College of Arts and Sciences

Department of World Languages and Cultures

INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
Pan-Africanism and Negritude: Dialogues Between Africa and the
African Diaspora (Past, Present, Future)
November 4-6, 2015
Blackburn Center
Howard University
2397 Sixth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20059

PROGRAM

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m.

Registration of Participants Blackburn Center Digital

Auditorium

10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks - Blackburn Digital Auditorium

Dr. Anthony Wutoh, Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Dr. Gary Harris, Associate Provost for Research and Graduate
Studies
Dr. Bernard Mair, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. James Davis, Associate Dean of Humanities, College of Arts
and Sciences
Dr. Vernessa White-Jackson, Chair, Department of World
Languages and Cultures
Dr. Clment A. Akassi, Project Director and Host Committee
Chair

10:35 a.m. 10:50 a.m.

Musical Introduction - Blackburn Center Digital Auditorium

Performance by Howard Universitys Students

11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m.

Plenary Session. Lon Gontran Damas and Howard University

A Tribute to a Pioneer of Negritude - Blackburn Center Digital
Auditorium
Plenary Speaker:
Mbye Cham, Howard University
Speaker Introduced by:
Derayeh Derakhshesh, Howard University
The plenary session will include a film screening about Lon
Gontran Damas followed by a discussion

1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

Frantz Fanon, Pan-Africanism and Globalization through

Philosophy, Politics and Cultures Blackburn Center Digital
Auditorium
Chair: Thelma Thompson, President Emeritus, University of
Maryland Eastern Shore
Antonio Murillo, Howard University
The African American Values in Contemporary Poetry
Brandon Hogan, Howard University
What is the Point of Fanons Discussion of Hegels Master-Slave
Dialectic?
Eyene Essono Auguste, School of Education, Libreville, Gabon
LAfrique face lvolution du monde moderne
Mbow Amphas Mampoua, American University of London
Pan-Africanism and African Realities in the Globalization

1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

Africa and African Diaspora: Global Cross-Cultural and

Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Hispanic Discourse and
Representations - Blackburn Center Forum
Chair: Annette Dunzo, Howard University
Shirley Jackson, Howard University
Interdisciplinary Research and Re-examination of the Cultures,
Sciences and Languages Embedded in the Literature of Africans and
African Descendant People Living in the Spanish-speaking World
Wendy McBurney, Howard University
His(s)tory and Her(s)tory of Voice and Voiceless-ness in AfroHispanic Literature: A Post-Colonial Feminist Reading of the
Representation of the Female Voice in the Narratives of Equatorial
Guinea and Costa Rica
Annette Dunzo, Howard University
(Re) reading an African American Diasporic Quest Subtext
within Hispanic/Afro Latin/English Cultures of Africa and the
African Diaspora
Edna Liliana Valencia Murillo, Afro-Colombian Journalist
Estticas y temticas de los africanos y sus descendientes en los
medios de comunicacin

1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

Exploratron of Pan-African Rebirth, Ancestors, Hip Hop Artists,

and Migration - Blackburn Center Room 148/150
Chair: Amanishakete Ani, University at Albany, State University of
New York (SUNY)
David S. Agum, University at Albany, SUNY
Towards a Resurgent African Renaissance: Lessons for African
Unity
Juone Darko, Honors College, George Mason
Pan-African Themes in the Diaspora from Continental Ghanaian
Migrants and Their Children
Msia Kibona Clark, Howard University
The Integration of African and Diaspora Identities by US Based
African Hip Hop Artists
Amanishakete Ani, University at Albany, SUNY
Recognizing the Structural Multidimensionality of the African
Experience to Achieve Power through Ancestral and Cultural
Dignity

2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m

Lopold Sdar Senghor, Negritude, Resistance and Universalism

- Blackburn Center Digital Auditorium
Chair: Karen Wallace, Howard University
Khady Dine, Howard University
Luniversalit senghorienne travers lcriture de Fatou Diome: De
la Prfrence Nationale la redfinition de soi
Amadou Kon, Georgetown University
Lopold Sdar Senghor, Cheikh Hamidou Kane: Ngritude,
Francophonie et permanente ambiguit
Maguye Kass, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal
La Ngritude de Lopold Sedar Senghor ou la promotion dune
renaissance africaine sans rupture dans lart et la musique

2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m

Negritudes Essence Across Eras and National Boundaries:

Legacy, Meaning, Relevance Blackburn Center Forum
Chair: Alem Hailu, Howard University
Lydia Levy, Howard University
Negritude, Pan-Africanism and Decolonization: Shared experiences
of racism and the struggle for equal rights
Vanessa Oyugi, Howard University
Negritude and its Subsequent Discourse on Identity and Community
in Africa: Insights from Kenyas postcolonial literature
Wheeler Winstead, Howard University
Negritude in North-South Perspectives: Ideas and practices in the
United States and Brazil
Alem Hailu, Howard University
Negritudes Essence in Global Understandings: The universal quest
for identity, human dignity and community shared meanings

2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m

Pedagogy of the Dispersed: Pan-Africanisms, Diasporas and

Global Black Struggle Blackburn Center Room 148/150
Chair: Quito Swan, Howard University
Loren Collier, Howard University
Pan-African Chorus: The Transnational Struggles of Gil ScottHeron, Fela Kuti and Peter Tosh
Araba Johnston-Arthur. University of Austria/Howard University
Unsilencing Pan-African Resistances in the African Diaspora in
Austria
Quito Swan, Howard University
Pauulus Diaspora: Pan-Africanism, Black Power and the South
Pacific

5:00 p.m. 6:15 p.m.

Dialogues between Africans, African American and African

Descendants in Latin America. A roundtable Mayors Office on
Latino Affairs, 2000 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009
Chair: Clment A. Akassi, Howard University
Participants:
Mamadou Samba, Director of Mayors Office on African Affairs,
DC Government
Melvin P. Foote, Founder and President
Constituency for Africa (CFA)
Didier Sinisterra
Afro-Colombian Activist and Officer, DC Government

Patricia Walker, DC Government

Thursday, November 5, 2015

9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m.

Registration of Participants Blackburn Center Digital

Auditorium

9:40 a.m. 10:55 a.m.

Plenary Session. Visin del Panafricanismo desde la Dispora

africana de Amrica Latina/ Vision of Pan-Africanism from the
African Diaspora in Latin America Blackburn Center Digital
Auditorium
Plenary Speaker:
Jess Alberto Chucho Garca, Afro-Venezuelan Scholar, Activist
and Diplomat
Speaker Introduced by:
Marco Polo Hernndez Cuevas, North Carolina Central University
Interpretation will be provided

11:10 a.m. 12:25 p.m.

Deconstruct/Reconstruct Blackness in Equatorial Guinean

Diasporas Transnational Identity - Blackburn Center Digital
Auditorium
Chair: Mbar Ngom, Morgan State University
Stefania Licata, University of Palermo, Italia/State University of
New York at Stony Brook
Ceiba II (2015): Poemas en trnsito de Raquel Ilomb
Michael Ugarte, University of Missouri
Translation and Speaking for the Subaltern: Nativas-Natives by
Inongo vi Makome
Hubert Edzodzomo Ondo, School of Education, Libreville, Gabon
La poligamia, reto poltico y cultural del siglo XXI en frica.
Aproximacin a unos textos, Ekomo (1985) de Mara Nsue Ange,
Histoire dAwu (2000) de Justine Mintsa y Tres almas para un
corazn (2011) de Guillermina Mekuy
Nicole Price, Northern Arizona University
Black Bodies, European Lens: Defining blackness in Spanish
Film

11:10 a.m. 12:25 p.m.

From Negritude to Creolization: Re-envisioning the legacy and

epistemic relevance of African epistemologies - Blackburn Center
Gallery Lounge
Chair: Cheikh Thiam, The Ohio State University
Joseph White, The Ohio State University
Le lieu, l'incontournable... La place de l'nonciation dans la pense
de l'identit chez douard Glissant
Christy Camp, The Ohio State University
Problematic Circularity in Youssouphas Entourage: Creolization
and Solidarity
Anna Bobbio, The Ohio State University
Lessons from the African Diaspora: Reading the Istrian Question
through the Lense of Glissants Philosophy
Cheikh Thiam, The Ohio State University
From Negritude to Relation and Back: Dialogue between Africa
and the Caribbean

11:10 a.m. 12:25 p.m.

Afrocentric Discussion of Black Community, HBCUs, Hip Hop,

and African Secondos - Blackburn Center Room 148/150
Chair: KenZoe Brian J. Selassie, Allen Univesity
Denise Rosier (Ayo Sekai), Howard University
The Positive Impact of Afrocentricity on the Self-Hatred and
Destructive Behavior of the Black Community
C. Chic Smith, Howard University
New School Artists; Old School Afrocentricity: A Qualitative
Analysis of Popular Music Lyrics of J. Cole and Niki Minaj
Uchenna Onuzulike, Howard University
Synthesizing African Secondos within the United States in the
Context of Afrocentricity
KenZoe Brian J. Selassie, Allen Univesity
Afrocentricity on the Outskirts of HBCUs

1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m.

Tracing and Writing Pan-Africanism and African Diaspora

Roots and Routes - Blackburn Center Digital Auditorium
Chair: Lorenzo Morris, Howard University
Nour Lynn Seblini, Wayne State University, Canada
Csaire au Carrefour de la Ngritude et la Nguitude
Saliou Dione, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal
Roots and Routes of Pan-Africanism: Cross-Influences and New
World Challenges
David Murphy, University of Sterling, UK
Performing Pan-Africanism: The First World Festival of Negro
Arts, Dakar 1966
David Ngoran, University Flix Houphout-Boigny, Ivory Coast
Essai de socio-histoire des crivains de la diaspora africaine en
France (1990-2015)

1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m.

Global African Roots, Rituals and Resistance in Dialogue Blackburn Center Gallery Lounge
Chair: Marco Polo Hernndez Cuevas, North Carolina Central
University
Ligia S. Aldana, State University of New York at New Paltz
Mujer afro(cantadora), violencia y cultura en el Caribe colombiano
Daryl Harris, Howard University
Spirituality and Resistance in the Black Sacred Cosmos
Horacio Xaubet, North Carolina Central University
Is Ngoma a possible roots of the Afro-Uruguayan Candombe?
Emmanuelle Kadya Tall, Institut des Mondes Africains, Paris
Candombl in Bahia and the ideal of a racial brotherhood in Brazil

1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m.

Pan Africanism, Negritude, and the Ark of Bones. A Roundtable.

- Blackburn Center Room 148/150
Chair: Hoke Glover II (Bro Yao), Bowie State University
Participants:
Kevin Quashie, Smith College
Monifa Love Asante, Bowie State University
Chaquina Jones, Bowie State University

3:00 p.m. 4:15 p.m.

Principales escritores/as de la Francofona y su trayectoria

literaria durante el siglo XX. An Investigation on African
Cultures Through the Lens of Central America Blackburn
Center Digital Auditorium
Chair: James Davis, Howard University
Participants:
Mauricio Mndez Vega, University of Costa Rica
Virginia Borloz Soto, University of Costa Rica

3:00 p.m. 4:15 p.m.

Los Afrodescendientes: Retos y Perspectivas del Decenio

Internacional de los Afrodescendientes: Reconocimiento, Justicia
y Desarrollo. An Afro-Colombian Roundtable about the Decade
of People of African Descents - Blackburn Center Gallery Lounge
Chair: Hugo Tovar, Deputy Director of Operations in the
Department of Youth, District of Columbia
Co- Chair: Hernando Viveros, President & CEO, Afro-Colombian
Global Initiative
Participants:
Anderson Arroyo, University of Pacfico
Vladimir ngulo, University del Valle
Mara de los ngeles ngulo Escobar, Afro-Colombian Women
Leader
Jackeline Salazar Snchez, Journalist
Miguel Orlando Escobar Berrio, Lawyer

3:00 p.m. 4:15 p.m.

Critical Discussion of the Afrocentric Perspectives. A Students

Roundtable Blackburn Center Room 148/150
Chair: Uchenna Onuzulike, James Madison University/Howard
University
Participants:
Chioma Ahaneku, Howard University
Samantha Page, Howard University
Tamika Lanier, Howard University
Khalil Roberts, Howard University
Taylor Ross, Howard University
Kiana Knolland, Howard University
Evan Lawson, Howard University

4:30 p.m. 5:45 p.m.

Plenary Session. Muntu, Ekobio, Chang: filosofa y espirit

africano de la libertad en las Amricas de Manuel Zapata
Olivella/Muntu, Ekobio, Chang: African philosophy and Spirit
of Freedom in the Americas of Manuel Zapata Olivella Blackburn Center Digital Auditorium
Plenary Speaker:
William Mina Aragn, Afro-Colombian Professor and Lead Scholar
on the Work of the Afro-Colombian Thinker and Writer, Manuel
Zapata Olivella
Speaker Introduced by:
George Palacios, Clemson University
Interpretation will be provided

Friday, November 6, 2015

9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m.

Registration of Participants Blackburn Center Digital

Auditorium

9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m.

Plenary Session. Barcelone ba Barsakh (Barcelona or Nothing

Else). Immigrations Dilemma for African and the African
Diaspora. Blackburn Center Digital Auditorium
Plenary Speaker:
ngela Nzambi (a.k.a Nanguan ma Nzam), Equatorial Guinean
Writer and Activist for the Refugees Rights in Spain
Speaker Introduced by:
Mamadou Badiane, University of Missouri
The plenary session will include a film screening of Barcelone ba
Barsakh (Human Right Awards, 2015) followed by a discussion
Interpretation will be provided

10:30 a.m. 11: 45 a.m.

Rethinking African Diaspora in the Context of Colombia,

Mexico and Cuba - Blackburn Center Digital Auditorium
Chair: William Mina Aragn, University of Cauca, Colombia
George Palacios, Clemson University
Repensando la dispora africana desde Manuel Zapata Olivella: el
muntu americano y la casa vieja y nueva
Mamadou Badiane, University of Missouri
Negrismo, Negritude, and the Harlem Renaissance
Marco Polo Hernndez-Cuevas, North Carolina Central University
Mestizos o africanizados?: el nenepil, el pulque, y la tapata: tres
pilares de la nacionalidad mexicana cuyas races africanas son
desconocidas
Jos Antonio Caicedo Ortiz, University of Cauca, Colombia
Negritud, identidad y memoria de la dispora africana en los
escritores negros del pacfico colombiano

10:30 a.m. 11: 45 a.m.

Medias, Ideology and Representation of Africa and the African

Diaspora - Blackburn Center Gallery Lounge
Chair: Mbye Cham, Howard University
Zekeh Gbotokuma, Morgan State University
Hollywoods Unholy Africa and European Reductionism: What
Should Be Done About It?
Daniela Ricci, University of Paris Nanterre, France
Contemporary African Diasporic Films between Heritages and
Future
Hilaire Ndzang Nyangone, School of Education, Libreville, Gabon
Dominacin y resistencia en el frica negra precolonial a travs de
Man to Man de Regis Wargnier
Franoise Pfaff, Professor Emeritus, Howard University
Maryse Conds Real and Fictionalized Voyages to Africa

10:30 a.m. 11: 45 a.m.

Contemporary Maroon Culture through African Religion Blackburn Center Room 148/150
Chair: Kola Abimbola, Howard University
Oscar Larrahondo, University of Pacfico, Colombia
La constitucin de lo social en Amrica Latina a travs de Las
claves mgicas de Amrica de Manuel Zapata Olivella
Aurlien Mokoko Gampiot, GSRL-CNRS (Sorbonne), France
Kimbanguism and the African American Diaspora
Jess Chucho Garca, Afro-Venezuelan Scholar and Activist
Toward a Definition of an African Religion of Resistance
Ofunshi Oba Koso, Cuban Babalawo/African Religion Priest
The Divorce of Pope Francis with the Contemporary African
Descents

12:45 p.m. 2: 00 p.m.

Rethinking Digital Course Redesigns in Communication,

Composition, and Learning Through An Africana Pedagogical
Framework. A Roundtable Blackburn Center Digital Auditorium
Chair: Gloria Gibson, Provost, Morgan State University
Participants:
Pamela Scott-Johnson, Dean, Morgan State University
Dewayne Wickham, Dean, Morgan State University
Monique L. Akassi, Morgan State University
Baruti Kopano, Morgan State University
Rod Carveth, Morgan State University
Adam Mekler, Morgan State University
Laura Dorsey-Ellson, Morgan State University
Angela Verdelle, Morgan State University

12:45 p.m. 2: 00 p.m.

Learning/Teaching African Languages, Cultures and Historical

Figures in the Construction of Identities and Dialogues
Blackburn Center Gallery Lounge
Chair: Vronique Solange OkomeBeka, School of Education,
Libreville, Gabon
Boniface Ofadjali, University Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon
WE ARE ALL AFRICANS:
Kwame Tures/Stokely
Carmichaels African Experience, a mediation/ dialogue between
Africans at Home and Africans in the Diaspora
Bayo Omolola, Howard University
The Role of African Language Learning in Identity Formation in
the Diaspora
Vronique Solange OkomeBeka, School of Education, Libreville,
Gabon
La iconografa como herramienta pedaggica para la integracin y
valoracin de unas figuras de la independencia de Amrica y Africa
en la enseanza de ELE en Gabn
Gerceida Jones, New York University
The Astronomical Achievements of the Ancient Dogon People:
Facts vs. Myths

12:45 p.m. 2: 00 p.m.

From the Civic Movement in Burkina Faso to The New Trends

of Civil, Social and Political Changes in Africa Blackburn
Center Room 148/150
Chair: Josephine Dawuni, Howard University
Kola Abimbola, Howard University
Culture and Democracy in Africa
Idrissa Diarra, Activist, Burkina Faso
Lcole et la socit civile dans la construction des tats-Unis
dAfrrique. Partir de lexemple du Burkina Faso
Amadou Lamine Ndiaye, University of Toulouse-2, France
The Role of Pan-African Solidarity in Julius Nyereres Vision
Cheikh Anta Babou, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Le panafricanisme de Kwame Nkrumah, une tape primordiale dans
le dveloppement de l'Afrique

2:15 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

Plenary Session. Dialogues between African and African

Diaspora Writers and Artists Blackburn Center Gallery Lounge
Chair: Clment A. Akassi, Howard University
Participants:
Zekeh Gbotokuma, Professor and Writer, Congo/U.S.
Marco Polo Hernndez Cuevas, Professor and Writer, Mexico/U.S.
Juan Manuel Davies, Equatorial Guinean Writer
Amadou Kon, Professor and Writer, Ivory Coast/U.S.
Vicky Leyva, Afro-Peruvian Singer and Activist
ngela Nzambi (a.k.a. Nanguan ma Nzam), Equatorial Guinean
Writer

4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m.

Pleanary Session. Keynote Address by Molefi Kete Asante,

Temple University Blackburn Center Digital Auditorium

Pan Africanism, Negritude, Quilombismo and the

Afrocentric Praxis
Keynote Speaker Introduced by:
Daryl Harris, Howard University

6:00 p.m. 6:45 p.m.

Cultural Activities Blackburn Center Digital Auditorium

Cultural Activities include Recital of Poetry and Performance
of Vicky Leyva, Guest Artist and Afro-Peruvian Singer

7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.

Closing Reception Blackburn Center Gallery Lounge

Closing Reception includes a Celebration of Dr. Joseph E.
Harris, for his pioneering contribution to the scholarship on
Global African Diaspora Studies