, University of Wisconsin-Madison
How Did the Writer’s Choice of Language Vividly Portray the Linguistic Features of English Language Variety, Loan Words, and Pidgin?
Florence O. Olamijulo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panel Session C, 3:45-5:15pm
C1: Hip Hop and Popular Culture, 2.228, Texas Union Theatre
Chair: Xavier Livermon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Rhyme Pays Senegal: Money, Politics, and Religion in Hip Hop
Ndiouga Benga, University Cheikh Anta Diop ( Senegal)
From America to Africa: Hip Hop’s Influence in Tess Onwueme's Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen
Juluette Bartlett-Pack, DeVry University and University of Phoenix
Inventing East African Hip-Hop: Youth and Musical Convergence in East Africa
George W. Gathigi, Ohio University
Tongues Mystified: Introduction to Rap and Hip Hop in Nigeria
Akinloyè Òjó, University of Georgia
Infectious Beats: Appropriation of Hip Hop into a State Propaganda Tool in Zimbabwe
Farai Wonderful Bere, New York University
C2: Health Awareness and Cultural Function, Location: 4.224, Asian Culture Room
Chair: David Eaton, California State University
Family Health Awareness as Conceptualized in Selected Yoruba Electronic Drama
Arinpe Adejumo, University of Ibadan ( Nigeria)
Advertising Healthy Babies and Marketing ‘Modernity’: Baby Competitions and Public Health Weeks in Colonial Africa
Abigail Markoe, Johns Hopkins University
Are Immunization Advert Campaigns An Effective Intervention in Increasing Compliance with Childhood Immunizations in Ghana?
Cecilia Obeng, University of Indiana
Popular Culture, Religiosity, and Symbolic Meaning: Christianity and Healthcare among the Idoma
Cyril Ngbede Ejaidu, Catholic Diocese of Otukpo, Nigeria
C3: Modernism and its Cultural (Dis)Contents, Location: 4.110, African-American Culture Room
Chair: Augustine Agwuele, Texas State University
Black Modernism, Africa, and the Limits of Alliance
Naminata Diabate, University of Texas at Austin
Transgressing Reality: Yorùbá Artists Challenge the Momentum of Progress
Debra L. Klein, Gavilan College
The Modernity Bluff: Mimesis and Metonymy in Ivoirian Street Style
Sasha Newell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Metaphors of Modernity: The Urban Woman in Onitsha Market Literature
Ainehi Edoro, Kansas University
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Panel Session D, 9-10:30am
D1: Popular Culture and Globalization, Location: 4.110, African-American Culture Room
Chair: Charles Ambler, University of Texas at El Paso
Popular Culture in Africa: The Global Century Definition
Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, Western Illinois University
Ifa Belief System from its Spiritual Realm to the World Popular Culture Domain
Abiodun Ifafolarin Agboola, Obafemi Awolowo University ( Nigeria)
Our Time is Now: Hip-Hop, Globalization, and Identity in East Africa
Mwenda G. Ntarangwi, Augustana College
Africa, Land of Investment Opportunities and Challenges for the African Diaspora: Focus on the Energy and Cultural Industries
Kasala Kamara, Sando Educational Workshop (Trinidad & Tobago)
‘Street Hawking on Lagos Island’: The Legal & Moral Implication of Child Labor & Child Trafficking on the Nigerian Child
Olaseni Oladapo Ajayi, Esq. and Adeniyi Adeoye, The Nigerian Project
D2: Cinematic Innovations and Pessi(Opti)mism, Location: 3.208, Lone Star Room
Chair: Chantal Kalisa, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“They’re Shocking! They’re New! Bekolo’s Pomo Saignantes”
Kenneth W. Harrow, Michigan State University
The Cinematic Images of Africa in Western Films Continue: An Analysis of Three Contemporary Movies, Hotel Rwanda (2005), Sahara (2005) and Tears of the Sun (2003)
Raphael Obotama, Wayne State University
Lu jot bot bi? (Wolof: What's wrong with the eye (I)?) Ousmane Sembène and Djibril Diop Mambèty: African Cinema Rhetoric and the Search for Authenticity
Debbie Olson, Oklahoma State University
The Advent of Entertainment: Dance and Comedy in African Cinema
Alexie Tcheuyap, University of Toronto
D3: HIV/AIDS and Popular Culture, Location: 3.304, Quadrangle Room
Chair: Cecilia Obeng, Indiana University
Working to Erase Misconceptions: The New Literature of AIDS in Africa
Jessica Achberger, University of Central Florida
Speaking to AIDS through Public Lives: Legacies of Luambo Makiadi and Sony Labou Tansi
David Eaton, California State University
Our Culture, Our Crime?: The Impact of Myth and Culture in HIV/AIDS Transmission in Africa
Olufunke Akiyode, Strayer University
Silence and helpless Whispers: Popular Culture and the Lives and Experiences of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania
Elinami Veraeli Swai, Central Washington University
Panel Session E, 10:45am – 12:15pm
E1: Religion and Popular Culture, Location: 4.110, African-American Culture Room
Chair: Hélène Tissières, University of Texas at Austin
Popular Culture in Senegal: Blending the Secular and the Religious
Fallou Ngom, Western Washington University
Alinesitque: From a Diola Woman Prophet to Casamancais and Senegalese Cultural Icons
Robert M. Baum, University of Missouri-Columbia
Reconstituting Institutions, Ritual and Spiritual Community: Popular Religiosity, Culture Resilience and Memory among St. Louis’ African Immigrants
Anthony Attah Agbali, Wayne State University
Religious Performance, Youth, and Cultural Identity: Hizbut Tarqiyya ( Senegal), 1975-1998
Ibra Sene, Michigan State University
Metaphysics and the Existence of God: An African Perspective
Ayo Fadahunsi, Olabisi Onabanjo University ( Nigeria)
E2: The Power of Circulated Words: Spoken And Printed, Location: 3.208, Lone Star Room
Chair: Steve Salm, Xavier University of Louisiana
Literary Cultural Nationalists as Ambassadors across the Diaspora
Nicholas M. Creary, Ohio University
Resistance and Anti-colonial Agitation: The Case of the Nigerian Railway Association of Indigenous Officers’ Newsletter
Tokunbo A. Ayoola, Tulane University
Popular Fiction in Apartheid South Africa
Patricia G. Clark, Westminster College
Rap, Cartoons and Rap Cartoon: Representations of the Maasai in Tanzanian Popular Culture
Katrina Daly Thompson, UCLA
E3: Music and Political Expressions, 3.304, Quadrangle Room
Chair: Olivier Tchouaffe, University of Texas at Austin
From Aesthetic Creativity to Political Profundity: Popular Music and Politics in Kenya and Argentina
Shadrack Nasong’o, and Amy Risley, Rhodes College
Speaking the Unspeakable Through Hip-Life Music: A Discursive Construction of Ghanaian Political Discourse
Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Indiana University
The Revealing Dialogue between the Transformations of the Funaná musical Genre and Society in Cape Verde
Guy Massart, Plan International-West African Regional Office ( Senegal)
Things Fall Apart: Is the Popularization and Growing Consumption of Hip Hop Causing Moral Panic in Kenya?
George Nyabuga, University of Worcester ( United Kingdom)
Singing, Dancing and Acting as at Home: The Takiboronse Effect in Burkina Faso’s Popular Culture
Batamaka Somé, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Panel Session F, 2 – 3:30pm
F1: Popular Culture and Mass Media, 4.110, African-American Culture Room
Chair: George Nyabuga, University of Worcester ( United Kingdom)
Culture, Communication, Business, and Politics in Senegal
Alassane Fall, University of Kansas
The Role of Nigeria’s Print Media in the Fourth Republic
Ryan Groves, University of Central Florida
Storytellers of Morocco and the Mass Media, 1912-2006
Raphael Chijioke Njoku, University of Louisville
A (new) grammar of dialogue: the popular press, politics and popular culture in Kenya
George Ogola, University of Central Lancashire ( United Kingdom)
Mass Media Misrepresentations of Africa: A Case Study of Nigeria
Abimbola O. Asojo, University of Oklahoma, and Abiola Asojo, Independent Scholar
F2: Politics and Popular Culture, 3.208, Lone Star Room
Chair: James Wilson, University of Texas at Austin
Between Symbolism and Substance in Africa: The Culture-Poverty Nexus in a Changing Political Economy
N. Oluwafemi Mimiko, Adekunle Ajasin University ( Nigeria)
Popular Culture and the Resolution of Boundary Disputes in the Grasslands of Bamenda in Cameroon
Emmanuel Mbah, College of Staten Island
Popular Culture and Political Discourse in Independent Kenya: Kamĩĩrĩthũ and Redykyulass
Hannington Ochwada, Marquette University
National Politics and Urban Resistance in Accra: Ga Shifimo Kpee and the Tokyo Joes
Steven Salm, Xavier University of Louisiana
F3: Cultural Dynamics in Africa and the Diaspora, 3.304, Quadrangle Room
Chair: Solomon Getahun, Central Michigan University
Alive and Well in the Caribbean: How African Popular Culture is Reflected in Language and Culture in Puerto Rico
Ann Albuyeh, University of Puerto Rico
The Influence of African Popular Culture on the Anglophone Caribbean: Echoes of African Praise Songs in the Works of the Barbadian Poet Kamau Brathwaite
Michael Sharp, University of Puerto Rico
MAMA PUT: Why Men Eat Out in Contemporary Nigeria
Akin Alao, Obafemi Awolowo University ( Nigeria)
T’EBI B’ATI KURO NINU ISE, ISE BUSE: The Dilemma of Conceptualizing Poverty among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria
Akinpelu Olanrewaju Olutayo, University of Ibadan ( Nigeria)
‘Re(Public) of Salsa: Afro-Cuban Music in Fin-de-Siècle Dakar
Richard M. Shain, Philadelphia University
Blackface in Africa: the Emergence of the Diaspora Consciousness in Cape Town and the Gold Coast
Benjamin Brühwiler, University of Basel ( Switzerland)
Panel Session G, 3:45 – 5:15pm
G1: Popular Fictions, Location: 4.110, African-American Culture Room
Chair: Michael Sharp, University of Puerto Rico
‘Imported from America’ or Fugitive Forgeries: Drum Magazine and Black Popular Culture in 1950s Apartheid South Africa
Colette Guldimann, Dhofar University ( Oman)
Collections and Collectors of African Popular Culture: Case Study of the Library of Congress
Laverne Page, Library of Congress
The Postcolonial Sublime: The No.1 Popular Detective Series and the Invention of Botswana
Derek Barker, University of South Africa
The Role of Vernacular in The Game of Forgetting
Johanna Sellman, University of Texas at Austin
G2: Cinematic Expressions And Globalization, Location: 3.208, Lone Star Room
Chair: Joni Jones, University of Texas at Austin
“What is Africa to Me?”: Hip Hop, Teen Dreams, and Cross-Cultural Discontent in Mama Africa
Kalenda Eaton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Antenna and the Mosque: Liberatory Mass Media in Moolaade
Gerise Herndon, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Stolen/Stealing Identity in Mwenze Ngagura’s Les pièces d’identités
Chantal Kalisa, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
NOSRA Model: The Tool for Normalizing Image Problems in Nigerian Video Movies
KayodeAnimasaun, The Federal Polytechnic ( Nigeria)
Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi
Carmen McCain, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bloom to Gloom and Grime to Crime: Fate of Migrants as Depicted in Journey Motifs by Two Nigerian Movies
Kayode Animasaun, The Federal Polytechnic ( Nigeria)
G3: Media Power and Cultural Presentations, Location: 3.304, Quadrangle
Chair: George Ogola, University of Central Lancashire
Neither Bold Nor Beautiful Nor Young and Restless: Interrogating the Impact of Western Soap Operas on Africa
Maurice N. Amutabi, Central Washington University
The Eroticization of Bikutsi: media politics and the defining of ethics in Cameroonian music
Dennis Rathnaw, University of Texas at Austin
Symbolic Representations in the Visual and Material Cultures of Africa and their influences on African American Cultural Dispositions
Christopher O. Adejumo, University of Texas at Austin
“Radios Don’t Kill, People Do”: The Paradox of Media Reports and the Emerging Culture of Violence in Africa
Oyeniyi Bukola Adeyemi, Redeemers University ( Nigeria)
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Panel H, 9 – 10:30am
H1: Popular Culture for Development And Nationalism, Location: 3.208, Lone Star Room
Chair: Maurice Amutabi, Central Washington University
Popular Culture in Mutual-Aid in Contemporary Western Nigeria
Gabriel Kolawole Afolabi, Babcock University ( Nigeria)
Popular Culture and Political Behavior in Post-Colonial South-West Nigeria
Ayandiji Daniel Aina, Babcock University ( Nigeria)
Bringing You the World? Representation of Africa in the United Nations Guided Tour
Nirit Ben-Ari, City University of New York
Dick Tiger, Hogan Bassey and the Golden Age of Boxing in Nigeria
Roy Doron, University of Texas at Austin
Popular culture in rural communities of South Africa
Ntombizodwa Cynthia Gxowa-Dlayedwa, University of the Western Cape ( South Africa)
Temne Agency in the propagation and Africanization of Islam in colonial Freetown, 1920-1961
Joseph Bangura, Kalamazoo College
H2: Western Images of Africa, 3.304, Quadrangle Room
Chair: Beverly Stoeltje, Indiana University
Whose Image of Whose Africa? Problems of Representation in Ryszard Kapuscinski’s The Shadow of the Sun
Lena Khor, University of Texas at Austin
The Lions in the Jungle: Representations of Africa and Africans in American Cinema
Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, University of Texas at Austin
French image of Africa (or the shaping of the image of Africa in France)
Brigitte Kowalski, Ecole de Louvre, Paris (France)
Reclaiming the Past or Assimilationist Rebellion? Transforming the Self in Contemporary American Film
Celeste A. Fisher, Ithaca College
Panel I, 10:45am-12:15pm
I1: Yorùbá Legacy and Popular Culture, Location: 3.208, Lone Star Room
Chair: Ayandiji Daniel Aina, Babcock University ( Nigeria)
A Historical Analysis of Ojude-Oba Festival in Ijebu-Ode in the Twentieth Century
Abiodun Akeem Oladiti, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology ( Nigeria)
Outlaw Orisa: Cosmological Imperialism and the Re-Making of Esu
Temitope Adefarakan, Ontario Institute for Studies Education of the University of Toronto
Contemporary Home Preferences of Nigerian Elites
Akinola Olusola, Akin Olusola & Associates
Popular Culture: A Comparative Study of Selected Rural and Urban Communities in Oyo State, Nigeria
Anthony Olusegun Omoyajowo, Federal College of Agriculture ( Nigeria)
Prospects, Challenges, and the Pedagogy of Yoruba Language in a Global World
Fehintola Mosadomi, University of Texas at Austin
Interaction of English with Yoruba Language: Case study in culture change
Augustine Agwuele, Texas State University
I2: Sexuality, Tradition and Repression, Location: 3.304, Quadrangle
Chair: Neville Hoad, University of Texas at Austin
Sexuality in Caribbean Performance: The Blue Devils of Paramin, Trinidad
Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, University of Texas at Austin
‘Cutting the Head of the Roaring Monster’: Homosexuality and State Repression in Ghana
Kwame Essien and Saheed Aderinto, University of Texas at Austin
Other Monsters: Gender Complexities of (Femi/woma/stiwa)nism in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather
Simone Sessolo, University of Texas at Austin
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