POWER AND NATIONALISM IN MODERN AFRICA
A TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM
IN HONOR OF THE MEMORY OF THE LATE PROFESSOR DON OHADIKE
SEPTEMBER 22-23, 2006
Multi Purpose Room
Africana Center
310 Triphammer Road
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 2006
2:00 – 2:30 PM • OPENING REMARKS
2:00 PM • Welcoming Remarks
Biddy Martin, Provost, Cornell University
2:00 - 2:10 PM • Welcoming Remarks
Salah M. Hassan, Director, Africana Studies & Research Center
2:20 - 2:30 PM • Introductory Remarks
Toyin Falola, Symposium Convener, The Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin
2:45– 5:00 PM • SESSION I:
COLONIAL ORDER AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA
Chair: Robert Harris, Vice Provost and Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
Anene Ejikeme, Department of Sociology, Trinity College, San Antonio, Texas.
“Subterfuge & Resistance: A History of Infanticide in Onitsha, Nigeria.”
N’Dri Assie-Lumumba, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University.
“Resistance to the Colonial Establishment in French West Africa: the Strategic and Changing Role of Côte d'Ivoire from 1888 to 1960.”
Felix Ekechi, Professor Emeritus, Kent State University, Ohio
“The Culture of Resistance to Western Imperialism Among the Igbo.”
Fouad Makki, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
“The Ethiopian Empire and the Remaking of Eritrean Nationalism.”
Discussant: Toyin Falola, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
5:15 – 6:15 PM • KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Ali Mazrui, Director and Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, SUNY
“Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa”
6:30 – 7:30 PM • WELCOMING RECEPTION
Sandra Ohadike, Ph.D. Candidate, International Relations, American University, Washington DC.
“A Family Tribute.”
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2006
9:30 -12: 00 PM • SESSION II:
DIASPORIC AFRICANS AND NATIONALISM
Chair: Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
Mojubaolu Okome, Department of Political Science, Brooklyn College, New York.
“Nationalism, Displacement and Development: Africa in the age of Globalization”
Locksley Edmondson, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University.
“Haiti and Global Africa.”
Petrine Archer-Straw, Africana Studies and Research Center and History of Art, Cornell University.
“Rethinking the Diaspora Family in Black and White: Jamaican Immigrants in 1950-70's Britain”
Joseph Inikori, Department of History, University of Rochester, New York.
“The Evolution of the Atlantic Economy and Socioeconomic Development in Southeastern Nigeria, 1650-1850.”
Discussant: Salah M. Hassan, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University.
12:15 – 1:45 PM • LUNCHEON PLENARY SPEAKER:
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor, African Studies and History, Penn State University, University Park
“The Historic and Humanistic Agendas of African Nationalism: A Reassessment.”
2:00 – 4:00 PM • SESSION III:
THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY AND AFRICA:
CULTURE AND THE ARTS (Part 1)
Chair: Abdul Nanji, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
Chika Okeke-Agulu, Department of Art History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
"Against Localism: Obiora Udechukwu and the Articulation of Modern Uli."
Aderonke Adesanya, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
“Contemporary Nigerian Artists' Confrontation and Conversation with Modernity.”
Ahmad Sikanga, Department of History, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
“The Development of Literary Activities among Sudanese Railway Workers”
Ayele Bekerie, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University.
“The Idea of Ethiopia: Ancient Roots, and Modern African Diaspora Thoughts”
Discussant: Natalie Melas, Comparative Literature, Cornell University.
4:00 – 4:15 PM • REFRESHMENT BREAK
4:15– 6:15 PM • SESSION IV:
THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY AND AFRICA:
COLONIALISM AND ITS AFTERMATH (Part 2)
Chair: Muna Ndulo, Director, Institute for African Development, and Professor, Law School, Cornell University
Carolyn Brown, Department of History, Rutgers University
“African Urban Manhood in the Atlantic World: Respectable‚ Clerks and Unruly Cowboys‚ in the Making of the Colonial City, Enugu, Nigeria 1914-1955”
Carina Ray, Departments of History and African and African American Studies, Penn State University
“Returning Africa to the Black Atlantic: Sex, Race, Riots and Inter-War Repatriations to West Africa.”
Raphael Njoku, Departments of History and Pan African Studies, University of Louisville, Kentucky
“The Modernizing State in Africa: Theories, Dreams, and Nightmares.”
Andrew Barnes, Department of History, Arizona State University, Tempe
"Missions and Western Culture in Northern Nigeria: Some Fair Claims; Some Foul?”
Gloria Chuku, Department of History, Millersville University, PA
“Navigating the Colonial Terrain through Protest Movements: A Discourse on the Nigerian Women's Motives.”
Discussant: Sandra Greene, Department of History, Cornell University
6:16 – 6:30 PM • CLOSING REMARKS:
TOYIN FALOLA & SALAH M. HASSAN
6:30 - 7: 30PM • RECEPTION
THE CONFERENCE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The conference is co-sponsored by: Cornell’s Institute for African Development, Society for the Humanities, Department of History, and Nigerian Studies Association.
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