LSA Panels at the African Studies Association Meeting (Atlanta, Georgia. November 20-22, 2025)
The LSA will have nine panels at the ASA in November. See the full list and schedule, below
1) Streets as Living Archives: Bodies, Movement, and Alternative Epistemologies in Urban Africa (Part I)
2) Streets as Living Archives: Bodies, Movement, and Alternative Epistemologies in Urban Africa (Part II)
3) Social, Political, and Economic History of Nigeria (Part I)
4) Social, Political, and Economic History of Nigeria (Part II)
5) New Light on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria (Part I)
6) New Light on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria (Part II)
7) AI, Digital Culture, Education, and Literacy in Africa
8) New Scholarships in African Cities and Environment
9) Jápa and Beyond: Unsettled Journeys, Continuities, Disruptions, and the Digital Turn in Black Migration
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Streets as Living Archives: Bodies, Movement, and Alternative Epistemologies in Urban Africa (Part I)
11/20/2025; 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM. Venue: M106 (Marquis Level)
Streets as Archives of Solidarity and Resistances: A Reading of Toponymic Cultures of Cape Coast, Ghana by Dorothy Takyiakwaa (The Pennsylvania State University)
Seeing the Street Through Nollywood by Bánkólé Wright (Florida International University)
Rewriting Reclamation Road: Streets and History in Old Lagos by Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University)
Religion in the Streets: Listening, Encounter, Performance by Vicki L. Brennan (University of Vermont)
Streets as Living Archives: Bodies, Movement, and Alternative Epistemologies in Urban Africa (Part II)
11/20/2025; 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM. Venue: M106 (Marquis Level)
Pedagogies of the Street in the African Bildungsroman by Chinelo Eneh (Florida State University)
In Search of Kasoa Mamoudou: Reading Urban Market Spaces as Palimpsests of Postcolonial Accra by Fauziyatu Moro (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Where We Draw the Line: Exploring Subjective Neighborhood Boundaries in Urban Kenya by Sarah Daniel (University of California, Berkeley)
Social, Political, and Economic History of Nigeria (Part I)
11/20/2025; 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM. Venue: International 7 (International Level)
Criminal Lunatics: Narratives and Spaces of Madness on the Streets of Lagos, Nigeria, 1906-1950 by Ifeoma Ifunanya Aneke (University of Florida)
Democratic Transition, Party Politics, and Civilian Governance in Nigeria since the Late 1970s by Gloria Chuku (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Òtún We Òsì: Dotun Popoola and John Lopez Metal Sculptures by Tolulope O. Sobowale (Olabisi Onabanjo University)
Voices of Survival: Navigating Societal Judgment, Stigma, and Identity Among COVID-19 Survivors in Nigeria by Sochima Peppertus Okafor (University of Mississippi)
Social, Political, and Economic History of Nigeria (Part II)
11/20/2025; 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM. Venue: International 7 (International Level)
How not to Liberate a People from the (un)known!: Smallpox Epidemics, Colonial Interventions and the Rise of Rural anti-vax Movements in Eastern Nigeria, c.1910-1950s by Damilola Adebayo and & Patrick C. Okpalaeke (York University)
Agrarian Politics: The British Colonial Policy on Agriculture in Lagos, 1861-1960 by Jamiu Audu Tai Solarin (University of Education)
Financing the Abolition of the Transatlantic Trade in Southern Nigeria by Michael Bakare (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Colonialism, Disability and Labor: The Making of “Productive” Disabled Subjects in Nigeria, 1900-1960 by Rasheed Alao Hassan (Florida International University)
Religion and Spirituality as Pillars of African Intellectual Traditions and Knowledge Systems by Oreoluwa Ifelola Oguntomisin (University of Ilesa)
New Light on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria (Part I)
11/21/2025, 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM. Venue: International 7 (International Level)
The Return of the Repressed: Queer Agency in Hausa Digital Prose Fiction by Zaynab Ango (Ahmadu Bello University)
Unveiling the Hidden Narratives: Revisiting the Neglected Contributions of African Women by Khadijat Yusuf Idoko (Kaduna Polytechnic)
Queering Fuji: Temmie Ovwasa Subaltern Sonic by Rosemary Popoola (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Lingering Silences Faced by Igbo Women and Children in Post- civil War Southeastern Nigeria, 1970-2022 by Joy Ugwu (University of Florida)
Thrones and Love: Marriage and Power Dynamics in an African City by Morenikeji Asaaju (Governors State University)
New Light on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria (Part II)
11/21/2025, 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM. Venue: International 7 (International Level)
Navigating Identity and Activism: The Role of African Feminisms in Shaping Gender and Sexuality Discourses in Contemporary Africa by Maureen Ngozi Ndu (Madonna University Nigeria)
The Nigerian Military Family in the 21st Century by Fisayo Ajala (Stellenbosch University)
Beyond Cultural Boundaries: Gender and Performance among the Yoruba by Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James (University of Lagos)
Fueling Change: Gender and Charcoal Production in Saki Area of Oyo State by Abiola Ayodokun (IFRA-Nigeria)
Land for Disease Control: Leprosy Segregation Villages and Indigenous Responses, 1930s -
1946 by Miracle Nduka (University of Mississippi)
New Scholarships in African Cities and Environment
11/21/2025; 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM. Venue: L403 (Lobby Level)
Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation in Informal Settlements: Comparing Multilateral, National, and Community-Led Strategies in Lagos, Accra, and Nairobi by Charisma Acey (University of California-Berkeley)
African Intellectual Traditions in the Age of Ecological Crisis: From Margins to Mainstream by Joyce Agofure (Ahmadu Bello University)
Fishing by Poisoning: Fishing Rights and Conflict in Colonial Lagos, 1920s – 1939 Sikiru Yusuff (Florida International University)
Mapping Renting in Lagos: Oral History, Neighborhood Maps, and the Reconstruction of Tenants' Lived Experiences by Halimat Somotan (Georgetown University)
“The Redemption Camp is Not as it Seemed from Outside”: Sacred Urban Space and Religiosity in Lagos Busuyi Adeleye (Florida International University)
Jápa and Beyond: Unsettled Journeys, Continuities, Disruptions, and the Digital Turn in Black Migration
11/22/2025, 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM. Venue: International 4 (International Level)
From Iṣẹ́ ajé so ọmọ nù bí òkò (the capriciousness of the quest for fortune) to Jápa (abrupt departure by any means necessary): Continuities and Discontinuities in African Migrations to the West by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Networks of Aspiration: How Digital Platforms Fuel Black Transcontinental Mobility in the Era of Jápa and Blaxit by Gbemisola Abiola (Harvard University)
Já, Jápa, Jápada: Transnational Linkages and the Non-Homothetic Aspirations of Nigerian Migrants by Omolola Olarinde-Olomola (Elizade University)
Discussant: Cyril Obi, Social Science Research Council
AI, Digital Culture, Education, and Literacy in Africa
11/22/2025, 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM. Venue: M102 (Marquis Level)
Bridging Worlds: Technology, Multilingualism, and Education in Rural Nigeria by Yetunde Alabede (Michigan State University)
Digital Education and Learning in Africa by Mujeedah Abdul Aleem Olagunju (Voice of Nigeria)
Digital Ubuntu: Leveraging African Ethical Frameworks for AI and Digital Technologies by Richard Oveh (Independent Scholar)
Ghosts or Apparitions? A Study of Race and Power in Commercial Space Exploration by Iwalewa Olorunyomi (University of South Carolina)