Programme Day 2

Publishing and Disseminating the Human

Room 1

Keynote Debate 1A: Carnival of Ideas

Black in the World

Room 2

Keynote Debate 1B: Carnival of Ideas

Tech Enigmas and Computed Humanities

Room 3

Keynote Debate 1C: Carnival of Ideas

10.A / Forming the Authentic Human Being: Trajectories of Islamic Learning and Knowledge Transmission in Africa

Room 9

Convenors: Hassan Ndzovu and Britta Frede (Moi University, Kenya)

Becoming a jurist: changing authority of Islamic scholarship in Swahili society. Mohamed Aidarus Noor, University of Bergen
Forming the authentic human being: trajectories of Islamic learning and knowledge transmission in Africa. Hassan Ndzovu, Moi University
Ghanaian Muslim women and the conundrum of secular education: a historical perspective. Alhassan Abdul Rahman, Ohio State University
Learning to be human: the philosophy of Qur’anic education in Darfur, Sudan. Bakheit Nur, University of Bayreuth
More than a name: Adabiyya ways of being Muslim. Sakariyau Aliyu Alabi, Bayero University
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108.A / Arts, Humanities and Politics in Africa [Roundtable]

Room 11

Chair: Wangui Kimari (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Being an ancestor in transhumanistic Africa. Clifford Owusu-Gyamfi, Emmaus Collegium
Myriam Mihindou. Transmissions and metamorphoses: symbolic and political power in contemporary art. Evelyne Toussaint, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
“Play you is me!" Performing Pan-Africanism as pedagogy in the West Indies. Deborah Matthews, University of the West Indies
The role of Afro-positivism in a trans-genre musical collaboration in Cape Town. Rick Deja, University of Cape Town
The role of poetry in political contestations in Africa [Roundtable]. Stella Nyanzi, PEN Zentrum Deutschland
Zanzibari women singing their past: songs that tell “herstory”. Bronwen Clacherty, University of Cape Town

13.A / Situating African Knowledges

Room 5

Convenor: Oceane Jasor (Concordia University, Canada)

Challenges of education in Africa amidst technological advancement. John Kwame Boateng, University of Ghana
Does Africa illuminate humanity? Izụ Marcel Onyeocha's response. Umunakwe Bruno
Ngũgĩ wa thiong’o and Panashe Chigumadzi: two generations of African writers decolonising the past. Bruno Ribeiro Oliveira, University of Granada
Re-situating African knowledge at the centre of transformative possibilities. Oceane Jasor, Concordia University
The centrality of youth-led African movements in the global push for justice in education. Tafadzwa Tivaringe, University of Colorado Boulder

15.A / Locating the Human in Humanitarian Regimes

Room 13

Convenors: Kara Blackmore (London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom) and Leben Moro (University of Juba, South Sudan)

Acts of faith? Reflections on secular and spiritual roles of faith-based actors in civilian protection. Elizabeth Storer, FLCA, LSE
Contemporary issues and indigenous values in African culture: towards human right and dignity. Jiregna Assefa
Musicking safety: learning about protection through music in South Sudan Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza, Makerere University and Naomi Pendle, University of Bath
“Rescuers” the uncelebrated and unsung heroes of the Rwandan genocide. Charlotte Mafumbo, School for International Training
Safety and citizenship: learning from faith-based protection among South Sudanese in Sudan. Nelly Arkangelo, LSE University

212. / Changing Health in Africa

Room 7

Chairs: Olerato Mogomotsi and Alison Kuah (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Coronavirus outbreak: a test to authenticity of the African Continental Free Trade Area policy. Seun Bamidele, Federal University Oye Ekiti
Holistic biomedical personhood: how clinical translation challenges in an Eastern Cape hospital can inform biomedicine. Kathleen Rice, McGill University
Living with cancer amidst COVID-19: treatment cost and its impact on patients and their families. Patience Gyamenah Okyere Asante, University of Ghana, Legon
Mental health of the diasporan African human: re-engaging humanness in the land of the free. Chinekwu Obidoa, Mercer University
Understanding the contribution of traditional healers to the COVID-19 response in Benin. Roch Appolinaire Houngnihin, Université d'Abomey-Calavi

219.A / State and Statehood

Room 10

Chair: Ralph Borland (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

African states in world markets: systemic hierarchies and sustainable state finances in Senegal. Kai Koddenbrock, University of Bayreuth
A postcolonial inquiry of armed conflict and sustainable cities: the case of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Silvia Amaral, Centre for Studies on Africa and Development/University of Lisbon
(En)countering militarism: bring back our girls as response. Titilope Ajayi, University of Ghana

29. / Critical African Studies [Roundtable]

Room 4

Convenors: Shari Daya (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Hazel Gray (Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Critical African studies [Roundtable]. Shari Daya, University of Cape Town
‘Godot never came!’ An analysis of the CAMPFIRE project in Kanyemba, Mbire district Zimbabwe. Neil Maheve, Rhodes University
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41.A / Intimate Archives: Gender, Sexuality, and the Boundaries of the Human

Room 8

Convenors: Caio Simoes de Araujo (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Srila Roy and Emily Bridger

About violence and silence: depictions of Congolese women in the colonial archive then and now. Charlotte Mertens, University of Melbourne
Gender, race, and the Immorality Act, 1920s–1949. Erin Hazan, University of the Witwatersrand
Intimate archives: gender, sexuality, and the boundaries of the human. Caio Simoes De Araujo, University of the Witwatersrand
Marriage, bride-wealth and contested values in Tanzania. Martin Lindhardt, University of Southern Denmark
Queering Johannesburg: Hillbrow and Soweto as contrasting spaces of queer interaction, 1966–1996. Jonathan Botes, University of the Witwatersrand
Trans(forming) Amharic archives: stories of Ethiopians in between and beyond genders. Serawit Debele, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Bayreuth University
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54. / Encountering African Black Diaspora

Room 6

Chair: Fanidh Sanogo (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Between humanity and birthright citizenship: Hosea Easton and black abolitionists’ engagement with racial sciences. Maria Elena Indelicato, University of Coimbra
Building a Black Studies program in America: the politics of disciplines, centre and pedagogy. Derese Kassa, and Nadine Barnett Cosby, Iona College
Decolonising practices and women empowerment through black Atlantic dialogues. Daniela Calvo, CETRAB-Center for the Study of Afro-Brazilian Traditions
Imagining Africa from a Southern diaspora. Laura Burocco, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
Nelson Mandela and the topology of African encounter with the world. Chielozona Eze, Northeastern Illinois University
The Africa that Germany saw: colonial space and photographical representations during German colonialism. Naiara Krachenski, State University of Paraná

77.A / Critical African Masculinities Studies

Room 12

Convenor: Nonhlanhla Dlamini (University of the Free State, South Africa)

African masculinities and their production, a reading of Hlomu: The wife and Inxeba. Ntokozo Mbokazi, Mandela Rhodes Organisation
Critical African masculinities studies. Nonhlanhla Dlamini, University of the Free State
Health and illness perceptions of male health and non-health facility workers in Accra. Nana Aba Boadu, Institute of African Studies
Masculinity and female agency in the Ewe folktale. Makafui Aku-Sika Cudjoe, University of Ghana, Legon
Pentecostal masculinities in Tanzania. Martin Lindhardt, University of Southern Denmark
“There’s something good about being a man!” Asserting “civilised” masculinities through Afro-Latin dances in Cape Town. Alice Aterianus-Owanga, University of Cape Town
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BREAK

Writing the Human

Room 1

Keynote Debate 2A: Carnival of Ideas

Humanitarian Challenges, Peaceful Habitation and Securitising the Human

Room 2

Keynote Debate 2B: Carnival of Ideas

Humanising Sexualities

Room 3

Keynote Debate 2C: Carnival of Ideas

10.B / Forming the Authentic Human Being: Trajectories of Islamic Learning and Knowledge Transmission in Africa

Room 9

Convenors: Hassan Ndzovu and Britta Frede (Moi University, Kenya)

Finding the fitra: cultivating black Atlantic Muslim selfhood through West African Sufism. Youssef Carter, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Making space for justice: vernacular humanism and the religio-political imagination of Ousmane Sembène. Danielle Widmann Abraham, Ursinus College
Poetic pedagogy: the Manzūmah and Turrah traditions in Mauritania. Abubakar Abdulkadir, University of Alberta
Storytelling as art; tracing Somali history through creativity and progression of faith. Muntaha Mohamed, Howard University
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108.B / Arts, Humanities and Politics in Africa [Roundtable]

Room 11

Chair: Wangui Kimari (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Decolonising language: a struggle for the recovery of the denied and lost humanity. Brian Sibanda, University of the Free State
Living to create vs creating to live: the role of leisure in humanising the arts. Jotham Njoroge, Strathmore University
Versifying societal and political injustices in selected poems by Denins Brutus. Mark Ogbinaka, University of Zululand

13.B / Situating African Knowledges

Room 5

Convenor: Oceane Jasor (Concordia University, Canada)

Knitting the body politic: decolonial defragmentation and rethinking the human in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters. Utitofon Inyang, University of California, Riverside
Nigeria on the edge of a precipice: humanity, culture and moral re-orientation to the rescue. Monsuru Muritala, University of Ibadan
Morality a common concern: analysis of selected biblical and Ewe (Ghana) proverbs. Evelyn Adjandeh, Centre for African and International Studies, University of Cape Coast and Makafui Tayviah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Philosophy and African studies: a place for epistemology? Lerato Posholi, University of Basel
Ubuntu and Sankofa: cultural dynamics of mitigating Gender Based Violence (GBV). Goodness Thandi Ntuli, University of KwaZulu-Natal

15.B / Locating the Human in Humanitarian Regimes

Room 13

Convenors: Kara Blackmore (London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom) and Leben Moro (University of Juba, South Sudan)

Border hauntology: haunted memories and the ghostly violence of bordering regimes at the Moroccan borderlands. Nabil Ferdaoussi, HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town and Ahlam Chemlali, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Context and agency of West African refugees in Lithuania: epistemological, political and moral crisis. Karina Simonson and Akvilė Kriščiūnaitė, Vilnius Academy of Arts
Humanitarian contradictions: protection and constraint in African epidemics. Tim Allen and Melissa Parker, London School of Economics (LSE)
Old strategies, new human threats: a global order on trial in Africa’s market place for mercenaries. Jean Claude Abeck, Howard University
Side effects of protection: psychiatric treatment and enforced self-reliance in a Ugandan refugee settlement. Costanza Torre, London School of Economics (LSE)

201.A / Disrupting Queer Bodies

Room 6

Convenor: B Camminga (African Centre for Migration and Society, South Africa)

Black-white, citizen-refugee, straight-queer, female-male: does triangulating researchers reduce misrepresenting African gendered sexualities? Mutebi Edward, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Stella Nyanzi, The World Is Watching and Konrad Hirsch, The World Is Watching/Schamoni Film & Medien GmbH
Re-thinking protection for LGBTI refugees in Kampala, Uganda: a relational, trust-based approach. David Sinclair, Coventry University and Giulia Sinatti, VU Amsterdam
What’s private about private parts? Archives and transgender lives on and off the African continent. B Camminga, African Centre for Migration and Society

219.B / State and Statehood

Room 10

Chair: Ralph Borland (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

The World Bank and the recolonisation agenda in Africa: Nigeria in focus. George Atelhe, University of Calabar

265. / Humanising STEM

Room 4

Chairs: Sane Ndlovu and Sanya Osha (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Glyphosate aerial spraying and the role of women in cultivating dagga in Pondoland. Phumla Nkosi, University of Cape Town
Making animal histories matter – the making of metaphors and the unmaking of people. Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University
The place of Malagasy and Maghrebian African cities colonial vegetation, between abandonment and mimetic reproduction. Aude Nuscia Taïbi, University of Angers, ESO UMR 6590 CNRS
The protective role of Combretum molle in intestine of the D-galactose treated Sprague-Dawley rats. Taelo Ruth Phukobye, University of Johannesburg

41.B / Intimate Archives: Gender, Sexuality, and the Boundaries of the Human

Room 8

Convenors: Caio Simoes de Araujo (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Srila Roy and Emily Bridger

Being that human being: reality expansion in the Kewpie collection. Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, University of Oxford
Gender nonconformity, nonhuman embodiment and multiform co-presence in contemporary Nigerian literature. Megan Fourqurean, University of Leeds
Productions of legibility: lesbian world-making through constructions of generational counternarratives in the South African archive. Susan Holland-Muter, University of the Western Cape
The nonhuman object in Aidoo’s “Nowhere cool”: a black feminist critique of object-oriented ontology. Bibi Burger, University of Pretoria
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77.B / Critical African Masculinities Studies

Room 12

Convenor: Nonhlanhla Dlamini (University of the Free State, South Africa)

Affective circuits of deportation and return: Senegalese returnees and German volunteers navigating mistrust. Karlien Strijbosch, Maastricht University
Policing criminalised masculinities: interactions between police officers and male sex workers at Kenya’s urban margins. Kamau Wairuri, University of Edinburgh
Reading men and masculinities in Afrobeats music videos. Simphiwe Rens, University of South Africa
Slippery masculinities? A critical analysis of objectification of eSwatini women on social media. Shepherd Mpofu, University of Limpopo
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90. / Humanitarianism and the Promised (but Failed) Redemption of African Humanness [Roundtable]

Room 7

Convenors: Cilas Kemedjio (University of Rochester, United States) and Mame-Penda Ba (Gaston Berger University, Senegal)

Don Mtimkulu and African Christian humanitarianism through the All Africa Conference of Churches. Simangaliso Kumalo, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Humanitarianism and the promised (but failed) redemption of African humanness. Cilas Kemedjio, University of Rochester
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community’s construction of humanity through “good” and “bad” Muslims. Misbah Hyder, University of California, Irvine
The Biafra paradigm: famished bodies, weaponised bodies, and the ethics of black studies. Cilas Kemedjio, University of Rochester
Transcolonial bodies in the age of necropolitics: the case of Korouma’s child soldiers. Prince Kwame Adika, University of Ghana
Ubuntu ethics and humanness: contextualising virtue ethics in sub-Saharan Africa. Daniel Dei, Valley View University
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LUNCH

Pandemia – On Being Human in a Time of Pandemics

Room 1

Keynote Debate 3A: Carnival of Ideas

Gendered Lifeworlds

Room 2

Keynote Debate 3B: Carnival of Ideas

Fragile Pluriversalisms

Room 3

Keynote Debate 3C: Carnival of Ideas

04.A / Relations to Plants as a Heritage From Below in African Cities

Room 9

Convenors: Emilie Guitard (CNRS/UMR Prodig, France) and Saheed Aderinto (Western Carolina University, United States)

Des plantes, des hommes et des soins : l’usage curatif des plantes en contexte multi-thérapeutique. Mintoogue Fernand Idriss, EPHE Paris (IMAF)
Fetishes are plants! The importance of the vegetal in contemporary Mande ritual practices. Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon, Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes/IMAF – Institut des mondes africains
Introducing INFRAPATRI, an interdisciplinary project on "knowledges and attachments to urban plants in sub-Saharan Africa. Emilie Guitard, CNRS/UMR Prodig
Plants, trees, and socio-cultural heritage among the Ijebu communities of Lagos State, Nigeria. Faruq Idowu Boge, Lagos State University
Relations to plants as a heritage from below in African cities. Emilie Guitard, CNRS/UMR Prodig
The street, the town square and the family house: heritagisation of trees in Porto-Novo. Rémi Jenvrin, UMR 8586 - Prodig, InSHS - CNRS
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115. / Re-Imagining Maxeke: Reflections on a Puppetry Performance Research Process

Room 5

Discussants: Aja Marneweck, Itumeleng Wa Lehulere, Buhle Ngaba, Siphokazi Mpofu, Sipho Ngxola and Luyanda Nogodlwana (Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

A group discussion on the research, dramaturgy and puppetry design process for ‘What a Native Girl Can Do’, a 21st century re-imaging of the life and times of Charlotte Maxeke.

15.C / Locating the Human in Humanitarian Regimes

Room 13

Convenors: Kara Blackmore (London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom) and Leben Moro (University of Juba, South Sudan)

Human rights and human development in Africa: contesting rhetoric, reality and transplanted rituals. Olivia Lwabukuna, SOAS University of London
Public authorities and humanitarian and community protection in South Sudan. Tom Kirk, London School of Economics (LSE)
Ubuntu, buzzwords and everyday practices of Capetonian migrant rights NGOs. Léo Fortaillier, LaSSP (Sciences Po Toulouse) and TESC (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
Who is in South Africa and what can they be? On humanism and neoliberal governmentality. Kiasha Naidoo, University of the Western Cape and Centre for Humanities Research (CHR-UWC)

201.B / Disrupting Queer Bodies

Room 6

Convenor: B Camminga (African Centre for Migration and Society, South Africa)

Taxing dissent, social network shutdowns, and the movement for queer liberation in Uganda. Austin Bryan, Northwestern University
We just love the same gender that does not make us sinners. Verena Hucke, University of Kassel
When bodies and sexualities meet: African LGBTQI+ migrations, where are we what should we know? Amanda Odoi and Kwaku Arhin-Sam, University of Cape Coast

41.C / Intimate Archives: Gender, Sexuality, and the Boundaries of the Human

Room 8

Convenors: Caio Simoes de Araujo (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Srila Roy and Emily Bridger

Afro-feminist intimacies: women and AI in African short fiction. Nedine Moonsamy, University of Pretoria
Feeding humans, eating animals: rooftops as spaces of nurturance in urban Egypt. Noha Fikry, University of Toronto
Four African women opposed to dehumanising enslavers and inquisition officers in seventeenth century Cartagena. Paola Vargas Arana, King's College London
Non-human, sexuality, intimate suffering. The role of the possession to shape intimacy and sexual desires. Raffaele Maddaluno, Università di Roma la Sapienza
Understanding the dynamics of migrant households in Ethiopia: rethinking gender roles and hierarchies. Adamnesh Bogale, Addis Ababa University
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55.A / Africa and the Representation of Sexualities: Old Questions, New Possibilities

Room 4

Convenors: Rachel Spronk (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), S.N. Nyeck (University of Colorado Boulder, United States) and Serena Dankwa

A critical approach to the study of opposing LGBT* and ‘pro-family’ social movements in Ghana. Kwaku Adomako, University of Lausanne
Africa and the representation of sexualities: old questions, new possibilities. Graeme Reid, Human Rights Watch
Examining violence in the representation of queer women in Senegal. Loes Oudenhuijsen, Leiden University
Queer and unapologetic: untold stories of students at a rural university in South Africa. Bellita Banda and Wenzile Khumalo, University of Fort Hare
Walking around the baobab tree: exploring an emic notion away from ethnocentric understandings of secrecy. Janine Häbel, University of Amsterdam
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66.A / Next-Generation Africa: Creating Solutions for the Global Community

Room 12

Convenor: Isabel Jijón (Yale University, United States)

Humanity, Africanity, and the global political economy: will Africans contribute to the Fourth Industrial Revolution? DaQuan Lawrence, Howard University
Next-generation Africa: creating solutions for the global community. Cristin Siebert, Yale University
Quantum greetings from the ancestors. Ruramisai Charumbira, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern
The rise and impact of the Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria and neighbouring states. Pa Sako Darboe, Howard University and Francis Ngobounan, Sanem Group
The role of mentorship in building a successive fashion industry in Ghana. Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie, University of Ghana
We aren't playing games: sport's role in gender-based violence in South Africa. Alyson Haylor, Howard University
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80A. / Youth Aspirations for Being Human After COVID-19: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Nigeria and Uganda

Room 11

Convenors: Njoki Wamai (Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, Kenya), Martin Atela, Daniel Doh and Elizabeth Onyango

Aspirations and migration: shaping hope and prospects for future of the young in Ethiopia. Adamnesh Bogale, Addis Ababa University
Decolonising youthhood: socio-cultural (re) constructions of youth in Uganda amidst COVID-19. Victoria Namuggala, School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University
Imagining the youth in Central African Republic: discourse and practice of UN disarmament, demobilisation, reintegration. Jacqui Cho, University of Basel/swisspeace
More policies, more jobs? A political economy analysis of youth employment policies in Africa. Racheal Makokha, Jim Kaketch and Sylvester Ochieng, Technical University of Kenya
Reclaiming humanity: Nigerian young women and men’s aspirations and survival strategies after COVID-19. Oluwafunmilayo Aminu, Babatunde Ojebuyi, Oluwabusolami Oluwajulugbe, Falade Fategbe and Ridwan Kolawole, University of Ibadan
Youth aspirations for being human after COVID-19: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Nigeria and Uganda. Njoki Wamai, United States International University
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81.A / African Memory Studies

Room 10

Convenor: Nathan Richards (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)

African memory studies. Natha Richards, University of Sussex
Boda mufu: assessing the Yoruba communal inclusivity in child molding procedure. Abisoye Eleshin, University of Lagos
‘I am not a police person’: memory, politics, and the everyday state in eThekwini. SJ Cooper-Knock, University of Sheffield
Re(writing) collective memories through symbols: a political perspective from post-conflict societies. Rania Khafaga, Cairo University
Reflections on cultural memory in works of Nigerian writers in the perspective of African futurism. Patrycja Koziel, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences
Remembering up a future: the case for reclassifying Angolan ‘ethnographic objects’ as “memoriae loci”. Joao Figueiredo, Nova Law School, Nova University of Lisbon
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BREAK

Frontiers and Human Borderlines

Room 1

Keynote Debate 4A: Carnival of Ideas

Connected Entanglements

Room 2

Keynote Debate 4B: Carnival of Ideas

Unlearning and New Pedagogic Epistemes

Room 3

Keynote Debate 4C: Carnival of Ideas

04.B / Relations to Plants as a Heritage From Below in African Cities

Room 9

Convenors: Emilie Guitard (CNRS/UMR Prodig, France) and Saheed Aderinto (Western Carolina University, United States)

Delicacies from the homeland: old bendel and the tree-planting culture at the University of Ibadan. Senayon Olaoluwa Dan Izevbay, Senayon Olaoluwa and Sola Olorunyomi, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan
How deep is the African plum tree rooted in Yaoundé natural and cultural heritage? Aurore Rimlinger, Jérôme Dumini and Stéphanie Carrière, University of Lausanne
Popular knowledge: plants for medicinal, ritual and beauty purposes in the municipality of Maputo. Ald Saíde and Jose Raimundo, Pedagogic University
Which tree should we choose? When bark becomes an ambassador for a polluted environment. Tastevin Yann Philippe, CNRS IRL 3189 ESS /UCAD
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111. / Biocultural Identities in Africa: Shifting Perspectives and Environmental Practices

Room 4

Convenor: Rosabelle Boswell (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa)

Election campaign canvassing in Africa. Matthias Krönke, University of Cape Town/Afrobarometer
Salted identity? Biocultural heritage for a re-humanised ocean management in South Africa. Rosabelle Boswell, Nelson Mandela University
The biocultural paradigm: fancy idea or sea-change in environmental practice? Peter Bridgewater, University of Canberra
The evolutionary roots of our blue heritage. Curtis Marean, Arizona State University
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180. / Research Cooperations in African Studies

Room 5

Chair: Fanidh Sanogo (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

African academic diaspora in support of knowledge production in African universities. Abdoulaye Gueye, University of Ottawa
Digitalisation and ethical boundaries of the display of colonial collections (Belgium and DR Congo). Damiana Otoiu, University of Bucharest
Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy. David Mills and Abigail Branford, University of Oxford
Reanimating archives in the now: Frankensteinian logics, inheritances and fictive commensurabilities. Kharnita Mohamed, University of Cape Town

211. / Women and African Worldmaking

Room 6

Chair: Nabil Ferdaoussi (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Being human amid silence and abuse. Philomina Mintah, Central University/University of Ghana
Enhancing voice in politics: lessons from the Kenyan parliaments on addressing challenges of women legislators. Sarah Fedha Barasa
Highlighting the distortions of West African women in film. Rosa Armstrong, Howard University
L'autonomisation de la femme en milieu rural : possibilités et limites. Seydou Ouattara, Université Alassane Ouattara de Bouaké
Women in legislative committees in Lagos state house of assembly, South West Nigeria. Adedeji Victor Adebayo and Seunfunmi Olutayo, University of Ibadan

219.C / State and Statehood

Room 13

Convenor: Nabil Ferdaoussi (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

African political mobilisations in the city of São Paulo. Alex Vargem, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
Ideal-typical approaches to nation building – an African specific way. Michael Cserkits, University of Vienna
Land tenure in West African secondary cities. Aïdas Sanogo, Centre Universitaire de Manga
Right(s) to the African city? Potential frontiers for rethinking urban citizenship regimes. Derese Kassa, Iona College

221. / Africa and World Histories

Room 7

Chairs: Olerato Mogomotsi and Alison Kuah (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

African cultures and globalisation: the case of the Soninke. Madyibrahim Kante, Université des Sciences Juridiques Politiques de Bamako
Delinking, degrowth and African pastoralists’ futures. Leiyo Singo, University of Bayreuth and University of Dar es Salaam
Ethnic identity and support for economic and political integration in Africa. Raymond Boadi Frempong, University of Bayreuth
The refugee ‘crisis’ and European re-imaginings of Africa: history in Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone. Aghogho Akpome, University of Zululand
Women and the world: exploring the concepts and practices of gender in international relations: Africa and Asia. Hyeladzirra Banu, Howard University

41.D / Intimate Archives: Gender, Sexuality, and The Boundaries of the Human

Room 8

Convenors: Caio Simoes de Araujo (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Srila Roy and Emily Bridger

Queer representation in comic form: world-making and emancipatory futures in graphic short stories. Lyn Johnstone, Royal Holloway University of London
Sex positivity as a theory for the realisation African feminine personhood(s). Gugulethu Resha, Independent
The policing sexual and gender deviance at Kenya's urban margins. Kamau Wairuri, University of Edinburgh
'Woman' is a rumour, and we do not gossip. Palesa Nqambaza, University of the Witwatersrand
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66.B / Next-Generation Africa: Creating Solutions for the Global Community

Room 12

Convenor: Isabel Jijón (Yale University, United States)

African political mobilisations in the city of São Paulo. Alex Vargem, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
How to overcome polarisation in African’s political systems. Moses Tofa, African Leadership Centre
Policing, blackness and accountability in Africa: examining the relationship between Black Lives Matter and End SARS movements. Benson Olugbuo, Center for Civilians in Conflict
Retrospecting to prospect: a mid-generation impact study of the African leadership centre by Fumni Olonisakin. Moses Tofa, African Leadership Centre
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80.B / Youth Aspirations for Being Human After COVID-19: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Nigeria and Uganda

Room 11

Convenors: Njoki Wamai (Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, Kenya), Martin Atela, Daniel Doh and Elizabeth Onyango

Being human in ultra-difficult times: Nigerian pop culture and youth resilience in the COVID period. Oluwabusolami Oluwajulugbe, University of Ibadan
Dealing with learning uncertainties during COVID-19 pandemic. Reflections of alone refugee children in Uganda. David Okimait, Stellenbosch University
From pandemic to twitter-ban: digital citizenship and young people’s resilience in post-COVID era in Nigeria. Babatunde Ojebuyi, Oluwabusolami Oluwajulugbe, Oluwafunmilayo Aminu, Ridwan Kolawole and Falade Fategbe, University of Ibadan
Senegalese youth aspirations: a long way for a better life ‘tekki‘. Ibrahima Niang, HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town/LASPAD
Young men and women aspirations in Ghana: social navigation in the context of uncertainty. Thomas Yeboah, Bureau of Integrated Rural Development (BIRD)
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81.B / African Memory Studies

Room 10

Convenor: Nathan Richards (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)

Creative remembrance, women and Biafra. Sadia Zulfiqar, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Forgetting a famine: the meaning and silencing of famine history and victims. Fisseha Fantahun Tefera, Gothenburg University
Haacaaluu Hundessa and the power of indigenous African public intellectuals. Ayantu Tibeso, UCLA
Indigenous knowledge in the archives: Shona praise poems as decolonial archiving practice. Chido Muchemwa, University of Toronto
Memory collector in the colonial metropolis: Agwa’s London Diary and representation in African sojourning narratives. Kwame Osei-Poku, University of Ghana
Rehumanising themselves against slavery: how Africans used memories for liberty in sixteenth century New Granada. Paola Vargas Arana, King's College London
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Meta Forms, Artificial Lives and Digital Futures

Room 1

Keynote Debate 5A: Carnival of Ideas

Caring and Subversion

Room 2

Keynote Debate 5B: Carnival of Ideas

Faux Dossiers and Disruptive Practices

Room 3

Keynote Debate 5C: Carnival of Ideas

112. / Toward Shifting Africa’s Position in the Global Science and Research Ecosystem [Roundtable]

Room 4

Convenor: Isabella Aboderin (Perivoli Africa Research Centre (PARC), University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

Beyond silos and boundaries: interrogating interdisciplinary collaborations in global health research. Deborah Atobrah, Center for Gender Studies and Advocacy, University of Ghana
Clients or partisan activists? Party membership and mobilisation in Africa. Matthias Krönke, University of Cape Town/Afrobarometer
The role of African academics and knowledge institutions in repositioning "Africa" in global knowledge system. Alex Ezeh, Drexel University
Toward shifting Africa’s position in the global science and research ecosystem: an exploratory roundtable. Isabella Aboderin, PARC - University of Bristol
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232. / Education and Learning

Room 5

Chair: Min'enhle Ncube (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Aggregate shocks and enrolment rates over a decade in Malawi. Asma Hyder, Institute of Business Administration
Confronting structural racism in school organisation: IFRJ's NEABI. Joana de Carvalho Pinheiro, Sim.
Remaking knowledge about Africa in the classroom: appropriating and living creatively with the colonial library. Sally Matthews, Rhodes University
Sexuality is political: the politics of researching sex education policy in Ghana. Regina Fuller, University of Wisconsin-Madison

47. / Queer Touches/Queering Touch as Ways of Being and Becoming Human

Room 6

Convenors: Carli Coetzee (Journal of African Cultural Studies, United Kingdom) and Gibson Ncube (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)

Affect, touch and queer world-making in the music videos of Nakhane. Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch University
Dis-membering as creation: exploring notions self-love in Nakhane Touré's "You Will Not Die". Melusi Mntungwa, University of South Africa
Queer or Kweer: (re)conceptualizing theoretical frameworks in sexualities education. Cynthia (Mapenzi) Simekha, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Timnet Gedar, University of Michigan
Queer sexual intimacy: anal fingering and aesthetics of gendered practices redefinition in urban Maputo. Sandra Manuel, Kaleidoscopio
Queer touches/queering touch as ways of being and becoming human. Carli Coetzee, Journal of African Cultural Studies
The lesbian touch: counter narratives of lesbian erotic world-making. Susan Holland-Muter, University of the Western Cape
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55.B / Africa and the Representation of Sexualities: Old Questions, New Possibilities

Room 8

Convenors: Rachel Spronk (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), S.N. Nyeck (University of Colorado Boulder, United States) and Serena Dankwa

Queerying sexuality research in Africa: stagnant paradigms and possibilities of kinship. Apostolos Andrikopoulos, University of Amsterdam
Representations of love beyond the material: respect, care and intimacy in Ghanaian heterosexual marriages. Dilys Amoabeng, University of Amsterdam
Representing participants: positionality, intersectionality and sexuality. Amisah Zenabu Bakuri, AISSR, University of Amsterdam
The productivity of ambiguity: not sharing and not knowing in the study of politicised sexualities. Peter Miller, University of Amsterdam/AISSR
Understanding social change in Africa: sexuality, hostilities and LGBT relationships in Nigeria. Olayinka Akanle and Oreoluwa Oyebola, University of Ibadan
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91. / Reclaiming African Humanness and the Redemption of Humanitarian Practices

Room 7

Convenors: Elias Opongo (Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations, Kenya) and Cilas Kemedjio (University of Rochester, United States)

Humanising democracy in Africa: the majority exclusion for minority domination. Elias Opongo, Hekima University College
Humanitarianism in Ghana: reflecting on the works of Rev. Father Andrew “Nii Lantey” Campbell. Ebenezer Kwesi Bosomprah, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Humanising the world: a cue from the Africa’s past. Mohammed El-Nasir Al-Amin and Wale Oyedeji, University of Ibadan
Is the family dead or alive? Exploring epistemologies and humanism of the family in Ghana. Joshua Gariba, University of Ghana
Reclaiming African humanness and the redemption of humanitarian practices. Cilas Kemedjio, University of Rochester
Relations entre religion traditionnelle, l’humanitaire et conflit en Casamance. Moise Diedhiou, CIHA
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230. / When Women Speak [Film Screening + Conversation]

Room 1

Chair: Amina Alaoui Soulimani (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Panellists:
Akosua Adomako Ampofo, University of Ghana
Kate Skinner, University of Birmingham
Aseye Tamakloe, National Film and Television Institute/University of Ghana
Akosua-Asamoabea Ampofo, University of Birmingham

Scholars have questioned the erasure of women from the historical accounts of African societies, especially during colonial rule and under post-independence governments. In 1957 Ghana gained independence under the leadership of Dr Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention Peoples Party (CPP). Nkrumah subsequently became Ghana’s first Prime minister and then president. By all accounts, Nkrumah appreciated and acknowledged the place of women in nation-building, and under the CPP Ghanaian women even “benefitted” from Affirmative Action. However, this was short-lived and came to an end with the 1966 coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah. Not only did women lose out, but their stories were also lost. Critical discourse around these erasures and silences have been taken up by specialists of Ghana, especially feminist scholars, generating substantial research on contemporary gender issues, women’s organising and campaigning, women’s relationships with the state, the relationship between research and activism, and on affirmative action. However, there remains a lack of research on the late 1960s-1980s, contributing to a perception that women’s rights were of more concern to people elsewhere (“in the west”), and only re-entered Ghana with the establishment of multi-party democracy in 1992. When Women Speak is a documentary film that shares what Ghanaian gender activists were doing during these ‘lost decades’ by tracing a cohort of 16 women who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s and catalogues their experiences, in their own words, as Ghana passed through different periods of governance. Archival footage and animations enhance the film’s historical and visual appeal. Screened for limited audiences in Ghana since January 2022, it has already received positive reviews. This will be the first screening outside Ghana. Selected scenes will be shared, followed by a conversation with the Producers, Director and a member of the technical team.
Some of the women included in the film are: Professor Akua Kuenyehia, former judge of the ICC; Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, former first lady; Rev Joyce Aryee, former Minister of State; Hilary Gbedemah, former Chairperson CEDAW; Emerita Professor Takyiwaa Manuh, former Director at UNECA; Professor Florence Dolphyne, former Pro-Vice-Chancellor Univ. of Ghana; Madam Elizabeth Ohene, former Minister of State and BBC Broadcast journalist; Dr Rose Mensah-Kutin, Exec. Director ABANTU; Professor Dzodzi Tsikata, founding member, Network for Women’s Rights, Ghana (NETRIGHT).

Creators and Producers: Akosua Adomako Ampofo (University of Ghana) and Kate Skinner (Birmingham University) | Director: Aseye Tamakloe (National Film & Television Inst. and University of Ghana) | Length: circa 85 minutes | © 2022

Reception

UCT GSB Rooftop Foyer

Yale African Studies