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The
Department of African Languages & Literature Graduate Student
Colloquium is held on the first Thursday of each month, at 12:00 noon,
in Van
Hise Hall, Rm. 1418. Each month, a graduate student from the Department
presents her/his most current work in a semi-formal setting. Presentations
include:
SPRING
2008
May
1: "'When the Rags Rage and Roar' : A Critical Discourse Appraisal
of the Niger-Delta Crisis in Nigeria (Odi Massacre and Kaiama Declaration)"
by Adedoyin S. Ogunfeyimi
April
3: "Aspects of Chasu Phonology" by Zablon Mgonja
March
6: "Egypt's Others: Reading of Cosmopolitanism in Times of
Conflict in Bahaa Taher's Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery
and The Sunset Oasis" by Mary Youssef
February
7: "'The World's Favorite Fairy Tale' : Mimetic Violence and
the Founding of the 'Rainbow Nation'" by Francis Lukhele
FALL
2007
October
4: "Globalization at Grassroots: Inyama Nnadozi's 'Hot Days, Long
Nights'" by Florence Olamijulo
November
1: "From the mouths of babes: childhood in the Zimbabwean literature
of crisis" by Joseph Chikowero
December
6: "The Appropriateness of Ken Walibora's Swahili Children's Literature:
An Examination of Mtu wa Mvua, Ndoto ya Amerika, and Mgomba
Changaraweni" by David Wambua Kyeu
SPRING
2007
February
15: "'Peripheral Destinations': Road Imagery in the Poetry of Soyinka
and Serote" by Matthew Brown
April
26: "The Lyric and Erotic Imagination of Niyi Osundare" by Mark
Lilleleht
May
9: 2:30-5:00pm, African Verbal Stylistics class presentations
FALL
2006
October
5: "'Operating
from the inside:'" Hausa film, Hausa women, and the deconstruction
of the private sphere" by Carmen McCain.
November
2:"Gender and Form in Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino and
Song of Ocol" by Florence Ebila.
December
14: "Writing
for Dissertators and MA Students: from Proposal to Completion" by
Moneera Al-Ghadeer and Melissa Tedrowe of the UW Writing Center.
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