LSA-Sponsored Panels at the African Studies Association Meeting

November 16-18, 2017

Chicago, USA

 III-R-1 The Challenges of Urbanization in Lagos

11/16/2017 - 2:00 PM

Chair: Omolade Adunbi, University of Michigan

Discussant: Oluwatoyin Babatunde Oduntan, Towson University

Nostalgia And/Or Paranoia: Time-Narration and City-Identification in a Neighborhood of Lagos By Allen Xiao, University of Wisconsin - Madison

 Occupational Health and Safety at Building Construction Sites in Lagos State By Olasunmbo Olusanya, University of Lagos

 The Crisis and Historical Development of "Bus Conductor or Agbero Syndrome" in the Lagos Public Transport System By Faruq Boge, Lagos State University

 Increasing Population, Urbanization, and Climatic Factors in Lagos State: The Implications on Water Demand and Supply By A. Ayeni, University of Lagos

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IX-A-4 New Perspectives on Modernity in Colonial Lagos (Part I)

11/18/2017 - 8:30 AM

Chair: Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, University of California, Riverside (UCR)

Discussant: Abosede George, Columbia University - Barnard College

Politics of Public Cemeteries in Colonial Lagos By Titilola Somotan, Columbia University

 Slavery, Freedom, and the Atlantic System: Afro-Brazilian Discourses and Experiences of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Lagos By Susan Rosenfeld, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

 Boys' Clubs and Boxing: Modern Colonial Sport, Youth, and the Growth of Urban Post-War Lagos By Michael Gennaro, Independent Scholar

 Lagos and its Dogs: Human-Animal Relations in the Discourse of Colonial Modernity By Saheed Aderinto, Western Carolina University

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 X-A-2 New Perspectives on Modernity in Colonial Lagos (Part 2)

11/18/2017 - 10:30 AM

Chair: Michael Gennaro, Independent Scholar

Discussant: Susan Rosenfeld, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Urban Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial African Cities: Lagos and Ibadan, 1917-1960 By Soji Oyeranmi, Olabisi Onabanjo University

 The Port is the City: The Developmental Impact of the Port of Lagos By Ayodeji Olukoju, University of Lagos

 Strike at the Root: Lagos, the Bubonic Plague, and its Aftermath By Mufutau Jimoh, Federal University

 British Colonial Land Use Policies and Housing Development in Lagos By Felix Ajiola, University of Lagos

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 XI-C-2 Emerging Dimensions in Literature, Creativity, and Popular Culture in Lagos

11/18/2017 - 2:00 PM

Chair: Gabriel Bámgbósé, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Discussant: Ng'ang'a Muchiri, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Three Levels of Romantic Conflicts in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and Guillaume Oyono Mbia's Trois Pretendants...Un Mari By Adewale Tiamiyu, University of Lagos

 The Implications of Music as a Driving Force for Dramatic Action in Bolanle Austin-Peter's Waaka – the Musical By Cornelius Onyekaba, University of Lagos

 Lagos: Crossroads of a Thousand Dystopias in Wole Soyinka’s The Beatification of Area Boy and Osofisan’s Once Upon Four Robbers By Christopher Anyokwu, University of Lagos

 Unknown Soldier: Fela Kuti, the 1977 Kalakuta Invasion and the Geopolitics of Desire By Dotun Ayobade, Brown University