Papers presented at the Conference

Panel I : Fanon, Padmore, Nkrumah & the Pan-African Revolutionary Struggle

 Ato Sekyi Otu, Fanon and the Possibility of Postcolonial Critical Imagination

Ato Sekyi Otu

 Helmi Sharawy, Fanon and the African Revolution, in the Context of Globalization Process

Helmi Sharawy

 Elika M’bokolo, Padmore, Nkrumah, CLR James et l’ideologie de lutte panafricaine

Elika M’bokolo

 Kofi Awoonor, Nkrumah, Communism, Culture and Pan-African Ideology

Panel II: Divergent Directions in African Intellectual History: Cheikh Anta Diop vrs Senghor and Cesaire

 Joachim E. Goma-Thethet, Egyptologie, reappropriation de l’histoire et panafricanisme dans l’ouvre de Cheikh Anta Diop

Joachim E. Goma-Thethet

 Abiola Irele, Leopold Sedar Senghor

 Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Senghor and Bergson

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

 Geoffroy Botoyiye, Actualite philosphique de la pensee d’Aime Cesaire

Geoffroy Botoyiye

Panel III: Foundation Works in African Literature

 Wumi Raji, A Half-Way House : Identity & Memory in African Fictions of Exile

Wumi Raji

 Ayobani Kehinde, Post-Colonial African Literature and Counter-Discourse: J.M Coetzee’s Fiction and Reworking of Canonical Works

Ayobani Kehinde

 W. Okumu-Bigambo, Towards a Culture of Competence, Ethics and Responsibility in African Arts: Reflections on Okot p’Bitek’s Artistic Heritage

 Wendo Nabea, Canonization Kiswahili Poetry through the Metric System

Wendo Nabea

 Austin Nwagbara, The Mbari Heritage and Cross-Cultural Literaty Aesthetics: the English Language and the Achebe Tradition of Pluralingual Significations in Nigeria Literature

Austin Nwagbara

 Gbemisola Remi Adeoti, Canonizing the Hole in Africa’s Post-Colonial Zero: An exploration of the Dramaturgy of Kole Omotoso

 Bandele Bulola, Gender in Canon Formation in African Literature

Bandele Bulola

Panel IV: Peter Ekeh & ’The Two Publics’

 Richard Joseph, Peter Ekeh’s ’The Two Publics’ and Predatory Rule in Africa

 Eghosa Osaghae, Colonialism and Civil Society in Africa : the Perspectives of Peter Ekeh’s ’Two Publics’

Eghosa Osaghae

 Isaac Tarus, Interrogating Peter Ekeh’s Model of ’Two Public Realms’ and its application to Kenya

Isaac Tarus

Panel V: Slavery & Colonialism

 E.S. Denis Fomin, Slavery Artifacts and Colonial Heritage in Africa

 Slave Routes: a Trail So Long Gone [a 15-part TV documentary, directed by Doris Kuwornu]

 Paul Middeljin: A Television Dialogue

Panel VI: Pan-Africanism in the Face of a Predatory Globalisation

 Franci Njubi, Loose Canons: Space, Race and Nation in African Studies

Franci Njubi

 Alieu S.T. Taal, Pan-Africanism: a suspended reality

Alieu S.T. Taal

 Nguelieutou T. Auguste, Le panafricanisme face a la menace de la mondialisation

Nguelieutou T. Auguste

 Paul Ehioze Idahosa, Contradictions of Recapturing a Relevant Past: Pan-Africanism in the age of globalization

Paul Ehioze Idahosa

Panel VII: Foundation Works in African History

 Bourema Diamitani, Restitution du patrimoine historique pille pour une renaissance culturalle Africaine

Bourema Diamitani

 Fru Awason, Canons of Anglophone and Francophone Historiography and the Problematic of the ’Iron Curtain’

Fru Awason

 Sabo Bako, Islam and Political Though in Pre-Colonial West Africa: some preliminary observations on the cannonical works of the Sokoto Caliphate

Sabo Bako

 Moumouni Seyni, Tradition manuscrite et pensee socio-politique et culturelle en Afrique: soufisme dans l’œuvre du Cheikh Uthman dan Fodio (1754-1817)

Moumouni Seyni

 Samson Moenga, The Works of B.A Ogot in Kenyan History

Samson Moenga

 Isaac Olawale Albert, Beyond K.O. Dike et. al.: Canonical Works on Oral Historiography of Africa and the Challenge for Contemporary Social Science Research

Isaac Olawale Albert

Panel VIII: Gender in Canon Formation

 Rudo Gaidzanwa, Gender and Canon Formation: Women, Men and Literaty Art in Africa

Rudo Gaidzanwa

 Dorothy A. Nyakwaka, The Gender Factor in Kenya’s Canon Formation: Challenges in Continuing Innovations in History

Dorothy A. Nyakwaka

 Richard Ssewakiryanga, ’That Beijing Thing!’: Challenging Transnaitonal Feminisms in Kampala, Uganda

Richard Ssewakiryanga

 Damina U. Opata, Gender and Canon Formation in Nigerian Literature in English: A Search for a Useable Past

Damina U. Opata

 Esi Sutherland-Addy, Women in Their Own Time: the Women Writing Africa Project

Panel XI: Foundation Works in African Philosophy

 Olufemi Taiwo, Beyond the Usual Suspects: Towards Renewing th Foundations of African Philosophy

Olufemi Taiwo

 J.K. Ayantayo, African Traditional Ethics and Transformation: Innovation, Ambivalence & Modification for 21st Century African Intellectual Scholarship

J.K. Ayantayo

 Kolawole, Owolabi, Between Cultural Nationalism and Globalization: a critical interrogation of Appiah’s canonical work, ’In My Father’s House.

Kolawole, Owolabi

 Idowu William, Humean Ghost Positivism and African Cultural Heritage: Africa’s Challenge to Jurisprudence

Idowu William

Panel X: Foundation Works in African Music & Dance

 Kofi Agawu, Nketia’s ’The Music of Africa’ and the Foundations of African Musicology

Kofi Agawu

 Dele Layiwola, Conceptualizing African Dance Theatre

Dele Layiwola

 Monou Djekrif, Chaabania à Constatine, une fête cachant une autre fete

Monou Djekrif

 Abderrame Ngaide & El-Erby Ould Saleck, Conscience, identitaire et/ou dissidence culturelle? Musique, danse et transes chez les Haratin de Mauritanie

Abderrame Ngaide & El-Erby Ould Saleck

Panel XI: Foundation Works in African Popular Arts

 F.E.M.K. Senkoro, Rethinking Arts & Culture in 21st Century East Africa

 Mshai S. Mwangola, Completing the Cycle: Stage to Page to State

Mshai S. Mwangola

 Onookome Okome, Self-Styling and the Video Film in Africa

 Agbenyega Adedze, "Stamped" African Women: A Century Postal Art in Africa

 Felicia ArudoYieke, Graffiti: Vandalism or Expression of Academic Freedom and Intellectualism at Universities in Kenya

Felicia ArudoYieke

 Oluyemi Olaniyan, The Evolution of the Technique & Creativity of Fuji, a Nigerian Popular Music Genre

Oluyemi Olaniyan

 John Collins, Popular Music Studies in the Ghanaian/African Educational System

John Collins

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