LSA Panels at the African Studies Association of the United States Conference
(Chicago, December 12-14, 2024)
Evolving Themes on Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Nigeria (Part I)
Chair
Oluwasola Daniels (University of California-Davis)
Contesting Capitalism: Gender and Charcoal Production in Oyo State by Abiola Victoria Ayodokun (IFRA-Nigeria)
Transcending the Normality of Erasure: New Lights on the Nigerian LGBQT+/Queer Community by Afolasade Ola (Bowling Green State University)
“If you show body, I see you as a harlot and you will be harassed”: Gender Contestations about Women’s Bodies in Nigerian Public Spaces by Helen Ufuoma Ugah (University of Kansas)
“Dollars Forbids Nothing” Centro Husbands and International Prostitution in Benin, 1990-2023
By Pat Iziengbe Ebuka-Onuoha (University of Benin)
Evolving Themes on Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Nigeria (Part II)
Chair
Omotola Okunlola (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Queering Nigerian Popular Music: Temmie Ovawasa Sonic and Visual Transgressive act by Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Imagining a Modern Africa: African Women’s Epistolary Narratives by Ademola Adesola (Mount Royal University)
Passive Resistance: African Women Movement against Colonial/Apartheid Government by Kabir O Abdulkareem (Tshwane University of Technology)
Violence, Military Culture, and the Nigerian Civil War
Chair
Fisayo Ajala (Stellenbosch University)
Born for a Kill: Ogoni Activism, Violence, and Global Uproar by Taiwo Bello (Oklahoma State University)
Military Rule and Culture in Nigeria by Gloria Chuku (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Conducting Research on Nigeran Military Widows of the Boko Haram Conflict: A Methodological Reflection by Fisayo Ajala (Stellenbosch University)
Unsilencing Voices: Digital History, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War by Omonye A. Omoigberale (Babcock University)
Spatiality and War: Some Lessons from the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 by Feyisayo Akindoyin (University of Calgary)
Author Meets Critics: Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City (Ohio University Press, 2024)
Chair
Abosede George (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Discussants
Mariana Candido (Emory University)
Monsuru Muritala (University of Ibadan)
Tasha Rijke-epstein (Vanderbilt University)
Tony Yeboah (Tulane University)
Author: Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (University of California-Riverside)
Alternative Histories of Decolonization for Global Africa
Chairs
Samuel Meyerson and Ayodeji Adegbite (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Politicizing Biomedical Technologies”: Nigerian Medical Practitioners and Medical Inequities in the Late Colonial State by Ayodeji Adegbite (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Conflict, the State, and the End of Empire in Karamoja, 1957-1966 by Samuel Meyerson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Reframing Decolonization: Centering Sexual and Reproductive Health in Colonial South-Western Nigeria by Muhammed Ridwan (University of Kansas)
“If Not the Work of Malice”: Rhetoric and Advocacy in the Colonial Leprosy Crusade, Southeastern Nigeria, 1940–1950 by Odinaka Eze (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Evolving Trends in Nigerian History
Chair
Adedamola Seun Adetiba (University of Huddersfield)
Are the Blacks Nothing? Calvin Warren’s Ontological Terror and British Architecture in Onitsha Province, 1857 – 1949 by Mathias Chukwudi Isiani (The University of Pennsylvania)
The Spread and Reception of Health and Hygiene Motion Pictures in Colonial Nigeria 1924-1960 by Sochima Okafor (University of Mississippi)
Nature and Governance: Animals, Humans, and Violence in Nigeria by Omotolani Onike (Boston University)
Collective Progress, Road Infrastructure, and the History of Technology in Colonial Igboland by Prince Vincent-Anene (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Emerging Perspectives on Arts, Music, and Literature in Nigeria and the Diaspora
Chair
Samuel Ajose ((University of Ibadan/ Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg)
“We are happy people, so we want to do happy things”: Nigerian Migrant Musicians and Choral Musicking in Germany by Samuel Ajose (University of Ibadan/ Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg)
Capitalism and Colonialism in Contemporary Literary Discourse. Capitalocene from a Global Perspective by Ifeoma Catherine Onwugbufor (Kwararafa University)
Blurred Boundaries: The Body, the Supernatural, and the Destabilization of Binary Oppositions in Tutuola and Fagunwa by Iwalewa Olorunyomi (University of South Carolina)
Iku to Waasi (Death is Equivalent to Sermon): Musical Genre in the (Re)construction of Death and Memory by Nurudeen Olatoye Arogundade (Osun State University)
Emerging Perspectives on Arts, Music, and Literature in Nigeria and the Diaspora (Part II)
Chair
Daniel Chukwuemeka (Northumbria University)
Sound and Sight: Theatre, Nollywood, and Fuji Music Video by Saheed Aderinto (Florida International University)
Dayo’s Studio: Artistic and Religious Constructions of Diasporic Community by
Vicki L. Brennan (University of Vermont)
Literary Adaptation: A call for canon formation in literary Analysis under content in Digital Humanities by Mujeedah Abdul Aleem Olagunju (Ahmadu Bello University)
The Politics of Death: Necropolitics in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names by Abisola Akinsiku (University of Kansas)
COVID-19, Migration, and Development in Africa: Unpacking Shifts, Inequalities, and Human Agency
Chair: Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome, Brooklyn College
Racism, Xenophobia, and Solidarity in Migration and Mobility
Politics: Does COVID-19 Make Any Difference? By Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome, Brooklyn College
COVID-19 Movement Restrictions and Human Rights Violations: Citizens’ Self-accounts by Obinna J. Eze (University of Nigeria)
Migration Securitization and the Consequences of Weapons Proliferations in Post-COVID-19 Nigeria by Oluwasegun Dare Ogunsakin
Discussant: Cyril Obi, University of Edinburgh