DATE: Wednesday, January 28, 2015
TIME: 17:00 pm – 19:00 pm
LOCATION: St. Paul’s university, Alumni amphitheater, Guigues Hall, 223 Main street, Room 1124
1) Welcoming remarks…
2) Is Nigeria Falling Apart?
Nduka Otiono, Assistant Professor at the Institute of African Studies (Carleton U.) obtained his PhD in English from the University of Alberta where he won several awards, and was nominated for the Governor General’s Gold Medal for academic distinction. He held a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University where he was also appointed a Visiting Assistant Professor. A fellow of the William Joiner Centre for War and Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts, his interdisciplinary research focuses on “street stories” or popular urban narratives in postcolonial Africa, and how they travel across multiple popular cultural platforms such as the news media, film, popular music, and social media. Also a writer, he is the author of The Night Hides with a Knife (short stories), which won several prizes. His research interests include Cultural Studies, Oral Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Media and Communication Studies, Globalization and Popular Culture.
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