Wars and Conflicts in Africa

Saturday, March 29th

8:00am-8:30am - Shuttle Service between Hotel and Conference.
8:30am-9:00am - Breakfast
9:00am-10:30am - Panel Session D

D1 GENDER CONFLICTS AND SEXUAL AGGRESSION AS ACTS OF WAR
Location – Quadrangle 3.304

Chair: Catherine Boone

Land, Health and Violence: Investigating Racial and Gender Conflicts in Africa
Elinami Veraeli Swai, University of Toledo

Physical War and Emotional Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Governance among the Yoruba
Fehintola Mosadomi, University of Texas at Austin

Women and Girl Rape Victims in the DRC and the Global Campaign to End Fistula
Jonathan Zilberg, Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art

The War After the War: Sexual Violence as ‘Terrorism’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)?
Aaron Hale, University of Florida

Social Rebels: Women, Rebellion, and Organizational Participation in Colonial Kenya
Joy Williams-Black, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D2 IMAGES OF AFRICAN WARS IN HOLLYWOOD AND NOLLYWOOD
Location – Lone Star Room 3.208

Chair: Tim Stapleton

The Causes of War and Conflicts in Africa as Portrayed in Movies: An Analysis of Antoine Fuqua’s Tears of the Sun
Raphael M. Obotama, Wayne State University

Between Reels and Reality: Notes on Child Soldiers in Contemporary Cinema
Olivier Tchouaffe, University of Texas at Austin

Stereotypification or Demonization? War Heroes in Nigerian Movies and the Effects on Crafting of Factional Identities
Kayode Animasaun, Federal Polytechnic, Bida (Nigeria)

Visions of War, Testaments of Peace: The “Burden” of Sierra Leone
Cheryl Sterling, New York University

D3 ANTI-COLONIAL VIOLENCE AND OTHER WARS OF LIBERATION
Location – Texas Governors Room 3.116

Chair: Robert Dibie

Civil Military Relations and Colonial Armies
Timothy Lovering, University of the West of England (United Kingdom)

Wars of Words: Enlisting Colonial Languages in the Fight for Independence in Africa
Ann Albuyeh, University of Puerto Rico

Historicizing The Moghamo-Bali ibit / Conflict: German Encounters with ‘Rebellious Vassals.’
Bridget A. Teboh, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Transatlantic Violence: The Landscape Legacy of African Warfare in the Americas
Chris S. Duvall, Michigan State University

British Military Justice in the South African War
Blake Whitaker, Sam Houston State University

10:45am-12:15pm - Panel Session E

E1 WAR AND LOYALTY
Location – Quadrangle 3.304

Chair: Raphael Njoku

War or Hunger? Children’s Witchcraft on the Angola / DRC Border
Madalina Florescu, School of Oriental and African Studies (United Kingdom)

Soldiers of Allah (God) in East Africa: A Critical Account of Islamic Jihad in the Horn of Africa and Implications for Peace and Security in the Region
Maurice Amutabi, Central Washington University

The Aberration of Eritrean Secession
Charlie Thomas, University of Texas at Austin

E2 WOMEN’S ECONOMY IN CIVIL CONFLICTS
Location – Lone Star Room 3.208

Chair: Cheryl Sterling

“Women don’t go to War except Idia, mother of Esigie”: Women and War in the Culture and History of Benin Kingdom, Nigeria
Uyilawa Usuanlele, SUNY Oswego

Gender Wars and Passionate Economic Crises—Remembering Africa's Intercontinental Empires
Marsha R. Robinson, Otterbein College

Women, their Children and Social Conflicts in Africa: Some Examples from Central Nigeria
Okpeh O. Okpeh Jr., Benue State University (Nigeria)

Nutritional Management of the Vulnerable of Wars and Conflicts in Africa
C. A.Olarewaju, Adeyemi College of Education (Nigeria)

Wars and Conflicts in Nigeria: Two Sides of the Coin and the Implications for the Health of the Citizens
P. O. Akinbile, Adeyemi College of Education (Nigeria)

E3 SELF-DETERMINATION AND SECESSIONIST WARS
Location – Texas Governors Room 3.116

Chair: Robert Collins

Causes of External Intervention in Ethnic / Secessionist Conflicts in the Third World: The Case of the Sudan
Osaore Aideyan, St. Lawrence University

Opportunistic Identities? Discursive Trends of Legitimization within the Sudan People’s Liberation Army
Sarah Lykes Washburne, University of Exeter (United Kingdom)

The Uses of Extraversion: The Senegalese State and the Casamance Separatists
Vincent Foucher, Centre d’Etude d’Afrique Noire (France)

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12:15pm-2:00pm - Film in Union Theater

Film

Ezra
Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent’s recent civil wars. It was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2007 Festival Panafricain du Cinema à Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Africa’s largest and most prestigious film event, and was selected for the International Critics Week at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Ezra stands out among other African films because it is a complex psychological study, not just of the brutalizing, healing and reintegration into society of one of thousands of traumatized former child soldiers, but also as a key for reconstructing these societies themselves.

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2:00pm-3:30pm - Conference Session F

F1 WRITING GENDER, WAR AND GENDER WARS
Location – Quadrangle 3.304

Chair: Susan Rasmussen

African Women and Children in Armed Conflicts: The Case in a Wide Selection of Fiction about Africa
G. Oty Agbajoh-Laoye, Monmouth University

Nigerian Women Writing War
Marion Pape, University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)

Gender Wars: Succession and Power in Tess Onwueme’s Reign of Wazobia
Juluette Bartlett Pack, DeVry University / University of Phoenix

Language Roles and Resources in Wars and Conflicts in Africa
Razaq Adedayo, Sade Olagunju (Nigeria)

F2 LANGUAGE, IDENTITIES AND DISCOURSES OF WAR & CONFLICT
Location – Lone Star Room 3.208

Chair: Jonathan Zilberg

The Use of Amazons as a Way of Constructing a Glorious Dahomeyan History
Sani Adamou, University of Texas at Austin

Discourse, Practices and Historical Representations in Two Guerrilla Groups Colombia-Angola, (ELN-MPLA)
Juan Carlos Sanchez Sierra, Virginia Tech

Male Wives, Female Husbands: Investigating Conflicts over Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender Rights in Africa
Maurice Amutabi, Central Washington University

On War Babies
Marie Mainil, New School for Social Research

Reconstructing Contested Histories using Indigenous Culture: The Ife-Modakeke Example (1830 – 2000)
Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi, Redeemer's University (Nigeria)

F3 CONFLICTS AND THE POLITICS OF PEACE-BUILDING
Location – Texas Governors Room 3.116

Chair: Steve Salm

Long Way Ahead to Peace: Eritrea and Ethiopia
Saba Kidane, University of California Los Angeles

Development of the Judiciary in Southern Africa: The Role of Developed Judiciaries
Joseph P. Mandala, University of North Dakota

Reconstructing Failed States
Chris Agoha, United Nations Mission, Liberia

Peace or Conflict in Sudan?
Peter Woodward, University of Reading (United Kingdom)

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

G1 CONFLICTS AND THE POLITICS OF PEACE-BUILDING
Location – Quadrangle 3.304

Chair: Julius O. Adekunle

Post-Civil War Reconstruction in West Africa: A Comparative Study of Nigeria under Gowon and Liberia under Taylor
Okpeh O. Okpeh Jr., Benue State University (Nigeria)

An Assessment of Approaches to Conflict Management among Nigerian Transport Associations in Oyo State, Nigeria
Joshua Remi Aworemi, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (Nigeria)

Regionalism and Conflict Management in the Mano River Union: The Role of ECOMOG in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Joseph Bangura, Kalamazoo College

The Psychosocial Aftermath: Studying the Effects of Humanitarian Intervention on Liberia’s Post-Conflict Psycho-sociality
Sharon Abramowitz, Harvard University

Democratizing Civil-Military Relations in South Africa: A Blueprint for Post-Conflict Reform?
Robert J. Griffiths, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

G2 ECONOMIES OF RESOURCE CONTROL AND CONFLICT
Location – Lone Star Room 3.208

Chair: Juliet Walker

“What Happens to Us After They Suck Out all the Wealth from our Lands?" Globalization and Violent Conflict in Africa
Cyril Obi, Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden)

Land Reform and the Reformulation of Zimbabwe’s Political Ideology, 2000 – 2007
Ryan D. Groves, University of Central Florida

Land and Labour Migrations in Central and Southern Plateau: A Study into the Latent Potentials for Conflict and Ideologies of Identity in Quaan Pan and Mangu Local Government Areas of Plateau State, Nigeria
Henry Gyang Mang, University of Jos (Nigeria)

Impact of Nigerian Civil War on the Nigerian Railway
Tokunbo A. Ayoola, Ohio State University

The Political Economy of Conflicts and the Erosion of State Stability in Africa: Nigeria in Context
Obinna Ihunna, Federal University of Technology, Owerri (Nigeria)

Nutrition Situation of Refugees and Displaced People in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Oru Refugee Camp of Ogun State, Nigeria
I.O. Olayiwola, University of Agriculture Abeokuta (Nigeria)
C.A. Olarewaju, Adeyemi College of Education (Nigeria)

G3 WHOSE WAR? WHOSE FREEDOM? AFRICA AND WORLD WAR II
Location – Texas Governors Room 3.116

Chair: Veit Erlmann

Letters from Burma: Views of Black Zimbabwean Soldiers during the Second World War
Tim Stapleton, Trent University (Canada)

The Impact of Military Service on the Health of Kenya African Soldiers during the Second World War
Meshack Owino, Cleveland State University

Making Soldiers for France: Senegalese Troops in the Second World War
Jacqueline Woodfork, Whitman College

(Re-)Writing the Massacre of Thiaroye
Sabrina Parent, University of Texas at Austin

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5:30pm-6:00pm - Return to Hotel
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BANQUET AT HOLIDAY INN, TOWN LAKE
Cash Bar, 6:45pm

Banquet, 7:30pm
Registered Participants and Invited Guests Only
Dinner Speech: Dr. Susan Rasmussen


University of Texas at Austin