4. “No Ordinary Pleasures: Nollywood, the Open Screen, and the Horror Genre”, Jude G. Akudinobi, University of California, Santa Barbara
5.
6. “Memories of Blood: Youth Responses to Environmental Adversity and Oppression in Sahelian Literature and Film”, Debra Boyd, North Carolina Central University
7.
8. “Divas on the Margins: Black Lesbian Literature”, Aisha Damali Lockridge, Allegheny College
12. “From ‘gewel’ to ‘lebkat’: The shift of Ousmane Sembène’s focus from Borom Sarret to Moolaade”, Mariam Konate Deme, Western Michigan University“
13.
14. “Nature and Man in a Post Colonial Dialogue: A comparative study of Poetic evocations by Niyi Osundare in Moonsongs and Chin Ce in Full Moon”, Gloria MT Emezue, Ebonyi State University
15. “Environment and Artistic Consciousness in the poetry of Tahure Ojaide, Benedicta mbanuzue and Mcphilips Nwachukwu”, Ugwu Delight Ifeoma
16.
17. “Political Leadership And The Problem Of The Environment: Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Songs Of Enchantment”, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, West Virginia University
18. “The "Forest" as a Topo for manifestation and shaping of an African identity: An Ecocritical reading of Fagunwa's The Forest of a Thousand Daemons”, Bernard Ayo Oniwe, University of South Carolina
19.
20. “A Bleeding Motherland: An Examination of Tess Onwueme's Imagery of Environmental Degradation in Nigeria's Niger–Delta”, Elizabeth Ashimana Nyager, University of Jos
21. “Nigerian Literature and the Politics of Oil/Religion and Environmental Degradation”, Vicky M. Sylvester, University of Abuja
22.
23. “Literature and Globalisation: A Study of a Nigerian Video Film Kingsley Ogoro's ‘Osuofia in London 1&2’”, Amaraegbulam Ndubuisi Oji, Enugu State University of Science and Technology
24. “Sustainability of the Other: The Globalization of Commodious Discourse”, Keidrick J. Roy, The University of Arizona
25.
26. “Geographies of Loss and Resilience in Gappah's Elegy for Easterly”, John Lemly, Mount Holyoke College
27. “The Politics of Power and The Struggle for Self-Assertion: Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia”Chinyelu Ojukwu, University of Port-Harcourt
28.
29. “Torturous Route To Eldorado: A Reading Of New Francophone African Immigrant Fiction”, Unionmwan Edebiri, University of Benin
30. “Go Up, Go Down, or Go Back: Immigration, Language and the Francophone African Novel of Exile”, Marame Gueye, East Carolina University
31.
32. “Drama and Environmental Challenges in the Niger Delta in Selected Nigerian Plays”, Reuben Embu, University of Jos
33. “Ominous Formations: Post- Coloniality, Nationalism and The Environment In Niger-Delta Poetry”, Idom T. Inyabri, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
34.
35. “Theorizing African/Black Diaspora: The Kemetic Paradigm as a Global Comfort Zone for Contextualizing Women’s Discourses & Teaching Literature of the Black World”, Safoura Boukari, Western Illinois University
36. “Shattering the Legendry Silence of a Rustic Landscape: Tanure Ojaide’s Great Boys as Ecobiography”. Ogaga Okuyade, Nigeria
39. “Trees, Roots, and Seashells: Eco-creation and Eco-imagination in Andrée Chedid’s À la mort, à la vie”, Anne F. Carlson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
40.
41. “The Ecology of Toomer’s Cane, or , Rhapsody of A Son of The Soil”, Chidi Ikonne, University of Port Harcourt
44. “Raphael Confiant, Resistance to Vichy, and the Valorization of Martinican Culture” H. Adlai Murdoch, University of Illinois-Urbana
45. “Postcolonial Madness: The Mind as Borderland in the West Indian Novel”, Mary Stroud, The University of Arizona
46.
47. “Stuck In No African Woman’s Land: Being An African Transnational Female Immigrant In Contemporary US – A View From Selected Transnational Fiction”, Jessie Kabwila Kapasula, Binghamton University
48. “Contesting the Construction of Africa and its Primitivism in 14 Cows for America”, Maha Marouan, University of Alabama
49.
50. “Aesthetic Agency through Subaltern Literary Expression: Contemporary Peruvian and Brazilian Literatures Compared”, Becky Thompson, University of Texas at Austin
51. “Traditions and Emerging Movements in Afro-Latin American Women’s Literatures”, Ninosca Escobar, University of Texas at Austin
52.
53. “Being Woman and Black: Re/Claiming a Despised Identity in Marie-Célie Agnant’s The Book of Emma”, Simone James Alexander, Seton Hall University
54. “Claiming Arab-Muslim Identity, Contesting French Universalisms in Faïza Guène’s Kiffe-kiffe demain”, Brinda Mehta, Mills College
57. “Discours politique et écologique dans Matins de couvre-feu de Tanella Boni”, Raymond Gnanwo Hounfodji, University of Arizona
58.
59. “Sustaining and Reshaping the Memory of the Anti-apartheid Struggle”, Monica Popescu, McGill University
60. “Speaking for the Silenced: Politics and Puppets in Ubu and the Truth Commission”, J. Coplen Rose, Wilfrid Laurier University
61.
62. “Odysseus and Akara Ogun: Builders of an “Unlived” Globality”, Adrien M. Pouille, Indiana University
63. “Bigger Thomas and the African Mind: Richard Wright’s Native Son in Perspective” David Agum, Temple University
64.
65. “The Human Trafficking Project: Drama for Education”, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka
66. “Fata Morganas in the Streets of Antwerp’s Red Light District: Chika Unigwe’s African Sisters in On Black Sisters’ Street and Other Fiction,” Elisabeth Bekers , University of Belgium
67.
68. “Tirs croisés sur l’Occident et les élites africaines dans les films Bamako et Chef , la tête dans les nuages de Abdouramane Cissoko et Jean-Marie Teno”, Viviane Bekrou, College of Charleston
69. “Collective Memories and Filmic Visions of Resistance: Quilombo and Sarraounia” Eckhard Breitinger, Eckersdorf (Independent Scholar?)
70.
71. “The African Female Novel of Self-Realization and the Return to Nature”, Fiona Moolla, University of the Western Cape
72. “Representation of Masculinity in African Novels: The Female Perspective”, Sylvester Nguza Mutunda, The University of Arizona
73.
74. “Au Carrefour De La Vie et De La Mort: La Condition Des Enfants Dans Une Société En Guerre Dans Allah N’est Pas Obligé Et Johnny Chien Méchant”, Angelique E. Owanga, The University of Arizona
77. “Wolof and Hebrew in the Shadow of Mount Sinai”, George Joseph, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
78. “Shakespeare in Swahili: The Dynamics of a Cultural and Literary espousal of Tanzanian Nationalism and African Socialism”, Aida Mbowa, Stanford University
79.
80. “Poverty, Arranged Marriages, Sexual Abuse and the Abenegation of the Rights of Children in the 21st Century: A Study o Fictional and Real-Life Characters”, Maureen Amaka Azuike, University of Jos
81. “Society Versus Self: Who Owns Children's Sexuality?” Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, Arizona
82.
83. “The art of the game—Games and Drama in the African literature classroom”, Dale Byam, Brooklyn College
84. “Contextualizing the Teaching of Africa in the 21st century: A pluralistic Pedagogical Approach to Demystify Africa as the “Heart of Darkness”, Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson, Kennesaw State University
85.
86. “Natural species and natural resources as proverb sources in Bamileke traditional literature - An abstract from Nde mu Fopinn’s Ngemba ne pòng!” , Nde, Purdue University
87. “Monyohe, the Great Snake of the Deep waters”: Transition and the Manipulation of Ritual in the Oral Narrative”, Ramenga Mtaali Osotsi, James Madison University
92. “Literary tropes of wildlife, film, and technology in Africa”, Fawzia Mustafa, Fordham University
93. “Jacopetti and Prosperi’s Africa Addio as an Ecological Documentary”, William Van Watson, University of Arizona
94.
95. “The Axé in Our Blood: A Comparative Study of Rituals in Plays by Ildefonso Maya and Abdias do Nascimento”, Adam W. Coon, University of Texas at Austin ,
99. “Life in Gaston Kabore smoke and Pascal D. Ouedraogo: Desertification and development cinematographic situation”, Marie-Magdeleine Chirol, Whittier College
100.
101. “Rapports entre l'homme et l'environnement dans le récit de Jacques Roumain (1907-1944), Gouverneurs de la rosée“ Obrillant Damus, Université de Paris 8, Vincennes Saint-Denis
102.
103. “Not Oil, But Blood: the Wounded Earth in the Poetry of Ogaga Ifowodo and Nnimmo Bassey”, Sule E. Egya, Humboldt University, Berlin
104.
105. “Interpreting the Interpreter in Two West African Novels: Translation in Amadou Hampaté Bâ’s Fortunes of Wangrin (L’Etrange destin de Wangrin) and Ahmadou Kourouma’s Monnew (Monné, outrages, et défis)”, Jeanne Garane, University of South Carolina
106. “Ces Africains qui ont libéré la France dans le film Indigènes”, Alek Baylee Toumi, University of Wisconsin
107.
108. “The Absurd as Medium of Vision in Wole Soyinka’s Madmen and Specialists and Bate Besong’s Beasts of No Nation”, David Cho Wanki, Ministry of Secondary Education, Yaoundé
109. “Panic Theatre and Gender Sustainability Beyond Zimbabwe’s Crises”, Joy Wrolson, Independent Scholar, California
110.
111. “Colonization and the Desecration of the Land: A Critical Analysis of Chenjerai Hove’s Bones”, Munashe Furusa, California State University Dominguez Hills
112. "’A Wilderness for the Mind’": Representations of the Bush in Yoruba Fiction”, Diana Mafe, Denison University
113.
114. “Re-Locating the Quotidian, Re-Claiming Agency: Theories of Trauma and Belinda's Petition, 1782”, Nandini Dhar, University of Texas at Austin
115. “Slavery, Migration And Dislocation In Ayi Kwei Armah’s Novels, Two Thousand Seasons and Osiris Rising, Alexander Dakubo Kakraba, University of Mines and Technology
116.
117. “Poetry, Artistry, Pleasure, Beauty, and other Nonsense: The Evolutionary Imperative in Verse”, Mark L. Lilleleht, University of Wisconsin-Madison
118. “Globalization and Emerging Configurations in Exilic Poetry of Odia Ofeimun and Tanure Ojaide” Henri Oripeloye, Adekunle Ajasin University
119.
120. “Cooking up something good: Recipes as rhetoric in recent works by Aminata Sow Fall and Calixthe Beyala”, Julie Huntington, Marymount Manhattan College
121. “Éco-féminisme au Cœur de la Forêt Africaine : Vénus de Khalakanti d’Angèle Kingué”, Marie Chantale Mofin Noussi, University of New Mexico
122.
123. ”Learning to Walk on Ice: Negotiating Customs, Social Boundaries and Difference in Exile”, Unoma N. Azuah, Lane College
124. “Têtes de Nѐgre: French Cuisine and Representations of Blackness”, Diarapha H. Diallo, Université de Tours
125.
126. “Approaches and strategies for the development of translingual and transcultural competence at the beginning level”, Matuku Ngame, Yale College
127. “The Other Side of Post-Modernism: Recent African Fiction: Accessibility and the Familiar”, Saul Steier, San Francisco State University
128.
129. “Self –Love, Language and Nature: An indepth look at Ecofeminist literary criticism and Alice Walker’s Now is the Time to Open Your Heart”, Brandy Kelly, Texas A&M University
130. “Variations in Literary Adaptations: Lynn Nottage’s Ruined”, Donald M. Morales, Mercy College, New York
143. “Migration, Multinational Spaces and the Case of South African literature”, Christine Loflin, Oxford College of Emory University
144. “The Great White Hunter in the Fiction and Travel Literature of South Africa”, Gerald Monsman, University of Arizona
145.
146. “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”: Music and the African-American Novel”, Patrina Jones, Stony Brook University
147. “Culture, Politics and World Music: Khaled's ‘Aïcha’ and its travels”, John Nimis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
148.
149. "’To roof the sea’”: Derek Walcott’s Caribbean Response to Kant’s ‘Ultimate Purpose of Nature’", Kevin Hickey, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
150. “Re-Visioning a Poetics of Landscape: Resistance and Continuum in the Poetry of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott”, James McCorkle, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
153. “Red Lights on the Run Way: Dangerous Trends in Contemporary African Literary Criticism” Chinyere Nwahunanya, Abia State University
154.
155. “African Women in Cinema: A Comparative Study of South Africa and Nigeria”, Christiana G.E. Best, University of Jos
156. “Gender Spaces, Sacred Environments: Reflections on the Legends of Heroic Women of Ankole and Kigezi in Uganda”, Aaron Mushengyezi, Makerere University, Uganda
157. “Asserting themselves, Reclaiming the Land: Women Grassroots Activism In Tess Onwueme's Then She Said It”, Chinyere Nwagbara, Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council
158.
159. “Dark Bodies/White Masks: Remapping African Masculinities in Chris Abani’s Graceland”, Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Miami University
160. “Love was love and never failed’: Love Relationships in the Fiction of Elechi Amadi”, Kathleen Hanggi, Emory University
161. “Northern Nigerian Popular Fiction and Stereotypes of Women Ambition”, Halima Sekula, Nasarawa State University, Keffi
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The Nature of Unnatural Acts in Alex La Guma's Time of the Butcherbird”, Catherine Kroll, Sonoma State University <br />2. quot;
Theory and Praxis of Ecocriticism in South Africaquot;
, William Slaymaker, Wayne State College<br />3. “Cinematic Portrayals of the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary South Africa: An Examination of Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon and District 9”, Cara Lynn Moyer, Howard University<br />A 2Nature and Cultural Heritage in Birago Diop’s Les contes d’Amadou Koumba<br /> Chair: Mohamed Kamara, Washington and Lee University<br />,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/36th-annual-african-literature-association-conference-the3652/85/36th-Annual-African-Literature-Association-Conference-The-1-320.jpg)
