Workshop Program
Day 1: Thursday, April 27
Location: JHU - Mason Hall, Room 102
8:30am - 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am - 9:45am Keynote Address
9:45am - 11:15am Panel - Archiving (Part I): Africa in Global Archives
11:15am - 11:30am Break
11:30am - 1:00pm Panel - Political and Polemical Print Culture (Part I): Reading Publics
1:00pm - 1:45pm Lunch
1:45pm - 3:00pm Panel - Documenting Queer Lifeworlds
6:00pm - 8:00pm Dinner
Day 2: Friday, April 28
Location: JHU - Gilman Hall, Room 308
8:30am - 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am Panel - Archiving (Part II): The Digital Turn and the Future of the Archive
10:30am - 10:45am Break
10:45am - Noon Panel - Political and Polemical Print Culture (Part I): Print as Social Technology in the Late/Postcolony
Noon - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm Panel - Media, Publishing Networks and Black Femininities
2:30pm - 3:00pm Closing Remarks
Day 1: Thursday, April 27
Location: JHU - Mason Hall, Room 102
Breakfast
8:30am - 9:00am
Keynote Address
9:00am - 9:45am
Hashtaging Activism: The Role of Social Media in Documenting African Women’s Organizing –
Dr. Msia Kibona Clark, Howard University, USA
Panel - Archiving (Part I): Africa in Global Archives
9:45am - 11:15am
Chairs/Discussants: Dr. Didier Gondola & Dr. Frolence R. Rutechura
Re-imagining the Role of Oral History in Forging Blacks’ Identities through Slave Narratives in America’s Divided Society—Christophe Dongmo, Leiden University [Non-Resident Senior Fellow], Cameroon
Helpless Victims of War? Reimagining Biafran Women in Domestic and Foreign Archives—Omobolanle Joseph Akinniyi, Cornell University, USA
Sometimes Good, Other Times Not So Good: Cartooning as Popular Satirical Culture in Africa amidst Global Cultural Forces—Zawadi Daniel Limbe, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Archiving Pan-Africanism in Ottawa: Black Consciousness in Canada’s Capital-Sarah George, Carleton University, Canada
Break
11:15am - 11:30am
Panel - Political and Polemical Print Culture (Part I): Reading Publics
11:30am - 1:00pm
Chairs/Discussants: Dr. Didier Gondola & Thomas Keegan
Deliberative journalistic discourse as a consensus building mechanism for marginalised communities: A comparative analysis of the front pages and letters to the editor in the Early South African Black Press’s Abantu Batho and Umteteli wa Bantu—Sisanda Nkoala, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
Umshumayeli Wendaba and the early African language press as a site of intellectual struggle—Taryn De Vega, Rhodes University, South Africa
“Shopping for all pocket”: A history of Indian Retail and Industrial Business in the Gold Coast, 1929-1989—Tracy Lucky Mensah, Georgetown University, USA
Bewitching the State: Gender Discourse and Transgressive Citizenship in Ghana, 1972-79—Afua B. Quarshie, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Lunch
1:00pm - 1:45pm
Location: On campus - Gilman Hall, Room 388
Panel - Documenting Queer Lifeworlds
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Chairs/Discussants: Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson and Alexander Peeples
Where Rafiki meets “Jambula Tree”: Literary, Sonic and Visual Resonances of Queer Life in Kenya and Uganda—Mary Ainomugisha, New York University, USA
White like me: The pursuit of sameness in the early South African gay press—Theo Sonnekus, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Mediated Intimations: Curating Archival Fragments from Angola and Mozambique—Caio Simões de Araújo, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Dinner
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location to be determined.
Day 2: Friday, April 28
Location: JHU - Gilman Hall, Room 308
Breakfast
8:30am - 9:00am
Panel - Archiving (Part II): The Digital Turn and the Future of the Archive
9:00am - 10:30am
Chairs/Discussants: Dr. Chambi Chachange & Sarah George
Reflection on the Haya language collected proverbs for digital archive-Frolence Rubagumisa Rutechura, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Salvage Ethnography as Indigenous Archive: Nubian Digital Mediations of Heritage and Memory in Egypt—Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan, USA
Digital Parodies, Translational Fevers, and the Living Archive—Damilare Bello, Duke University, USA
Advancing Innovative Media in Creating Common Culture Toward Inclusive Digital Economy in Africa”-Janeth Marwa, Tanzania
Break
10:30am - 10:45am
Panel - Political and Polemical Print Culture (Part I): Print as Social Technology in the Late/Postcolony
10:45am - Noon
Chairs/Discussants: Dr. Elizabeth Thornberry & Dr. Chambi Chachange
Decolonization and the History of African Libraries, 1960-1988-Alexander Baert Young, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Forging Decolonization through Pan-African Print Media: Frene Ginwala and Spearhead in 1960s East Africa—Yasmina Martin, Yale University, USA
Newspapers, Ideology and Statecraft in a Postcolonial Context, 1961-1990s—Maxmillian J. Chuhila, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Alternative Media as Ephemeral Archives: What is “Alternative” about “Alternative Media” and what might it tell us about the life of South African women as intellectuals during late colonization?—Vincenza F. Mazzeo, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Lunch
Noon - 1pm
Location: JHU - Gilman Hall, Room 308
Panel - Media, Publishing Networks and Black Femininities
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Chairs/Discussants: Dr. Elizabeth Thornberry & Vincenza F. Mazzeo
Translucent Black Femininities: Ukuphapha as a Mode of Being [Dolly Rathebe and Miriam Makeba]—Thobile Ndimande, South Africa
Swahili Feminist Publishing Networks: Editorial and Marketing Strategies for the Production of Sauti ya Siti Magazine—Zamda R. Geuza, University of Exeter, UK
Prophecy and the image: Nongqawuse and the Cattle Killing Movement—Sihle Motsa, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Transiting through Media: Film in Theatre for Development in Tanzania—Vicensia Shule, Tanzania
Closing Remarks
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Closing commentary by the 2023 Workshop Co-organizers and discussion of future possibilities for an edited volume.