Presentations

1: Mediascapes of Twentieth-Century African Literature: The London-Based Transcription Centre’s Anglophone Radio Program Africa Abroad

Julie Cyzewski, Murray State U

2: On the Contribution to Early African Literary Studies of the University of Ife’s Journal of West African Studies Odu

Olabode Ibironke, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

3: Rethinking the 1962 Makerere Writers Conference: A Comparative Approach to the Rise of the Language Question in African Literatures

Tobias Warner, U of California, Davis

4: On Producing the African Canon: The United States Research Library as Collector of and Gatekeeper to Francophone African Literature

Madeline Bedecarré, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Presider

Wendy Laura Belcher, Princeton U