Thank you very much, Professor Dasylva (Ade) for the information about the important conference. Very happily, I have already shared it with friends and colleagues in the USA, Ghana and Liberia, who are not subscribers to USA-Africa Dialogue.
Out of curiosity (which can kill the cat), I saw the name of Redeemer's University in Mowe, Ogun State of Nigeria, where the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Conference and its Administrator are based. Please, how many full-fledged and approved or federally-recognized universities, total, are in our beloved Nigeria? As my late maternal grandfather (Agya) used to say about an elephant, it is a wise and huge animal with a lot of parts. Nigeria, the proverbial "elephant" (or giant) of West Africa should, therefore, have many of such universities (or "educational parts") but, please, how many in totality, if you o anyone can help with the information?
A.B. Assensoh, Oregon, USA.
NIGERIAN ORAL LITERATURE ASSOCIATION [NOLA]. FIND THE DETAILS BELOW:
2nd CONFERENCE
OF THE NIGERIAN ORAL LITERATURE ASSOCIATION [NOLA]
DATE: 7 – 9, AUGUST, 2013
VENUE: CONFERENCE CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN, NIGERIA
THEME: DOCUMENTATION & SAFEGUARDING OF NIGERIAN ORAL LITERATURES & TRADITIONS
SUB-THEMES:
1. Theories and Discourses on Orality, Orature, Oral Literature, Performance Arts, Oral Traditions, Media and Communications, Cultural Reproduction, Transmissions
2. Fieldwork, Documentation, Safeguarding, Translation, Transcription, Taxonomy/Classification.
3. Myths and Legends, Oral Histories, Migration Narratives; Remembrances,
4. Oral Narrative Genres; Oral Epics; The Folktale; Story-telling Events/Performances
5. Other Worlds/Wonderlands, Utopias, Post-Mortem Heavens, Science Fiction; Travel Literature/Travelogue; Magical Realism/Fantasies
6. Oral Poetic Genres; Song-Poetry and Dance-songs Traditions; Musical Genres and Traditions/Musical Equipment; Popular Music; Work Songs and Lores; Leisure/Recreation Events/Games
7. Oratory; Oral Rhetoric; Proverbial Lore and Idioms, Riddles; Jokes; Tongue Twisters; Oral Delivery and Multi-media Performance
8. Festivals; Carnivals; Durbars; Regattas; Tournaments, Exhibitions; Memorial Festival Drama/Theatre; Puppet Theatre, Itinerant Theatre, Comedians/Entertainments
9. Gender Discourses and Women in Oral Literature; Female Voices and Spaces; Children's Literature, Children's Games and Theatres; Rites of Passage, Socialisation and Acculturation Processes
10. Creative Arts and Design; Digital Narration/Stories; and Computer/Cyber Games and Animation; Cartoon Stories, Art and Illustrations
11. Documentation and Safeguarding of Oral Literature/Folklore; Oral Arts and Biographical Studies; UNESCO and Government Cultural Policies and Programmes; Training of Oral Artist
12. Interface of Oral and Written Traditions; Translation/Transliteration of Nigerian Oral Literatures; Orality, Technology and Communication, Radio, Television and Social Media; Urbanisation, Social Movements, Environment and Biodiversity; The Oral Heritage, Human Rights, Democracy and Social Change;
13. Nigerian Oral Traditions, Oral Literature, Globalisation and the African Diaspora
Abstracts of not more than 250 words are invited from prospective participants not later than July 7, 2013, should be sent to:
(i) Conference Convener, Prof. G.G. Darah, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State. E-mail: <ggdarah@gmail.com>; mobile phone: +234(0)8036088913
(ii) Chairman Organising Committee- Prof. Ademola Dasylva, Redeemer's University, Mowe. a.dasylva@mail.ui.edu.ng<mailto:a.dasylva@mail.ui.edu.ng>; dasylvang@yahoo.com<mailto:dasylvang@yahoo.com>; Mobile phone: +234 (0)8070710050)
DIRECT ALL ENQUIRIES TO:
The Conference Administrator, Dr. Mark Ighile, Redeemer's University, Mowe, Ogun State. E-mail: <mighile@gmail.com; Mobile phone: +234 (0) 8034959317
Conference Registration Fee: N8, 000.00 only (for participants from within Nigeria); $100 only (for participants from outside Nigeria), to cover conference materials and customized bag, and tea/coffee break.
Ademola Omobewaji DASYLVA,PhD
Professor of African Literature & Oral Literature
Visiting Professor of African Literature,
Department of English
Redeemer's University,
Mowe, Km. 46, Lagos/Ibadan Express Way.
Mobile: +234 (0)802 350 4755
+234 (0)706 226 4090
Web: arts.ui.edu.ng/aodasylva
E-mail: a.dasylva@ibadanculturalstudiesgroup.org
a.dasylva@mail.ui.edu.ng
dasylvang@yahoo.com
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