LSA Panels at the ASA in Atlanta, 2018

Panel I:

Global Lagos:

Diasporic and Cultural Networks of an African City

Panelists

Chair: Oliver Coates (University of Cambridge)

Discussant: Abosede George (Barnard College- Columbia University)

Israel Abayomi Saibu and Cecilia Titilayo Clement “Caribbean Coconut Legacy of Lagos: Reflections on the Food Culture of the Brazilian quarters of Lagos” (Anchor

University; University of Ibadan)

 Adedamola Seun Adetiba, Human Experimentation and Medical Research in Southwestern  Nigeria (Rhodes University)

 Susan Rosenfeld, Local and Global Networks: Non-Elite Afro-Brazilians in Lagos and the Atlantic World (University of California - Los Angeles)

 Chinwe Ezinna Oriji, “I’m not Black and Nigerian. My Black is Nigerian.”: ‘Obligated Blackness’ as a Rhetorical tool of Solidarity (University of Texas at Austin)

Panel II:

New Path in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos History

Panelists

Chair: Vivian Chenxue Lu (Stanford University).

Discussant: Susan Rosenfeld (University of California - Los Angeles)

Saheed Aderinto, A Turf-Minded City: Horseracing, Spectacle of Imperial Power, and Leisure in Colonial Lagos (Western Carolina University)

Michael Gennaro, “‘I Was Really Disgusted at Seeing Healthy Young Boys Playing Ping Pong…’: Ping Pong and Masculinity in Post-WWII Lagos (Bossier Parish Community College)

 Halimat T. Somotan, The Transformation of Lagos and Contestations over Belonging, 1946-1955 (Columbia University)

Edet A. Thomas, Reporting the “Wicked” and “Illegal Traffic”: Lagos Newspaper Portrayal of International Cannabis Trade, 1970 – 1980 (University of Massachusetts Boston)

Panel III:

Gendering Lagos Studies:

Women in the Narratives of Political, Social, and Economic Power

Panelists

Chair: Tosin Gbogi (Tulane University)

Discussant: Adunni Abimbola Adelakun (University of Texas at Austin)

Friday Aworawo, New Perspectives on Prostitution in Postcolonial Lagos, 1967-2015 (University of Lagos)

Omotola Okunlola, (Un)funny Laughter: Sexist Humour and the Discursive Production of  Femininity in Nigerian Stand-Up Comedy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  

Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola, Between Failure and Success: A Critical Assessment of Women-Based Advocacy Projects in Lagos (Covenant University)                                                                                  

 Tosin Gbogi, Between the Text and the Ethnographic Context: Rethinking Gendered Slurs in Nigerian Hip Hop Culture (Tulane University)

Panel IV:

The Crossroads of Spiritualities:

New and Old Religions of Lagos in Transition

Panelists

Chair: Babatunde Babalola (University of Cambridge)

Discussant: Adedamola Osinulu (New York University)

Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, Pentecostalism and Contemporary African Indigenous Religious Movements: A Case Study Of “Ijo Orumila” Movement of Lagos (University of Georgia - Athens)

David Olali, A Scriptural Economy: Magics, Meanings, and Massages of Lagos (Comparative Heritage)

Oliver Coates, Muhammad Jumat Adesina and the Yoruba Madhist Movement in Lagos and Ijebu (University of Cambridge)

Adrian M. Deese. Ecclesiastical Polity, Christian Nationalism, and Religious Freedom in West Africa, 1880-1884 (University of Cambridge)