Council on African Studies Workshop
Dates: 4-5 November 2022 (8.30am-5pm)
Luce Hall Room 202 & Online
Organized by Stephanie Newell (English) and Allegra Ayida (History)
FRIDAY 4th November
8:30am – BREAKFAST bagels, cakes, coffee/tea
8:45–9:00am Welcome: Karin Barber and Steph Newell
9:00–10:00am – Sara Marzagora & Annachiara Raia
Sara Marzagora, “Amharic Print Culture in Ethiopia (1900–1936): Genres, Texts and New “Regimes of Truth”
Annachiara Raia, “Between the Railway and the Minaret: Transregional Swahili Muslim Booklets and Transition in East African Print Culture (1930-1960)”
10:00–11:00am – Jeremy Dell & Anne Bang
Jeremy Dell, “A Family Affair: Printing Among Senegal’s Sufi Orders”
Anne K. Bang, “Double-Sided Print: The Rise of Islamic Arabic Print in East Africa, c. 1880–1910”
11:00–11:15pm – BREAK – coffee/tea
11:15–12:15pm – Karin Barber & Joel Cabrita and Thato Sukati
Karin Barber, “Linguistic Cohabitation and the First Yoruba Novel”
Joel Cabrita and Thato Sukati, “The Columns of Kadebona: Linguistic Patriotism and a Hybrid Language in Swati Newspapers of the 1950s and 1960s”
12.15–1.15pm – Hlonipha Mokoena & Maria Suriano
Hlonipha Mokoena, “A Century of Readers and Readings: Abantu Abamnyama, 1922–2022”
Maria Suriano, “Local Aesthetics and Literary Experimentation in Swahili Press Writings in Tanganyika”
1:15–2:00pm LUNCH
2:00–3:30pm – Phoebe Musandu, Leslie James and Myles Osborne, Tobias Warner
Phoebe Musandu, “Of Rickety Old Printpresses in Ramshackle Printrooms and the Stories They Told: The African Press in Colonial Kenya 1920–1960s”
Leslie James and Myles Osborne, “Africa in Jamaica: Print Networks in the Caribbean”
Tobias Warner, “”A Curious Creature from the Market”: World Literature and the “Complete Gentleman” Stories”
3:30–4.00pm – BREAK – coffee/tea
4:00–5:00pm – Terri Ochiagha & Odile Goerg
Terri Ochiagha, “Paracolonial Mimic Men: ‘Adaptationism’ and Autoethnographic Expression in The Nigerian Teacher (1933-36) and Nigeria Magazine (1937-53)”
Odile Goerg, “Still Images, Moving Images, Local Commentators, Texts”
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SATURDAY 5th November
8:30am – BREAKFAST bagels, cakes, coffee/tea
9:00–10:00am – Khwezi Mhkize & James Brennan
Khwezi Mhkize, “Black South African Intellectuals and the Question of Colonial Modernity”
James R. Brennan, “Multilingualism in the African, Indian, and European Presses of Tanganyika, 1919–1961”
10:00–11:00am – Isabel Hofmeyr & Graham Furniss
Isabel Hofmeyr, “Print Cultures and Printing Diasporas: Gandhi, Dube and White Printworkers in Durban”
Graham Furniss, “Hausa written texts: print medium and literary cultures in northern Nigeria – Christian missions, colonial policy, the post-Independence experience and the world of Islamic manuscripts”
11:00–11:15am – BREAK - coffee/tea
11:30am–12:30pm – Harri Englund & Sam Naidu
Harri Englund, “Expansive Languages in Nineteenth-Century Central Africa: Missionary Dictionaries between Command and Dialogue”
Sam Naidu, “Reading the ‘Father’ of South African Colonial History: George McCall Theal’s Urge to Publish (1862-1992)”
12:30pm–1:15pm – LUNCH
1:15–1:30am – Ato Quayson: The African Literature in Transition series
1:30–2:30pm – Ngozi Edeagu & Katharina A. Oke
Ngozi Edeagu, “The West African Pilot and the Creation of an Anti-Colonial Readership”
Katharina A. Oke, ““Where Money Goes Before, All Ways Do Lie Open””
2:30–3:30pm – Lucie Ryzova & Thomas Keegan
Lucie Ryzova, “Reading, Print and Personhood Among the New Egyptian Middle Classes”
Thomas Keegan, ““Books that Africans Should Not Read”: Reading, Madness, and African Selfhood in the Sierra Leone Weekly News”
3:30–4:00pm – BREAK tea/coffee
4:00–5:00pm – Corinne Sandwith & Stephanie Newell
Corinne Sandwith, “Street Literature and Satire: The After-Lives of South African Texts”
Stephanie Newell, ““Usefully Unofficial” Literature: Onitsha Market Literature and Anglophone Print Cultures in Colonial West Africa”