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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010 PANEL SESSION A, 11:00AM – 12:30PM
A1: SEX WORK AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING, Lone Star Room, 3.208 Chair: Moyo Okediji Tax Burden, Slave Trade and Human Trafficking in Northern Nigeria in the 1930s Mohammed S. Abdulkadir, Bayero University, ( Nigeria) Trafficking for Sex Work and Social Rehabilitation of Commercial Sex Workers in Edo and Lagos States, Nigeria Interrogating Policies on Human Trafficking in Nigeria Migrating into Servitude: Akwa Ibom ( Nigeria) Women and Neo-Slavery Women and Trans border Smuggling Activities: A historical appraisal of gender involvement in the Lagos/ Seme illegal trade traffic ***** A2: HOMOSEXUALITY IN CONVERSATIONS, Quadrangle Room, 3.304 Chair: Neville Hoad The Reality of Homosexuality in Africa: The Yoruba Example Decolonizing Homosexuality in Uganda as a Human Rights Process Sexual Transgression as Acts of Illusory Emancipation and Fatal Repression A dvertizing as Reality? Defining Gay in South African Gay Print Media Kodjo Besia, Supi, Yags and Eagles: Being Tacit Subjects and Non-Normative Citizens inContemporary Ghana ***** A3: SEXUALITY AND PUBLIC SPACE, Texas Governors Room, 3.116 Chair: Emmanuel Mbah Radical Privacies: Sexual Lives in the Photography of Zanele Muholi Gender and Sexuality in the Music of Fela Anikulapo Kuti Archiving the Popobawa: The Circulation of Sexual Knowledge through a Coastal Tanzania Urban Legend WILPF and Egypt during the Interwar Years, 1919-1939 “Of Hens and Cocks”: Masculinity and Democratic Change in Kenya ***** A4: DIALOGUING ISSUES IN BLACK FEMINISMS , Sinclair Suite, 3.128 Chair: Daina Ramey Berry ‘Towards their Dazzling Conclusions’: Feminizing the Colonial Gaze in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy Thoughts on Developing Black Feminist Praxes On the Promotion of “Certain” Ugandan Women: Was Idi Amin Feminist or Foe? Radical African Feminist Reactions to Patriarchy ***** Lunch: 12:30pm – 2:00pm Harry Ransom Center Exhibit on African Studies ***** PANEL SESSION B: 2:00PM – 3:30PM B1: SEXUALITY, SEXISM, AND WELLBEING, Lone Star Room, 3.208 Chair: Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva Motherhood, Women’s Body and ‘Eating Well’: Pregnancy, A Metaphor of Life in the Cameroon Grassfields Managing Sexuality, Sex Work, and Heroin Addiction: Gendered Spaces, Concerns and Needs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Polygyny and Sexuality of Women in Africa Gender, Sexualities and Work: A Case Study of Domestic Workers in Nigeria *****
Chair: Viet Erlmann Western Religions and Female Sexuality: Engaging the Influence of Dualist Thinking on AfricanWomen’s Sexuality Sexualities, Religion, and Spirituality: The Marginalization of Women in Africa Yan Daudu , a Social Problem or Victims of Politics?: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Nigeria African Religion and Sexual Exploitation of the Female Gender: the Nigerian Experience ***** B3: SEXUAL BEHAVIORS AND HIV/AIDS, Quadrangle Room, 3.304 Chair: Catherine Boone Influence of HIV/AIDS Awareness Information on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescents inSelected Rural Communities in Nigeria Child Prostitution and HIV/AIDS Transmission: The Other Side of Oju 'De Oba, an Ijebu-OdeCelebration Weaponizing Rape and HIV/AIDS: The Limits of International Criminal Law in Post-Conflict Reconstruction Implications of Perceptions and Attitudes towards HIV/AIDS for Women’s Health in Sierra Leone ***** B4: AFRICAN CULTURES BEYOND AFRICA, Sinclair Suite, 3.128 Chair: Helene Tissieres Phat Girlz: Identifying with Yoruba Culture from the Diaspora History, Memory and Imagination: Na Agontimé, a Dahomean Queen in Brazil African Diaspora and Education: Struggling against Race and Gender Inequality in Brazil Tutoring Children of African Immigrants in a Multicultural Context: A Case Study Women in Motion: The Gendered Space of the West African Pentecostal Diaspora in Italy ***** PANEL SESSION C: 3: 45PM – 5:15PM CI: FEMALE POWER, FEMALE SPACE , Quadrangle Room, 3.304 Chair: Ebun Oduwole Hindrances to the Career Development of Female Academics Staff in Nigeria Universities: A Case Study of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Getting the Best from Culture: Functionality of Culture in Facilitating Adult Learning in Nigeria Community Education and the Learning Needs of Women in Rural Areas in Nigeria The Kenyan Women’s Movement: Grassroots Education, Local Knowledge and Social Change Women and Land Conflict in the Southern Cameroon Grasslands ***** C2: FEMALE EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERPRENEURIAL EMPOWERMENT, Lone Star Room, 3.208 Chair: Aderonke Adesanya Combating Emotional Slavery: Educating Female Polytechnic Students on Couples’ Lives The Effect of Education on the Personal Entrepreneurial Characteristics of Female Academics in a Nigerian University: Implication for Retirement Planning Christian Missions and Female Education in Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone Women Entrepreneurship in Nigeria: Cultural Perspectives and Assessment of Basic Competence ***** C3: GENDERED EDUCATION: WOMEN AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA, Sinclair Suite, 3.128 Chair: Hetty ter Haar Perspectivization and Thematization of Gender Issues in African Studies: Trajectories, Changes, and Continuities “Math Hurts the Delicate Female Frame”: An Analysis of the Challenges of Six Graders in Cape Coast, Ghana Continental and Diasporic African Women in the Academy: A Case for Scholarly Collaboration Gender in Higher Education in Africa Examining the “New Enkanyakuai”: How the Schooling Imperative Effects Local Gender Categories ***** C4: AFRICAN FEMINISMS SEMINAR, Texas Governors Room, 3.116 Title: “And She Became A King: Female Radical Politics in a Changing Igbo ***** RECEPTION: 5:30PM – 7:00PM (GARRISON HALL) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 2010
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, 8:30AM Student Union, Eastwood Room
PANEL SESSION D, 9:00AM – 10:30AM D1: CRIME, POLITICS, AND GENDERED VIOLENCE , Texas Governors Room, 3.116 Chair: Aderonke Adesanya Violence against Women in Post-Conflict Liberia: Challenges of Peace Building Violence against women: The effect of the Law, Culture and Social Norms Gender, Governance, Violence, and Politics in Kenya Cultural Practices: A Base for Gender Based Violence Gender-Based Violence and the Quest for Sustainable Development in Nigeria ***** D2: DIALOGUING GENDER TENSIONS AND MASCULINITY, Sinclair Suite, 3.128 Chair: Paul Lovejoy Afro-Brazilian Women, Black Masculinity and a Kiss in White Hegemonic Spaces: the Simbology of Racial Violence Discourse “Faire Bon Ami:” Sex and Punishment in Twentieth Century Colonial Libreville, Gabon Understanding Gender Tensions: Interrogating Gender Relations, Power and Social Upheaval in East Africa through Maurice Amutabi’s Because of Honor I am the Rape: Exile, Sexual Violence, and the Body in the Poems of Dambudzo Marechera ***** D3: WOMEN, THE MEDIA, AND PUBLIC SPACE, Quadrangle Room, 3.304 Chair: Tyler Fleming The Portrayal of Mothers-in-law in Nigerian movies: The good, the bad, and oh, so wicked! African Women at the Receiving Ends From Rhetoric to Action: Addressing the Seven Cardinal Issues Facing Women in Africa Let’s Celebrate Modupeolu Faseke’s “The Nigerian Woman” ***** D4: WOMEN, DOMESTICITY, AND WORK, Lone Star Room, 3.208 Chair: Augustine Agwuele A Challenge to Equal Opportunities in Africa: The Dearth of Women in the Engineering Profession “When Women Were Land-Lords and Bread Winners”: The Kuza Tin Mine Phenomenon in Jos and the Plight of Women in Tiv Society of Central Nigeria, c1902-1945 Gender dimension in household solid waste management: a comparative study of two cities in southwestern Nigeria Gender Equity in Resource Management Implications for Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria ***** PANEL SESSION E, 10:45AM – 12:15PM E1: WOMEN AND PROFESSIONALISM , Sinclair, 3.128, Chair: Ana Lucia Araujo Farming African Women: The Swynnerton Plan and African Women Farmers Women’s Marginalization in the South African Mining and Construction Industry Labor Migration and Rural Production System in Southern Western Nigeria Entrepreneurship in Textile Design: Means to Self-Actualization/Economic Sustenance for Women in ‘Purdah’ In Ondo State, Nigeria ***** E2: WOMEN’S RIGHTS , Quadrangle Room, 3.304 Chair: Silke Strickrodt Myth and Reality of Rural Women’s Empowerment: the Case of Elected Communities in Lagos Women’s Rights in Morocco: Responses to Changing Gender Relations in a Rural Berber Community The Mother of Women: Maanda Ngoitiko and Maasai Struggles for Gender Justice in Northern Tanzania Women Leadership and Constitutional Rights in Africa: A Myth or Reality? Kicking against the Pricks: the Nigerian Constitution as an Impediment to Women’s Rights in Nigeria ***** E3: CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN THE MAKING OF GENDER, Texas Governors Room, 3.116 Chair: Bridget Teboh Culture Shock: Psychological Turmoil and the Struggle for Identity in Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions Neo-Slavery and Human Trafficking in Boutora-Takpa’s Journal D’une Bonne Diaspora, Gender, and Identity: Contesting Marriage among the Hausa on a Cameroonian Frontier, c. 1920 – 1955 Matangazo ya Biashara na Jinsia: Examination of Gender Stereotypes in Advertising in Kenya and Implications for Social Relations ***** E4: MOTHERHOOD AND WOMANHOOD IN AFRICA , Lone Star Room, 3.208 Chair: Hetty ter Haar Authentic Motherhood: A Traditional Yoruba-African Understanding The Good Mother and the Contaminating Mother: Experiences and Expectations of Motherhood Following an HIV-Positive Diagnosis Sisterhood- motherhood Nexus in a Changing System Mothers and Grandmothers: Strategies for construction of motherhood in Cape Verde ***** LUNCH, 12:30PM – 2:00PM ***** PANEL SESSION F, 2:00PM – 3:30PM F1: GENDER, MODERNITY, AND LITERARY PRODUCTION, Quadrangle Room, 3.304 Chair: Ben Lindfors A Lexico-Syntactic Study of Gender Protest in Selected Works of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo Achebe’s proverbs, gender issues and use: a sociolinguistic investigation The Nigerian Pamphlet Literature Revisited: Prurient Fantasy or Failed Nigerian Erotica? Echoes of Matriarchy-Patriarchy as Negative Contestants and Gender Imbalances in Selected Nigeria Literature Divorce for Breaking Cups: Gender Discourse in George Mukabi’s Music ***** F2: GENDERING LITERATURE, Lone Star Room, 3.208 Chair: Brian Doherty Watch this Woman: Political widowhood and the story of Catherine Mary Ajizinga Chipembere of Malawi Changing Feminine Communities in the Works of Nigerian Author Buchi Emecheta Plaited Hair and Gyrating Hips: African Women in British Women’s Travel Narratives Jean Pierre Bekolo’s Les Saignantes (2005) and the Mevoungou: The Ambivalence towards theAfrican Woman’s Body ***** F3: ENGENDER LITERARY PRODUCTION, Sinclair Suite, 3.128 Chair: Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva Protagonists of Embodied Pleasures: Ethnographic Encounters with Literature Female Participation in Technical Theatre Practice in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects Designing Research, Emerging Herstories and the Politics of Knowledge (Biographical) Production on Cameroon, West Africa Old Wine in New Vessels: Situating the Testimony of Grace Ihere within Nigeria’s Literary Tradition Overwhelming the burden placed on the woman in To Live Again by Bilqisu Abubakar ***** F4: WOMEN AND RELIGION, Texas Governors Room, 3.116 Chair: Mary Nyangweso Wangila Jesus’ response towards woman caught in adultery as a pastoral liberating vision to Africa: South African women humiliated by gender inequality. A re-reading of John 8:1-11. Gender Roles and Womanhood in Africa: Perspective of Africa Traditional Religion Historicizing Greek Creation Myths: Matriachy-Patriachy Dichotomy Tanure Ojaide’s God’s Medicine-men and other Stories: A Feminist Perspective ***** PANEL SESSION G, 3:45PM – 5:15PM G1: GENDER, ART, AND SPIRITUALITY, Texas Governors Room, 3.116 Chair: Omi Osun Joni L. Jones Gendered Spirituality and Socio-Economic and Political Power in Colonial Yorubaland: The Jima Chieftaincy among the Ikale-Yoruba The Role of Women in the Development of Christianity in Ekitiland (1893-1923) Of Silences, Bended Knees, and Sexuality: Insights on the gendered representations in Yoruba Art Omu Iya Dun : The Asante-Style Drum in Africana American Art Mothering and the Critical Role of Language in the Revival of African Culture and Identity ***** G2: CONTESTING AMBIGUITIES: TRADITION AND MODERNITY, Quadrangle, 3.304 Chair: Barbara Harlow “The Beauty and Rightness of Our National Costume”: Dress, Modernity, and Women’s Activism in Northern Sudan ‘Faire le marriage Africain’: Women and traditional/religious and civil wedding practices in urban Burkina Faso Breaking the Walls of Tradition: Male Braiders in Nigeria African Widowhood and Visibility: Challenges and Possibilities in the Modern World Tradition and Modernity: The Effects of Religion and Globalization on the Sexuality of African Women ***** G3: GENDERED POVERTY, Lone Star Room, 3.208 Chair: Aribidesi Usman Gender, Globalization, and Poverty in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria Breaking the Circle of Poverty: Combating Teenage Pregnancy and Early Marriage through Non-Formal Education The Challenges of Gender Equality and Elimination of Feminization of Poverty and the African Development Process Apartheid and the Feminization of Poverty and Disease: Being Black and Woman in a South African Rural Periphery Postconflict Reconstruction and the Role of Women in Poverty Reduction in Sierra Leone: A Syncretic Cultural Perspective ***** G4: WOMEN AND LITERARY PERFORMANCE, Sinclair Room, 3.304 Chair: Sati U. Fwatshak Warriors, Women, and the Emergence of a New Egungun Masquerade at Otta, Southwest Nigeria, 1882–1901 Protest against Match-Making: the Example of Zulu Sofola’s Song of a Maiden Sainted and Wicked: Women in Cape Verdean Music Life Histories, Autobiography and Biography ***** Transportation Back to the Hotel: 5:20pm Important Note: There is just about an hour between the time conference participants return to the hotel and the beginning of the conference banquet at 6:30pm Conference Banquet, 6:30pm Holiday Inn, Registered Participants and Invited Guests Only
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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, 9:00AM (East Woods Room, 2.102)
PANEL SESSION H, 9:30AM – 11:00PM H1: GENDER AND PUBLIC POLITICS, Lone Star Room, 3.208 Chair: Vik Bahl Politics of Development: Interrogating Phallocentric Space, Renegotiating the Gender of Modern Nigerian Politics “The Woman’s Place…” Media and (Mis) Representation of Women in Political Leadership Positions in Kenya Girl Saving and Public Policy in Lagos, 1940 – 1960 The Blind Photographer: Photography and Politics in Apartheid South Africa ***** H2: GENDERED PEACE, GENDERED VIOLENCE, Texas Governors Room, 3.116 Chair: Jacqueline Woodfork Operation Liberate the Motherland: Gender, Violence, and Reconstruction in Postwar Sierra Leone Women and the Dynamics of Conflicts and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Programs in Africa: Some Examples from West Africa The Place of Women and the Under-privileged in Liberian Post-War Conflict Resolution and Peace-building Victim or Predator: African Child Soldiers and “Non-Combatant” Status in African Warfare ***** H3: GENDER, ILLNESS, AND WELLNESS, Quadrangle Room, 3.304 Chair: Celumusa Zungu Gender and Health: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Management of Zoonoses and Transboundary Diseases Health, Illness, and Medical Issues Food Consumption Pattern of Lactating Mothers in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State in Nigeria Diverse Expression of Sexuality in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria ***** H4: GENDER, LITERATURE, AND HEALTH, Sinclair Suite, 3.128 Chair: Christine Saidi The Ceremony of the Umbilical Cord: When Women’s Health is Sacrificed at the Altar ofCulture in Kenya Femininity and the Practice of Medicine: The Asante Experience Literature as a Tool for Combating Persistent Girl Trafficking in Benin City Giving a Second Chance: An Experiment in Providing Education for the Girl Child Household Help in Southwestern Nigeria ***** PANEL SESSION I, 11:15AM – 12:45PM I1: GENDERED INEQUALITY , Texas Governors Room, 3.116 Chair: Augustine Agwuele Information Communication Technology: A Leveler on Gender Disparity Gender Inequality in the Enrolment of Students for French in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions Gender Accounting: A Paradigm for Ensuring Gender Equity toward Sustainable Development Gender Equality in South Africa: Where are we in Terms of the Customary Law? ***** I2: HISTORY, NATIONALISM, AND COLONIALISM, Sinclair Suite, 3.128 Chair: Ruramisai Charumbira Women and the Post-colonial National Imagination Projects in Tanzania and Congo/Zaire Representing the Nation: Reflecting on District 9, South-Africa and Nigeria Colonialism and the Erosion of Principle of Gender Equality in Africa: A Philosophical Analysis Women and Legal Shifts in European Colonial Holdings in Africa Brideservice, Mako and Mother-in-Law Power in the History of East-Central Africa Nyalutanga , Grandmother of Grandmothers, Original Womb: Histories of Origin and the Authority of Grandmothers in Central-East Tanzania ***** I3: WOMEN, WARFARE, AND RESISTANCE, Lone Star Room, 3.208 Chair: Jacqueline Woodfork Widowhood Practices and Women Emancipation in Igboland, Nigeria Dressing the Part: Dress Culture, Gender, Compliance and Resistance in Mobutu’s Zaire Renovation while Rebuilding: Muslim and Christian Women’s Associations in Post-Conflict D.R. Congo Guns and Gender: The Complex Roles of Female Abductees in the Lord’s Resistance Army ***** I4: SEXUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, Quadrangle Room, 3.116 Chair: Neville Hoad Decolonizing the Law and Sexuality: LGBT Organizing in Africa Sexualities and the African Body: The Struggle for Sexual Rights among Kikuyu Women in Kenya, 1918-2002 Transgender and Sexuality: A Moral Viewpoint Gendered Violence and Power Relations in the Drama of Tracie Utoh-Ezeajugh
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Africa Conference 2010: Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa Convened by Dr. Toyin Falola and Coordinated by Saheed Aderinto for the Center for African and African American Studies Webmaster: Adam Paddock
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