LSA Panels at the African Studies Association Meeting
Philadelphia
November 17-19, 2022
Session I-T-2
Nigerian Archival Collections at Home and Abroad:
Voices, Politics, and Representations
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Time: 8:00AM-9:45AM (US Eastern); 2:00PM-3:45PM (Nigeria)
Room: Salon K
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Chair: Adewumi Damilola Adebayo (York University)
Discussant: Oghenetoja Okoh (Loyola University Maryland)
Nigerian History through the Rockefeller Foundation Archives in the United States by Adedamola Adetiba (Rhodes University)
Archives for Nigerian History in Britain: Past, Present, and Future by Tim Livsey (Northumbria University)
Archives and Nationalism: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Pan Africanism, and Nigeria's Historical Documentation by Mark Reeves (Samford University)
Israel State Archives and New Insights into the History of Nigeria’s First Republic by Lynn Schler (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
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Session V-A-6
Lagos in African History
Friday, November 18, 2022
Time: 8:00AM-9:45AM (US Eastern Time); 2:00PM-3:45PM (Nigeria)
Room: Franklin 3
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Chair: Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (University of California-Riverside)
Discussant: Halimat Somotan (Auburn University)
The BRT and the Danfo: A Case Study of Lagos Transport Reforms from 1999 to 2019 by Oliver Harman (University of Oxford)
The Lagos for Lagos Movement in Historical Perspectives: The Old Debates, the New Dimensions, and the Contemporary Realities by Habeeb Sanni (Lagos State University) and Faroq Boge (Lagos State University)
“By the Sweat of Her Face”: Slavery and Its Afterlives for Afro-Brazilians in Lagos, 1850–1900 by Susan Rosenfield (University of California-Los Angeles)
Modernity and Danger: Vehicular Accidents in Colonial Lagos by Prince Okwudili Vincent-Anene (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Session VII-Q-7
Fuji: An African Popular Culture
Friday, November 18, 2022
Time: 1:30PM-3:15PM (US Eastern); 7:30PM-9:15PM (Nigeria)
Room: Salon K
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Chair: Rosemary Popoola (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Discussant: Jesse Weaver Shipley (Dartmouth College)
Between Ayinla and Barrister: Conflicting Notions of Superstardom in Fuji and Apala by Festus Adedayo (Independent Scholar)
“Musicians Should Avoid Partisan Politics”: Sikiru Ayinde Barrister and Political Fuji, 1980-2010 by Saheed Aderinto (Florida International University)
Sikiru Ayinde Barrister and this "complex whole" called Fuji: Notes on Genre-making and Agency in African Popular Music by Oladele Ayorinde (Indiana University)
Negotiating Body, Sex, and Self-fashioning in Fuji Performance by Stephen Boluwaduro (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
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Session VIII-J-4
Medicine, Health, and Wellness in Nigerian History
Friday, November 18, 2022
Time: 3:45PM-5:30PM (US Eastern); 9:45PM-11:30PM (Nigeria)
Room: Conference 414-415
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Chair: Sam Daly (Duke University)
Discussant: Helen Tilley (Northwestern University)
African Agency and Western Biomedicine: Isaac Oluwole and the Evolution of Public Health in Post-World War II Nigeria by Bidemi Oladayo Balogun (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
Rockefeller Foundation and Yaba Laboratory Research, 1925 -1957 by Victor Olaoye (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
Local Agencies, Maternal Health, and Midwifery Services in Colonial Ibadan, 1940 to 1960 by Folaranmi Flourish Olorunnibe (Rhodes University)
Food as Medicine: Human and Animal Malnutrition in Colonial Nigeria Oluwaseun Williams (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
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Session X-C-18
Art and Expressive Culture in 21st Century Nigeria
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Time: 10:15AM-12:00PM (US Eastern) 4:15PM-6:00PM (Nigeria)
Room: Franklin 4
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Chair: Susan Rosenfeld (University of California-Los Angeles)
Discussant: Oliver Coates (University of Cambridge)
Is Might Always Right? An Analysis of the Restitution Ceremony at Return of Okukor Benin Artefact in Cambridge 2021 by Chibuzor Mirian Azubuike (Kansas State University)
Beyond Meaning: On Slangifying, Styling, and African Youth Languages by Tosin Gbogi (Marquette University)
Tunde Kelani’s Opomulero Aesthetics in the context of Nigerian Cinema by Tunde Onikoyi (University of Regina)
"He is not my pastor": Celebrity spirituality, Pentecostalism & Public Gaze in Nigeria by Rosemary Popoola (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Session XI-L-13
Transitions in African Migration Narrative
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Time: 1:30PM-3:15PM (US Eastern); 7:30PM-9:15PM (Nigeria)
Room: Conference 306
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Chair: Omoyemi Ajisebutu (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Tosin Gbogi (Marquette University)
African E-fraud Fiction and the Literary Economy of Migration by Daniel Chukwuemeka (University of Bristol, UK/Macquarie University)
Neoliberalism and the Complexities of Global Black Solidarity: A Reading of Contemporary African Migratory Narratives by Kayode Odumboni (The Ohio State University)
Witnessing from the Black Mediterranean: Vulnerability and Refugeeism in the Travelers by Theophilus Okunlola (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Fabricated Identities: Cultural and Historical Reimagimations of Nigerian Identity in Roye Okoye’s Malika: Warrior Queen by Michael Oshindoro (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Session XII-A-13
Politics and the Society in Colonial and Postcolonial Nigeria
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Time: 3:45PM-5:30PM (US Eastern); 9:45PM-11:30PM (Nigeria
Room: Franklin 3
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Chair: Ndubueze Mbah (University at Buffalo)
Discussant: Tara Hollies (Macalester College) tarareyelts@gmail.com
Reforming the Unreformable?: Historical Perspectives on Electricity Privatization in Nigeria, by 1909-1985 Adewumi Damilola Adebayo (York University)
West African Representations of South Asia during World War Two by Oliver Coates (University of Cambridge)
The Nigerian Urban Cities: Memories of the June 12, 1993 General Elections by Pelumi Folajimi (Louisiana State University)
Cooperative Societies and Modernity in Colonial Nigeria, 1934 -1960 by Waliu Ismaila (West Virginia University)