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9 – 12:00 AM : PLENARY SESSIONS (all held at CARF)
Modérateur : Prof Placide Mumbembele, UNIKIN
Rapporteur : CT Aimee Kasandji (UNILU) and John Kafarhire, Loyola University Chicago
09:00 am – Plenary 1 : Professeur Émérite Ndaywel Isidore, La libération des savoirs en Afrique ou la fin de l’exercice des bonnes réponses à des questions non posées, UNIKIN
9:30 am – Plenary 2 : Kaumba Prince, Résilience ubuntu : refaire corps avec nos ombres et nos fantômes face aux sciences du développement, UNILU
10.00 am – Coffee Break/Pause-Café
Modérateur: Mandela Kaumba (UNILU)
Rapporteur: Njoki Wami – USIU-Africa, Nairobi
10:30am: Cheikh Thiam, Beyond Teleology: What can “Africa” do?, Amherst College, Amherst, USA
11.00 am Kasongo Gracia Lwanzo, Reclaiming African Narratives: A Holistic Approach to Restitution through the Intersection of Memory, Orality, and Materiality, Université Catholique de Louvain /SPOLE
11.30 am – DEBAT
12:30 PM LUNCH
13:30 am
SESSION 1 – RESTITUTION – CONFERENCE ROOM 1
Giulia Bonacci, (Moderator) Africa’s promise. Chief Abiola and Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism, 1990-1993. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Qambela Gcobani, (Moderator) “Now people who were previously treated as the ‘object’ of study can speak for themselves.” University of Johannesburg
Hardick Emily, Congolese Objects and Curatorial Placemaking in the Wits Art Museum’s “Burton Collection, 1931-2019, OHIO State University
Nakijoba Sawuya, Sustainable strategies for restoring knowledge of Heritage resource in Uganda, University of Cape Town (Virtual)
SESSION 1 – RESTITUTION – CONFERENCE ROOM 2
Behm Catherine, (Moderator) Decolonizing French museums: the struggles of restitution.
Otoiu Damiana Gabriela, Quand les spécimens deviennent des ancêtres. L’histoire des recherches de provenance initiées en Afrique du Sud post-apartheid, University of Bucharest
Tamekamta Zozime Alphonse, Les mécanismes endogènes de gestion et de résolution des conflits au Tchad et en Centrafrique : Étude comparative et perspectives, Université de Yaoundé I (Virtual)
SESSION 1 – RESTITUTION – CONFERENCE ROOM 3
Njoki Wamai (Moderator), Decolonizing Reparations: The Case for Reparations of Colonial Atrocities in African States, USIUAfrica
Domingues da Silva Daniel, Rice University Since George Floyd: A Reparation Experiment? Rice University
SESSION 1 – RESTITUTION – CONFERENCE ROOM 4
Mbohou Sylvain, Les relations de l’Afrique avec l’Occident et le monde arabo-musulman (XIXe-XXe siècles) : une lecture à partir du passé esclavagiste et des considérations raciales/racistes, Université d’Etat de Maranho (Virtual)
Sixte Kakinda, Drawing invisible through the body as crossing points -The Role and Possibilities of Drawing-Performance through the study of Modern and Contemporary African Arts – Scholar in residence. Centre d’Art Waza (Virtual)
Agba Terna, Africa’s reparations: Beyond colonial slavery and colonialism, Federal University of Kashere (Virtual)
SESSION 1 – REPARATION CONFERENCE ROOM 5
Bacilio Alcatara, (Moderator) La justice anarchique voit-elle le jour grâce aux victimes des viols dans l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo, École Normale Supérieure – Paris Sciences et Lettres
Finagnon André Gaga : Logiques et réactions des universitaires Béninois face au néocolonialisme : analyse socioanthropologique des approches de la rupture pédagogique et épistémologique, University of Bristol
Bandah Panga Calvin Patrick : Et si restituer ne signifiait pas automatiquement translocation reverse des objets d’art ? exposé sur la revenance, AfricAvenir Fondation (Virtual)
Tibasiima Isaac, Citizen Protest and the Demand for Better Service Delivery on Social Media in East Africa: A Roundtable, Makerere University (Virtual)
SESSION 1 – RESTORATION – CONFERENCE – ROOM 6
Kamahra Ewing, (Moderator) Hearts in the Air within New African Diaspora Spaces: Selling Nollywood and Consuming Nostalgia in Longo, University of Kentucky
Monaville Pedro, Breaking Bones in One’s Head: Reflections on the Legacies of a Revolutionary Decade, McGill University
Sheppardson Francesca, An Intimate Revolution: Identity, Solidarity, and Restorative Joy in the Diaspora During the Tigray War in Ethiopia (2020 – 2022), University of Reading & University of Exeter (Virtual)
Agina Añulika, Activism, restoration, and the Creative Industries in Nigeria, Pan-Atlantic University (Virtual)
Bello Saheed Adesumbo, Orality, Literacy and African Knowledge-making, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Virtual)
SESSION 1 – REPATRIATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 8
Nouwligbeto Fernand, (Modeteur) Fictionnalisation de la restitution des biens culturels africains : une lecture critique de la pièce Incinérés de Jérôme Tossavi et d’Alougbine Dine, Université d’Abomey-Calavi
Tonono Siyabulela, Reparations Kairos: Towards a church-based advocacy on apartheid reparations? Centre for Black Thought and African Studies, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary
Rusero Alexander, Old Coloniality Threats, New Colonial deceits – post-Covid 19 and the reconfiguration of slave labour in Africa, Africa University (Virtual)
Ayuba Abubakar, Identities and Personhood: The Hausa Perception of the European through Orature, Ahmadu Bello University (Virtual)
Van den Boogaard Vanessa, Informal revenue generation and the state: Evidence from Sierra Leone, University of Toronto (Virtual)
14:30
SESSION 2 – REPARATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 4
CIHA Blog panel:
Title: Humanitarianism and State (Un) Building: Repatriating Humanitarian Practices
Chair: Akosua Adomako Ampofo (University of Ghana)
Ebenezer Kwesi Bosomprah, Unveiling Linguistic Chains: Language, Education, and Neo-colonialism in Ghana – University of Ghana
Nadine Machikou, and Cecelia Lynch, Gendered Layers of Reparation and Restoration in Cameroon – University of Yaoundé II & University of California, Irvine
Cilas Kemedjio, The Humanitarian Presidency: the Anglophone Crisis, Boko Haram, and the dilution of the Social Contract in Cameroon – University of Rochester
Amy Gilmore, Aid in Crisis: Navigating (Im)mobility and COVID-19 – University of California, Irvine
Discussant: Divine – Fuh University of Cape Town
SESSION 2 – RESTORATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 5 -Virtual
Moderator: (In-Person) Guy Keba
Abiona Lawrence, Acculturation and denigration of African culture: a case for restoration in nupeland, kwara state, Nigeria (online), Catholic Diocese of Ilorin (Virtual)
Ledepe Victoria, Cultural Heritage, Egerton University (Virtual)
Brakarsh Sam, Social Theatre, Oxford University (Virtual)
Mbogni Nankeng Lucie, Musées non muséifiés en Afrique : décentrer l’objet, centrer les forces (online), Université de Dschang (Virtual)
Essomba Christophe, De la stigmatisation des savoirs africains en superstition : un destin déchaîné, Université de Yaoundé(Virtual)
Allen Wilmot, Present Initiatives, Konfidants (Virtual)
SESSION 2-REPATRIATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 7
Jean-Paul Biruru Rucinagize (Moderator)
Nombila Ayanda Wiseman, Africanity and its discontents – University of the Western Cape
Muthuma Lydia, Re-centering methodological approaches to art knowledge in Kenya, The Technical University of Kenya (Virtual)
Mose Caroline, Reclaiming Research in Africa: Reflections on a Boalian Experiment, The Mawazo Institute (Virtual)
Thiongane Oumy, De l’extractivisme en santé globale : Peut-on penser la restitution des échantillons de sang d’Ébola ?, Dalhousie University (Virtual)
15:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 am
SESSION 3 – RESTITUTION – CONFERENCE ROOM 1 (French-Virtual)
Modérateur (In-Room): Assistant Prof. Kasongo Severin
Touré Gninin Aïcha, De l’évolution de la confection et de l’usage des tissus traditionnels Senoufo dit « Tissu de Fakaha » ou « Toile de Korhogo » (online), Université de Lome (Virtual)
Somda Dominique, Against restoration: Managing contested cultural heritage in post-slavery African societies, Huma, UCT (Virtual)
Koagne Defo Boris Stephane, Réappropriation des oeuvres d’art africaines, AFG Holding, Yaoundé (Virtual)
Ngamago Youmbi Hervé Gabriel, Visages de masques, Fondateur du Cercle Kapsiki (Virtual)
Auque-Pallez Ysé, Restituer le patrimoine africain pour libérer l’Afrique. La mobilisation d’un mouvement panafricaniste pour la restitution (online), Sciences Po, Bordeaux (Virtual)
SESSION 3 – REPARATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 3
Chikowero Mhoze (Moderator), Repatriation or Sanitization? Intangible African Heritage Materials in Colonial Holdings, University of California
Livsey Timothy, Repatriation and the British colonial ‘migrated’ archives, Northumbria University
Ondeng George, International Inventories Programme: creating a Kenyan database of lost objects, Ministry of Tourism Wildlife and Heritage Kenya (Virtual)
Adebayo Adewumi Damilola, Frederick William Dove and African Economic Thought in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries, York University, Toronto (Virtual)
Chiguware Tendai, Colonization in Africa, University of Fort Hare (Virtual)
SESSION 3 – REPARATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 4
Panel led by Dan Waite and colleagues.
The Reparatory Justice Global Learning Lab: Emerging Models of Transatlantic Collaboration in Search Repair, Restoration, & Beloved Community
Baba Badji (Senegal) – Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
Hyacinth Miller – Rutgers Africana Studies
Jelmer Vos – Beniba Center for Slavery Studies, University of Glasgow
Don Marshall (and additional representative), Director, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies
Dorbrene O’Marde (Antigua) – Vice-Chair, CARICOM Reparations Commission (and/or another representative)
TBD – Representative from The Group for Action and Critical Study (GAEC-Africa), Senegal
SESSION 3 – RESTORATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 5
Djibu Kabulu (Moderator), Jean Pierre, Identités écologiques africaines : patrimoine oublié ou savoirs ignorés ? Université de Lubumbashi.
Matthews Sally, Differing Approaches to the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies: on Restoration and Translation, Rhodes University
Kongo Minga Mbweck, Religion, Culture, and Science during Covid -19 in South Africa, University of Cape Town
Tijani Kehinde, A Conversation Between Heidegger’s Language as the House of Being and Ubuntu (Being-with), University of Texas at Dallas (Virtual)
Bebewou Aka Adjo, Restitution des objets culturels africains acquis illégalement pendant la période coloniale : le cas du Togo, Universite de Lome (Virtual)
SESSION 3 – RESTORATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 6
Yaa Ampofo, (Moderator) Listen to your elders: How Youth Negotiate then institutional Relations amid socio-Ecological changes in Ghana, IAS, University of Ghana, Legon
Simon Mary Aihiokhai, “Reclaiming the African Imagination: Towards A Decolonial Memory of Surplus”, Boston College
Rucinagiza Jean Paul, Défis du rapatriement de l’Afrique. Soixante ans après : quelles leçons, quelles mesures correctives ?, Université Nouveaux Horizions
McDow Thomas Franklin, An African History of Project SIDA, Ohio State University (Virtual)
Kasembeli Serah, Trauma and Gender in Indian Ocean neo- slave narratives, Mzuzu University (Virtual)
Clark Msia Kibona, African Women Holding Space & Mobilizing on Social Media (online), Howard University (Virtual)
17:00 am
SESSION 4 – RESTITUTION – CONFERENCE ROOM 2 (Virtual)
Moderator (In-Room)- Ebenezer Bosomprah
Kehinde Rebecca, People and her colonies in the aftermath of The Triangular Trade and the ‘healing’ that is needed as, University of Leeds (Virtual)
Indome Isaac, Gold Coast, Evolution and Change: A Study of the Trends of Change and Continuity in the Intellectual History of Gold Coast, 1860s- 1950s, University of Education, Winneba UEW (Virtual)
Gilbert Paul, Order (Ingrid H Kvangraven, Maria Dyveke Styve, Paul Gilbert), University of Sussex (Virtual) Hassan Yousif, A Panacea for Development or Predicament of Domination? Discourses of Pan-African AI in Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria (online), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Virtual)
Fufa Moti Daba, Kwame Nkrumah Life and Work, AACC (Virtual)
SESSION 4 – RESTITUTION – CONFERENCE ROOM 3
Chipangura Patricia, (Moderator) Rethinking Knowledge Production In Materiality at the Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences, Makerere University
Impion Ibani Eric, New mindset for change, Eric Impion Foundation
Yemurai Gwatirisa, The Restorative and Reparative Potential of Art in Reimagining Zimbabwe’s Gukurahundi Genocide
Sanan Sophia Olivia, African art at the South African National Gallery – dismantling histories of appropriation and erasure, University of Cape Town
(Virtual)
Ankrah Claudia, “Dissected by Alien Eyes”: Museums, Alienation and Consumption, University of California Santa Barbara (Virtual)
Erhijodo Emmanuel, Eco-trauma and the Burden of Reparation in Africa, University of Ibadan (Virtual)
Hayes Kevin, Reparation Ecology and the African Regional Economic Communities (online), Howard University (Virtual)
SESSION 4 – RESTORATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 5
Arnfred Signe, (Moderator) African Contributions to Feminist Knowledge, Roskilde University
Kafarhire John, Africa in the International System: Deconstructing Western Epistemological Discourses, Loyola University Chicago
Jean Murhega, La restitution du patrimoine culturel africain. Un défi aux Africains.
Watunya Maggy, Sur les traces de Hans Himmekheber á propos des Euvres d art Tshiokwe, Yaka, Pende, Suku et Kuba. Perspectives de la restitution.
Sigenu Zimingonaphakade, Education for humanity: The great debates on education in the isiXhosa Intellectual Archive, Human Sciences Research Council (Virtual)
Ferreira Barros Rodrigo, Brazilian and South African experiences, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (Virtual)
SESSION 4 – RESTORATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 6 (Virtual)
Moderator (In-Person)-Mjiba Frehiwot
Onwugbufor Ifeoma, Animist Realism as an Outstanding Creative Nuance in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow, Kwararafa University Wukari (Virtual)
Lekuta Nyakallo, The Contemporary African, University of Botswana (Virtual)
Okimait David, Refugee Children’s Perception of New Spaces as Points of Restoration, Stellenbosch University (Virtual)
Kahura Waringa Christina, The case for Social Democracy in Africa, Guest (Virtual)
Schulz Vera-Simone, Repositioning Africa in Global Art Histories: Afro-Eurasian Dynamics and Transcultural Exchange, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Virtual)
SESSION 4 – REPATRIATION – CONFERENCE ROOM 8 (Virtual)
Moderator (In-Person)-Njoki Wamai
Auerbach Jessica, Repatriating Data: Africa’s imagination in transmission through global fibre optic cables, University of Cape Town (Virtual)
Brancher Pedro, Game Development as a Decolonization Practice: re-foundation of Angolan identities through the UMA’Ngola digital game, Methodist University of Angola (Virtual)
Rushovich Chloe Maria, The Complexities of Digital Co-Curation between UK and African Institutions (online), Cambridge University Library (Virtual)
Pearce Justin, Nationalism, internationalism and socialism in Angola’s Cold War military, Stellenbosch University (Virtual
18:00 PM END OF THE DAY
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