Wars and Conflicts in Africa

Friday, March 28th

10:00am-10:30am - Shuttle service between Hotel and Conference.

10:30am-11:00am - Conference Opening.

11:00am-12:30pm - Panel session A

A1 REPRESENTATIONS OF WAR AND CONFLICT IN FICTION

Location – Lone Star Room 3.208

Chair: Neville Hoad

Narrativizing War, War of Narrative: Accounts of War in the Works of Ben Okri
Kayode O. Ogunfolabi, Michigan State University

In Search of Lost Kabyles in Mehdi Lallaoui’s La Colline aux Oliviers
Aména Moïnfar, University of Texas at Austin

The Multi-varying Faces of ‘War’ and its Effects in Africa: The Case of Nigeria
Jeleel Olasunkanmi Ojuade, University of Ilorin (Nigeria)

Zimbabwe: Struggles to Freedom
Russ Morisi, CUNY–College of Staten Island

Heroes and Heroines in Conflict—“Those Ultimate Ramparts in an Upside Down World: Ahmadou Kourouma’s Heroines”
Pierre Nzokizwanimana, Southern Adventist University

A2 FROM COUNSELING INTERVENTIONS TO RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION

Location – Texas Governor’s Room 3.116

Chair: Fehintola Mosadomi

War and Conflict: The Kenyan Women’s Way of Coping
Pamela Akiniyi Wadende, Texas State University

Factors that Have Facilitated Mozambican Women's Recovery from the Gendered Impacts of Warfare
Zermarie Deacon, University of Oklahoma

Managing the Post-Conflict Recovery Needs of African Women and Children: The Need for Strategy Reappraisal
Hauwau Evelyn Yusuf, Kaduna State University (Nigeria)

Educational Opportunities and Counseling Interventions for Women and Children Refugees living in Nigeria
Ireti Folasade Alao, Adeyemi College of Education (Nigeria)

The Effect of Image on Business Networks: The Affects of Image on Business
Kelli Moore, James Madison University

A3 COMPLEXITIES OF ‘EXTERNAL’ INVOLVEMENTS IN AFRICAN WARS

Location – Texas Governors Room 3.116

Chair: Maurice Amutabi

Unfair Trade and the Persistence of Civil Conflict: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Arne Schollaert, Ghent University (Belgium)

Policing Conflict and its Changing Contour across the Divide in the Post-Cold War World: Conflict as a Third World Preoccupation
Adoyi Onoja, Nasarawa State University (Nigeria)

Three Models of African Conflicts and Foreign Involvements, 1950s - 2007
Raphael Chijioke Njoku, The University of Louisville

From Indifference to Interference: The African Union Intervention in the Darfur Crisis
Irit Back, Tel Aviv University (Israel)

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12:30pm-2:00pm – Lunch
Various places within the Union (Burgers, Sandwiches, Pizza, etc.)

Wendy’s Field of Greens
Taco Bell
Quizno’s
Bene Pizzeria & Pasta
Smokehouse BBQ
Cactus Café Sushi Bar
Chick-Fil-A
Turntable Café
Java City at the Commons

Or places within walking distance.

Step out of the Union, make a right and you are on Guadalupe.

Madam Mam’s (Thai Food), 2514 Guadalupe – it’s north of the co-op
Austin Pizza, 2324 Guadalupe –north of co-op
Slices and Ices, 2530 Guadalupe – north of co-op
Texadelphia (deli), 2422 Guadalupe – north of co-op
Veggie Heaven (tofu, rice), 1914-A Guadalupe – south of the co-op
Pho (Vietnamese food) – south of the co-op
Jack in the Box – north of co-op
Einstein’s Bagels – north of co-op
Subway Sandwiches – 2323 San Antonio St.
Roly Poly Sandwiches – 2421 San Antonio St.
Food Court in Dobie Maill –south of co-op

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2:00pm-3:30pm - Panel Session B

B1 REFLECTIONS ON ETHNIC CONFLICTS AND CIVIL WARS

Location – Quadrangle 3.304

Chair: Leonard Moore

Civil Wars in the Sudan
Robert O. Collins, University of California Santa Barbara

Does Evidence Support Popular Hypotheses of the Real Motive Behind Ethno-Religious and Communal Conflicts in Central Nigeria?
Ibrahim Ger’arh Umaru, Nasarawa State University (Nigeria)

Advantages and Limits of Protracted Low-Intensity Civil War: The Case of Northern Uganda
Matthew Kustenbauder, Yale University

Same Breed, Different Animals: An Historical Analysis of Social Upheaval among the Irawo People in Oyo State, Nigeria
Adegoke Mutair Ayodele, Independent Scholar (Nigeria)

Irrational Decisions: Explaining the Failure of the anti-Kabila War of 1998-2003
Osita Afoaku, Indiana University

B2 NEWS MEDIA, INFORMATION, AND AFRICAN CONFLICTS

Location – Lone Star Room 3.208

Chair: Olivier Tchouaffe

All’s Well in the Colony: Newspaper Coverage of the Mau Mau Movement, 1952 – 1956
Melissa Tully, University of Wisconsin –Madison

The Nigerian Media and the Political Economy of Post-Colonial Urban Crises
Ayandiji Daniel Aina, Babcock University (Nigeria)

Alternate Representations of War in Africa: New Times and Ethiopia News Coverage of the 1935-1941 Italian-Ethiopian War
Metasebia Woldemariam, Plymouth State University

Re-engaging the Causes of the Nigerian Civil War (1967 – 1970): A Postmortem on the Role of Information
Terverr-Terencez Tyav, University of Jos (Nigeria)

B3 War and Conflict in Art and Literary Genres

Location – Texas Governors Room 3.116

Chair: Barbara Harlow

Images of War and War of Images: Art, Rationality and the Limit of Reason in the Nigerian State
Aderonke Adesola Adesanya, University of Ibadan (Nigeria)

“They were not enemies . . . .” The Conflict in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Hetty ter Haar, Independent Scholar (United Kingdom)

Thematization and Perspectivization of Conflict in Nigeria: The Example of Selected Yoruba Satirical Genres
Arinpe Adejumo, University of Ibadan (Nigeria)

Lament for the Casualties: The Nigerian War of 1967 – 1970 and the Poetry of J. P. Clark-Bekederemo
Michael S. Sharp, University of Puerto Rico

3:45pm-5:15pm - Panel Session C

C1 SPECIAL CASES AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF WAR & CONFLICTS

Location – Quadrangle 3.304

Chair: Antony Hopkins

The Coltan Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Niles French, CUNY –College of Staten Island

The Zanzibari Revolution: Race, Class, and Contests over Memory and Meaning
G. Thomas Burgess, US Naval Academy

The Plight of ‘Unknown’ Victims: The Tribulations of the Batwa as Serial Victims in the Great Lakes Region (Rwanda, Burundi and DRC)
Eliza M. Johannes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Cause of Wars and Conflicts in Africa and How These Have Changed Over Time
Emmanuel Sebastian Udoh, St. John’s University

C2 WAR AND PEACE IN DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE

Location – Texas Governors Room 3.116

Chair: Jacqueline Woodfork

Conflict Resolution in Femi Osofisan’s Another Raft and Farewell to a Cannibal Rage: Models for the Attainment of Peace in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Alexander Kure, Kaduna State University (Nigeria)

Acting as Heroic: Creativity and Political Violence in Tamajaq (Tuareg) Theater in Northern Mali
Susan Rasmussen, University of Houston

Yoruba Ritual Death and British Seventeenth Century Masque: Unmasking the Masque of British Colonial Binaries of Indigeneity, Gender and Sexuality in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, University of Texas at Austin

Performing Trauma, Performing Agency in Mohammed Ben-Abdallah’s The Slaves: Inserting Africa into Black Atlantic Political Consciousness
Nandini Dhar, University of Texas at Austin

C3 Weapons and War Operations

Location – Texas Governors Room 3.116

Chair: Steve Salm

Arms Shipments and the Making and Remaking of Conflict in Africa: The Role of the United States
Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o, Rhodes College

Firearms and Warfare in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Madagascar
Arne Bialuschewski, Trent University (Canada)

“Fire and Charcoal” Makers and Builders of Arms and Weaponry in Pre-Colonial Tiv Land of Central Nigeria
Akpen Philip, University of Abuja (Nigeria)

The British Conquest of Brohemie and Nembe-Brass, ca. 1894 – 96
Lawrence Mbogoni, William Paterson University

The Apartheid Myth of an Invincible South African Defence Force: Operation Askari, 1983 – 1984
G. J. J. Oosthuizen, North-West University (South Africa)

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5:30pm-6:30pm - Dinner reception (Garrison Hall)

Registered Conference Participants Only

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7:00pm-8:00pm - Keynote Address and choir

Room: Quadrangle 3.304

Keynote Speaker:

Professor Emeritus Ade Ajayi

Choir:

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8:00pm-8:30pm - Return to Hotel


University of Texas at Austin