May 2 mai

II. A.1.   La participation politique en Afrique à l’ère de la technologie numérique :
mouvement de masses populaires entre virtuel et reel

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Organizers / Organisatrices: Kae Amo – ÉHÉSS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales), Kadidia Gazibo  – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Roger Nguema
Obame  – Université de Rouen, & Rachid Hadji – ÉHÉSS (École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales)

Chair / Présidence: Mebometa Ndongo – Carleton University

La « sociabilité politique » à l’épreuve : masse, hommes politiques et religieux sur l’écran de l’élection présidentielle 2012 (Sénégal)
Kae Amo – ÉHÉSS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

Mobilisation populaire et technologies numériques : la société civile au secours de la démocratie au Niger à l’ère du numérique (2010-2011).
Kadidia Gazibo  – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Innovation organisationnelle et réhabilitation de la paysannerie gabonaise par les TIC
Roger Nguema Obame  – Université de Rouen

Les « acteurs » du « Printemps Arabe » et les visées géopolitiques occidentales en Afrique du Nord
Rachid Hadji – ÉHÉSS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

II. A. 2.  Table-Ronde : Vers une « contagion » nigériane ? Cinémas populaires en Afrique
francophone

Organizer / Organisateur: Alexie Tcheuyap – University of Toronto

Chair / Présidence: Sada Niang – University of Victoria
Ute Fendler – Université de Bayreuth
Sada Niang – University of Victoria
Alexie Tcheuyap – University of Toronto

II. A. 3. Symposium (1): Adapting to New Atlantic Worlds: Patterns in the Origins and
Experiences of Enslaved and Free Africans

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Organizer / Organisatrice: Suzanne Schwarz – University of Worcester
Chair / Présidence: José Curto – York University
Discussant / Rapporteur: Paul E. Lovejoy – York University

Ports of Bight of Benin and the Legal Slave Trade to Bahia, Brazil, 1750-1815
Carlos da Silva – University of Hull

Brazil and Sierra Leone: a perspective on Liberated African in Rio de Janeiro, 19^th Century
Nielson Bezerra – York University

Identity Inscribed upon the Skin: Scarification as a Means of Establishing Origins in the Slave Trade
Katrina Keefer – York University

II. A. 4.  Agrarian Dynamics in southern Africa

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Discussant / Rapporteur:  Blair Rutherford – Carleton University
Chair / Présidence: Linda Freeman – Carleton University

Sinful Harvest: Church as a terrain of struggle on a South African Border Farm
Lincoln Addison – Rutgers University

Between Precarity and Paternalism: Farm Workers and Trade Unions in Western Cape Agriculture
Chris Webb – York University

SMS Agricultural Marketing as a Class Project: The Case of the Zambia National Farmers Union
Toby Moorsom – Queen’s University

II. A. 5.   Capacity Development for Natural Resources Management in Africa

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Organizer / Organisateur: Peter Arthur – Dalhousie University
Chair / Présidence: Peter Arthur – Dalhousie University

The Capacity Question: Leadership and Strategic Choices: Environmental sustainability and Natural Resource Management
Korbla Peter Puplampu – Grant MacEwan University
Conflict Resolution and Management of Africa’s Natural Resources
Kobena Hanson – African Capacity Building Foundation (Harare)
The Status of Natural Resources Management in Africa: Capacity development Challenges and Opportunities
Francis Owusu – Iowa State University

Governance of Natural resource management in Africa: Contemporary Perspectives
Peter Arthur – Dalhousie University

II. A. 6.  ICTs and Development: Critical Explorations

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Chair / Présidence: Adolphine Yawa Aggor-Boateng – University of Ottawa

Community Leaders, Voluntourists and Education: new ways of communication and understanding in Mukono District, Uganda
Sarah St. Clair Skett – University of Calgary

Context and Capabilities: An assessment of usage of ICTs among undergraduate students in Nigerian Universities
Fortune Nwaiwu – University of Leicester

Promoting Self-confidence, Literacy and Technical Skills through the Use of Mobile Phones: A Case Study of Illiterate Ghanaian Women
Adolphine Yawa Aggor-Boateng – University of Ottawa

II. B. 1.  Les Nouvelles Technologies de Communication en Usage: Etudes des Cas

Chair / Présidence: Mebometa Ndongo – Carleton University
La famille transnationale au Sénégal : accès et usage des technologies de l’information comme indicateurs des dynamiques sociales locales
Natalie Mondain – Université d’Ottawa, Alexandre Tétreault – Université d’Ottawa, & Aboulaye Diop – GRAG (Global research and advocacy group), Dakar

Les cybercafés entre ancrage local et dynamiques globales : évolutions de l’accès à Internet et inégalités sociales en milieu urbain au Ghana
Thomas Perrot – Université Paris 8

L’appropriation des Technologies de l’Information et de Communication par les jeunes de N’Djaménois (Tchad) et leur impact
Zakaria Beine – Université de N’Djaména

Cinomade et la lutte contre le VIH/sida au Burkina Faso
Vincent Bouchard  – l’Université de Louisiane à Lafayette

II. B. 2. Strategic Voices: Women, Youth and Subalterns in Rural Africa

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Organizer / Organisatrice: Jennifer Glassco – McGill University

Discussant / Rapporteur: John Galaty – McGill University

Agency and Aspiration: Investigating Youth Livelihoods in Kenyan Maasailand
Jennifer Glassco – McGill University

Assessing the Capacity for Informal Microcredit and Savings Opportunities to Enhance Women’s Smallholder Farming Practices
Carlyn James – McGill University

Reeds of the ancestors: Impacts of large-scale mining on women and mahampy in rural Southeast Madagascar
Caroline Seagle – McGill University

Alternative Educational Tactics for Pastoralist Youth in Niger
Boubacar Oumarou – McGill University

II. B. 3. Symposium (2): Adapting to New Atlantic Worlds: Patterns in the Origins and
Experiences of Enslaved and Free Africans

Organizer / Organisatrice: Suzanne Schwarz – University of Worcester

Chair / Présidence: Nielson Bezerra – York University

Discussant / Rapporteur: Martin Klein – University of Toronto

Diplomacy in the Heart of Africa. British-Sokoto Negotiations over the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Paul E. Lovejoy – York University

Negotiating and Defining Freedom: Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone, c. 1808-1819”
Suzanne Schwarz – University of Worcester

Narratives of Flight: The Sierra Leone Escaped Slave Registry and the Treatment of Slaves, 1885-1894
Myles Ali – York University

Rethinking the Development of Global Capitalism: Tracing the Kru Diaspora from Eighteenth Century Wage Labourers in British West African Workplaces to Nineteenth Century Labourers in the Americas
Jeffrey Gunn – York University
II. B. 4. Regional and National Initiatives: New understandings of African economies,
regulations, and politics
Chair / Présidence: Timothy Shaw – University of Massachusetts Boston
Room/Pièce: Tory Building 240

Critical Reflection on the Link between Public-Private Partnerships in Regional Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development in the West-African Sub-Region
Olabisi D. Akinkugbe – University of Ottawa

Africa Communicating: Digital Technologies, Representation, Power
Onkulola Olusegun

African Agency in the 21^st Century? Varieties of regionalism, finance, governance, perspective.and digital?
Timothy Shaw – University of Massachusetts Boston

II. B. 5.   Re-examining Food Security: Theories, Policies, and Empirical Studies

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

Technocracy shrinking the pie:  A theoretical analysis of agricultural assistance in Ethiopia
Melanie O’Gorman – University of Winnipeg

“Agriculture for development” and structural transformation: Is Ghana learning the wrong lessons from China?
Lionel Akollor – York University

The straddling strategy: rural-urban linkages, mobility, and urban household food production
Liam Riley – University of Western Ontario

II. B. 6.  Remediating the self: mobile communication and the performance of intimacy

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Organizers / Organisatrices: Julie Soleil Archambault – University of Oxford &
Katrien Pype – MIT and KU Leuven

Chair / Présidence: Julie Soleil Archambault – University of Oxford
Somaliland: Honor and Anonymity in Courtship Rituals
Caroline Ackley – New York University Abu Dhabi

The Mobile Phone, the Transformed Person and Expectations of Intimacy in Cameroonian Cross-border Social Relationships
Primus Tazanu – Albert-Ludwigs University

Blackberry Girls and ‘Inappropriate’ Calls. Morality, Gender and Connectivity in Kinshasa’s Mobile Phone Culture
Katrien Pype – MIT and KU Leuven

In pursuit of romance: mobile phones, optative spaces and intimacy in Mozambique
Julie Soleil Archambault – University of Oxford