13:30 - 15:00
Ecologies, Orality & Performance I
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 7
Stream: African Literature: Communities, Collaborations, Crafts & Crossings
Chair/s:
Jane Plastow
13:30 - 13:45
We-A08 African Literature 3-P-001
Indigenous Poetry in Southern Africa: National Reconciliation Versus Political Sovereignty
Brendon Nicholls
School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
13:45 - 14:00
We-A08 African Literature 3-P-002
Performing the Nation:  The Invention of Nigeria in Dike Chukwumerije’s Poetry
Oyeniyi Okunoye
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
14:00 - 14:15
We-A08 African Literature 3-P-003
"‘At the Mid-Point of the Scream’: Dambudzo Marechera, Sony Labou Tansi, and the Scream in Postcolonial African Literature"
Scott Newman
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States