Confrence Internationale/International Conference

Valorisation de lhritage culturelle:

Fantasmes coloniales, Avenirs Dcoloniaux

Valorizing African Cultural Heritage:

Colonial Fantasies, Decolonial Futures
7-8 juillet 2017/July 7-8, 2017
Dakar, Sngal

Centre de Recherche Ouest Africain (CROA)

Rue E x Lon Gontran Damas, Dakar, Sngal

PARTENAIRES

Universit Cheikh Anta Diop

Centre de Recherche Ouest Africain
 FRIDAY, JULY 7 th

8:30-8:50 | Opening Ceremony

Ousmane Sene, Directeur du WARC, Welcome Address
Universit Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD)

Ibra Sene, Presidents Address

The Dakar Institute of African Studies (DIAS)

Ibra Sene and Cheikh Thiam, Conveners Address

The Dakar Institute of African Studies (DIAS)

8:50-10:40 | Panel 1: Law and Order and the Legacies of Colonization

Chair: Oumar Sarr, Pace University/The Dakar Institute of African Studies
Rebecca Badgogbin, Nigerian Law School
The Application of Customary Law by the Nigerian and South African Courts: Challenges and the
Way Forward

Babafemi Odunsi, Obafemi Awolowo University

Continuing Suppression of Indigenous Customary Law Practices in a Decolonized Nigeria: Some
Reflections

Tendai Chiguware, University of Fort Hare

From Labour Conscription under WENELA to Xenophobia. Analysing the Labour Trends in
Southern Africa

Ibra Sne, The College of Wooster/The Dakar Institute of African Studies

A Miscarriage of Justice: Reflecting of the Legacies of Colonial Penal Institutions

10:40-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:35 | Panel 2: Negritude: Theory and Praxis
Chair: Amadou Oury Ba, Universit Cheikh Anta Diop
Vieux Toure, Penn State University
Religious Blind Spots of Negritude: The Ethical Dimensions

Jemadari Kamara, University of Massachusetts Boston

Negritude, Cultural Resistance and Decolonizing Praxis

Cheikh Thiam, The Ohio State University/The Dakar Institute of African Studies
Unthinking France: Senghors Decolonial Literalism

Monika Brodnicka, The Ohio State University/The Dakar Institute of African Studies
Mysticism in African Philosophy

12:35-13:45 | Lunch Break

13:45-15:10 | Panel 3: Prophets without Honors

Chair: Pape Ndiouga Ndiaye, The Dakar Institute of African Studies (DIAS)
Kwaku Korang, The Ohio State University
Liberias Offering: E.W. Blyden as Premier African Decolonial Theorist

J. Shango, Prince George's Community College

John Henrik Clarke, African American Historians, and the Decolonization of African History

Madina Thiam, University of California Los Angeles

African Men of Letters, Atlantic Slavery, and the Intellectual History of the Sahel: Reading
19th century Narratives of Enslaved Muslims

15:10-16:55 | Panel 4: Anti-Blackness and Representation

Chair: Hady Ba, Facult des Sciences et Technologies de lEducation et de la Formation

(FASTEF)
Amadou Oury Ba, Universit Cheikh Anta Diop
De Hegel Sarkozy : Le fil rouge de l'histoire

Alioune Badara Fall, The Ohio State University

Delinking the Modern Representation of Black Cultural Identities

Omar Dieng, The Ohio State University

Colonial and Postcolonial Humanitarianism and Antiblackness

Yayra Sumah, Columbia University

The Role of the Africanist Cultural Critic

16:55-18:20 | Special Session and Performance:

El Hadji Samba A. Diallo, Washington University in Saint Louis
From Zouk Lovers, Cabo Lovers to Mais Kizomba: Youth, Music, and Change in Urban Dakar

Mohamed Kamara, Washington and Lee University

Colonialism and its Discontents: The Abuse and Endurance of Cultural Heritage in Birago Diops
Sarzan and LHritage

Ty-Juana Taylor, University of California Los Angeles,

Acting Modern in the Spaces in-between: Emerging Identities in Ivorian Maquis

SATURDAY, JULY 8 th

8:00-10:00 | Panel 5: Education and Alternative Pedagogies

Chair: Barrel Gueye, Facult des Sciences et Technologies de lEducation et de la Formation
(FASTEF)/The Dakar Institute of African Studies

Phyllis Jeffers-Coly and Jon Hurst, Diasporic Souls-New York University

A Seat at the Table: Fostering Inter-cultural Awareness, Leadership Development and Wellness
for Black American Undergraduates via Short-term Study Abroad in Senegal, West Africa

Pierre Baligue Diouf, CEM Mame Thierno Birahim Mback

Stratgies pdagogiques pour Lintgration des langues nationales africaines dans lducation :
le cas du Sngal

Katherine Ford, The Ohio State University

A Decolonial Perspective on Culturally-Relevant Classroom Pedagogy

Moji Anderson, University of the West Indies-Mona

Decolonising Africa in Jamaica: A Tale of Critical Pedagogy

10:00-10:15 Coffee Break

10:15-12:15 | Panel 6: Body Politics

Chair: Mamadou Drame, Facult des Sciences et Technologies de lEducation et de la

Formation (FASTEF)

Hamadou Boiro, Universit dIslande

Trafficking is a Heavy Word': Bissau-Guinean Koran School Students in Senegal

Saliou Dione, Universit Cheikh Anta Diop

Re-appropriating the Discursive Narrative(s) of Gender: A Decolonial Perspective

Amy Swanson, University of Northwestern

Decolonizing the Body: Redoing Gender in Contemporary Dance in Senegal

Glenn Adams, University of Kansas

Against Developmentality: Decolonizing Conceptions of Human Development in Hegemonic
Psychology

12:15-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:30 | Panel 7: Art Education, Critique of Art, and Literacy

Chair: Kwaku Korang, The Ohio State University

Rita Rhaino and Ana Reis, Institute of Art, Design and Society Research, Oporto, Portugal
 The Unachieved Place of Art Education in the South

Alison Yasukawa, California Institute of the Arts

Working The System From Within: Economies of critique in the artwork of David Hammons And
the Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs De Plantation Congolaise (CATPC)

Fatou Kine Thioune, University of Notre Dame

Colonization and Education: How did French and English Colonial Rules Affect the Literacy Rates
in Yorubaland?

15:30-16:30 | Panel 8: Auscultating the Neocolonial State

Chair: Oumar Sarr, The Dakar Institute of African Studies

Trever Akpar, Benue State University, Makurdi

A Symiotic Mapping of Colonial Relics Structure, Dynamics and Bondage Culture in Africa
Unchaining the Native

Jean-Blaise Samou, Ripon College

Franafrique, Francophonie, Dmocratie

16:30-17:30 | Special Session and Performance:

Fatou Carol Sylla
The Humanizing and Healing Effects of Traditional West African Dance, Music and Ritual

17:30 | Closing Remarks

The DIAS Executive Board
The Local Organizing Committee
The West African Research Center