LSA Panels at the African Studies Association Meeting.
San Francisco
Nov. 30- December 2
Gendered Histories of Slavery, Abolition, and Freedom in Africa (Part I)
11/30/2023. 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM. Salon 6
Chairs: Lisa Lindsay (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and Ndubueze Mbah (University at Buffalo)
Unity: African Women and Resistance in the Atlantic Slave Trade by Lisa Lindsay (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Fugitive Women and the Myth of Abolition Freedom, 1850s-1950s by Ndubueze Mbah (SUNY at Buffalo)
Abolition Work: The Education of Liberated African Girls in Freetown by Kaela Thuney (UNC-Chapel Hill)
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Gendered Histories of Slavery, Abolition, and Freedom in Africa (Part II)
Chair: Ndubueze Mbah (University at Buffalo)
11/30/2023. 3:30 PM – 5:15 PM. Salon 6
Reading Slavery and Freedom in the Streets of Old Lagos (1851-1870) by Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, (University of California-Riverside)
Afro-Brazilian Women, Dependent Children, and Gendered Quests for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Lagos by Kristin Mann (Emory University)
“By the Sweat of Her Face”: Kinship, Slavery, and Social Mobility in Lagos, 1850–1900 by Susan Rosenfeld (University of California-Los Angeles)
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Fuji: An African Popular Culture
Chair: Ruth Opara (Columbia University)
12/1/2023. 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM. Nob Hill D
More than Lovers, Daughters, Patrons, Mothers: New Lights on the Women of Fuji by Saheed Aderinto (Florida International University)
“What a Man can do, a Woman can do better”: Notes on Women’s Fújì Economy on the Streets of Lagos by Oladele Ayorinde (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Jápa: Nostalgia, Memories and Migratory Inducement in Fújì Travelogue by Stephen Boluwaduro (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Writing Sikiru Ayinde Barrister: Bio/Autobiographical Narrative and African Popular Culture by Tunde Busari (Independent Scholar)
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New Light on Gender and Sexuality in Nigeria and the African Diaspora
Chair: Esther Ajayi-Lowo (Spelman College)
Saturday 12/2/2023. 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM. Salon 14
African Presence in the 1930s–1950s United States: A Study of West African Students and the Intersectionality of Gender, Class and Race by Gloria Chuku (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
“Alex is not gay! Homophobia, Counter-Sexuality Praxis and Celebrity Culture in Nigeria” by Rosemary Popoola (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Religion and Shariah Crises: Women and Interfaith Peacebuilding Initiatives in Northern Nigeria, 1992-2018” by Mubarak Tukur (Makerere University)
“Let the Archives Speak that Which Was Hidden: Cruel Intimacy, Sexual Violence, and the Imperial Politics of Domination in Colonial Nigeria” by Bright Alozie (Portland State University)
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Emerging Frontiers in African Literature
Chair: Mosunmola Adeojo (University of Florida)
12/2/2023. 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM. Pacific D
Africa-in-the-world: Analyzing Transatlantic Migration in Shailja Patel’s Migritude and Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala by Kayode Odumboni (Ohio State University)
Reading Humor in Select African Child Soldier Novels by Ademola Adesola (Mount Royal University)
Humanity, Not Ethnicity: Lagos, Diekara Oolacunta–Oju and Damilare Kuku by Pelumi Folajimi (Obafemi Awolowo University)
Metaphors of Postcolonial Nigerian Protest Performances in Ola Rotimi’s Hopes of the Living Dead and Tor Iorapuu’s April 1421 by Tijime Justin Awuawuer (Obafemi Awolowo University)
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Wellness, Health, and Medicine in Africa
Chair: Ayodeji Adegbite (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
11/30/2023. 1:15-3:00. Nob Hill C
Beyond Black”: Revisiting Obstetric Knowledge in Southwest Nigeria by Tolulope Esther Fadeyi (University of Basel)
Decolonizing Medical Surveillance: Colonial and Postcolonial Continuities in the History of Antimicrobial Research in Nigeria and South Africa by Damilola Adetiba (University of Huddersfield)
“No Idea of Cleanliness Exists”: Colonial Subjectivities and the Institutionalisation of Maternal Health and Midwifery System in Ibadan, 1920 to 1950 by Folaranmi Flourish Olorunnibe (Rhodes University)
“From Local to Global Health:” African Medical Practitioners in the Politics and Science of Disease Control by Ayodeji Adegbite (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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New Pathways in the Political and Legal Histories of Lagos and Nigeria
Chair: Oliver Coates (University of Cambridge)
Saturday 12/2/2023. 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM. Salon 4
A Shared Struggle: The Nigeria-Biafra War and African Americans in the Age of Decolonization by Susan Iseyen (Princeton University)
Law’s Moral Legitimacy: Historical Participation and the Case of General Jurisprudence by Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí (University of Oxford)
Indigenes-settlers Conundrum and the 2023 General Elections in Lagos State in a Historical Perspective by Habeeb Sanni (Lagos State University) and Shakirat Temidola Sanni (Eko University of Medicine and Health Science)
Colonial Cities After Empire: Grassroots Activists and the Politics of Governing Lagos, Nigeria, 1951-60 by Halimat Somotan (Georgetown University)
Dying in the Service of Empire: The Politics of Compassionate Gratuity in the Nigerian Civil Service, 1900-1960 by Damilola Adebayo (York University) adebayod@yorku.ca
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The Niger coup in regional context: Democratization, Coups d’état, and Security in West Africa
12/1/2023. 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM. Sierra F.
Chair: Amina Mama (University of California, Davis)
Panelists
Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Pearl Robinson (Tufts University)
Emmanuel Balogun (Skidmore College)
Mahamadou Bassirou Tangara (University of Social Sciences and Management in Bamako)
Yolande Bouka (Queens University)