CAAS-ACÉA 2019 - PROGRAMME PRÉLIMINAIRE

CAAS-ACÉA 2019 - PROGRAMME PRÉLIMINAIRE

Thursday, May 16

2019 | Jeudi 16 mai 2019

8:00-16:00 | 9h00-16h00 – Registration Table Open - Inscriptions

PLEASE NOTE: ALL SESSIONS ARE LOCATED IN HÔTEL GOUVERNEUR 08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 1)

Femmes et émancipation en Afrique

Chair | Animatrice : Nathalie Mondain, University of Ottawa

Nathalie Mondain, University of Ottawa

Partir, revenir : Migrantes sénégalaises entre négociation et opposition face à un univers normatif contraignant

Muriel Gomez-Perez, Laval University

Femmes et entreprenariat socioreligieux à Douala et à Yaoundé: des signes d'émancipation ? Émilie Pinard, Laurentian University

Mobiliser les ressources pour construire sa maison : une voie pour l’émancipation?

Boris Koenig, University of Québec at Montréal

Jeunes célibataires, pratiques occultes et transformations des formes de l’intimité amoureuse dans la ville d’Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 2)

Development in Africa: leveraging disruptive technologies, innovation and the private sector

Chair | Animateur: Peter Arthur, Dalhousie University

Peter Arthur, Dalhousie University

Democracy, Governance, Technology and National Elections in Africa: Back to the Future?

Korbla P. Puplampu, Grant MacEwan University

Agricultural Research and Innovation: Disruptive Technologies and Value Chain Development in Africa Nafisa A. Abdulhamid, Dalhousie University

Mobile Money and Financial Mobilization in Africa: MPESA as a Kenyan Solution to Global Financial Exclusion?

Kobena T. Hanson, African Development Bank, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Automation of Knowledge Work and Africa’s Transformative Agenda – Threats, Opportunities and Possibilities

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 3)

Truth Commissions in Africa: Balancing Justice, Reconciliation and State Building

Chair | Animateur: Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University

Mellissa Levin, University of Toronto

Reconciliation, decolonization and re-naming practices in South Africa’s capital city Sylvia Bawa, York University

Decolonizing Emotion in Truth Commissions in Post-Colonial Africa Adebisi Alade, Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University

Truth Commission, the State, and Victim’s “Right to Truth” in Nigeria Aboubacar Dakuyo, University of Ottawa

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Truth, Justice and National Reconciliation: The Dilemmas of Transitional Justice in Burkina Faso Jennifer Wallace, McMaster University

Memorializing the Marginalized: An Examination of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Influence on Private-led Heritage Projects in Post-Apartheid South Africa

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 4)

Academic-Practitioner collaboration in the struggle for sexual minorities’

rights in Africa south of the Sahara

Chair | Animateur: Marc Epprecht, Queen’s University

Marc Epprecht, Queen’s University S.N. Nyeck, Amsterdam

Reflections on Scholar-Activist Collaboration and the "Decolonial Current" in Africa Mandisa Mbali, University of Cape Town

African Queer History, Activism and “The End of AIDS”

Kuukuwa Andam, Queen’s University

"Sometimes I want to Leave": Reflections on Ghana's sexual/gender diversity legal regime from the experiences of LGBT women in Ghana.

Thomas Sloss, Carleton University

Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action film project SM Rodriguez, Hofstra University

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 5)

Land Grabs, Social Differentiation & Livelihoods in Africa I Chair | Animateur: Logan Cochrane, Carleton University

Yonas Tesema Amaya, Dire Dawa University

The Predicament of Large-Scale Land Transfer to Foreign investors in Bako Tibe of Southwest Ethiopia Melisew Dejene, Hawassa University; Logane Cochrane, Carleton University

Land to the Investors: The Landscape of Land Grabs in Ethiopia, A Decade Later Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Obafemi Awolowo University

Land grabbing culture and sprawling rural-urban migration in Nigeria Daniel Behailu Gebreamanuel, Hawassa University

Land Grabbing in Ethiopia: towards Understanding the Plight of the Local Communities Sarah Berger Richardson, Dalhousie University

Large-scale Land Acquisitions: Reconciling International Investment Law with the Human Right to Food Nathanael Ojong, Tyndale

The socio-economic impact of land grabbing in Uganda

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 6)

The Influence of Patent Law and Policy on the Innovation Capability of Manufacturing Industries in Ethiopia

Chair | Animateur: Birhan Suadik, Queen’s University

Solomon Mesfin, University of Gondar Wondwosen Wubu, University of Gondar Hailu Dadi, Institute of Bio-technology

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10:00-10:30 | 10h00-10h30 Break | Pause 10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 1)

Penser l’islam contemporain : dialogues à partir de l’Afrique de l’ouest Chair | Animatrice:

Mathias Savadogo, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Fabienne Samson, Institut des mondes africains, Institut de recherche et développement Islam, politique et contrôle social : analyse comparée du Sénégal et de l’Algérie

Louis Audet-Gosselin, CEFIR, Cégep Édouard Montpetit

Le salafisme burkinabè : entre rigueur doctrinale et mouvement de masse

Géraldine Mossière, University of Montréal, Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative, Maison Méditerranéenne des sciences de l’Homme

Penser l’appartenance musulmane à ses limites : le cas des Africains de l’ouest apostats de l’islam et convertis au christianisme en Afrique et au Québec

Issouf Binaté, University Alassane Ouattara

Le soft power de la Turquie en Côte d’Ivoire contemporaine : Vers un dialogue de cultures et de traditions islamiques

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 2)

Contributions africaines aux développements et aux débats contemporains en matière de justice pénale internationale, justice transitionnelle et droits de la personne en Afrique.

Chair | Animateur: Pacifique Manirakiza, University of Ottawa

Bernard Ntahiraja, University of Burundi

À la recherché de “solutions africaines aux problèmes africains” : Les leçons du procès Hissène Habré au Sénégal

Aimé-Parfait Niyonkuru, University of Freiburg

Retraits du Statut de Rome et expériences de non-coopération: Est-ce déjà l'agonie du modèle de justice de la CPI ?

Nestor Nkurunziza, University of Ottawa

Analyse du rôle de la société civile dans la mise œuvre de la justice transitionnelle au Burundi au prisme de l’hybridité de la consolidation de la paix

Alexis Manirakiza, University of Anvers

Analyse critique de la régulation de la conjugalité en union libre au Burundi à l’aune du respect dû aux droits et libertés fondamentales des personnes

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 3) Conflict, Gender and Displacement

Chair | Animatrice: Allison Goebel, Queen’s University

Allison Goebel, Queen’s University Heather Tasker, York University

Gendered Impacts and Conceptions of MONUSCO: Conflict, Subjectivity, and Sexual Violence Lindsay Coombs, Queen’s University; Stéfanie von Hlatky

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Blind Spots in UN Peace Operations: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Men and Boys Jennifer Tsokwa, Queen’s University

Nigeria’s Internally Displaced Women: The Need for Decent Shelter Kirstin Wagner, University of Birmingham

Peace-Babies in Eastern DRC: Dynamics of Social Status and Well-Being

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 4) Embodied inequality in urban Africa

Chair | Animateur: Marc Epprecht, Queen’s University

Rudolf Gaudio, Purchase College, SUNY

Embodied Inequality and Urban Sprawl: Informal Transport in Nigeria’s Planned Capital Marc EPPRECHT, Queen’s University

Another Experiment at Edendale (Msunduzi): Envisioning environmental justice in a secondary South African city

Surajo Kamilu Sulaiman, Queen’s University; Heather Michelle Aldersey, Queen’s University; Ashiru Hamza Mohammed, Bayero University; Christiana Okyere, Queen’s University

Experiences of Polio Survivors on Accessibility in Urban Spaces in Northern Nigeria

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 5)

Land Grabs, Social Differentiation & Livelihoods in Africa II Chair | Animateur: Logan Cochrane, Carleton University

Gemechu Adimassu Abeshu, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies

Large scale land acquisition and the rise of a new forms of political power near the Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti border triangle

Bedemariam Woldeyesus, Wollo University

Land expropriation and compensation in Kombolcha, Ethiopia Gibson Muridzi

Commercial land grab and the effect on wheat production in Zimbabwe Steffi Hamann, University of Guelph

Land Acquisitions and Employment Generation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social Differentiation in the Labour Force

Éric Chaurette, Inter Pares ; Amine Boulhian, Université de Montréal

Impacts différenciés des acquisitions massives de terres agricoles en Afrique de l’Ouest Ramata Molo Thioune

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 6)

Transformation des politiques publiques et changements de paradigme en Afrique sub-saharienne : Que peut-on apprendre d’une comparaison entre secteurs?

Chair | Animatrice: Bonnie Campbell, Université of Québec at Montréal

Daniel Béland, University McGill; Privilege Haang’andu, University of Saskatchewan

Policy change and paradigm shifts in Sub-Saharan Africa: A comparison of health care and mining policy Mylène Coderre, University of Ottawa; Bonnie Campbell, Université du Québec à Montréal

La Vision minière pour l’Afrique et les transformations des cadres règlementaires miniers: les expériences du Mali et du Sénégal

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Lara Gauthier, Université de Montréal

L’influence des “entrepreneurs de la diffusion” dans la conception et la mise en œuvre du financement basé sur la performance au Mali

12:00-13:30 | 12h30-13h30 Break for lunch | Pause-repas 13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 1)

Crossing Memories of Africa and its Diasporas: Public History and Digital Scholarship at the Harriet Tubman Institute

Chair | Animateur: Abubacar Fofana Leon, York University

Bruno Verás, York University

Crossing Memories, Art and Digital Scholarship: The Baquaqua Project initiative

Abubacar Fofana León, York University; Negita da Graça Jaime, University Eduardo Mondlane The Oficina de História – Moçambique and the making of a digital history project

Datejie Cheko Green, Independent Scholar

The Colored Conventions Project: A Digital Intervention in the History of African Diasporic Collective Power

Denise Challenger, York University

Playin’ Mas or Play n’ Mas: ‘Kiddies Carnival’ and the making of a Caribana digital community archive, Toronto, Canada

13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 2)

Table Ronde : Regards africains sur l'Interculturalité

Chair | Animateur: Oumar Kane, University of Québec at Montréal

Oumar Kane, University of Québec at Montréal Lelo Matundu-Lelo, University of Québec at Montréal Moussa Dieng Kaka, Laval University

Sylvain Kalamba Nsapo, UCL

13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 3) Justice Issues in Post-traumatic Contexts

Chair | Animateur: Frank Chalk, Concordia University

Lara Rosenoff Gauvin, McGill University

Innovative Translation in Search of Reconciliation and Rights: Acoli Indigenous Constitutions in Post- Conflict Northern Uganda

Obasesam Okoi, University of Manitoba

Punctuated Peace? Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Transformational Change in Nigeria’s Oil Region John Kelechi Ugwuanyi, University of York

Eziokwu bụ ndụ: an Evaluation of Otobo, the Igbo Landscape for ‘Truth’ in a Post-truth Era Frank Chalk, Concordia University

Are Perpetrator Interviews Reliable Indicators for Determining Ordinary Perpetrator Motives? Questions Emerging from the Cases of Rwanda and the Holocaust

Kristi Kenyon

Generational Framings of Injustice: #FeesMustFall and the Post-Apartheid Narrative

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13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 4)

Africa and the Global Knowledge Hegemony: Reconsidering Theory Chair | Animateur: Michael Perry Okyerefo, University of Ghana

Cyrelene Merrilyne Amoah-Boampong, University of Ghana

Rethinking thinking in the discipline of History: The case of the Ibadan School of History James Sefe Dzisah, University of Ghana

Knowledge Production in Hegemonic Structures: Reconsidering Postcoloniality Victoria Ellen Smith, University of Ghana

Historical Figures: the impact of personal archives on written history Michael Perry Okyerefo, University of Ghana

Curiosity is the bedrock that transcends boundaries and foments African epistemologies

13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 5) Gender, Family and Education

Chair | Animateur: Miriam Nkangu, University of Ottawa

Miriam Nkangu, University of Ottawa

Development of a mobile family planning message for the BornFyne project-A formative study using a behavioral change theory

Anella Bieteru, Brock University

Gendered power relations and household decision-making: The case of rural northern Ghana Leva Rouhani, University of Ottawa & Yvette Onibon Doubogan, University of Parakou

Promoting girls’ education through a women-led community model: Mothers Associations in Benin Faith Adodo, York University

The Disabling Impact of Female Genital Mutilation

13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 6) Stories of/with Africans

Chair | Animatrice:

Deb Neill

A postscript on collaborative encounters, epistemological tensions, and grandiose stories: Me and Davy Allison K. Shutt, Hendrix College, Conway

Writing about Jasper Savanhu—with his family looking over my shoulder Nancy J. Jacobs, Brown University

The Problem of Transference in Oral Biography José Curto, York University

Dona Justina Henriqueta Fortunato da Costa in Luanda: A Life Story from the 1840s

15:00-15:30 | 15h00-15h30 Break | Pause

15:30-17:00 | 15h30-17h00 CAAS Panel in Honor of Professor Chris Youe - Reception offered by Canadian Journal of African Studies/ Panel en l’honneur du Professeur Chris Youé - Réception offerte par la Revue

Canadienne des Études Africaines

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Chair: Tim Stapleton, University of Calgary Tim Stapleton, University of Calgary

“Un-Warlike and Well Off:” The British Failure to Identify Martial Races in Colonial Sierra Leone and the Gambia (c.1900-1945)

Katrina Keefer, Trent University

Poro and the British Colonial Project in Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone

Rooms to Let: Lodging Landlords & Ladies as Urban Agents

African Global Landscapes of New Slavery

17:30-19:30 | 17h30-19h30

CAAS OPENING RECEPTION IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR CHRIS YOUE | SOIRÉE D’OUVERTURE DE L’ACÉA EN L’HONNEUR DU PROFESSEUR CHRIS YOUE

Welcome/Bienvenue Tributes / hommages Prix Fraser Taylor Prize

A Cultural Demonstration/ Prestation artistique

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Friday, May 17

2019 | Vendredi 17 mai 2019

8:00-16:00 | 8h00-16h00 – Registration Table Open - Inscriptions 08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 1)

Natural Resources and Development in Africa: Issues, Insights and Prospects I Chair | Animateur: Uwafiokun Idemudia, York University

Amy R. Poteete, Concordia University ; Co-author Keith Jefferis, Econsult Botswana

After the Boom: Volatility, Institutions, Politics, and Development in Botswana’s Resource-Dependent Economy

David Orr, Independent scholar

Renegotiating the periphery: Oil discovery, devolution, and political contestation in Kenya Shingirai L. Taodzera, University of Ottawa

“Rich kingdoms” and the state: Natural resources, ownership, and access to resource wealth in Uganda and South Africa

Eyene Okpanachi, University of Victoria

Understanding the political-society linkages of resource-based Sovereign Wealth Funds (SFWs) in Africa:

Lessons from Ghana and Nigeria

Hevina S. Dashwood, Brock University; Uwafiokun Idemudia, York University; Kernaghan Webb Ryerson University

Ghana’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: The ‘trickle down’ of accountability to communities affected by mining

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 2)

Table Ronde : Vulnérabilité des populations urbaines africaines face aux évènements hydrométéorologiques extrêmes. L'apport heuristique d'une démarche interdisciplinaire à Abidjan I

Chair | Animatrice: Stéphanie Dos Santos, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

Eric-Pascal Zahiri, University Félix Houphouët Boigny

Stéphanie Dos Santos, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement André Alla Della, University Félix Houphouët Boigny

Amidou Dao, University of North Alabama Bernard Dje, SODEXA

Droh Goné, University of North Alabama

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 3)

Politique du Pèlerinage (Islam et Christianisme): État, entreprenariat et Identité (Burkina Faso, Cameroun et Sénégal)

Chair | Animateur : Cédric Jourde, University of Ottawa

Muriel Gomez-Perez, Université Laval

Femmes et Hajj au Cameroun et au Burkina Faso: embryon d'entreprenariat religieux ? Marie Brossier, Laval University; Cédric Jourde, University of Ottawa

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Économie politique du Hâjj en mutation au Sénégal : Entre hégémonie étatique et autonomisation des entrepreneurs islamiques

Théodore Takou, Laval University

Hajj, pouvoir public, identité sociale et culture matérielle chez les musulmans de Douala (Cameroun) : de la période coloniale à nos jours

Ismaila Kane, University of Ottawa

Popenguine et Notre-Dame de Yagma : ferveur religieuse et action de l’État

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 4)

Disrupting humanism, connecting security: African studies research and dissemination in a world in turmoil

Chair | Animateur : Divine Fuh, CODESRIA, University of Cape Town

Divine Fuh, CODESRIA, University of Cape Town; Vito Laterza, University of Agder

Yves Barthélémy Zoa Ateba

Télécommunications africaines et dépendance à l’Occident : origine, défis, enjeux et perspectives Sylvie St-Jacques, Queen's University

The cultural meaning of Shaka Zulu on Netflix

Odile Goerg, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité Face à l’écran : le cinéma réinventé par ses publics Leila Qashu, McGill University

Collaborative Video Production with Young Women in Ethiopia: expressing concerns and hopes through creative artistic improvisation

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 5) Local Culture, Identity And Religion

Chair | Animateur : Candide Nyondo, Carleton University

Candide Nyondo, Carleton University

The Fight for Social Legitimacy in Mobutu's Zaire: The Contrasting Responses of the Catholic and Protestant Church to the Authenticity Program 1970-1977

Samuel Kehinde Fabunmi, Federal College Of Education, Abokuta, Ogun State

Emerging Trend In The Naming Practice Among The Yoruba Christians In Nigeria As A Threat To African Personality And Identity

Ogunrinade Adewale Olukayode, Gombe State University

Appropriation of Yoruba Socio-cultural beliefs and Practices among the Indigenous Pentecostals in Ibadan

Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Obafemi Awolowo University

Alafowosowopo: exploring the significance of ‘resurgent’ Yoruba traditional communal human settlement pattern as a form of SSE in Eleweeran, South-West, Nigeria

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 6) Finances, Economic Practices And Gender

Chair | Animateur : Marie Gagné, University of Toronto

Uchenna Ugwu, University of Ottawa

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Redefining 'Innovation' in Multilateral IP Regulation to Advance Agricultural Invention: An African Perspective

Marie Gagné, University of Toronto

Corporate Polymorphism, Fabulous Promises of Development, and Ostentatious Self-Promotion:

Analysing Agribusiness Land Control Strategies in Senegal Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin

Gbomu le lantern: The embodiment and performativity of microfinance in Southwest Nigeria Christopher Webb, University of Toronto

Give a Woman a Financialized Fish: Reflections on Neoliberalism and Distribution in South Africa’s Cash Transfer Program

10:00-10:30 | 10h00-10h30 Break | Pause 10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 1)

Natural Resources and Development in Africa: Issues, Insights and Prospects II

Chair | Animateur: Amy R. Poteete, Concordia University

Jesse Salah Ovadia, University of Windsor

Preliminary Research on Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa: Reimagining A Concept Chris Huggins, University of Ottawa; Abel Kinyondo, REPOA

Resource Nationalism in Tanzania: State controlled enclaves and formalization in the Tanzanite sector Jason J. McSparren, University of Massachusetts

Global Issues Addressed through Global Governance: The EITI as an Intervention against the Resource Curse

W. R. Nadège Compaoré, Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto

Canadian “Home State Responsibility” in Africa’s Mining Sector: Prospects of/for a Tripartite Governance Complex and Why it Matters

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 2)

Table Ronde : Vulnérabilité des populations urbaines africaines face aux évènements hydrométéorologiques extrêmes. L'apport heuristique d'une démarche interdisciplinaire à Abidjan II

Chair | Animatrice: Stéphanie Dos Santos, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

Ibrahim Bamba, University Félix Houphouët Boigny Modeste Kacou, University Félix Houphouët Boigny Bamory Kamagate, University of North Alabama

Jean-Louis Perrin, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement Luc Seguis, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 3)

Thinking Again About the Occult: New Approaches to the Study of Religion in

Africa

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Chair | Animatrice: Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc,

Discussant: Florence Bernault

Pier-Olivier Tremblay, Université du Québec à Montréal

Islam and the Esoteric Sciences: Ethos, Discourse and Legitimacy Among ”marabouts”

Fatoumata Diahara Traoré, Université du Québec à Montréal

Liminality and spirituality in African women immigrants' help-seeking in mental health Boris Koenig, Université du Québec à Montréal, Catholic University of Leuven

Ethnographic notes on urban youth initiatory journeys into animist esoteric practices in Côte d’Ivoire Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Université du Québec à Montréal

Conversation between the Occult and Islam

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 4)

Globalization, Transculturality and Innovation in Africa

Chair | Animateur: Samuel Afolabi Olugbemiga, University of Johannesburg, Obafemi Awolowo University

Samuel Afolabi Olugbemiga, University of Johannesburg; Victoria Afolabi Oluwatoyin, Obafemi Awolowo University

Innovation and the Concept of African University: Rationality, Epistemicide and Subjectivity of Knowledge Production

Harrison Adewale Idowu

Technological Innovation and the Quest for Economic Development in Africa BabatundeOmotosho, Federal University Oye

African Culture and Development in the era of Globalisation Francis Ajayi, Concordia University

Translation and/as Transculturation in Postcolonial Africa

Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Obafemi Awolowo University & Tolulope Esther Adebusuyi, Obafemi Awolowo University

Alafowosowopo: exploring the significance of ‘resurgent’ Yoruba traditional (communal) human settlement pattern as a form of SSE in Eleweeran, South-West, Nigeria

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 5)

Transnational simultaneity: exploring African nascent model of regional integration

Chair | Animateur: Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Obafemi Awolowo University

Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Obafemi Awolowo University

Transnational simultaneity: exploring African emergent model of regional integration Agunyai Samuel Chukwudi, Obafemi Awolowo University

Remittances and Migration: A Strategic Tool for Anti-Social Behaviour among Youth in Ogwashi-Uku Community, Delta State Nigeria

Biola Adimula, University of Ilorin

Trans-border Experiences of Nigerian Migrants in Benin Republic: Prospects for Sustainable Regional Integration in West Africa

Kabran Aristide Djane, Peleforo Gon Coulibaly University of Korhogo

Migration, empreinte écologique et logique des associations de migrants en région forestière Ivoirienne

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10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 6) Les contributions africaines en question

Chair | Animateur: Isaac Bazié, Université du Québec à Montréal

Carolina Ferrer, Université du Québec à Montréal

L’Afrique à l’âge hypercanonique ? La réception critique internationale des principales figures littéraires africaines

Hamadou Mandé, Université Ouaga 1 Pr Joseph Ki-Zerbo

Le théâtre africain contemporain : une écriture innovante à vocation universelle Abdoulaye Imorou, University of Ghana

Et si l’Afrique n’avait rien inventé. Chroniques d’un empire vorace Jean-Marie Miki Kasongo Mukanjila, Institut Catholique de Paris La créativité africaine dans l’océan de l’indifférence

12:15-13:30 | 12h15-13h30 - Author Meets Critic

A Conversation around Florence Bernault’s Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies and

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Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Chaire Islam Contemporain en Afrique de l’Ouest, Université du Québec à Montréal

Andrew Ivaska, Concordia University

Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Prof. émérite, Université de Laval Candide Nyondo, University of Ottawa

Phil Janzen, University of Florida

13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 1)

Natural Resources and Development in Africa: Issues, Insights and Prospects III

Chair | Animateur: Tim Shaw, University of Massachusetts

Alex Osei-Kojo, University of Colorado

Evidenced-based Policymaking and Natural Resource Management in Ghana Timothy Adivilah Balag’kutu, University of Massachusetts

Examining the governance deficit in Ghana’s artisanal and small-scale mining sector

Uwafiokun Idemudia, York University; Francis Xavier Dery Tuokuu, Antioch University; James S. Gruber, Antioch University; Jean Kayira, Antioch University

Challenges and opportunities of environmental policy implementation: empirical evidence from Ghana’s gold mining sector

Emmanuel Graham, Independent scholar

Assessing A Decade of Civil Society Organizations’ Watch Dog Role in Preventing the Oil Curse in Ghana

13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 2)

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Table Ronde : À quelles conditions un transfert technologique décolonial est-il possible en Afrique francophone subsaharienne? Exploration de l’appropriation de quatre technologies numériques associées à la science ouverte

Chair | Animateur: Florence Piron, Université Laval

Florence Piron, Laval University

Judicaël Alladatin, University of Parakou, Université du Québec à Rimouski Djossè Tessy, Université Laval, Virchow Villermé Center

Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Université Laval, APSOHA

13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 3)

Human Rights Action Plans in Africa: Process, Substance and Outcomes Chair | Animatrice: Obiora C. Okafor, York University

Sylvia Bawa, York University

Canada-Africa Engagements in Human Rights: Beyond Imperialism and Methodological Nationalisms Obiora C. Okafor, Sanaa Ahmed, York University

Presence through absence: Understanding the Role of Capital in the African Human Rights Action Plan Obiora C. Okafor, Maxwel Miyawa, York University

The African Union’s Human Rights Action Planning Process (2016-2018): A Critical Assessment Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu, University of Saskatchewan

Africa’s Norm Entrepreneurs, Canada’s Engagement and the Development of a Human Rights Strategy for Africa

13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 4)

Slavery in Africa during the Nineteenth Century: Comparative Perspectives Chair | Animatrice: Vanessa Oliveira, Royal Military College of Canada

Vanessa Oliveira, Royal Military College of Canada

Experiences of Slaves in Luanda during the Era of Legitimate Commerce Francesca Declich, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo

Inhabitants (moradores) and slaves in demographic data collections of nineteenth century Cabo Delgado (Mozambique)

Stephen J. Rockel, University of Toronto

Freed Slave Origins in East Africa from the British Foreign Office Correspondence: A Preliminary Analysis

13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 5)

Islam : Society, History, Ideologies | Islam : société, histoire, idéologies Chair | Animateur:

Drissa Koné

La Jama at Tabligh à Abidjan : Itinéraires et stratégies de diffusion de l'islam par des "travailleurs de Dieu"

Robert Lummack, University of Ottawa, CMRSJ

Understanding the Continuance of the Boko Haram Insurgency

Feisal Farah, American University of Nigeria School of Arts & Science (SAS)

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Al-Shabab, Boko Haram, The Evil Twins of the African Continent: The Historical and Contemporary Social Context that Led to their Birth

Cheikh Tijani Isselmou, The University of Arizona

Islam, Secularity and Coloniality Early Mauritanian Response to Colonialism 1890-1920

13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (Room / Salle: 6)

Mobilités et Frontières | Displacements And Borders Chair | Animateur:

Mobilités transfrontalières en Afrique centrale Pays membres de la CEMAC : analyse des trajectoires contrastées du triangle de la mort Tchad-Cameroun-République centrafricaine et du triangle d’or Gabon- Cameroun-Guinée équatoriale

Victor Amadi, University of the Western Cape

Reassessing the SADC approach to movement of persons Husseina Dinani, University of Toronto Scarborough

Gender, Mobility and Regionalism in southern Tanganyika, 1930s-1950s.”

Denboy Kudejira, Memorial University

Movement of Zimbabwean migrants into, within and out of the farm labor market in Limpopo Province, South Africa

15:00-15:30 | 15h00-15h30 Break | Pause 15:30-17:00 | 15h30-17h00 (Room / Salle: 1)

Table Ronde : L’originalité à l’épreuve de la multiculturalité : l’identité africaine en question

Chair | Animatrice: Marie Fall, University of Québec at Chicoutimi & Samba Diakité, Université Alassane Ouattara de Côte d’Ivoire

Kouakou Kouamé Hyacinthe Youssouf Kouma

Doumbia Abi Barro Aminata Mamadou Dimé Omar Gueye Khadiyatoulah Fall Lélo Matundo

15:30-17:00 | 15h30-17h00 (Room / Salle: 2)

Scalability of innovations in rural livelihood strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa Chair | Animatrice: Sheila Rao, Carleton University

Bernard Pelletier, Farm Radio International ; Berhane Gebru, Independent researcher; Catherine Mloza- Banda, Farm Radio Trust; Stanley Khaila, Farm Radio Trust; George Vilili, Farm Radio Trust; Mark Leclair, Farm Radio International; Eluby Kanyenda, Farm Radio Trust; Rex Chapota, Farm Radio International Harnessing Information and Communication Technologies to scale up agricultural innovation in sub- Saharan Africa.

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Kariuki Kirigia, McGill University

Privatization in the Postcolony: Dismantling while Preserving the Pastoral Commons Helena Shilomboleni, International Development Research Center

The Political Economy of Scaling Up Innovations in Agricultural Development Sheila Rao, Carleton University

The gendered, socio-economic implications of innovations in nutritional health: the case of biofortification in Tanzania.

15:30-17:00 | 15h30-17h00 (Room / Salle: 3)

Tracing African Trajectories: Liberated Africans and Diasporic Biographies Chair | Animatrice: Katrina H. Keefer, Trent University

Katrina H. Keefer, Trent University; Martha Ladly, Ontario College of Art and Design; Kartikay Chadha, University of Toronto

Decoding Origins: Creating A Visual Language of Marks Michael McGill, Trent University

Travelling Digitally: The Usefulness of Digital Technology in the Study of Travel Literature in Precolonial Africa

Henry B. Lovejoy, University of Colorado

Is a Hub Needed? Problems with Data Management and Consolidating Research Networks in the Liberated Africans Project

Eric Lehman, Trent University

Imagining a Scarchive: Scarification as Systems of Pre-Colonial Knowledge

15:30-17:00 | 15h30-17h00 (Room / Salle: 4) Gender, Violence, Subjectivity

Chair | Animateur:

Rethinking Gender Relations in Africa: Nigerian Women, Domestic Violence and the Death Caravans Oluwakemi Oyebanji, University of the Western Cape

Human Trafficking Across A Border In Nigeria: Experiences Of Young Women Who Have Survived Trafficking

Heather Tasker

Gendered Impacts and Conceptions of MONUSCO: Conflict, Subjectivity, and Sexual Violence Jane L. Parpart, University of Massachusetts Boston

Rethinking Silence, Gender and Power in Insecure Sites: The Zimbabwe Nationalist Struggle Jen Katshunga

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Examining the Geographies of Exclusion around Adolescent girls in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

15:30-17:00 | 15h30-17h00 (Room / Salle: 5) Innovation And Local Knowledge

Chair | Animateur:

Innovation and ethics in indigenous Yoruba-African medicinal practices Okala Tsala Silvere Ulrie, IDHES, Université Paris 8

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‘’l’ikagsaa’’* : une forme ancienne du travail en pays Eton du Cameroun au service de la production Tagne Joel Stephan, université of Dschang, Cameroun

Diversité culturelle et innovation au Cameroun Michelle Sraha-Yeboah, York University

Investigating West African Practices of Psychotherapy: Innovations and Implications for the West Gino Vlavonou, University of Ottawa

Global and local inflections in the Central African Republic CAR

15:30-17:00 | 15h30-17h00 (Room / Salle: 6) Communauties And Governance

Chair | Animateur: Andrew Heffernan, University of Ottawa

Tinotenda Chidhawu, University of the Western Cape

The conundrum of Human Rights: why democracy appears to triumph in the West and fails everywhere else: An assessment of the dynamics of human rights in Zimbabwe’s ‘new dispensation’ under Mnangagwa.

Raphael Ogom

The West and Africa: Re-thinking the Question of Originality and Innovation in Governance Andrew Heffernan, University of Ottawa

Killing the social softly? Environmental assemblages reconfiguring state power in Namibia Albert Omulo, University of the Western Cape

Re-conceptualizing Ethnic-based Violence in Africa in the Age of Unfettered, Unregulated Capitalism:

Insights from the Kenyan Case with Special Reference to its Luo Community Oulai B. Goué, Université du Québec à Montréal

La fabrique d’un objet discursif. Les éthiques des pratiques journalistiques en temps de guerre : le cas de la guerre civile en Côte d’Ivoire de 2010-2011

17:15-18:30 | 17h30-18h30

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Michael Perry Okyerefo,

Curiosity is the bedrock that transcends boundaries and foments African epistemologies

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Saturday, May 18

2019 | Samedi le 18 mai 2019

8:00-16:00 | 8h00-16h00 – Registration Table Open - Inscriptions 08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 2)

The Learning Toolkit Plus in Kenya

Chair | Animateur: Philip Abrami, Concordia University

Larysa Lysenko, Concordia University; C. Anne Wade, Concordia University; Philip Abrami, Concordia University

Teaching with LTK+. Preliminary lessons about sustainability and scale up in Kenya schools

Alexandra Gottardo, Wilfrid Laurier University; Eileen Wood, Wilfrid Laurier University; Phillip Abrami, Concordia University; Anne Wade, Concordia University; Maina WaGioko, Aga Khan Academy; Rose Iminza, Aga Khan Academy; Enos Kiforo, Aga Khan Academy

Collaborating to develop optimal training for educators using software as an instructional tool: The Kenyan context.

Larysa Lysenko, Concordia University; Vivek Venkatesh, Concordia University; Enos Kiforo, Aga Khan Academy; Anne Gattende, I Choose Life, Nairobi, Kenya

Electronic portfolios in Kenyan secondary classrooms: results of the ePEARL pilot study

Nathalie Chapleau, University of Québec at Montréal; Line Laplante, UQAM; Monique Brodeur, UQAM;

Patrick Charland, UQAM; Kathy Beaupré-Boivin, UQAM

Les défis de la réalisation d’une étude en milieu scolaire francophone en Côte d’Ivoire

Guo-Sunny Xin, Chinese University of Hong-Kong; Alan Cheung, Chinese University of Hong-Kong; Barley Mak, Chinese University of Hong-Kong

Activity theory as a framework for understanding teachers' perceptions of the use of ABRACADABRA (ABRA) at primary schools in Kenya

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 3)

Climate change in Africa: grassroots perspectives and innovative adaptation strategies

Chair | Animatrice: Sorome Abeshu, New Generation University

Sorome Abeshu, New Generation University

Birds are migrating away: views of the Oromo people regarding effects of climate change on lake Abjata in the Rift Valley in Ethiopia

Asegidew Akale Zebene, University of Bayreuth

Innovative Adaptation strategies to climate change in smallholder farmers in the case of Minjar Shenkora district, Ethiopia

James Wachira, University of Bayreuth

Climate changes through the poems and fables of the Kippsigs of North Western Kenya: grassroots perispectives

Ramata Molo Thioune

Action Research to overcome the negative impact of large scale land acquisitions on women in Africa

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 4)

Boko Haram: Islamic Militancy and Global and Regional Terrorism

CAAS-ACÉA 2019 - PROGRAMME PRÉLIMINAIRE

Chair | Animateur: Paul E. Lovejoy, York Universit & Bruno R. Véras, York University

Paul E. Lovejoy, York University; Bruno R. Véras, York University Boko Haram, Islamic Protest, and National Security

Feisal Farah, American University of Nigeria

Al-Shabab, Boko Haram, The Evil Twins of the African Continent: The Historical and Contemporary Social Context that Led to their Birth

François Wassouni, University of Maroua

Terrorisme de Boko Haram au Cameroun et émergence d’une terminologie nouvelle dans les zones affectées

Ibrahim Sani Kankara, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University; Nura Ibrahim, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Implications of Boko Haram Insurgency on the Almajiri Institution and Islamic Scholarship in the Northwestern Nigerian region

Melchisedek Chétima, University of Maroua & Fidèle Alliance Abélégué

Pourquoi les Gens à la Frontière entre le Nigeria et le nord du Cameroun Qualifient Boko Haram d’Hamaji?

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 5) Security And Governance

Chair | Animateur: Yalla Sangaré, Université Sainte-Anne & Jason J.

McSparren, University of Massachusetts

Stephanie Bacher, Université d'Ottawa

Consolidation de la paix et domination autoritaire dans le Nord de l’Ouganda Lucien Manokou, Institut de Recherche en Sciences humaines (IRSH)/ Libreville

Les décès dans les opérations de l’ONU : un tribut partagé entre l’Afrique et le monde 1956 à nos jours Yalla Sangaré, Université Sainte-Anne & Jason J. McSparren, University of Massachusetts

Security Response Governance: the G5-Sahel Joint Task Force Honoré Gbedan, Université Laval

L’Afrique et les volontaires internationaux du développement : entre conflits identitaires et hybridation culturelle ?

Joseph Tchinda Kenfo

La résolution des conflits intercommunautaires à l’Ouest-Cameroun : Du « moderne au traditionnel » à l’épreuve du conflit Bagam-Bamenyam dans l’arrondissement de Galim

08:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (Room / Salle: 6)

Littératures africaines à l’épreuve de la globalisation Chair I Animatrice : Vanessa Etondi, Université de Bergen

Jacob Tatsitsa, University of Ottawa

Les Canadiens et le nouveau souffle d’une œuvre engagée censurée : le cas de Main basse sur le Cameroun… de Mongo Beti

Julia Galmiche, University of Toronto

Entre intertextualité et postcolonialité : l’hybridité narrative dans "Le Devoir de violence"

Mamadou Bayala, Ecole Nationale d’administration et de magistrature, Ouagadougou Dramaturgie burkinabè et pratiques innovantes

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Vanessa Etondi, Université de Bergen

L’Afrique dans le prisme du Sankofa chez Léonora Miano Souleymane Ganou, Université Ouaga 1 Pr Joseph Ki-Zerbo

Masque et développement endogène : perspectives croisées de la tradition et de la modernité

10:00-10:30 | 10h00-10h30 Break | Pause 10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 1)

Author Meets Critic Roundtable: A Conversation around Bonny Ibhawoh’s Human Rights in Africa, Cambridge University Press, 2018

Chair | Animatrice: Meredith Terretta, Chaire Gordon F. Henderson en Droits de la Personne Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Human Rights, University of Ottawa

Paul Ugor, Illinois State University Obiorah Okafor, York University Meredith Terretta, University of Ottawa

Raymond Izarali, Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa, Wilfrid Laurier University Sylvia Bawa, York University

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 2)

Africa and the Western Values: Contrastive Readings Chair | Animateur : Munjeera Jefford, York University

Roland Afungang, University of Porto

Failed decolonization of Africa and the rise of new states: Cartography of the ongoing war in the former British Southern Cameroons - Ambazonia

Khanyile Mlotshwa, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Africa’s looted art and Hegel’s shame

Munjeera Jefford, York University

Falola and Oluwole: Nigerian Philosophers Decolonize Education

Amos Adekunle Adediran, Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, Ogun State

Examining The Impact Of Traditional Knowledge For The Preservation Of African Cultural Heritage In Nigeria

Samantha Stevens-Hall, McMaster University

Baganda Intellectuals and the Making of Modernity in British Imperial Networks

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 3)

Gouvernance, Économie et Identité | Governance, Economy and Identity Chair | Animateur: Eugène Arnaud YOMBO SEMBE, Université de Yaoundé II

Kayamba Tshitshi Ndouba, Université du Québec à Montréal, University of La Rioja

L’Afrique au carrefour de l’innovation du droit international. L’expérience de régionalisation du droit international pénal

Olusola Ogunnubi, Mangosuthu University of Technology

Nation Branding, National Identity, and the Nigerian Project: Matters Arising for Political Restructuring Kojo Damptey

CAAS-ACÉA 2019 - PROGRAMME PRÉLIMINAIRE

Rethinking Indigenous Governance for Contemporary Africa. The Case for Ghana Taiwo Bello, University of Toronto

Manufacturing and Industrialization in Africa: A History of Hope and Despair

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 4)

Boko Haram: Islamic Scholarship, Ideologies and Local Dynamics

Chair | Animateur: Paul E. Lovejoy, York University; Burno R. Véras, York University

Séhou Ahmadou, University of Maroua

Dire Boko Haram: Tendances historiographiques et orientations épistémologiques Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, American University of Nigeria

Blood, Tweets & Toil: The Nigerian Army's Social Media War on Boko Haram Adam Mahamat, University of Maroua

Boko Haram au Cameroun: Discours et controverses sur une insurrection qui divise François Wassouni, University of Maroua

Les personnes associées à Boko Haram dans l’extrême Nord du Cameroun: entre retours, traumatisme, stigmatisation et problèmes de réintegration

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 5)

Roundtable: Using Social Media communication in disability inclusive development: Evidence from Cameroon

Chair | Animatrice:

Louis Mbibeh, Independent Researcher, Cameroon Lynn Cockburn, University of Toronto

Marc Stephan Nkouly, ClicSpace, Bamenda, Cameroon

Veronica Ngum Ndi, North West Association of Women with Disabilities, Bamenda, Cameroon

10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (Room / Salle: 6)

Savoirs et dynamiques afromondiales | Knowledge and Afroglobal Dynamics Chair | Animateur:

Oluwole Coker, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife

Neither the Devil nor the Deep Blue Sea: Ayi Kwei Armah, Print Culture and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Postcolonial Africa

Gladys Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi -Manieson, Central University And Okyere Karikari Alexander, University of Sciences and Technology

African Unity and Development: A Study of Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons.

Ademola Kazeem Fayemi, University of Lagos

Artistic Creativity, African Aesthetics and the Future of Africa in the World Armel Talling Fongang, Université de Yaoundé I

L’invention de la ville en Afrique Noire : Entre pratiques innovantes et défis de la mondialisation en contexte urbain camerounais

12:30-14:00 | 12h30-14h00

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CAAS Annual General Meeting (AGM) Assemblée générale annuelle (AGA) de l’ACÉA 14:00-15:30 | 14h00-15h30 (Room / Salle: 1)

Formes, stratégies et enjeux de la mobilisation collective des musulmans-es ouest-africains-es dans la région du Grand Montréal

Chair | Animateur: Kayamba Tshitshi Ndouba, Université du Québec à Montréal, University of La Rioja

Moussa Dieng, Laval University, Université de Montréal; Sayouba Savadogo, McGill University Les formes de mobilisation cultuelle de l’Islam ouest-africain dans la région du Grand Montréal Kayamba Tshitshi Ndouba, Université du Québec à Montréal, University of La Rioja

Mobilisation associative de l’islam ouest-africain dans la région du Grand Montréal Mounia Chadi, Université du Québec à Montréal

Les lieux et les objets des mobilisations genrées de l’Islam dans la région du Grand Montréal. Une perspective du dialogue Maghreb/Afrique de l’Ouest

Diahara Traoré, Université du Québec à Montréal

Musulmanes engagées : pratiques militantes pour une citoyenneté culturelle

14:00-15:30 | 14h00-15h30 (Room / Salle: 2)

Migration régionale et internationale | Regional And International Migrations Chair | Animatrice: Rim Otmani, Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle (C.R.A.S.C.)

Ephrem Bereka, Addis Ababa University

The paradoxes of illegality, risks and migration induced development in Africa: the case of Ethiopian migration to South Africa

Rim Otmani, Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle (C.R.A.S.C.) La crise migratoire en Afrique à l’épreuve de la mondialisation

Abeshu Sorome Adimassu, New generation University

Birds are migrating away: views of the Oromo people regarding effects of climate change on lake Abjata in the Rift Valley in Ethiopia

Qiuyu Jiang, McGill University

An Additional Tier of China’s “Floating Population”: Managing the Post-Reform African Migrants in Guangzhou

14:00-15:30 | 14h00-15h30 (Room / Salle: 3)

Migratory Dynamics between Africa and Canada

Chair | Animatrice: Simonne Horwitz, University of Saskatchewan

Simonne Horwitz, University of Saskatchewan

Canada in Africa and Africa in Canada -- Through Taught Abroad programs for Canadian Students Joseph Mensah, York University

The Janus-Face of Contemporary Migration Understanding the Return Migration Intentions of African Immigrants in Canada

Olabanji Akinola, Algoma University

African Migrants and the Politics of Immigration, Settlement, and Integration in Canada

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Vanessa Wachuku, Ryerson University

In the Quest for Asylum: Factors pushing Nigerians to Canada

14:00-15:30 | 14h00-15h30 (Room / Salle: 4)

Education, Health and Public Policies | Éducation, santé et politiques publiques

Chair | Animatrice: Vanessa Bart-Plange, York University

David Hornsby, Carleton University

#FeesMustFall and Higher Education in South Africa Vanessa Bart-Plange, York University

The Value of Social Capital: Exploring Ghanaian Public Senior High Schools' Response to Constraints and Structural Inequalities in the Public Educational Sector

Christopher Webb, York University

The Tithes of Education: Family, Aspiration and Debt in South Africa's #FeesMustFall Protests Ibrahim Hamani Souley

Enjeux et limites du transfert de « connaissances scientifiques » sur les politiques publiques de santé au Niger : le cas du Financement Basé sur la Performance FBP pour le renforcement du système de santé au Niger

Lela Mukaruzima, University of the Western Cape & Jose Frantz, University of the Western Cape Leisure Time Physical Activity practices and the influencing factors among government employees in Rwanda

14:00-15:30 | 14h00-15h30 (Room / Salle: 5)

Économie et dynamiques afromondiales | Economy And Afroglobal Dynamics Chair | Animateur: Alexis Abodohoui, Université de Parakou Zhan Su

Elizabeth Cobbett, University of East Anglia

Hooking in Global Financial Networks: Birth of Lagos Financial Centre Sabella Abidde, Alabama State University

China in Africa: Conquest and Plunder Or A Mutually Benefiting Relationship Kirsten Fisher

Africa's Relationship with the ICC: A way forward Alexis Abodohoui, Université de Parakou Zhan Su

Mythes et réalité du management Soft Power chinois en Afrique

14:00-15:30 | 14h00-15h30 (Room / Salle: 6)

Urbanité, Valeurs sociales et Vulnérabilité | Urbanity, Social Values And Vulnerability

Chair | Animateur:

Urban Transformation and Social Capital in Ethiopian Cities: a comparative case study in Gondar, North West Ethiopia

Maxime Ricard, Université du Québec à Montréal & Félix Grodji, Université Alassane Ouattara de Bouaké

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La réponse collective à la "crise des microbes" à Abobo : l'émergence d'une communauté morale coercitive oscillant entre délégation et décharge de l'État

Anny Flore T Mbiah, University of Maroua

Le paradigme de la corruption : une lecture appropriée au contexte sociale collectiviste Oyindamola Alaka, university of manitoba

A Virtual Reality: Social media as an alternate safe space for Nigeria’s Queer community

15:30-16:00 | 15h30-16h00 Break | Pause

16:00-17:30 | 16h00-17h30 - Keynote Speaker : Bonnie Campbell - Université

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