May 1 mai

9:00-10:30 am                         Concurrent Sessions / Sessions parallèles

I. A.1. Nouvelles Technologies de Communication, Savoir et Pouvoir
Chair / Présidence: Mebometa Ndongo – Carleton University
La Subjectivité du journaliste, en entretien médiatique politique : Modalisation et conduite de l’interaction; Le cas de l’émission Pencum Sénégal de la webradio
Dalla M. Fofana – Université de Sherbrooke

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La transmission des savoirs à l’épreuve des technologies : le programme de Bibliothèque Digitale Multilingue des Sources Inédites de l’Ouest Saharien (BIBLIMOS)
Francesco Correale – CNRS-Université François Rabelais de Tours

Les organisations de type associatif du Nord et du Sud face au management des compétences interculturelles : le rôle des nouvelles technologies de la communication; Cas du Canada (Québec) et de la République démocratique du Congo
Lelo Matundu-Lelo

I. A. 2. Cultural Politics in East Africa: Ethnicity, Youth, Language
Chair / Présidence: Nyambura Githaiga – University of Ottawa

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The making of ethnicity in Kenya
Nyambura Githaiga – University of Ottawa

Language Out of Control: Colonial and Postcolonial Language Ideologies and Hybrid Language in Kenya
Milena Pandy – University of Toronto

The nexus between social media, ethnicity and elections in Mathare Slums during and after Kenya’s 2013 general election : A radio broadcast and discussion
Wairimu Gitau – Carleton University

I. A.3. Digital Media, African Youth and Power

Organizers / Organisateurs: Paul Ugor – McMaster University & Leslie Robinson – University
of Alberta

Chair / Présidence: Paul Ugor – McMaster University
Nollywood: digital media, African youth and new existential politics
Paul Ugor – McMaster University

Communicating with Ugandan youth artivists: conversations across the colonial divide
Leslie Robinson – University of Alberta
Cathy Mashakalugo –  artivists 4 life Uganda
Joel Julius Muwanga –  artivists 4 life Uganda
Mirriam Nampanga –  artivists 4 life Uganda
Andrew Jackson Obol – artivists 4 life Uganda
Kayla Callfas – University of Alberta
Justin Pritchard – University of Alberta

I. A. 4.  Political Struggles, Human Rights, and the Politics of Memory

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Chair / Présidence: Arua Oko Omaka – McMaster University
Politicizing Memory: Media Campaigns and Representation of Service Delivery Protests in Post- Apartheid South Africa
Koni Benson – University of Cape Town

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Gaps in the Greed Hypothesis: Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) and Petro-Syndicate in the Niger Delta of Nigeria
Chris Ekene Mbah – University of Tromsø

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Markpress: The Triumph of Biafra’s International Press in the Nigeria-Biafra War
Arua Oko Omaka – McMaster University

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I. A. 5.   Economic Initiatives, Poverty Reduction and Social Rights

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Chair / Présidence: Melanie O’Gorman – University of Winnipeg

Participatory budgeting and decentralization in South Africa
Carolyn Bassett – University of New Brunswick

The participatory and socio-economic contributions of innovation technology Hubs in Africa
Kathleen Diga – University of Western Cape and University of KwaZulu-Natal

The Role of the Media in (Promoting) Women’s Political Participation and Representation in South Africa
Kwazi Majola – University of KwaZulu-Natal

Transcending the Dual Economy
Ralph Callebert – Dalhousie University

I. A. 6.  Exploring Digital Divides in Africa

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Chair / Présidence: Joshua Jebuntie Zaato – University of Ottawa

Communicational Paradox and the Quest for Equal Representation in West Africa: Global Connectedness versus Domestic Digital Divide
Mohamed Saliou Camara – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University & Angela Nwammuo – Anambra State University Igbariam

Ethical Problems in Social Identity and ICT-Driven Education in Africa
Kazeem Fayemi – Lagos State University

The Digital Divide: Theoretical Underpinnings and Practical Implications in Ghana
Joshua Jebuntie Zaato – University of Ottawa

Information Communication Technology in Africa
Temitope Mary Onkulola – Lagos State University

I. B. 1.   La Culture Globale de l’Internet

Chair / Présidence: Mebometa Ndongo – Carleton University

Usages des médias par les pentecôtismes camerounais et mutations socio-religieuses
Sariette Batibonak – Aix-Marseille Université, CEMAf

Présentation de soi, sorcellerie et panique morale à l’ère digitale: l’émergence d’un itinéraire de la réussite sociale chez les jeunes hommes d’Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)
Boris Koenig – Université du Québec à Montréal

Les « Brouteurs », arnaqueurs du web en Côte d’Ivoire  : Entre pratiques mystiques et duperies
Kouyate  Oumu – ÉHÉSS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

I. B. 2.  “An aesthetic of opening and encounter”: African Digital Media Identities

Organizer / Organisatrice: Sheila Petty – University of Regina and Érika Nimis – Université
du Québec à Montréal

Chair / Présidence: Sheila Petty – University of Regina

Orature as a Site for Civil Contestation: Film and the Decolonization of Space and Place in Tsisti Dangarembga’s Kare Kare Zvako (Mother’s Day) 2005
Olubunmi Oyinsan – TelAfric Television Inc

Photography in Sierra Leone in the Post-conflict era
Julie Crooks – School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

In Search of African History: Visual Artists and Archives’ Re-appropriation in the Digital Era
Érika Nimis – Université du Québec à Montréal

High-Tech “Transvergent” Identities in Nadia El Fani’s Bedwin Hacker
Sheila Petty – University of Regina
I. B. 3. Round-Table – Communicating Social Innovation; Co-developing New Products for
the Disabled

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Chair / Présidence: Bjarki Hallgrimsson – Carleton University

Peter Baluku – KADUPEDI and CanUgan (Kasese)
Robert Bwambale – CanUgan (Kasese)
Dean Mellway – Carleton University
Navin Parekh – CanUgan (Ottawa)
Stephen Field – Carleton University
Alyssa Wongkee – Carleton University
Carmen Liu – Carleton University
Amanda Cox – Carleton University

I. B. 4. Post-conflict? State Building, Economic Development, and former Liberation Movements

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Chair / Présidence: Dane Rowlands – Carleton University

‘Old habits die hard’: Assessing Ten-years of Britain-led Statebuilding in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone (2001-2012)
Christopher Dyck – University of Alberta

Too Much of a Good Thing? Freedom of Expression in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Dana Hayward – University of Ottawa

Intrastate Conflict and the Importance of Economic Power-Sharing in Comprehensive Peace Agreements
Rory Morrison – Carleton University

The Slow Death of the Liberation Movements in Southern Africa
Roger Southall – University of Cape Town
I. B. 6.  New Stories of Belonging: Retelling and Re-imagining belonging in Africa’s changing technological and economic landscapes

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Organizer / Organisateur: Gerald Morton – Carleton University
Chair / Présidence: Louise de la Gorgendière – Carleton University
Discussant / Rapporteur:  Louise de la Gorgendière – Carleton University

The Dialectics of Belonging: Examining how meaning and belonging are created and found in the spaces between separate systems of communication
Gerald Morton – Carleton University

Commitment Issues: Security and subject making in the modern white Kenyan household”
Graham Fox – British Institute in Eastern Africa

Sino-African transnationalism and Identity: The Challenges of Differently Situated Chinese migrants in South Africa
Ying-Ying Tiffany Liu – Carleton University

Suspicious minds: apportioning and avoiding blame for distrustful relationships and deferring medical treatment in South Africa
Jana Fried – University of Western Ontario

I. D. 1.      Les Perils et Possibilités de la Révolution Numérique

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Chair / Présidence: Robert Fournier – Carleton University

Communiquer pour susciter un engouement  pour le patrimoine culturel et le développement ou l’épanouissement des communautés locales
Louise-Marie Pandzou – Musée Mâ Loango de Diosso

Parodie et discours politique dans des webfilms sur le sport algérien
Marion Froger and Djemaa Maazouzi – Université de Montréal

La migration vers la TNT au Rwanda; entre challenge et opportunités.
Pierre-Louis Cédric – TELE10 Group

Silence morbide à l’ère de la cybercommunication : Aperçu écolinguistique sur les langues africaines en danger d’extinction.
Jean B. Ntakirutimana – Brock University

I. D. 2. From “digital divide” to “digital revolution” in Africa and the Diaspora within
Pentecostal-Charismatic circles

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Organizers / Organisatreurs: Xavier Moyet – Université du Québec à Montréal & Katrien
Pype – MIT and KU Leuven

Discussant / Rapporteur: Simon Coleman – University of Toronto
Chair / Présidence: Xavier Moyet – Université du Québec à Montréal
The mediation of numinous powers in Christian media worlds
Katrien Pype – MIT and KU Leuven

The musical use of Internet among the Ethiopian Evangelical and Pentecostal Diaspora
Hugo Ferran – Université de Montréal

Connecting geographical space and cyberspace: the case of  Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches on the Internet
Frederic Dejean – Université de Montréal

Healing and the Internet in a global African charismatic ministry
Xavier Moyet – Université du Québec à Montréal

I.D.3.  Bilingual Round-Table: Women, Conflict and Livelihoods in Africa / Table-Ronde
bilingue : Conflit, subsistance economique and des femmes en Afrique

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Organizers / Organisatreurs: Doris Buss – Carleton University & Joanne Lebert – Partnership
Africa Canada
Chair / Présidence: Doris Buss – Carleton University
Room/Pièce: Tory Building 234
Doris Buss – Carleton University
Joanne Lebert – Partnership Africa Canada (by Skype)
Annie Bunting – York University

I. D. 4.  Migration Dynamics: Governance, Gender, Remittances

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Chair / Présidence: Dane Rowlands – Carleton University

Mothering as migrants: Experiences from the informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya
Cassandra Cotton – McGill University & Donatien Beguy – African Population & Health Research Center

Remittances to Zimbabwe: New technologies and remittance practices in Botswana
Riley Dillon – University of Western Ontario

The Impact of African Migration on Women in South Africa
Efe Mary Isike – University of Zululand & Christopher Isike – University of Zululand

Migration Governance and Migrant Rights in the Southern African Development Community (SADC): Attempts at Harmonization in a Disharmonious Region
Belinda Dodson – University of Western Ontario & Jonathan Crush – Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo

I. D. 5.  Perspectives on the Transformation of the Agricultural Sector in Rwanda

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Organizer / Organisateur: Chris Huggins – Carleton University

Discussant / Rapporteur: Marie-Eve Desrosiers – University of Ottawa
Chair / Présidence: Chris Huggins – Carleton University

Oppression or empowerment? The Rwandan small farmer and government’s big changes
Joel Ratcliffe – University of Ottawa

Local participation process in Canadian development participatory projects in Rwanda
Pierre-Anne Turmel – University of Ottawa

Liberalization within an Illiberal Environment? Digital and other forms of Communication in the Agricultural Sector in Rwanda
Chris Huggins – Carleton University
I. D. 6.    Re-Examining the Media in Africa

Chair / Présidence: Tokunbo Ojo – Carleton University

Buying the News, Not the Paper: An Exploratory Study
Stanley Naribo Ngoa – Babcock University

Ethnic Politics and Media Discourse in Nigeria‏
Muhammad H. Sani – American University of Nigeria

Death of the Gatekeeper: New Media, Youth and Politics in Kenya
Lynete Lusike – Moi University & Churchill Otieno – Nation Media Group

The interface between ‘old’ and ‘new’ media in communicating Africa to Africa and the world
Christopher Isike – University of KwaZulu-Natal and Efe Isike – University of KwaZulu-Natal

6:00 – 8:00 pm           Opening Reception / Ouverture et Réception                                              

 8:00 – 10:00 pm                 I. F. 1. Documentary Film Presentation / Présentation du film documentaire: