THE CHINUA ACHEBE
COLLOQUIUM 2014
African Literature as
Restoration: Chinua Achebe as Teacher
Thursday May 1,
2014 – Sunday May 4, 2014
Mistress of Ceremony: Professor Abena P. A. Busia
abenapabusia@gmail.com
Thursday evening May 1, 2014
5:30pm – 6:00 pm
Opening Address: TBA
6:30 -8:30pm
A perspective of past Heads of State of Nigeria
Moderator Consular General of Nigeria
to the USA
8:30pm - 10:30pm
There Was A Country: Nigeria , Biafra , and the Unfulfilled Promise
Chair: Professor Obiora Udechukwu, Dana Professor of the
Arts, St Lawrence University, New
York
Professor Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, Universidade de Fortaleza , Brazil
Professor Apollos Nwauwa, Bowling Green
University
Professor E.C. Ejiogu, University of the Free
State , South
Africa
Professor Chukwuemeka Callistus Akanno, cakanno@gmail.com,
Mohammed Haruna, eminent Nigerian journalist
and public commentator ndajika@yahoo.com
Friday May 2, 2014
9 9: 30 a.m.
Wel Welcome,
President Christina Hull Paxson
9 9:35 a.m. –9:50 a.m.
Op Openining Conference Address: Nelson Mandela on Achebe
(video tape- available)
10: 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
K Keynote
Speaker: Professor Lynn Innes
10: 10:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Th Things Fall Apart: The Writer “Who Brought Africa to the World”—Achebe’s Impact on the World of
Letters
Chair: Dr. Thomas J. Lynn, Pennsylvania State University
Professor Ipshita Chanda, Georgetown University , Washington
Dr. Nair Anaya Ferreira,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, manausmex@yahoo.com
Professor Jesse Weaver Shipley, Haverford College , Pennsylvania
Professor Inocência
Mata Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Alameda da Universidade
LISBOA , Portugal
Email: mata.inocencia@gmail.com,
12 12:00p.m. -1:00 p.m.
LUNCH
Po Power Poetry:
Ikeogu Oke with instrumentalist Osuji Ngozi Michael, ikeogu.oke@gmail.com
1:1 1:100 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Th Novelist as Teacher:
Achebe and the Re-education of the African and Western Psyche
Chair: Professor Annie Gagiano, Stellenbosch University , South Africa
Professor
Ato Quayson,University of Toronto ,
Canada
Professor
Itala Vivan , Italy
Professor
Raoul Grangvist, Umea University ,
Sweden
Professor Chimalum Nwankwo, Abuja , Nigeria
Professor
Don Burness, Franklin Pierce University , Rindge ,
NH
2: 2:35p.m.–3:05 p.m.
Ke Keynote
Speaker: Molefi Kete Asante
mo molefikete1@aol.com, Yenenga2@aol.com
3:1 3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
No No Longer at Ease: The Uneasy Relationship Between
the Poet and Emperor
Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson, Wits University , South
Africa
Professor
Mercedes Bengoechea Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
4: 4:35 p.m.–5:55 p.m.
Th The Direction of
African Writing and Publishing Since the African Writers Series
Mr. Kassahun Checole, Publisher, African World Press
and Red Sea Press
Mr. James Currey, Publisher, James Currey Press
Ms. Dee Mortensen, Senior Sponsoring Editor, Indiana University
Ms. Gillian Berchowitz, Director, Ohio University
Mr. Gabe Dotto, Director, Michigan State
University
8 8:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
K Keynote Dramatic Performance:
Professor Tess Onwueme, tess.onwueme@gmail.com or
En Entertainment: TBA
8: 8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Sat Saturday May 3, 2014
9: 9:05 a.m.
We Welcome,
President Christina Hull Paxson
9:1 9:10 a.m.–9:20 a.m.
Ac Achebe and the Founding
of Modern African Literature
N Nadine Gordimer (taped video)
9: 9:25 a.m.–9:55 a.m.
Ke Keynote Speaker: Professor Simon Gikandi, Princeton University
10: 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
A Another Africa: Achebe and the
Image of Africa
Chair:
Professor Olakunle George, Brown
University
David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford
University
Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University , New York
Tsitsi Dangaremba, Writer; Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA), Harare , Zimbabwe
Professor Michael Thelwell, Umass Amherst, emthelwell@gmail.com, thelwell@afroam.umass.edu
Professor Paget Henry, Head of Africana Studies, Brown University
11 11:30 a.m.-12 noon
Ke Keynote Poetry
Performance: South Africa
12 12 noon–1 p.m.
LU LUNCH
1:1 1:10 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
Chi Chinua Achebe and the Hip Hop Generation
Moderator:
De Juana Thompson, Founder and managing partner of Promoting Excellence,
LLC
The Roots
Wale
Obi Asika
Chairman of OutSource Media, Founder of
Dragon Africa, West Africa Partner and Co-Founder of AMPN West
Africa . Email: china.asika@gmail.com,
Marcus Glover, Founder of Gluagency and TEdxHarlem Email:marcus@gluagency.com;
Rob Marriot Writer, Editor, Dj, former editor at Vibe,
XXL Magazines
Email:
rkmarriott@gmail.com
Efe Omoregbe, producer,
writer, manager
Email:
nowmuzik@yahoo.com
2: 2:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Ke Keynote
Speaker: Bernth Lindfors, bernthlindfors@yahoo.com
3: 3:20 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
A Man of the People: Achebe and the Crusade for
Social Justice
Chair: Dr Terri Ochiagha, University of Sussex , England
Dr. Paula García Ramírez, Departamento de
Filología Inglesa/ Dept. of English Studies; Universidad de Jaén/University of
Jaén, España/Spain Email:pagarcia@ujaen.es
Professor Ayo A. Coly, Dartmouth College
Dr. Ide
Corley, National University
of Ireland , Maynooth, Republic of Ireland
Dr Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Jnr, University of London
Mr.
Morakabe Raks Seakhoa, wRite associates, South Africa
Professor
Donna V. Jones, University of California ,
Berkeley
4: 4:45p.m. - 6:05 p.m.
Ar Arrow of God: New Insights into Achebe’s Magnum Opus
Chair:
Professor Ernest Emenyonu, University
of Michigan , Flint
Dr. Mark
Mathuray, University College , London
Dr. Jon
Millington, Institute of English Studies, London
Dr. Ranka Primorac, University
of Southampton , United Kingdom
Dr. Wale Okediran, Association of
Nigerian Authors, waleokediran@yahoo.co.uk,
6: 6:05p.m - 6:35 p.m
CL CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
His Excellency, Alhaji Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso,
Executive Governor of Kano State , NIGERIA
8: 8:30 p.m. -10:30 p.m.
E ENTERTAINMENT TBD
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