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Conference Day 3
April 15, 2022
08:30 - 10:00
01.A / Communication and Power in African Politics (Society)
Room 1Convenors: Aghi Bahi (Université Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Cote d’Ivoire) and Takuo Iwata (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Communication and power in African politics (society). Takuo Iwata, Ritsumeikan University Laughter as political communication in Africa. Takuon Iwata, Ritsumeikan University Religious organisations, the CAMA 2020 controversy and sustainable democracy in Nigeria. Grace Nwamah, University of Leeds Sudan demonstrations is social media uprising: not a revolution. Amani Abdel Rahman, CEDEJ Khartoum The pandemic and the political space: Nigerian illiberal democracy and COVID-19 in online comedy. Nnaemeka Ezema, Godfrey Okoye University The spectacle of unruly students: securitising young men, education, and dissent in Kenya. Elizabeth Cooper, Simon Fraser University “We are like a giant potjiekos”: Industrial theatre and the paradox of corporate democracy. Sarah Saddler, Baruch College, City University of New York About this panel
08:30 - 10:00
03. / Critical Mass Mobilisation and Institutional Design for State-Building in Africa
Room 2Convenors: Clement Sefa-Nyarko (La Trobe University, Australia) and Moses Tofa (African Leadership Centre, Kenya)
Climate-conflict nexus and the threat of drying rivers in Kenya. Peter Maundu, The English Speaking School of Lubumbash (TESOL) Clifford Obiero, Water and Resource Centre (WARREC)/The English School of Lubumbashi (TESOL), and Aggrey Adimo, The English School of Lubumbashi (TESOL) Contemporary francophone African social movements: resource mobilisation and its challenges in the digital era. Bamba Ndiaye, Cornell University Critical mass mobilisation and institutional design for state building in Africa. Clement Sefa-Nyarko, La Trobe University/African Leadership Centre Police brutality and End SARs campaign in Nigeria: an analytical study. Philip Egbule, Aodelee Okobia and John Emuebie, University of Delta Reconceptualizing the state through new media: case of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) in Kenya. Winnie Kishara, African Leadership Centre Social clustering as the harbinger of COVID-19 pandemic in Ngugi’s Wizard of the Crow. Dele Maxwell Ugwanyi, Enugu State University of Science and Technology Storytelling as tool for rebuilding communities torn by the 2021 election-related clashes in central Uganda. Eve Nabulya, Makerere University Theorising youth agency in institutional design of digital economy in Africa: the case of Kenya. Clement Sefa-Nyarko, La Trobe University/African Leadership Centre and Njoki Ngunyi, African Leadership Centre About this panel
08:30 - 10:00
109.A / Documenting African Environmental Challenges
Room 3Convenors: Alexie Tcheuyap (University of Toronto, Canada), Anny-Dominique Curtius (University of Iowa, United States), Etienne-Marie Lassi (University of Manitoba, Canada) and Sada Niang (University of Victoria, Canada)
All things are connected: African humanism and the call to 'ecological conversion'. Dominica Dipio, Makerere University Ecosystems safeguarding imaginaries: water in the Samburu interventional ritual chants. James Wachira, BIGSAS Environmental “curse”? Mining, fire and shit in African documentaries. Alexie Tcheuyap, University of Toronto Imaging the devastation of mining ventures in Arlit (Niger). Sada Niang, University of Victoria “I would like protection”: Power, agency, and polycentric elephant governance in Uganda. Martha Bierut, Colorado State University About this panel
08:30 - 10:00
13. / Situating African Knowledges
Room 4Convenor: Oceane Jasor (Concordia University, Canada)
Re-situating African knowledge at the centre of transformative possibilities. Oceane Jasor, Concordia University
08:30 - 10:00
20. / Disruptive Bodies, Unsettling Truths: LGBTQI+ Migrations on and From the African Continent
Room 6Convenor: B Camminga (African Centre for Migration and Society, South Africa)
Disruptive bodies, unsettling truths: LGBTQI+ migrations on and from the African continent. B Camminga, African Centre for Migration and Society Disruptive bodies: queer migrations from the Maghreb. Tachfine Baida, Sciences Po Bordeaux Impacts of discrimination on the mental and sexual wellbeing of LGBT refugee youth in Kenya. Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi, African Leadership University, Margarert Jjuuko, University of Rwanda and James Maingi Gathatwa, African Leadership University Labyrinthine wanderings: queering mobility in impossible geographies. Yara Ahmed Postcolonial bio/necro/cosmopolitics, queer Ugandan migrants, and the affect-power of queer diasporas. Austin Bryan, Northwestern University, Douglas Mawadr, Sexual Minorities Uganda and Molly Jones, Northwestern University Where is home? Negotiating comm(unity) and un/belonging among queer African migrants on Facebook. Godfried Asante, San Diego State University About this panel
08:30 - 10:00
246. / Community Life and Resilience
Room 7Chairs: Olerato Mogomotsi and Alison Kuah (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Advancing humanitarianism through social media and photography. Kehinde Kadiri, University of Ilorin Aya: embodying resilience in an alleyway. Abibah Sumana, Pyxera Global Learning from community watch groups in and after South Sudan’s protection of civilian sites. Gabriel Sostein Bathuel, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Reimagining resilience: human survival strategies for women amid COVID-19 pandemic. Charity Muraguri, United States International University Africa
08:30 - 10:00
30. / Personal and Family Names in Societies in Africa: Analysing Changing Naming Conventions
Room 8Convenor: Michael Kevane (Santa Clara University, United States)
A comparative and sociolinguistic approach to Yorùbá and Igbo naming strategies. Abisoye Eleshin and Nkechinyere Aguobi, University of Lagos A socio-ethnolinguistic analysis of person’s names in the Fe’efe’e community in Cameroon. Gabriel D Djomeni, University of Dschang and Justine Laure Lappi, University of Yaoundé I “I have two names”: Xarás and relational practices in Maputo, Mozambique. Clayton Guerreiro, University of Campinas (Unicamp) Personal and family names in societies in Africa: analysing changing naming conventions. Michael Kevane, Santa Clara University Personal names among the Kusaal language speakers of Ghana. Hasiyatu Abubakari, University of Ghana About this panel
08:30 - 10:00
35. / Opportunities, Challenges and Future Imaginaries
Room 9Convenors: Jess Auerbach (North-West University, South Africa) and Naseem Aumeerally (University of Mauritius, Mauritius)
Challenges and opportunities for African island states. Jess Auerbach and Naseem Aumeerally, University of Mauritius Intersectional religious agency: Mauritian Muslim women and the negotiation of porous interfaces. Myriam Blin, Charles Telfair Campus/Curtin Mauritius The impact of size and insularity on the prospects for democracy. Nicholas Cheeseman, University of Birmingham About this panel
08:30 - 10:00
39.A / A Critical Examination of Methodologies in African Studies Research
Room 10Convenor: Mjiba Frehiwot (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana)
A critical examination of methodologies in African studies research. Adryan Wallace, Stony Brook University About this panel
08:30 - 10:00
49. / African Studies Centenary: Disciplinarity and the Future of African Studies
Room 12Convenors: Claudia Gastrow (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) and Khwezi Mkhize (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
African studies centenary: disciplinarity and the future of African studies. Claudia Gastrow, University of Johannesburg and Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand Fetish: art history and the expressive cultures of Africa. Cecile Fromont, Yale University From the “native problem” to African epistemologies: African studies over the past 100 years. Thuto Thipe, University of Cape Town Queerying sexuality in African studies. Zethu Matebeni, University of Fort Hare Time-bombed futures: residues of the Anthropocene in Africa. Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford University About this panel
10:00 - 10:30
BREAK
10:30 - 12:00
01.B / Communication and Power in African Politics (Society)
Room 1Convenors: Aghi Bahi (Université Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Cote d’Ivoire) and Takuo Iwata (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
« Libérez Gbagbo ! » Cyber activistes, réseaux et médias sociaux et résilience d’un entrepreneur politique… Aghi Bahi, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Mirror games in sub-Saharan Africa’s portrayal of power and consumption. Daniela Calvo, CETRAB-Center for the Study of Afro-Brazilian Traditions Representations of the Nigerian police and policing in stand-up comedy: tracking embedded meanings and implications. Chikezirim Nwoke, Carleton University “Voice of the voiceless”: Kudumbar newspaper and political expression of youth in Tokombéré (northern Cameroon). Simon Kévin Baskouda Shelley, University of Maroua Women, power, and networks: the gendered politics of economic empowerment. Pamela Nwakanma, Harvard University About this panel
10:30 - 12:00
109.B / Documenting African Environmental Challenges
Room 3Convenors: Alexie Tcheuyap (University of Toronto, Canada), Anny-Dominique Curtius (University of Iowa, United States), Etienne-Marie Lassi (University of Manitoba, Canada) and Sada Niang (University of Victoria, Canada)
Human-earth relationships: learning from representations of climate and environmental change in African school curricula. Yaa Oparebea Ampofo, University of Wisconsin-Madison Maisha ya wanawake wa vijijini: time poverty, marginalisation, and the path to agency. Natasha Joseph, Howard University Plant ecologies and the feminist ritual archive on the Cape Flats: rethinking Africa’s epistemological future. June Bam, San and Khoi Centre, University of Cape Town Public latrines and night soil disposal in Gold Coast (Ghana): late nineteenth to twentieth century. Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah, University of Education/University of Johannesburg About this panel
10:30 - 12:00
14.A / Afropolitan and Afrotopian Poetics: Figuring the Possibles, Recreating the World
Room 4Convenors: Markus Arnold (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Elara Bertho (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM), France)
A history of Ghanaian literary cosmopolitanism: from the colonial beyond the neoliberal. Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, Cornell University Afrofuturism versus African futurism: the African-African diaspora futuristic debate. Nii Ayitey Aaron Komey, University of Ghana Afropolitan and Afrotopian poetics: figuring the possibles, recreating the world. Markus Arnold, University of Cape Town Felwine Sarr : poétiques afrotopiques. Elara Bertho, CNRS Mythe, utopie, rage : les tissages d’imaginaires et de possibles de l’auteur malgache Raharimanana. Markus Arnold, University of Cape Town Reinvented lives, re-imagined spaces: gendered Afropolitanism and Afrotopia in Habibata Thienta’s the disquieting silence. Fatoumata Keita, Université des Lettres et des Science Humaines About this panel
10:30 - 12:00
16. / Dreaming, Conversion and Inspiration: Oneiric Imaginaries in Contemporary Africa
Room 5Convenor: Amalia Dragani (University of Florida, United States) Discussant: Katrien Pype (KU Leuven)
Dilemmas of dreaming: William Ponty students do their homework c. 1945. Barbara Cooper, Rutgers University Dream and its interpretation in religious and cultural conversion. Yekatit Tsehayu, University of Florida Dreaming Sufism in the Sokoto caliphate: two treatises of Shaykh Dan Tafa. Oludamini Ogunnaike, University of Virginia Dreams to control: altering women's realities in Inga's hydro-electric enclave. Barbara Carbon, KU Leuven Torrents of dreams and images: a cinematographic perspective on the Kyangyang from Guinea-Bissau. Daniel Barroca, University of Lisbon About this panel
10:30 - 12:00
21. / Conversations From the South: Decolonising Southern Thinking
Room 6Convenors: Mjiba Frehiwot (University of Ghana, Ghana) and Fabricio Pereira da Silva (UNIRIO, Brazil)
Conversations from the South: decolonising Southern thinking. Fabricio Pereira da Silva, Unirio Education for transformation and liberation: examining Cabral and Freire's decolonial philosophy as an intellectual bridge. Mjiba Frehiwot, University of Ghana Mother tongue-based multilingual education and decolonisation of southern thinking and people’s minds in Africa. Gabriel D Djomeni, University of Dschang Mudimbe and the invention of Africa (and Latin America): which ways for Pan-Africanism (and Latin-Americanism)? Fabricio Pereira da Silva, Unirio Political philosophy in the global South: Africa, East Asia, and South America. Thaddeus Metz, University of Pretoria Science student teachers’ views on culturally responsive teaching and decolonisation. Thelma de Jager, Tshwane University of Technology Social sciences research ethics and knowledge production from the South and with the South. Carla Braga, University Eduardo Mondlane The pursuit of an ADR philosophy for sub-Saharan Africa. Wesley Maraire, University of Cape Town The Sahara: a barrier or bridge to Afro-Arab solidarity? Radwa Saad, Cornell University The value of Latin American ideas under the apartheid state. Laura Efron, University of Buenos Aires About this panel
10:30 - 12:00
242. / Researching the Human
Room 12Chair: Leah Junk (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Epistemological and methodological problems of the social sciences in Africa in a context of knowledge. Ibrahima Niang, HUMA LASPAD Negotiating youth-centred research: ethical reflections on research with young people in rural and urban spaces. Chikezie E Uzuegbunam, HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town Slaying her single story: life herstory narrative of Lethabo Khumalo a public works participant. Ramona Baijnath, University of Johannesburg The operationality of Kalunga for a review of black epistemologies in Africa and the diaspora. Agnes Guimarães, Universidade Federal da Bahia Womanism and critical method in African diaspora writing. Brendon Nicholls, School of English, University of LeedsWriting war with and beyond the human: multispecies perspectives in Luso-African literature. Sophie Esch, Rice University
10:30 - 12:00
247. / Family Life and Care Economies
Room 2Chair: Dominique Somda (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Asserting humanity: Vesta Smith and the everyday politics of liberation. Maria Suriano, University of the Witwatersrand M-other – messiness incarnate: a tale of being human. Joy Owen, University of the Free State Sighting the family as a locus of modernisation: debates on modernisation and tradition in colonial Eritrea. Samuel Tsegai, Queen's University Women and care: rethinking the human from the mutual aid practices in Cape Verdean contexts. Chirley Mendes, Federal University of Goiás (UFG)/Women and Economy Institute (imuê)
10:30 - 12:00
26. / What Does It Mean to Produce African Studies in Africa? [Roundtable]
Room 7Convenors: Janet Remmington (Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom/University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and Claudia Gastrow (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
African studies and sociology: a possible convergence? Gilson Lázaro, Agostinho Neto University/CEA-UCAN Beyond quantification of knowledge production towards theorising Africa. Peter Narh, University of Ghana Reflections on editing the journal of Eastern African literary and cultural studies. Lynda Spencer, Rhodes University Reflections on the institute of African studies Ibadan at 60 (1962–2022). Senayon Olaoluwa, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan What does it mean to produce African studies in Africa? [Roundtable]. Janet Remmington, Taylor & Francis/University of the Witwatersrand About this roundtable
10:30 - 12:00
31. / Infrastructure Panel: Making African Research Visible and Accessible
Room 8Convenors: Anne Schumann Douosson (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Mark P. Snyders (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
How PIDs and preprints are facilitating ownership of African scholarly content. Jo Havemann, AfricArXiv Infrastructure panel: making African research visible and accessible. Anne Schumann Douosson, Goethe University Frankfurt The African Studies library: building a one-stop portal for African studies. Anne Schumann Douosson, Goethe University Frankfurt About this panel
10:30 - 12:00
36. / Revisiting the Bargain of Collaboration in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Room 13Convenor: Benjamin N. Lawrance (University of Arizona, United States)
Chair: Phumla Nkosi (University of Cape Town) Discussant: Benjamin N. Lawrance (University of Arizona / African Studies Review) Collaborators across apartheid’s artscape: history, memory, and cross-racial artistic partnership. Vusumuzi R. Kumalo, Nelson Mandela University Nationalist no more: Jasper Savanhu’s lament. Allison Shutt, Hendrix College Revisiting the bargain of collaboration in colonial and post-colonial Africa. Benjamin Lawrance, University of Arizona ‘They gave us a big market, and they appointed a woman to administer it’: Marie Sivomey, Lomé’s merchants, and the rise of military rule in Togo, 1967–1974. Marius Kothor, Yale University Visualising imperial landscapes: frontiers of imagination in the mapping of Eastern Africa. Julie MacArthur, University of Toronto About this panel
10:30 - 12:00
37.A / South-South Migration and Inequalities I: Ethiopia-South Africa Corridor
Room 9Convenors: Henrietta Nyamnjoh (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Dereje Feyissa Dori (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
Children on the move: decision-making, and migration trajectories of Ethiopian child migrants to South Africa. Meron Eresso, Addis Ababa University Consequences of Ethiopian migration to South Africa: rising inequality and cultural changes in funeral practices. Fana Gebresenbet, PDC Hadiya migration to South Africa – prophecy fulfilled? Dereje Dori, Peace And Development Centre/Addis Ababa University Measuring multidimensional poverty disparities across sub-Saharan anglophone and francophone Africa: a cross-comparative analysis. Cynthia Fonta, University of Bristol South-South migration and inequalities (panel 1 and 2). Henrietta Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town About this panel
10:30 - 12:00
40. / Legitimacy in Knowledge Production – “Who Has the Right to Talk About What?” [Roundtable]
Room 10Convenors: Malebogo Ngoepe (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Jess Auerbach (North-West University, South Africa)
Critical studies and the politics of legitimacy in science. Dirk Postma, University of South Africa Invitational validity and the centring of African women’s voices. Kiesha Warren-Gordon, Ball State University Legitimacy in knowledge production – who has the right to talk about what? Jess Auerbach, North-West University Stories are all we have: legitimising Africaness through story(ies) told by the invisible African student. Dineo Babili, University of the Free State The inhumanity of an Apartheid childhood. Dawne Curry, University of Nebraska Lincoln About this roundtable
10:30 - 12:00
45. / Towards Radical Reclaiming of African Economic Futures
Room 11Convenors: Leiyo Singo (University of Bayreuth, Germany / University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Stefan Ouma (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Eugen Pissarskoi (Tübingen University, Germany), Kerstin Schopp (Tübingen University, Germany) and Richard Mbunda (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
Towards radical reclaiming of African economic futures. Leiyo Singo, University of Bayreuth/University of Dar es Salaam
12:00 - 13:00
LUNCH
13:00 - 14:30
02.A / The First Thousand Days of Life; Reproductive and Early Life Interventions
Room 1Convenor: Fiona Ross (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
African naissance: early life and deep time in intergenerational health. Michelle Pentecost, King's College London; University of the Witwatersrand Foetal programming meets human capital: Barker, Becker and reproduction in postgenomic times. Tessa Moll, University of the Witwatersrand Not affected but concerned: intergenerational impact of civil conflict on child heath in Sierra Leone. Eugenie Rose Fontep, University of Yaoundé II The first thousand days of life; reproductive and early life interventions. Fiona Ross, University of Cape Town The first thousand days: temporality, gender and futurity. Fiona Ross, University of Cape Town About this panel
13:00 - 14:30
05.A / What Does it Mean to be African in a Multispecies World?
Room 2Convenors: Vanessa Wijngaarden (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) and Harry Wels (Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands)
A turn to animals’ experiences, an African studies agenda. Michael Glover, International Studies Group, University of the Free State Comparing indigenous and professional animal communicators in Africa: intuitive interspecies communication and academic knowledge production. Vanessa Wijngaarden, University of Johannesburg Distributed skills in camel herding: cooperation in a human-animal relationship in Somaliland. Raphael Schwere, University of Zurich, Ethnographic Museum Feeding humans, eating animals: rooftops as spaces of nurturance in urban Egypt. Noha Fikry, University of Toronto Making animal histories matter – the making of metaphors and the unmaking of people. Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University About this panel
13:00 - 14:30
14.B / Afropolitan and Afrotopian Poetics: Figuring the Possibles, Recreating the World
Room 4Convenors: Markus Arnold (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Elara Bertho (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM), France)
Poetics of transfiguration in Le monde est mon langage by Alain Mabanckou. Emmanuel Mbégane Ndour, University of the Witwatersrand ‘Roman afrotopianiste’ et problématique de l’Africanité : à propos de rouge impératrice de Léonora Miano. Louis Nana, University of Tübingen Rouge impératrice de Léonora Miano ou l'utopie au service de l'humain. Astrid Starck-Adler, Université de Haute-Alsace Zukiswa Wanner’s London, Cape Town, Joburg and the racial politics of Afropolitanism. Marzia Milazzo, University of Johannesburg About this panel
13:00 - 14:30
18.A / Future Visions of Research Cooperation in African Studies
Room 5Convenors: Erdmute Alber (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Enocent Msindo (Rhodes University, South Africa) and Muyiwa Falaiye (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
Confronting power asymmetry in knowledge production: lessons from intercultural collaborative research. Michaela Pelican, University of Cologne and Jonathan Ngeh, Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne Future visions of research cooperation in African studies. Erdmute Alber, University of Bayreuth Multiplicities of collaboration: the Cluster Africa Multiple. Erdmute Alber, University of Bayreuth North-South research cooperation practices in Benin: challenges and perspectives in the implementation of research programs. Issifou Abou Moumouni, Lasdel and University of Bayreuth About this panel
13:00 - 14:30
22. / Engaged Research in African Studies [Roundtable]
Room 6Convenor: Elizabeth Walker (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom)
Panellists: Christopher Ouma, University of Cape Town Justin Pearce, Stellenbosch University Msia Kibona Clarke, Howard University Natasha Joseph, The Conversation Africa Jess Auerbach, University of Cape Town About this roundtable
13:00 - 14:30
243. / Umoja: Africa Must Unite Now [Film Screening + Discussion]
Room 3Chair: Wangui Kimari (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Umoja: Africa must unite now, film screening and discussion. Mjiba Frehiwot, University of Ghana
13:00 - 14:30
300.C / State, War and Peace
Room 13Chairs: Sane Ndlovu and Sanya Osha (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Chief Chweya Amugongo: colonial chieftaincy, land and ethnic manipulation in Nyang’ori location, Kenya. Eliud Biegon, Kenyatta University China in Africa: rethinking development, the role of the nation state, and neo-benevolent imperialism. Seth N. Asumah, State University of New York Cortland Decolonising democracy through quantitative methods: possibilities and limitations. Carin Runciman and Boitumelo Matlala, University of Johannesburg Storytelling beyond pathology: the methodological and epistemological insights of a grassroots South African organisation. Nicole le Roux, University of Massachusetts Amherst The "unidentified political actors" of authoritarianism in Rwanda and Sudan: mediating authoritarian power. Anne-Laure Mahé, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'École Militaire and Marie-Eve Desrosiers, University of Ottawa Voices from ‘Ground Zero’: grassroots perspectives and experiences of Cameroon’s ‘Anglophone’ conflict. Gordon Crawford, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
13:00 - 14:30
37.B / South-South Migration and Inequalities II: South Africa-Ethiopia Corridor
Room 9Convenors: Henrietta Nyamnjoh (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Dereje Feyissa Dori (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
Irregularity and informality: Ethiopian migrant traders in South Africa’s informal economy. Yordanos Estifanos, University of Cape Town Lost in the madding crowd: accelerated adulthood of Ethiopian migrant children in South Africa. Henrietta Nyamnjoh and Dagmawit Abebe, University of Cape Town Resource flows and [in]equalities: Ethiopian migrants in South Africa. Azwihangwisi Netshikulwe, University of Cape Town About this panel
13:00 - 14:30
42.A / (De-)Humanising Health? Responsibilisation and Racialised Space in Times of Corona
Room 10Convenors: Caroline Meier zu Biesen (Global Health Lab, University of Leipzig, Germany), Marian Burchardt (Global Health Lab, University of Leipzig, Germany) and Nkululeko Nkomo (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Necessary entanglement – a deep reflection of thinking about Africa in the face of COVID-19. Minga M Kongo, HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town Pandemics in New Orleans and Johannesburg: from Plessy and Apartheid through COVID-19. Blair Proctor, Suny New Paltz Politics of saving lives: race, inequality, and quarantine from Spanish influenza to COVID-19 in Ghana. Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Lucky Tomdi, University of New Brunswick “Protect the human... you are now killing the human. Why?!” On black racial precarity under COVID-19. Nancy Henaku, University of Ghana The impact of staffing moratoria in the delivery of health services in KwaZulu-Natal. Nduduzo Ndebele, University of Zululand About this panel
13:00 - 14:30
46. / Platform Politics and Silicon Savannahs: How New Digital Technologies Shape Mobility in African Cities [Roundtable]
Room 11Convenors: Rike Sitas (African Centre for Cities, South Africa), Liza Cirolia (African Centre for Cities, South Africa), Alexis Sebarenzi (University of Rwanda, Rwanda), Prince Gume (British Institute of Eastern Africa, Kenya) and Andrea Pollio (Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy)
Platform politics and Silicon Savannahs: how new digital technologies shape mobility in African cities [Roundtable]. Rike Sitas, African Centre for Cities Tindering into a methodological cul-de-sac: my voyage of exploring interconnapptions. Leah Junck, University of Cape Town About this roundtable
13:00 - 14:30
50. / Exploring “Humanity” in 21st Century Africa: Approaches in the Arts, Culture and Performance
Room 12Convenor: Lydia Muthuma (Technical University of Kenya, Kenya)
Abrogation and appropriation of European televisual football in Eldoret, Kenya. Solomon Waliaula, Maasai Mara University Defying dominant formulae in storytelling: the story of lame from the “small” town of Eldoret. Fredrick Mbogo, Technical University of Kenya Exploring “humanity” in 21st century Africa: approaches in the arts, culture and performance. Lydia Muthuma, Technical University of Kenya From Queen Victoria to Jeevanjee: public space and the marginalised. Lydia Muthuma, Technical University of Kenya Humanism in East African popular music: reading selected songs of Remmy Ongala and Simba Wanyika. Joseph Okongo, Moi University Kenya twitter spaces: subverting, cementing, and negotiating power structures in a new technological dispensation. Caroline Mose, Technical University of Kenya About this panel
13:00 - 14:30
52. / Thinking About Revolutions in Africa/African Revolutions [Roundtable]
Room 8Convenor: Serawit Debele (Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Bayreuth University, Germany)
About this roundtable
14:30 - 15:00
BREAK
15:00 - 16:30
02.B / The First Thousand Days of Life; Reproductive and Early Life Interventions
Room 1Convenor: Fiona Ross (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
A readdress to the challenges of absent fatherhood: beyond social justice work to decolonisation. Neziswa Titi, University of Cape Town Care, choices and interventions along an obstetric continuum: stories from across the maternal healthcare divide. Nicole Daniels, University of Cape Town, Nanna Schneidermann, Aarhus University, and Shari Thanjan, University of Cape Town The first thousand days aside: reimagining reproduction. Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, University of Pretoria What a time to be birthing! Race-work in the mothering practices of black middle-class mothers. Ziyanda Majombozi, University of Pretoria About this panel
15:00 - 16:30
05.B / What Does it Mean to be African in a Multispecies World?
Room 2Convenors: Vanessa Wijngaarden (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) and Harry Wels (Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands)
A working theory of rodent minds: Tanzanian rat trainers and speculations about thinking. Jia Hui Lee, Haverford College San narratives on multispecies worlds: Latour in African stories? Harry Wels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/African Studies Centre Leiden Surviving global food insecurity through multi-species shape-shifting: an African precedent for contemporary humanity. Brendon Nicholls, School of English, University of Leeds The art of becoming more: Nnedi Okorafor's "Binti" and multispecies becoming. Renzo Baas, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Parrot People: an artistic research project on the conviviality of African grey parrots and people. Ute Hoerner, Academy of Media Arts Cologne About this panel
15:00 - 16:30
11. / Women as Lesser Humans? Tracing the Evolution and Prospects of Women’s Influence in African Parliaments
Room 3Convenors: Hannah Muzee and Amanda Gouws (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
A seat at the table but no voice: women and political party politics in Uganda. Hannah Muzee, University of Cape Town and Amanda Gouws, Stellenbosch University Comparative feminist institutionalism in Africa. Hannah Muzee, University of Cape Town, Amanda Gouws, Stellenbosch University and Diana Madsen, Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)Gender equity and political leadership in Kenya: the two-thirds gender rule in perspective. Mercy Kaburu, United States International University Gendering political representation in Nigeria’s democratic governance from 1999 to 2019. Toyin Oluwaniyi, Redeemer's University Women as lesser humans? Tracing the evolution and prospects of women’s influence in African parliaments. Hannah Muzee, University of Cape Town About this panel
15:00 - 16:30
110. / Humanity, Africanity, and the Global Political Economy: How Will Africans and the Diaspora Contribute to the Fourth Industrial Revolution? [Roundtable]
Room 7Convenor: DaQuan Lawrence (Howard University, United States)
About this roundtable
15:00 - 16:30
18.B / Future Visions of Research Cooperation in African Studies
Room 5Convenors: Erdmute Alber (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Enocent Msindo (Rhodes University, South Africa) and Muyiwa Falaiye (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
Construction of an African pole of excellence in anthropology: the Lasdel experience in Niger. Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, LasdelDoctoral capacity building in Africa: what role do Chinese scholarships play? Natasha Robinson, University of Oxford and David Mills, University of Oxford The German Research Foundation (DFG): funding scientific cooperation with partners from Africa. Corinne Flacke, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Voices and lived experiences in African studies: reflecting on the multiplicity in Africa multiple. Muyiwa Falaiye, University of Lagos About this panel
15:00 - 16:30
244.A / Popular Culture, Literary Forms and Politics
Room 12Chair: Leah Junk (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
African feminisms and fictions of neo-traditional African masculinities the secret lives of Baba Segi’s wives. Nonhlanhla Dlamini, University of the Free State Coming to other stories: Krotoa, the anarchive and framing feminist, indigenous custodianships of the past. Carine Zaayman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Music language, mind migration and vulgarity as indicator for rape and sexual vices. Oluwafemi Bamigbade, Obafemi Awolowo University Representing community stability in liminal spaces in secondary competition music performance in Uganda. Isaac Tibasiima, Makerere University Thinking with Keguro Macharia and Dionne Brand about the counter-humanist tensions and possibilities of storying. Nicole le Roux, University of Massachusetts Amherst Trauma of war on terror in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea. Edgar Nabutanyi, Makerere University
15:00 - 16:30
300.A / State, War and Peace
Room 4Chairs: Sane Ndlovu and Sanya Osha (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Influence of collective memory and historical victimhood on subgroup and national identities. Wakil Asekun, University of Lagos Peacebuilding in divided societies: readdressing identities to achieve peace in Africa. Veneranda Mbabazi, Makerere University State power and humanitarian protection of terrorism-induced IDPs in Abuja. Toyin Oluwaniyi, Redeemer's University Women in northern Nigeria’s peacebuilding discourse, 2000–2020. Mubarak Tukur, Umaru Musa Yar'adua University
15:00 - 16:30
33. / Media, Mediation and the Production of History
Room 8Convenors: Cassandra Mark-Thiesen (University of Bayreuth, Germany) and Ruramisai Charumbira (WBKolleg, University of Bern, Switzerland)
Africanising African history: dissemination of UNESCO's general history of Africa (1964–1998). Larissa Schulte Nordholt, Leiden University Between the lines – children’s textbooks in West Africa. Luisa Schneider, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Bayreuth University Journalists as historians: a case study of Ruth Weiss’ production of Southern African history. Melanie Boehi, Wiser Media, mediation and the production of history. Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Bayreuth University Media, mediation and the rise and fall of empires: caliphates and conflict in West Africa. Hyeladzirra Banu, Howard University Memes as agents of embarrassment: contemporary African identity in the age of social media. Richard Anyah, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Bayreuth University Radios as sites of production of African history: comparative perspectives from East and West Africa. Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Florence Brisset-Foucault, University of Paris 1/IMAF/IUF Writing her in: an African feminist exploration into the life herstory narrative of Misty. Ramona Baijnath, University of Johannesburg About this panel
15:00 - 16:30
34. / The Struggle Over the Ummah: Race, Place and Membership in the Community of Believers
Room 6Convenors: Ezgi Guner (Bogazici University, Turkey) and Yasmin Ismail (Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Building a multiracial Ummah: discourses of race, humanitarianism and Africa in Turkey. Ezgi Guner, Bogazici University Islam in the (black) colony: ideologies of the Ummah. Thabang-Shaheed Nkuna, Witys University Nigeria, where Bilal meets Husayn: blackness, redemption and sectarianism in Shi‘i ritual cultures. Fouad Gehad Marei, University of Birmingham Shaping the boundaries: Muslim preachers defining the space of the Ummah in Nigeria. Binyamin Lawal, Free University Berlin The question of religious authority: Ga ethnic converts and migrants in identity politics. Yunus Dumbe, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology About this panel
15:00 - 16:30
42.B / (De-)Humanising Health? Responsibilisation and Racialised Space in Times of Corona
Room 10Convenors: Caroline Meier zu Biesen (Global Health Lab, University of Leipzig, Germany), Marian Burchardt (Global Health Lab, University of Leipzig, Germany) and Nkululeko Nkomo (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
(De-)humanising health? Responsibilisation and racialised space in times of Corona. Caroline Meier zu Biesen, University of Leipzig, Global Health Lab Can you hear me? An African international student’s cry. Kombe Kapatamoyo, SIUC COVID-19 and resilience of women’s Chamas – enhancing women’s empowerment and human security. Caroline Shisubili Maingi, Strathmore University and Berita Mutinda Musau, Strathmore University/United States International University-Africa COVID-19 et dilemmes moraux à différentes échelles administratives à Nairobi. Axelle Ebodé, Institut Français de Géopolitique Revisiting the Umunthu philosophy in the face of COVID-19 measures in Malawi. Jimmy Kainja, University of Malawi About this panel
15:00 - 16:30
57. / Challenging Commodities: Consumption in Literary and Popular Culture
Room 13Convenors: Louise Green (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Philip Aghoghovwia (University of the Free State, South Africa)
Challenging commodities: consumption in literary and popular culture. Louise Green, Stellenbosch University Conspicuous consumption in Happiness is a Four-Letter Word and an African City. Lynda Spencer, Rhodes University Consumption, gender and everyday life in an Onitsha classic. Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton Lost cargo: China in Indian Ocean Africa in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s novel Dragonfly Sea. Tina Steiner, Stellenbosch University Moth ties and furniture: producing value on a South African pear farm. Louise Green, Stellenbosch University Sacred gods as secular commodities in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc. Philip Aghoghovwia, University of the Free State About this panel
15:00 - 16:30
68. / Revisiting the ‘New Man’ (Homem Novo)
Room 11Convenors: Suzana Sousa (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Marissa Moorman (University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States) and Delinda Collier (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States)
New man, new woman, and the Luanda Trial of 1976. Marissa Moorman, University of Wisconsin–Madison New man, old technology. Delinda Collier, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Revisiting the ‘new man’ (homem novo). Suzana Sousa, University of the Western Cape Samora Machel’s political ideology of the ‘new man’ and the formation of the Mozambican nation. Arnaldo Caliche, Pinto Teixeira Caliche and Nolina Fato The “embryo of the new man”: constructing youth as a political category in post-independence Mozambique. Johanna Wetzel, University of Oxford About this panel
15:00 - 16:30
72. / South-South Migration and Inequalities III: Synthesis – Panels I & II [Roundtable]
Room 9Convenors: Henrietta Nyamnjoh (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Dereje Feyissa Dori (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
About this roundtable
16:30 - 16:45
BREAK
16:45 - 18:15
05.C / What Does it Mean to be African in a Multispecies World?
Room 2Convenors: Vanessa Wijngaarden (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) and Harry Wels (Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands)
Distributed skills in camel herding: cooperation in a human-animal relationship in Somaliland. Raphael Schwere, University of Zurich, Ethnographic Museum Comparing indigenous and professional animal communicators in Africa: intuitive interspecies communication and academic knowledge production. Vanessa Wijngaarden, University of Johannesburg San narratives on multispecies worlds: Latour in African stories? Harry Wels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; African Studies Centre Leiden Surviving global food insecurity through multi-species shape-shifting: an African precedent for contemporary humanity. Brendon Nicholls, School of English, University of Leeds About this panel
16:45 - 18:15
113. / Who Owns Africa? China, Euro-American Institutions and the New Scramble
Room 1Convenor: Bekeh Ukelina (State University of New York, United States)
A feminist geography perspective on the new scramble for Africa. Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, SUNY College at Cortland African women and the economic impact of the new scramble. Tokie Laotan-Brown, Merging Ecologies China in Africa: rethinking development, the role of the nation state, and neo-benevolent imperialism. Seth N. Asumah, State University of New York Philanthropic colonialism and the new scramble for Africa. Bekeh Ukelina, State University of New York Cortland Who owns Africa? China, Euro-American institutions and the new scramble. Bekeh Ukelina, State University of New York About this panel
16:45 - 18:15
235. / Being Human Through Southern Africa
Room 3Chairs: Angelique Thomas and Kongo Minga (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa)
A cairn of thirteen stones: reimagining the Zulu prisoners’ monument at St Helena island. Sizakele Gumede, University of Cape Town Abandonment, adoption and ancestral belonging: a South African adoption story. Deirdre Blackie, Courage Child Protection Intersectional experiences of black South African female doctoral students in stem: participation, success and retention. Zamambo Mkhize, University of Cape Town Reflecting on demographic data of nineteenth century Quirimbas Islands. Francesca Declich, University of Urbino South African attitudes toward African immigrants. Terry-Ann Jones, Lehigh University Whiteness and colonialities in contemporary Mozambique: possible approaches and dialogues. Paola Prandini and Ezra Nhampoca, University of São Paulo
16:45 - 18:15
237. / Humans Through Religion
Room 5Chair: Min'enhle Ncube (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
The challenge of the Umma: how foreign Imams are marginalised through rituals. Ali Masawudu, University of Johannesburg The Islamic intellectual tradition and anti-black racism. Mohamed Mathee, University of Johannesburg Women’s religious experiences: a Ghanaian case study. Abena Kyere and Grace Sintim Adasi, University of Education, Winneba
16:45 - 18:15
238. / Humans Through Philosophy
Room 6Chair: Fanidh Sanogo (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Conceptualising feminist Utu-centric and Ubuntu epistemologies: discovering/re/covering the “her-chive” through “languaging”, translation and traducture. Wangui wa Goro, SOAS University of London and King's College London Orality and philosophy: Ọ̀rúnmìlà, Wittgenstein and Derrida. Saheed Adesumbo Bello, VU Amsterdam Repatriation and a holistic concept of Africology. Tracy Keith Flemming, University of Environment and Sustainable Development Ubuntu as a moral philosophy? Fabricio Pereira da Silva, Unirio What sukuma wiki and African nightshades say about belonging in the cosmopolitan Eldoret municipality, Kenya. Claire Medard, Eric Masese and Lynn Kisembe, IRD-Urmis/Moi University
16:45 - 18:15
239. / Decolonising African Knowledges
Room 7Chairs: Olerato Mogomotsi and Alison Kuah (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Decolonising paradigms of community in Africa, interrogating community archaeological practice in Cape Town, South Africa. Robyn Humphreys, University of the Western Cape Indigenous understandings of humans as gendered: celebrating rethinking Africa. Yvette Abrahams, San and Khoi Centre, University of Cape Town Is decolonisation Africanisation? The politics of belonging in search of the truly African university. Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh, University of Cambridge On being a contemporary African: the dialectics of personal authenticity and being authentically African. Olerato Mogomotsi, HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town Valuing African life in postcolonial Africa. Nii Kotei Nikoi, College of Wooster We are found without fear: predicting pasts and re-membering futures from African historiography. Rene Odanga, Howard University
16:45 - 18:15
240. / Mobile Africa
Room 8Chairs: Itai Makone and Job Mwaura (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Basotho and the Bantustans: long-term impacts of historical borders on borderlands communities in Qwaqwa. John Aerni-Flessner and Grey Magaiza, Michigan State University Public diplomacy and South Africa’s response to xenophobia. Toyin Adetiba, University of Zululand Return to the ‘new flower’: re-examining gender, migration and development among Ethiopian migrant domestic workers. Amira Ahmed, The American University in Cairo Sogni e traiettorie di migrazione: un approccio biografico. Monica Caggiano, EHESS Terrorism, and forced migration in Southern Africa: threat to regional development and security. Daniel Mlambo, Tshwane University of Technology Thinking the human through African transnational migration. Joy Owen and Mamokoena Mokoena, University of the Free State
16:45 - 18:15
241. / Democracy and Change
Room 9Chair: Chikezie Uzuegbunam (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Colonial durabilities, liberal trappings, emancipatory politics? Inside the 2015 protest movement in Burundi. Andrea Filipi, University of Cambridge Critical readings of liberal majoritarian democracy paradigm: sub-Saharan perspectives. Claudia Favarato, CAPP-ISCSP-University of Lisbon, Marek Hrubec, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences and Claudia Favarato, University of Lisbon Human-centred development in Africa: envisioning and analysing the promises and the pitfalls. Charles Anumonwo, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo and Akintayo Akinyele, University of Michigan Local party constituency-building in African multi-party democracies. Sa'eed Husaini, University of Lagos Political relations and African-communitarianism in times of digitality. Claudia Favarato, CAPP-ISCSP-University of Lisbon The charm of Chama: understanding Chamas as spaces for political engagement in Kenya. Daisy Vuyanzi Ungaya, Graduate Institute of Geneva The state of democracy, governance and social policy in Nigeria: a concise review. Philip Egbule, University of Delta
16:45 - 18:15
244.B / Popular Culture, Literary Forms and Politics
Room 12Chair: Leah Junk (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Cross cultural directing: a journal of Ghanaians performing British humour to a diverse audience. A Bernard Adjirackor, University of Ghana Revitalising a minority language: storytelling among the Larteh people. Edwin Asa Adjei and Ansah Mercy Akrofi, University of Ghana The representation of françafrique in French media: a case study of the Sahel (2013–2021). Adrian Kayemba, United States International University Africa Un-becoming human: the necropolitics of alienation in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North. Dima Chami, University of Bristol You can know it but you cannot “do it”. Edwin Asa Adjei and Abubakari Hasiyatu, University of Ghana
16:45 - 18:15
245. / Changing Economic Lives
Room 13Chair: Nabil Ferdaoussi (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
A sociological analysis of “Africapitalism”: origins, prospects, and ambiguities of an in-between concept. Luc-Yaovi Kouassi, Les Afriques dans le monde Faux fabric? trademark considerations, and human rights implications of indigo textiles in West African society. Francesca Obiageli Anumonwo, New York City Bar Association Labour market penalty for teenage pregnancy: evidence from Nigeria. Mujidat Adefolake Adeniyi, Nagoya University Regional integration and individual living standards: econometric evidence from the East African community. Frederik Wild, University of Bayreuth Using African feminisms to transform the global economy: rethinking regional economic integration in Africa. Adryan Wallace, Stony Brook University (Trans)formation of existence in the face of "development projects in Mozambique": the Vale company, Moatize. Anselmo Chizenga, Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo
16:45 - 18:15
300.B / State, War and Peace
Room 4Chairs: Sane Ndlovu and Sanya Osha (HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
A case for prioritising African traditional justice mechanisms in post conflict transitional justice in Uganda. Daniel Ruhweza, Makerere University ‘In-between’ spaces and the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Diana Madsen, Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) Mining in Obuasi: conflict, social justice and peace-building (1890–2014). Emmanuel Badu Amoah, University of Ghana, Institute of Africa Studies Tracing Africa’s future projection of peace from the discourse of child-soldiers. Edith Natukunda Togboa, Makerere University
16:45 - 18:15
39.B / Are African Studies Centres Gatekeepers of African Knowledge Production and Enablers of (De)Colonisation? [Roundtable]
Room 10Convenor: Mjiba Frehiwot (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana)
Panellists: Prof. Anthony Diala, University of the Western Cape Dr Semeneh Asfaw, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University Dr Rudo Chigudu, University of Rhodes Prof. Thoko Kaime, University of Bayreuth Isabelle Zundel, University of Bayreuth About this roundtable
20:00 - 23:30
Reception: ASAA2022 Gala Dinner
Gold Restaurant, Green Point, Cape Town
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