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The NUI Maynooth Departments of Anthropology and English are delighted to
co-host a Symposium in African Studies
*Crossroads in African Literatures*
Thursday, 18th April, 10.00-1.00
Venue: NIRSA NCG Seminar Room, Third Floor,
Iontas Building, NUI Maynooth
*10.00-11.15 Paulo Farias “The seventeenth-century Timbuktu chronicles: the
emergence of a new genre”*
Paulo Farias is a historian (and medical doctor) who has developed
epigraphic sources for the medieval history of West Africa. His Arabic
Medieval Inscriptions from the Republic of Mali (2003) was won the Paul
Hair Prize (2005) conferred by the USA African Studies Asso- ciation
together with the Association for the Preservation and Publication of
African His- torical Sources.
*11.30-12.45 Karin Barber “‘The life-story of me, Segilola’: 1920s Lagos
and the first Yoruba novel”*
Karin Barber is an anthropologist with a particular interest in popular
culture, religion, and the verbal arts, both oral and written. While
working as a lecturer in the University of Ife, Nigeria, she conducted
research on Yoruba popular theatre, joining the Oyin Adejobi Thea- tre
Company, travelling extensively with them and performing in their
improvised Yoruba- language plays, both on stage and on television. After
eleven years in Nigeria, Karin was ap- pointed to a lectureship at the
Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, where she is now
Professor of African Cultural Anthropology.
--
Thomas Strong, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Department of Anthropology
National University of Ireland Maynooth
Maynooth, Co. Kildare
IRELAND
+353 1 708 6719 (office)
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