Conference Schedule
DEVEOPMENT – URBAN SPACE – HUMAN RIGHTS
Conference Schedule: Friday, April 3, 2015
Panel Session A: 11:00 – 12:30
A1: Developing Diaspora in African Human Rights Ideologies. SAC 2.302
Chair: Paul Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, York University
The Shifting Identities of the Transatlantic Scholar: Africanness and the Problematics of Intellectual Development
Chinwe Oriji, The University of Texas at Austin
The Pan-African Objective and the African Human and Peoples’ Rights Movement
Clyde Ledbetter Jr, Cheyney University
Remembering Amadou Diallo and the Other “Diallo” Cases: What is it About Human Rights and Blackness?
Mickie Mwanzia Koster, The University of Texas at Tyler
Development, Urban Culture and the African: The Subaltern Redemptive Alternative
Ademola Dasylva, University of Ibadan
“We Will Be There For You”: African Academics in North America for the Development of Research in Africa
Abdoulaye Gueye, University of Ottawa
A2: Examining Urban Livelihoods, SAC 1.118
Chair: Barbara Harlow, The University of Texas at Austin
Urbanizing Africa: What do Women really want?
Taibat Lawanson, University of Lagos
Geographies of Sexuality: The Transformation of Sexual Trade and Urban Space in Nigeria since 1900
Mfon U. Ekpootu, University of Port Harcourt
Informal Citizens Residents’ Perceptions of Space and Place in a South African Informal Settlement
Melissa Kelly, University of the Free State
Survey of Quality of Living Among Urban and Rural Families in Ondo State, Nigeria
Mary Yemisi Falana, Adeyemi College of Education
Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in North Central Nigeria: Implications on women and Children
Okpeh O Okpeh, Federal University Lafia
Agricultural Policies and Rural Development, The Case of South Western Nigeria, 1945-1960
Jonathan Olu Familugba, College of Education Ikere, Nigeria
A3: Rural Development and Women's Agricultural Practices, SAC 2.120
Chair: Jide Owoeye, Lead City University, Ibadan
Gender and Development in Africa: The Shifting Influence of Urbanization on the Historic Role of Umuada in Igboland, Southeast Nigeria
Chidi M. Amaechi, University of Nigeria
Entrepreneurship: A Tool for Sustainable Development among Women in Akokoland, 1900-1960
Faboyede Olusanya, Adekunle Ajasin University
The Role of Women in Agriculture in the Development of Entrepreneurship in Benue State Nigeria
Hope Ladi Ocholi, National Defence College
Hu(man) Rights and Women in Rural Kanungu During the Administrations of Amin, Obote II, and Museveni in Uganda
Tushabe wa Tushabe, Kansas State University
A4: African Cinema, Globalization, and Human Rights, SAC 3.116
Chair: MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins, English and Comparative Literature Department, Pennsylvania State University
Reframing Human Rights: Hotel Rwanda (2004), L’Homme qui crie (2010), Global Conflict, and International Intervention
Dayna Oscherwitz, Southern Methodist University
Hip Hop Politics: Agitation Through Film and Music in West Africa
Rita Keresztesi, University of Oklahoma
Delirious Aesthetics in Contemporary Music Videos about the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) Atrocities in Northern Uganda
Okaka Opio Dokotum, Kyambogo University
Urbanised Servitude: Representations of Househelps in Nollywood
Bosede Funke Afolayan, University of Lagos
African Cinema and Human Rights
MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins, Pennsylvania State University
A5: Confronting Multi-Ethnic Insecurity, SAC 3.112
Chair: Segun Ogungbemi, Department of Philosophy, Adekunle Ajasin University
Ethnic Politics and Insecurity in Nigeria: Consequences for Economic Development
Omokeji Ganiyu Rasaq, Fountain University
Oladele Adeleke, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Goke Abidemi Lalude, Fountain University
Terrorism and Urban development in the Northern Nigeria
Jumoke Oyinloye, The Polytechnic Ibadan
Terrorist Activities and Economic Development in Nigeria
Adeola Lawrence Sunday, University of Ibadan
The Role of Arab Nationalism in the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire: Making a Case for Ethno-Religious Crisis and the Challenges of National Integration in Nigeria in the 21st Century
Attahhiru Ahmad Sifawa, Sokoto State University
A6: Language Recognition, Inclusion and Development Planning, SAC 3.114
Chair: Hélène Tissières, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin
The place of Indigenous Nigerian Languages in National Development
Ngozi U. Emeka-Nwobia, Ebonyi State University
The Role of Igbo Language in National Development and Urbanization
Onu Mercy Agha, Ebonyi State University
The Role of Translation in National Development
Agwu Patience Uzoma, Ebonyi State University
Harmony Between Two Worlds: Urhobo Laments and Communal Development
Felicia Ohwovoriole, University of Lagos
Acculturation of Knowledge through Sustainable Language Engineering for National Development: The Case of Igbo.
Chinwe Obianika, Uzoma, Ebonyi State University
Minority Languages and the Goals of MDGs: Intervention Models for Sustainable Development in Nigeria-Africa
Terseer Jija, Benue State University
Panel Session B: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
B1: Economic Models and Business Development, SAC 2.114
Chair: Bridget A. Teboh, Department of History, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Development of Bitumen Industry in Agbabu, Ondo State and its Socio-Economic and Psychological Implications
Colenious Olu Aboluwoye, Adekunle Ajasin University
M.O. Ajayi, Federal University of Technology
An Analysis of the Effect of Banking Sector Reforms on Credit Supply to Small and Medium Enterprises in Nigeria
Ali Ocholi, University of Agriculture?
Evaluation of the Role of Nigerian Capital Market towards Economic Growth and Development
Maryam Abdu, Kaduna State University
Top Up, Pay as You Go! The impacts and potentials of the mobile telephony and Internet revolutions on the lives of Africans
Bamidélé Aly, Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Strategic Entrepreneurship, Collaborative Innovation and Business Development in Africa: A Study of Nigerian SMEs
E.O. Oduwole, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Ogunkoya O.A., Olabisi Onabanjo University
Public-Private Partnership as a Model for Community Development in Nigeria
Silk Ugwu Ogbu, Pan-Atlantic University
B2: Cultural Expression and the Production of Gendered/African Identity, SAC 3.112
Chair: Bridget Itunu Awosika, Department of Home Economics, Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria.
The Mass Media and National Development: The Case of ‘Baby Factory’ Activities in Nigeria
Onyinyechi Nancy Nwaolikpe, Babcock University Ilishan
In the Discourse of Nigerian Popular Music in the Urban Space
Adeoluwa Okunade, University of Port Harcourt
A Sociological Analysis of Feminine Gender as Perceived in Nigerian Hip Hp Culture
Albert Oikelome, University of Lagos
Women Chastity in Pre-Colonial YorubaLand and Development
Victoria Kikelomo Olugbemi, Adekunle Ajasin University
B3: Reinterpreting Global Knowledge Through Subaltern Epistemologies, SAC 1.118
Chair: Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin
Labouring Masses in the Planter’s Raj: Everyday Life in the Tea Plantations of Nineteenth-Century Assam (1860-1900)
Abikal Borah, The University of Texas at Austin
Cultural Revitalization of Oral Traditions and the Emergence of Epistemologies of the South within the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
Marianela Muñoz Muñoz, The University of Texas at Austin
Crossing Epistemologies: Black Atlantic Sacred Philosophies and Alternative Modes of Knowing
Farid Suárez, The University of Texas at Austin
Dahiyeh: The Geography of Separation and Integration in Greater Beirut
Katherine Maddox, The University of Texas at Austin
“An Algerian Work in Arabic”: Arabic and French Linguistic Mixing in Kateb Yacine’s Nedjma
Jocelyn Wright, The University of Texas at Austin
Reinterpreting Medical Violence in Colonial Africa: Fanon and the Regulation of Colonized Health
Ben Weiss, The University of Texas at Austin
B4: Contemporary Electoral Policies in Nigeria, SAC 2.120
Chair: Bolaji Omitola, Department of Political Sciences, Osun State University
Breaking the Dance on the Brink: Post 2015 Nigerian Presidential Election
Osaore Aideyan, Illinois State University
Osunde Omoruyi, Benedicta Ideho
Religious Relations and National Development in Nigeria: An Assessment of The 2015 Post- Presidential Elections
Mosee Edokpolo-Nosayaba, College of Education, Ekiadolor
Youths and Electoral Democracy in Nigeria: The 2011 Ughelli North Senatorial Elections
Ejikeme Nonso, The University of Victoria
Democracy, Dictatorship and Citizens’ Capabilities: Evidence of Two Half Decades of Reforms from Sub-Saharan Africa
Osaore Aideyan, Illinois State University
Osunde Omoruyi, University of Benin, Nigeria; Benedicta Ideho, University of Jyväskylä,
Finland
Democracy – Electoral Politics and Nigeria’s 4th Republic
Tyodzua Atim, Benue State University
B5: State Insecurity and Human Rights Institutions, SAC 3.116
Chair: Mfon Ekpootu, Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, University of Port Harcourt
The Issue of State’s Human Rights Abuse in International Relations: Is Economic Power Exonerating China?
Adaora Osondu-Oti, Afe Babalola University
Robert Mugabe and the Human Rights Question in Zimbabwe, 1980-2010
Udida A. Undiyaundeye, University of Uyo
RPF Responsibility in the Assassinations of Exiled Rwandan Dissidents
Sean Curtis, University of Texas at El Paso
The Place of Human Rights Organizations in Democratic Nigeria
‘Gbade Ikuejube, Adeyemi College of Education
Policing Humanity: Revisiting Human Rights and Human Trafficking in South Africa
Typhanie Hill, The University of Texas at Tyler
Assessing The UN’s Force Intervention Brigade in Eastern DR-Congo
Brian O’Donnell, The University of Texas at Austin
B6: Socio-Spatial Segregation and the African Metropolis, SAC 2.302
Chair: Professor Leo E. Otoide, Department of History & International Studies, University of Benin, Nigeria.
Understanding the Zongo: Processes of Socio-Spatial Marginalization in Ghana
Emily Anne Williamson, MIT
The Logic of Exclusion in Nigeria Urban Space and the Imperative of Cosmopolitan Rights
Oladele A. Balogun, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Ademola K. Fayemi, Lagos State University
Urban Fragmentation and Gated Communities in Lagos, Nigeria
Taibat Lawanson, University of Lagos
Abeokuta and the Social Problems of Urbanization: 1960-1990
Balogun O. Olumuyiwa, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Depeasantization and Proletarianization: Revisiting the Consequences of De-Industrialization and Urbanization in Africa
Eke Okechukwu Philip, Ahmadu Bello University
Incidence of Democratic Rule on Urban Development in Nigeria
Olatomide Emmanuel Babalola, College of Education, Nigeria
Panel Session C: 3:45 – 5:15pm
C1: Health Interventions and Building Medical Capacity, SAC 3.116
Chair: Heidi Frontani, Department of History and Geography, Elon University
Disabling Donor Demands: The Coercion of the International HIV/AIDS Agenda
Emily Mediate, University of Notre Dame
Excellent Aid: An Analysis of Two Charitable Foundations’ Medical Philanthropy in Six Urban Areas
Heidi Frontani, Elon University
Africa Command, Health Diplomacy, and U.S. Response to the Ebola Epidemic: Obama Care in West Africa
Peter A. Dumbuya, Fort Valley State University
Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: Analyzing Trends, Challenges, and the Way Forward in Post-MDG Sub-Saharan Africa
Peter Morrison, The University of Texas at Austin
Christle Nwora, The University of Texas at Austin; Saumya Wali, The University of Texas at Austin
Emergency contraception in post-conflict Somalia: Assessing awareness and perceptions of need
Faduma Gure, University of Ottawa
Mohammed Koshin Dahir, Marian Yusuf, Angel M. Foster, DPhil, MD, AM
C2: Nigerian Stability and the Boko Haram Insurgency, SAC 2.302
Chair: Mickie Mwanzia Koster, Department of History and Political Science, The University of Texas at Tyler
The Challenges of Boko Haram Insurgency and Development in Contemporary Nigeria
Segun Ogungbemi, Adekunle Ajasin University
Sustainable Development in Africa and the Narratives of Insurgency: Examination of Boko Haram in Nigeria
Felix Chinwe Asogwa, Enugu State University of Science and Technology
Daniel Ugwuja, Enugu State University
Conflict, Insecurity and Sustainable Development in Africa: the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria
Chukwudi S. Osondu, Federal Polytechnic
Nwabufo I. Okeke-Uzodike, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Education and Insurgency: The North East Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria
Jacob S.K. Gandu, Kaduna State University
C3: Indigenous Knowledge and Technology, SAC 2.120
Chair: Tushabe wa Tushabe, Kansas State University
Mobilizing Indigenous Technology for Sustainable Development in Africa: Assessment of Igbo Indigenous Technology, South-East Nigeria
Felix Chinwe Asogwa, Enugu State University of Science and Technology
Daniel Ugwuja, Enugu State University
Potential Application of Indigenous Knowledge Within the Context Urban Transport Planning and Development in Developing Countries
Steven Jones, University of Alabama
Technological Development in Africa’s Past and Present
Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Rice University
C4: Conceptualizing Human Rights in Africa, SAC 1.118
Chair: Céline A. Jacquemin, Political Sciences Department, St Mary’s University
Human Rights and the Debates Over Dignity and Social Order in Africa
Edward Kissi, University of South Florida
Human Right Violation in Nigeria since 1999: A Historical Overview
Ayobami O Ajayi, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education
Human Rights in Africa: Beyond Social Relativism
Temisanren Ebijuwa, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
A Philosophical Analysis of Human Rights in Traditional African Society: A Study of IgboLand
Christiana O. Chukwu, Ebonyi State University
Echoes of (Under) Development: Voices from the Niger-Delta of Nigeria
Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku, Federal Polytechnic
Democratic Governance and Human Rights in Central Africa: An Investigation
Jayanta Krishna Sarmah, The University of Texas at Austin
C5: The Politics of Migration in Africa, SAC 3.112
Chair: Aaron Bady, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Migrant Empire Building in some Urban Centers in North Central Nigeria: A Comparative Study of the Hausa and Igbo Ethnic Groups
Okpeh O Okpeh, Federal University Lafia
Diasporic Experiences in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah
Bosede Funke Afolayan, University of Lagos
The Impact of Immigration on African Marriage Concept - A Pastoral Theological Study
Elijah Baloyi, University of South Africa
Comparative Study of Diaspora Engagement Policies in Africa
Jack R. Mangala, Grand Valley State University
A Concrete Friendship: Turkey’s Emigrant-Developmental Policy in Libya
Zavier Wingham, New York University Kevorkian Center
An investigation into the Personal intention to change Behaviour towards Preventing HIV among Male Nigerian Migrants in Sunnyside, City of Tshwane
Abdulmalik Inusa Abdulrasheed, University of South Africa
Nanette Minnaar, University of South Africa
African Migration and the Challenge of the Contemporary International Order
Abolade Adeniji, Lagos State University
C6: Higher Education and Sustainability, SAC 3.114
Chair: Jamaine Abidogun, History Department, Missouri State University
Higher Education for Sustainable Development: Nigerian Universities in the Global Eye
V.E. Yonlonfoun, Tai Solarin University of Education
Universities and Socio-Economic Development of Host Communities: The Case of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria
Oladele Adeleke, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Omokeji Ganiyu Rasaq, Fountain University
Education for Sustainable Development
Rexson Igbinosun Uyioghosa, College of Education, Edo State
Gender Realities of leadership opportunities and ICT related development in Higher Education: A review of TASUED staff (2007-2014)
Adefunke Ekine, Lecturers at the Tai Solarin University of Education, Nigeria
Jimoh Olufunbi Akorede, Tai Solarin University of Education; Deborah O. Tobih, Tai Solarin University of Education
Refocussing On Educational Policies and Implementation For Entrepreneurial, Technological and Economic Transformation In Nigeria.
Bridget Itunu Awosika, Adeyemi College of Education
Dinner Reception, 5:30-6:30 PM
Garrison Hall, second floor
(Registered conference participants only)
Keynote Lecture, 6:45-7:45
Student Activity Center Auditorium, 1.402
“The Role of the Diaspora in Africa’s Economic and Political Transformations”
Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Quinnipiac University
Conference Schedule: Saturday, April 4, 2015
Panel Session D: 9:30 – 11:00am
D1: Governing Institutions and Development Politics, SAC 2.302
Chair: Ntim Gyakari Esew, Department of Political Science, Kaduna State University
Party System and the Political Economy of Underdevelopment in Nigeria
Antonia T. Okoosi-Simbine, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research
Dhikru Adewale Yagboyaju, University of Ibadan
National Conference and Sustainable Development in Nigeria
Joseph Okwesili Nkwede, Ebonyi State University
Udoikah Joseph Michael, Ebonyi State University
Assessing the Developmental Implications of Ghana’s Judicial Independence
Josephine Dawuni, Georgia Gwinnett College
The Factors Responsible for Executive and Legislative Conflicts in Nigeria Political Development
Ihemeje Chidiebere Godswealth, Universiti Putra Malaysia
State-Society Relations and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenneth E. Kalu, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)
Regional Integration and the development conundrum in Africa: A Comparative analysis of SADC and ECOWAS
Samuel O Oloruntoba, University of South Africa
D2: New Directions for Entrepreneurship Development, SAC 3.116
Chair, Hauwa'u Evelyn Yusuf, Department of Sociology, Kaduna State University, Nigeria
Gender Dynamics and Entrepreneurial Development in South Eastern Nigeria
Grace I. Ibe-Enwo, Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic
South Africa’s policy vision for black business – the role of entrepreneurship in development
TK Pooe, North-West University, Vaal campus
Entrepreneurship and Development: The Nigerian Experience
F.E. Iyoha, Ambrose Alli University
Patrick Osa. Oviasuyi, Ambrose Alli University
Impact of Foreign Aid on Nigeria’s Socio-Economic Development: An Assessment of the Democratic Era
Oluwasegun Samuel Adesina, University of Benin
Challenges Facing the Sustainability of Entrepreneurial Development in Nigeria: 1994 to 2014
Sulayman Olubunmi Ganiyu, Adeyemi College of Education
Costuming the Carnival Calabar: An Index for Gender Empowerment and Entrepreneurial Development
Umana Ginigeme Nnochiri, Cross River University of Technology
Ginigeme U. Nnochiri, Federal University
Entrepreneurship as a Mechanism for Economic Development: Reflections on the Nigerian Experience
Alao Oluwadare, Yaba College of Technology
D3: Health, Development and the Built Environment, SAC 1.106
Chair: Oluwatoyin A. Asojo, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine Houston Texas
Health and Rural Development in Nigeria: A portrait of the Ibarapa Programme after a century of rural health service, training and International cooperation in Nigeria.
Oluwatoyin A. Asojo, Baylor College of Medicine
Promoting Health and Nutrition Education Among Households in the Urban City Umuahia
Patricia Etuna Mbah, University of Agriculture, Umudike
Nigerian Structural Adjustment Program and Neglected Tropical Disease
Steve Meregini, Baylor College of Medicine
Stakeholder empowerment and disease control –Ebola outbreak in West Africa 2014
Oluwatoyin A. Asojo, Baylor College of Medicine
Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: An Urban Nightmare
Onaiwu W. Ogbomo, University
Kalamazoo
Sustainable Design Strategies and Practices: Recommendations for the Building Industry in Nigeria
Abimbola O Asojo, University of Minnesota
D4: Rethinking Development Through Indigenous Perspectives, SAC 2.120
Chair: Amadou Fofana, Department of French, Willamette University
Ayipada-Otun: Revisting Africa Cultural Value towards Africa Development
Sunday Layi Oladipupo, Adekunle Ajasin University
Democracy and the Right of the Minority in Africa
Moses Oludare Aderibigbe, The Federal University of Technology
Modernization in Africa Equals Underdevelopment: Making the Case for a New Paradigm
Akin Ogundiran, University of North Carolina Charlotte
From State-Centered Development to Market Economy: Chronicling Africa's Development Crisis
Bonza Chizea, Ambrose Alli University
The Narratives of Development in The Kanga Metaphor
Wambui Wa-Ngatho, Rice University
Semiotic Notions of Development and the National Flag: A Case Study of ‘Our National Flag’
Ismaila Rasheed Adedoyin, University of Lagos
D5: Whose City: Examining Claims to Space and Urban Accessibility, SAC 1.118
Chair: Aribidesi (Desi) Usman, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
Violence and Criminality as Encountered in Urban and Rural Spaces: Where are you Safe in Contemporary Nigeria
Eke Okechukwu Philip, Ahmadu Bello University
‘Urban Man in Jos’: Growth, Transiting Power and Authority in a Conflict Prone City
Henry Gyang Mang, University of Jos
Human Spaces and Urban Livelihoods: A Sociolinguistic Study of Ghetto Language in Makoko, Lagos Mainland, Nigeria
Mojisola Shodipe, University of Lagos
Hypomobility – An Epidemiological Analogue for Viewing Urban Transport Conditions in Developing Countries
Emmanuel (Kofi) Adanu, University of Alabama
Steven Jones, University of Alabama
Conflicts and Urban Dwellers in Jos: Issues in Rights to City
Larab Tangshak Ayuba, University of Jos
David Nyam Ajiji, Federal University Lafia
Challenge of Sustainable Urban Development in the Third World
Victor Etim Ndum, University of Calabar
Stella-Maris Okey, Cross River University of Technology
Panel Session E: 11:15 – 12:45
E1: Assessing Political Parties' Development Strategies, SAC 1.106
Chair: Consoler Teboh, St Cloud State University
Towards a Result-Oriented Development Framework for Nigeria: A Critique of President Jonathan’s “Transformation Agenda”
Tola Odubajo, University of Lagos
Interrogating Africa's Development Paradigms: Dr Kwame Nkrumah's Development Strategies in Ghana in Retrospective
Ntim Gyakari Esew, Kaduna State University
Yakubu Haruna Ja'e, Kaduna State University; John Danfulani, Kaduna State University
Ensuring Effectiveness in the Twenty-First Century Cameroon Civil Service: A Cultural Competence Perspective
Consoler Teboh, St. Cloud State University
Philosophy and political development: How does satisfaction become opinion in Africa?
Karen Okhoya-Inyanji, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
E2: Youth and Human Rights, SAC 2.120
Chair: Steven Salm, Department of History, Xavier University
Poster Children: UNICEF's Depoliticiziation of Childhood 1946-1989
Kristen Carey , Boston University
Literacy: A Human Rights Issue
Rosalie B. Kiah, Norfolk State University
Trends, pattern and impact of Child Labour, Exploitation, Abuse or Misuse in Northern Nigeria
Hauwa'u Evelyn Yusuf, Kaduna State University
Empowering Children and Enlightening Parents: An Assessment of Child Protection Education in Rural Togo
Komi Begedou, Université de Lomé
The Impact of Modernity in Reinforcing Witchcraft in Africa: The Case of Children’s Human Rights
Uchenna Onuzulike, James Madison University
E3: Governance and Internationalism, SAC 2.302
Chair: Antonia T. Okoosi-Simbine, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Nigeria.
Development Planning Under Stress in West Africa: Exploring Options to Forge Ahead
Naomi Onyeje Doki, Benue State University
US African Leaders Summit: A Look behind the Speeches and Fanfare
John Danfulani, Kaduna State University
Ntim Gyakari Esew, Kaduna State University; Yakubu Haruna Ja'e, Kaduna State
University
Salvaging Governance in Sub Saharan Africa: The International Criminal Court and Making Corruption a Crime against Humanity
Adoyi Onoja, Nasarawa State University
Udo Osisiogu, Nasarawa State University
Understanding the African Development Strategies: The Nigeria Development Strategies as the Focus
Juliet Adaku Egesi (Nee Nwokenkwo), Owerri Archdiocesan Catholic Education Commission
Subjects or Agents? An exploration of policy diffusion processes within the African Union
Jacquelin Kataneksza, The New School
A World Without Borders
Michael Vickers, Independent Scholar, UK,
Africa Command (Africom): Is this a New Militarization in Africa?
Augustine E. Ayuk, Clayton State University
E4: State Power, Development and Human Rights in Africa, SAC 1.118
Chair: Hervé Tchumkam, Southern Methodist University
State Power, Life, and Death in Postcolonial Africa
Hervé Tchumkam, Southern Methodist University
Faces of Contemporary Cosmopolitanism in Nigeria: Thoughts on Nollywood and the Boko Haram
Olivier Tchouaffe, Southwestern University
Urban Space, Biopower and Human Righst in Aminata Sow Fall’s La grève des battu
Gérard Keubeung, University of Tennessee Knoxville
“Messiahs” and “Outcasts”: Cameroonian Exiles and their Quest for a Status and a Space of Intervention?
Ramon Abelin Fonkoue, Michigan Technological University
E5: Religion and Public Development, SAC 3.112
Chair: Onaiwu W. Ogbomo, Africana Studies & History, Western Michigan University
Repositioning Christian Religious Education in Nigeria as an Impetus for National Development
Ezekiel K. Akano, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education
Western Education as a Panacea for Accelerated Development of Yorubaland, South-western Nigeria
Rotimi Williams Omotoye, University of Ilorin
Idolatry is not Culture, it is a Sin against God: Pentecostal Charismatics Christians' Polemic against Orisa Worshipper in Ilé-Ifè
Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin, Obafemi Awolowo University
Exploring the Relationship between Religion and Innovation in Africa
John Kalu Osiri, Washington State University
Boris Houenou, Washington State University; and Ifeyinwa Onyenekwu, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Black Church as the womb of Black theology of liberation? Why the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa is not a Black Church?
Rothney S. Tshaka, The Univeristy of South Africa
Lunch Reception for Registered Participants
12:45-2:30 PM
Student Activity Center Ballroom, 3.410
Panel Session F: 2:30 - 4:00
F1: Critiquing Neoliberalism: Rethinking African Development, SAC 3.302
Chair: Indrani Chatterjee, History Department, The University of Texas as Austin
The Imperativeness of Transcending the Neo-liberal paradigm in Africa quest for Development
Lexington Izuagie, Ambrose Alli University
Reexamining the Resource Curse: Why African Countries Do Not Suffer from the Dutch Disease
Fodei Batty, Quinnipiac University
The Indebted Subject: A Reading of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s film Daratt
Carmela Garritano, Texas A & M University
Globalization, Loan/Aids, and economic development of Sub-Saharan African States
Victor O. Fakoya, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Underdevelopment and Human Development Programs for Africa
Akua Anyei Obeng, Universita’ Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore
Dickson Obeng Asiamah, Nanchang University
Globalisation and the Challenges of Development in Nigeria
Irhue Young Kenneth, Ambrose Alli University
F2: Cross-Border Security Challenges, SAC 2.120
Chair: Michael Vickers, Independent Scholar, UK
Transnational Organised Crimes and the Challenges of Security and Development in Nigeria
Bolaji Omitola, Osun State University
Abuse of Citizen's Demands in African States: A Study of Security Challenges in Nigeria
Yakubu Haruna Ja'e, Kaduna State University
John Danfulani, Kaduna State University, Ntim Gyakari Esew, Kaduna State University
Geopolitical Hot-spots in Africa
Iheanyi N. Osondu, Fort Valley State University
Insurgency in Nigeria: A Product of Failure of Liberal Democracy
Grace Umezurike, Ebonyi State University
ALQIM and the Development of Insurgency in Nigeria: The Boko Haram Exploration 2010 – 2014
David Nyam Ajiji, Federal University Lafia
Larab Tangshak Ayuba, University of Jos
F3: Distortions & Containment of the Impact of Development, SAC 1.106
Chair: Dr Shadrack W. Nasong'o, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College
Development on the Fringe of the Forest: Encroachment & the Rules of Engagement
Kathleen Gallagher, St Mary’s University
Developing Success? Theoretical Concerns & Practical Challenges in Rwanda
Céline A. Jacquemin, St Mary’s University
Ill-conceived Development: When Institutions Become the Ends Rather than the Means
Ramon Abelin Fonkoue, Michigan Technological University
The Idea of a Developmental State: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations
Shadrack W. Nasong'o, Rhodes College
F4: Urban Development and Displacement, SAC 1.118
Chair: Paul Zeleza, Vice-President of Academic Affairs & Professor of History, Quinnipiac University
Population Dynamics and Development in South Darfur State: From Emergency to Sustainable Development
Abdallah I A Yagub, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Khondlo Mtshali, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Modernizing the Park: Development and the Struggle for Urban Space in Kenya
Caleb Edwin Owen, Michigan State University
Urban Renewal Schemes and the Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: A Study of Oke Ilu-Eri, Badia East, Lagos State
Bamidele Omotunde Alabi, University of Lagos
Displacement and Dislocation: Some Lessons for Development of the Significant Other
Anuoluwapo Ebunajinde Oduwole, Carleton University
Issues and Challenges in the Urban Renewal Programme of Lagos State
Adedotun Moses Atilade, University of Ibadan
Exclusion and Marginalization of Slum Dwellers in "Columbia" in Kumasi: A Case Study of Human Rights Issue in Ghana
Yaa Konadu Yiadom, University of Cape Coast
F5: Youth and Entrepreneurship, SAC 3.116
Chair: Steven Salm, Department of History, Xavier University
“Leaderpreneur” Business Hubs: A Revolutionary solution to the Development of Africa’s Teenagers and Young Adults
Delphine Fanfon, Regent University
Development and the Youth in Africa: Bridging the leadership generation gap
Adefarakan Adedayo Yusufu, Kaduna State University
Protestant Youths, Development and Nigerian Socio-Political Landscape: the Language Question
Balogun Temitope Abiodun, Osun State University
Children, Family Setting and Development
Taiwo Fawehinmi, Adeyemi College of Education
F6: Human Rights in the Arts and Literary Imagination, SAC 3.112
Chair: Nevile Hoad, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
African Writers and Human Rights Related Violence: A Historical Analysis of Related Literary Works, 1960-2012
Benard Steiner Ifekwe, University of Uyo
Thematization and Perspectivization of Human Right and Development in Selected Yoruba Poetry
Arinpe Adejumo, University of Ibadan
The social work of narrative: human rights and the literary imaginary in Africa
Gareth Griffiths, University of Wollongong
Global Human Rights Narratives on Somalia
Amentahru Wahlrab, The University of Texas at Tyler
Extra, Extra, Read All About It: South African Indian Newspapers in an Era of Growing Social Activism in Durban, South Africa
Cacee Hoyer, the University of Texas at Austin
African Writers and Human Rights Related Violence: A Historical Analysis of Related Literary Works, 1960-2012
Benard Steiner Ifekwe, University of Uyo
Panel Session G: 4:15-5:45
G1: Women in Governance and Local Leadership, SAC 2.120
Chair: Caroline Faria, Geography Department, The University of Texas at Austin
Imagining Africa’s Future, Interrogating Social Injustice: Power, Informality, and Gendered Patterns of Development
Bridget A. Teboh, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Gender Mainstreaming, a panacea for quality service and good governance: An insight into the political system in Francophone Africa
Gloria Mayen Umukoro, University of Calabar
Mary Julius Egbai, University of Calabar
The Poverty of Female Traditional Rulers in Africa: A Comparison of Nigeria, Ghana, and the Republic of Benin
F.A Olasupo, Obafemi Awolowo University
Pathways of Women’s Empowerment: Global Struggle, Local Experience: A Case Study of a Women’s Empowerment Project in Zanzibar
Zuzanna Kucharski, University of Ottawa
Gendered Disparities in Cultural Practices of Widowhood in Ondo State, Nigeria: Implications for Development
Dorcas Omotola Adeyemi, Ondo State Teaching Service Commission
G2: Human Rights and Citizenship, SAC 1.106
Chair: Céline A. Jacquemin, Political Sciences Department, St Mary’s University
Analytical Views on Past and Present Official and Cultural Narratives of Asmara
Mussa Idris, Elon University
From Shackles to Citizens?: Twentieth Century British Manumitted Slaves in the Arabian Peninsula
Brittany R. White, Huston-Tillotson University
The Post-French-Revolution Reforms: A Demonstration of the Universal Concept and Dynamics of Self-Determined and Externally Imposed Development
Giwa Akintunde, Tai Solarin University of Education
Fasanmi Olufunso, Tai Solarin University of Education
Modern Human Rights Violations and Ethnic Discrimination Against Pygmy Communities
Anna L. Ballard, The University of Texas at Tyler
Spatial Contest and Citizenship Rights on the Nigeria-Cameroon Boundary
Leo E. Otoide, University of Benin
Homophobia in Uganda? Historically Treating Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Policies
Melissa Dotson, The University of Texas at Tyler
Christy Simmons, The University of Texas at Tyler
G3: Women's Empowerment in Culture and Daily Life, SAC 2.302
Chair: Judith A. Byfield, Department of History, Cornell University
A Dramatization of Women in Politics and Leadership in Nigerian Literary Drama
Jeremiah Methuselah, Kaduna State University
Not so Indirect Rule: Afro-Jamaican Gendered Encounters
Jamaine Abidogun, Missouri State University
The Nigerian Music Industry: A Platform for Women Empowerment
Kehinde Oluyemisi Faniyi, The Polytechnic
Oladipo Olufunmilola Temitayo, Adeyemi College of Education
Intellectual Property and the Struggle over Resources Control: A Study of Women and the Struggle for Resource Control in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
Sylvester Michael Eka, University of Uyo
The right to narrate African heritage in the diaspora: writing as a political gesture
Felipe Rodrigues, Rio de Janeiro State University
G4: Critiquing Developmentalism, SAC 1.118
Chair: Oduwole Ebunoluwa, Department of Philosophy, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria.
‘Developmentality’, Language, & Power: a discourse-centric critique of conceptualisations and practices of ‘development’
Josh Platzky Miller, University of Cambridge
Are we really end in ourselves: An ethical investigation into the politics of human rights, development and its actualization in Nigerian context
Nneka Ifeoma Okafor, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Odinaka Ofoma, Wisconsin International University College
Aid and the Help: Domestic Service and International Development
Dinah Hannaford, Texas A&M University
Euro-Africa relations and development in a multi-polar world: Nigeria and South Africa in comparative perspectives
Samuel O Oloruntoba, University of South Africa
African Socialism, and the Social Struggle in Social Capital Theory: Development Discourse in Tanzania
Loyce Gayo James, The University of Texas at Austin
Historical Perspectives of the Concept of Underdevelopment in Urban Space and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria
Enoch Oluwole Adeniran, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education
Oladayo Olajide, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education
G5: Agricultural Sustainability and Development, SAC 3.116
Chair: Jide Owoeye, Lead City University, Ibadan
Recipe Standardization and Proximate Composition of Locally Consumed Dishes in the South-South Zone of Nigeria
Atinuke Lano-Maduagu, University of Lagos
Assessment of Products from Nigerian Composite Flours for Local Consumption and Sustainability of Food Culture
Cecilia A. Olarewaju, Adeyemi College of Education
Effects of Climate Change On Genetic Variability of Inbred Lines of Maize (Zea mays L.) from Teaching and Research Farm In Akure, Nigeria
Oluwatosin Oyinkansola Awosika, Federal University of Technology
Strategic Diffusion of Mobile Technology in Agriculture
Hotensia Ng'ang'a, St. Paul’s University
Prospects of Developing New Methods in Production of Local Snacks in Ondo State, Nigeria
Ebunoluwa Bridget Adeyanju, Adeyemi College of Education
Conference Banquet
Holiday Inn at Town Lake
Cocktails at 7:00 PM, Conference Banquet and Dance, 7:30 PM
Registered participants and invited guests only.
Conference Schedule, Sunday, April 5, 2015
Panel Session H: 9:00 – 10:30
H1: Cultural Expression and Economic Development, GAR 0.120
Chair: Bridget Itunu Awosika, Department of Home Economics, Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria.
Diasporic culture: An instrument for grassroot development in developing countries
Zana I. Akpagu, University of Calabar
Gloria M. Umukoro, University of Calabar
A Development Schema for Costumes, Body Arts and Festivals in Cross River State: Challenges and Goals in the 21st Century
Bojor Enamhe, Cross River University of Technology
Tourism and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: Attractions and Limitations of Carnivals and Festivals
Adetola Omitola, Redeemer’s University
Historical Sites as Cultural Resources in Lagos State: A Typological Analysis
Kolawole Oseni, Lagos State Ministry of Home Affairs and Culture
The Art of Producing Brass Basins and Combs for Traditional Marriage Ceremony Among the Efik Speaking People of Cross River State, Nigeria as an Entrepreneurial Opportunity for the Youths
Emekpe Okokon-ita Omon, Cross River University of Technology
H2: Examining Identity and Gender in Urban Spaces and Social Programs, GAR 2.128
Chair Caroline Faria, Geography Department, The University of Texas at Austin
The Rise, Fall, and Reemergence of Ponte City
Gregory Marinic, University of Houston
A Political Economy Analysis of Gender Inequality in Esan, Edo State, Nigeria
Babatunde Agarah, Ambrose Alli University
Onoho’Omhen Ebhohimhen, Ambrose Alli University
The materiality of interpellation: modern roofs in the making of modern subjects in Rwanda
Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Harvard University
Ending Violence against Women: The SHINE Victime Prevention Programme
Abdulmalik Inusa Abdulrasheed, University of South Africa
Culture and Women Contribution to Socio-Economic Development: A Case of the Yoruba People of Western Nigeria
O.O Shada, Federal College of Education
Urban Spatial Development and Human Rights in Africa: Understanding the Urban Dilemma of Owerri - Igbo of South - Eastern Nigeria for Insights
Jonathan C. Egesi, Imo State Polytechnic
H3: Interrogating Environmental and Infrastructural Legacies in Urban Development, GAR 3.116
Chair: Heidi Frontani, Department of History and Geography, Elon University
Nigeria and the Quest for Sustainable Environmental Development: Can the Emerging Asian Partners Be Helpful?
Adaora Osondu-Oti, Afe Babalola University (or find someone to read)
Impact of Land use Change on Surface Temperature in Ijebu-ode, Nigeria
Folasade Oderinde, Tai Solarin University of Education
Transforming Africa’s Development Trajectory through Infrastructural Paradigms: The Case of Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria, 1999-2014
Nkereuwem David Edemekong, University of Uyo
Railways and Economic Development: The Nigerian Experience in the Global Context
Tokunbo A. Ayoola, Elizade University
Colonial Policy and Infrastructural Problems in Lagos, 1935-1990
Lanre Davies, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Community Development in the Light of Ecclesiatical Sensitivity to climate Change in Ilorin, Nigeria
Bamidele Olusegun Fawenu, Kwara State University
H4: Educational Frontiers in Humanities and the Arts, GAR 0.132
Chair: Ramon A. Fonkoué, Humanities Department, Michigan Technological University
The Humanities versus Development in African Higher Education: Reflection on Ugandan Experiences
Okello Ogwang, Makerere University
Repositioning Nigerian Musicology in the 21st Century: Development, Existing Social Realities and the Imagined Future
Babatunji Oluseyi Dada, University of Ibadan
From Lecture Hall to Practice: Sustainable Development in the Training of Acting in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions: Olabisi Onabanjo University and Pencils Film Institute as Cases of Study
Fadirepo Adejoke Adetoun, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Digital History and Global Africa: Using “Big Data” and “Historical GIS” to Inform Development and Create New Curricula
Henry B. Lovejoy, University of British Columbia
Perspective in Education Development
Taiwo Fawehinmi, Adeyemi College of Education
Panel Session I: 10:45 – 12:15
I1: Creating Inclusive Development Strategies, GAR 3.116
Chair: Temisanren Ebijuwa, Dean, The Postgraduate School, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria
Visually Impaired Information Users in Nigeria: Characteristics, Challenges of Inclusion and the Dilemma of the Excluded
Adeniran Adetoro, Tai Solarin University of Education
Crucial Issues in Sustainable Development in Nigeria
F.E. Iyoha, Ambrose Alli University
Walter Idada, Ambrose Alli University
The Priority Argument and Development in Africa
Lawrence Bamikole, University of the West Indies
The Igbo and Community Development in Nigeria
Ogbuagu Joy Ogoegbunam, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Multiculturalism, Democracy, and Sustainable Development
Phil O. Anosike, The University of Toledo
Development, Poverty and Inequality in Africa: Are they Compatible?
Ukertor Gabriel Moti, University of Abuja
Considering Sustainable Development in Nigeria Through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Alaneme Justina Chika, Imo State Polytechnic
I2: Strategies for Improving Education Foundations, GAR 0.132
Chair: Jamaine Abidogun, History Department, Missouri State University
Adult Education a Mechanism for Sustainable Development: The Nigerian Perspective
Janet Okebiorun, University of Lagos
Sustainable Development Unrealistic Without Mathematics Education
Paul Aighegbese Ebhomien, College of Education
Language Policy, Foreign Language and Proliferation of Private Nursery and Primary Schools in Nigeria
Fasanmi Olufunso, Tai Solarin University of Education
Giwa Akintunde, Tai Solarin University of Education
Trends in Special Needs Education in Nigeria
Olubukola Christianah Dada, Kwara State University
Emmanuel Olufemi Adeniyi, Federal College of Education
Parents Educational Background and Children’s Career Choice: Case Study of Osun State, Nigeria
Temitope C Oyeyemi, Adeyemi College of Education
I3: Socio-Economic Implications of Land Reform Policies, GAR 2.128
Chair: Omoniyi Afolabi, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin
Civil Society, Human Rights and the Politics of Land Reforms in South Africa
Adeoye O. Akinola, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Henry Wissink, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Developing "Agriculture for Engaging “Poverty” in Borderland Pastoralist Community: Futility of Colonial Practice Amongst the Turkana of Northwestern Kenya, 1920-1955
Martin S. Shanguhyia, Syracuse University
Foreign Direct Investment or Neo-colonialism? A Scorecard Analysis of International Land Acquisitions in Africa”
Comlanvi Sitou Akibode, Michigan State University
Harnessing the Vast Uncultivated Land in Sokoto State as a Paradigm for Agricultural Mechanization and Economic Development in Nigeria: Making a Case for Farm House Settlement Scheme
Attahhiru Ahmad Sifawa, Sokoto State University
I4: Sustainability and Textile Production, GAR 0.120
Chair: Moyo Okediji, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin
Textile and Fashion for Identity: a narrative of cultural Development in the Niger-Delta of Nigeria
Ginigeme Uchechi Nnochiri, Federal University
Umana Ginigeme Nnochiri, Cross River University of Technology
Entrepreneurial Development For Aso Ofi Weavers For Self-Sustenance and Cultural Sustainability in South Western Nigeria
Bridget Itunu Awosika, Adeyemi College of Education
Preserving and Renovating Textile Artefacts for Sustainable Textile Development in Yoruba Land: A Panorama of Some Indigenous Woven Fabrics
Evelyn Omotunde Adepeko, Adeyemi College of Education
Sustainability of 'Ankara' (African Printed Fabrics) usage among Career Women in Ondo State Public Service
Temitope C Oyeyemi, Adeyemi College of Education
Sunday Dinner for Registered Conference Participants
Dr. Falola’s House
7:00 PM
