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Dear LSA Community:

Greetings! Please find updates on our activities below:



1)      *Second Life Member of the LSA*

Judith Byfield, professor of history at Cornell University has become the
second Life Member of the Lagos Studies Association. A former president of
the African Studies Association of the United States, Byfield recently won
the Senior Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Nigeria from March
to July 2019. She will be participating in two special panels: one on
textile artist Nike Okundaye and another celebrating the retirement of
Kristin Mann, at the 4th LSA Conference in June. Her books include =E2=80=
=9CThe
Bluest Hands: A Social and Economic History of Women Dyers in Abeokuta";
"Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in
the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland"; and "Africa and World War II.

Thank you Byfield!

Life Membership of the LSA is open to any interested person for a one-time
payment of $600. Yearly membership for academics and non-academics is also
available.



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2. Highlights of the 4th LSA Conference. Lagos, June 27-29, 2019.


*Inside Nigeria=E2=80=99s Largest Private Art Collection: A Conversation wi=
th
Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon*

---
Lagos is the home of the largest private art collection in Nigeria. Its
owner, Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon, a lawyer and engineer by profession,
started collecting art in the 1970s. Over several decades, his private
collection grew into over 50,000 photographs of public and private events
and people, and 7,000 unique art (ranging in sophistication, motif, and
style), and spanning from the 9th to the 21st centuries. Shyllon=E2=80=99s
fascination with art transcends collecting and providing a visual access to
history and the brilliant minds of some of Nigeria=E2=80=99s greatest moder=
nist and
postmodernist artists such as Aina Onabolu, Akinola Lasekan, Ben Enwonwu,
and Nike Okundaye, among others. Not only did he sponsor mind-blowing
public art installation across major university campuses in southwestern
Nigeria, he donated a massive museum of art currently under construction at
the Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos.

The LSA is pleased to organize a special panel on Shyllon=E2=80=99s collect=
ion. The
panelists, who are artists working with his collection, will provide their
impressions along many themes=E2=80=94 ranging from aesthetic preference an=
d
techniques, to history and self-representation. This panel promises to
engage significant discussion about art collection, preservation, patrimony
and politics of ownership, patronage, and archiving the past through
artifacts and material culture among other topics. Shyllon will respond to
questions from the audience and panelists.

For additional information on Shyllon=E2=80=99s collection, see this link:
http://oyasaf.com/
<http://oyasaf.com/?fbclid=3DIwAR14xYfX9fSWJWPlvNJqNmmM3sRvIPb0090sP_xnwVs8=
QyETGDrcBvm9o9w>



*Panelists*

Tolu Aliki is a contemporary figurative artist whose work found expression
in themes of passion, love, music, family, and everyday social interactions=
.

Raji Mohammed Babatunde studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He
works with different media such as oil, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, pen and
graphite. He has participated in both solo and group exhibitions.

Adeola Musliu Balogun, a sculptor of note, teaches at the Yaba College of
Technology. His practice straddles both traditional and non-traditional
visual art media. A significant body of his works across sculpture genre is
located in OYASAF art collection.

Omooba Yemisi Shyllon, Nigeria=E2=80=99s largest private art collector hold=
s
multiple degrees in law, in engineering, and in Business administration.



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3. Highlights of the 4th LSA Conference. Lagos, June 27-29, 2019.

*Author Meets Readers: Engaging Lola Akande=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CThe City in =
the African
Novel: A Thematic Rendering of Urban Spaces=E2=80=9D (Tunmike Pages, 2019).=
*

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The LSA is pleased to organize a panel on Lola Akande=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CTh=
e City in the
African Novel=E2=80=9D at the 4th edition of its annual conference. From th=
e 1950s,
novelists have committed significant creative energy in making sense of
what it means to be an urbanite. In this highly original and truly
fascinating book, Lola Akande takes her readers into the ingenious mind of
African novelists who place the city at the center of their imagination.
The themes engaged in the 15-chapter book vary from gender, class, power,
and self-fashioning to chaos, creativity, modernity, and cosmopolitanism.

Akande renders literary impressions of daily life, place-making, and
identity construction in ways that insert =E2=80=9Cordinary=E2=80=9D people=
 at the core of
their own existence. She successfully proves that the intersections of
factual and fictional representations in African novels must be understood
within the context of major structural transformations that took place
across the African continent from the late 19th century. To make sense of
the representation of African cities in novels is to come to terms with
some of the central themes that define Africa in colonial and postcolonial
contexts.

Akande presents a topnotch scholarly interpretation of the works of some of
Africa=E2=80=99s most respected creative writers (Buchi Emecheta, Sefi Atta=
, Chinua
Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong=E2=80=99o, Ben Okri, Toni Kan, Cyprian Ekwensi, Bin=
well
Sinyangwe, Amma Darko, Naguib Mahfouz, and Maik Nwosu, among others) in a
way that problematizes the unstable character of the city. Her attention to
details, her impeccable prose, and her meticulous interpretations of texts
present an uncommon access to the multiple realities, personalities,
events, and ideas that define urban subjectivity across time and space.
"The City in the African Novel" is a testimony to the availability of a
vast array of new ideas waiting to be explored.



The LSA is grateful to the following friends and colleagues who have agreed
to participate in this panel.



*Panelists*
Abimbola Adunni Adelakun
<https://www.facebook.com/Adunnibabe?fref=3Dgs&__tn__=3D%2CdK-R-R&eid=3DARB=
BSuHVbKbBF8drJfR8BFL7qhhsBbK19Kg2KPFEKnoE5RVz74VIgsBYCS8SgT5Fq2iMJvO1W_vMJp=
gM&dti=3D205111409881162&hc_location=3Dgroup>
(University
of Texas at Austin)
Lola Akande
<https://www.facebook.com/lola.akande.965?fref=3Dgs&__tn__=3D%2CdK-R-R&eid=
=3DARAS-vsJp62077qQD81SVXAkJYNPIMvN3e_IBWFUJhr9ZF2fgMKi4pDaLNji2S4tZMafiyPJ=
g2GQjaVa&dti=3D205111409881162&hc_location=3Dgroup>
(University
of Lagos)=E2=80=94Book author
Oluwole Coker
<https://www.facebook.com/oluwole.coker.96?fref=3Dgs&__tn__=3D%2CdK-R-R&eid=
=3DARDY-srXX5OcIrX0y8cnj5NQwBOCNwF1YuVx3_QLw71YcV_5DiC0dY8KySkFcO3D_FN9-tm6=
0hU1pCS0&dti=3D205111409881162&hc_location=3Dgroup>
(Obafemi
Awolowo University)
Anne Gulick (University of South Carolina)
Omolola Oladele (Lagos State University)
Kolawole Olaiya
<https://www.facebook.com/kolawole.olaiya.31?fref=3Dgs&__tn__=3D%2CdK-R-R&e=
id=3DARCfzrScJ1tiMncP61FrV50MyVcidjo5DX90l3wXugEAoSyBasOyYXgFE6rRzs_FrMsYP2=
shq3olEdH4&dti=3D205111409881162&hc_location=3Dgroup>
(Anderson
University)
Senayon Olaoluwa
<https://www.facebook.com/senayon.olaoluwa?fref=3Dgs&__tn__=3D%2CdK-R-R&eid=
=3DARBXKzwXRcegKhAtqXLklDzcVQYI887SJFjkY8GKcwTnfOe5QieH0S-23xuz-kI-xv7m2GfG=
2qQjk0md&dti=3D205111409881162&hc_location=3Dgroup>
(University
of Ibadan)
Dipo Oyeleye
<https://www.facebook.com/oyeleye.o.abiodun?fref=3Dgs&__tn__=3D%2CdK-R-R&ei=
d=3DARC4LshUNr-xdtx41eYpYlXVkJBy5jHCpwQDeShtYVmuYsIrEqXP1unfqpkIeuQzLzorxtA=
EBJct68MB&dti=3D205111409881162&hc_location=3Dgroup>
(University
of Wisconsin-Madison)

The book is available for purchase on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/City-African-Novel-Thematic-Rendering/dp/9789692749/=
ref=3Dsr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=3Dlola+akande&qid=3D1552613421&s=3Dgateway&s=
r=3D8-1-fkmrnull&fbclid=3DIwAR1lss83Lt__p4jlw8iVgNlmvAvWOt1_4cxthmDIRsAUIOG=
SBdJrk93umI8




-------------------------------------

4. *LSA-sponsored panels at the African Studies Association Conference
(Boston, Nov. 2019)*

We submitted seven panel proposals (six regular panels and one roundtable)
for the African Studies Association Conference (Boston, Nov. 2018). We
won=E2=80=99t know the outcome of our proposals until around May.

1)      Lagos History in Transition (Parts I and II)

2)      Film, Digital Culture, and Musicality (Parts I and II)

3)      Gender, Power, and Expressivity

4)      Literature, Textuality, and Encounter

5)      Roundtable: Conducting Research in Nigeria: Reflections on Archive
and Fieldwork Experience

5). We have updated our Facebook page with professional development
opportunities, articles, and LSA and members=E2=80=99 activities and news:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/205111409881162/





Sincerely,

Saheed Aderinto

--=20


*US Address*

The Lagos Studies Association

C\O Saheed Aderinto
286 Central Drive

History Department

McKee Building

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee NC 28723

Website: https://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/

Email Address: lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com



*Nigeria Address *

The Lagos Studies Association

C\O Dr. Yetunde Zaid

University of Lagos Library

P.M.B 1012

Akoka, Lagos

Nigeria

Email Address: lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com

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,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Dear LSA Community:</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 4.5pt;background-image:initi=
al;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:in=
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,33,41)">Greetings! Please find updates on our activities below:</span></p>

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itial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:107%;fo=
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pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb=
(29,33,41)"><span style=3D"text-decoration-line:none">=C2=A0</span></span><=
/u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 4.5pt;background-imag=
e:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-re=
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ily:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(29,33,41)">1=
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font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Time=
s New Roman&quot;">=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
</span></span><u style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;fon=
t-size:12pt"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">Second Life
Member of the LSA</span></u></p>

<p style=3D"margin:0in 0in 4.5pt;background-image:initial;background-positi=
on:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-ori=
gin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times =
New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">Judith Byfield, =
professor of
history at Cornell University has become the second Life Member of the Lago=
s
Studies Association. A former president of the African Studies Association =
of
the United States, Byfield recently won the Senior Fulbright Fellowship to
conduct research in Nigeria from March to July 2019. She will be participat=
ing
in two special panels: one on textile artist Nike Okundaye and another
celebrating the retirement of Kristin Mann, at the 4th LSA Conference in Ju=
ne.
Her books include =E2=80=9CThe Bluest Hands: A Social and Economic History =
of Women
Dyers in Abeokuta&quot;; &quot;Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Cultu=
re,
and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland&quot;; and
&quot;Africa and World War II.</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">Thank you Byfield!</=
span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-p=
osition:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;backgroun=
d-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;T=
imes New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">Life
Membership of the LSA is open to any interested person for a one-time payme=
nt
of $600. Yearly membership for academics and non-academics is also availabl=
e.</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:0in 0in 4.5pt;background-image:initial;background-positi=
on:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-ori=
gin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times =
New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=A0</span></p=
>

<p style=3D"margin:0in 0in 4.5pt;background-image:initial;background-positi=
on:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-ori=
gin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times =
New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">----------------=
-----------------------------</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:0in 0in 4.5pt;background-image:initial;background-positi=
on:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-ori=
gin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times =
New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">2. Highlights of=
 the 4th LSA
Conference. Lagos, June 27-29, 2019.</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><u><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">Inside Nigeria=E2=
=80=99s Largest
Private Art Collection:<br>
A Conversation with Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon</span></u></p>

<p style=3D"margin:0in 0in 4.5pt;background-image:initial;background-positi=
on:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-ori=
gin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times =
New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">---<br>
Lagos is the home of the largest private art collection in Nigeria. Its own=
er,
Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon, a lawyer and engineer by profession, starte=
d
collecting art in the 1970s. Over several decades, his private collection g=
rew
into over 50,000 photographs of public and private events and people, and 7=
,000
unique art (ranging in sophistication, motif, and style), and spanning from=
 the
9th to the 21st centuries. Shyllon=E2=80=99s fascination with art transcend=
s collecting
and providing a visual access to history and the brilliant minds of some of
Nigeria=E2=80=99s greatest modernist and postmodernist artists such as Aina=
 Onabolu,
Akinola Lasekan, Ben Enwonwu, and Nike Okundaye, among others. Not only did=
 he
sponsor mind-blowing public art installation across major university campus=
es
in southwestern Nigeria, he donated a massive museum of art currently under
construction at the Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos.</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">The LSA is pleased t=
o
organize a special panel on Shyllon=E2=80=99s collection. The panelists, wh=
o are
artists working with his collection, will provide their impressions along m=
any
themes=E2=80=94 ranging from aesthetic preference and techniques, to histor=
y and
self-representation. This panel promises to engage significant discussion a=
bout
art collection, preservation, patrimony and politics of ownership, patronag=
e,
and archiving the past through artifacts and material culture among other
topics. Shyllon will respond to questions from the audience and panelists.<=
/span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">For additional infor=
mation on
Shyllon=E2=80=99s collection, see this link:=C2=A0</span><span class=3D"gma=
il-MsoHyperlink" style=3D"color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span =
style=3D"color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration-line:none"><a href=3D"http://=
oyasaf.com/?fbclid=3DIwAR14xYfX9fSWJWPlvNJqNmmM3sRvIPb0090sP_xnwVs8QyETGDrc=
Bvm9o9w" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"color:rgb(54=
,88,153);text-decoration-line:none">http://oyasaf.com/</span></a></span></s=
pan><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)"></span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><u><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">Panelists</span><=
/u></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Tolu Aliki =
is a contemporary figurative artist whose work found
expression in themes of passion, love, music, family, and everyday social
interactions.</span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times N=
ew Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Raji Mohammed Babatunde studied=
 at the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He works with different media such as oil,
acrylic, charcoal, pastel, pen and graphite. He has participated in both so=
lo
and group exhibitions.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Adeola Musliu Balogun, a sculpt=
or of note,
teaches at the Yaba College of Technology. His practice straddles both
traditional and non-traditional visual art media. A significant body of his
works across sculpture genre is located in OYASAF art collection. </span></=
p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Omooba Yemisi Shyllon, Nigeria=
=E2=80=99s largest
private art collector holds multiple degrees in law, in engineering, and in
Business administration.</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:0in 0in 4.5pt;background-image:initial;background-positi=
on:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-ori=
gin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times =
New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">----------------=
----------------</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:0in 0in 4.5pt;background-image:initial;background-positi=
on:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-ori=
gin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times =
New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">3. Highlights of=
 the 4th LSA
Conference. Lagos, June 27-29, 2019.</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><u><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">Author Meets Read=
ers:
Engaging=C2=A0</span><span class=3D"gmail-MsoHyperlink" style=3D"color:blue=
"><span style=3D"color:windowtext">Lola
Akande</span></span>=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CThe <span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,=
41)">City in the African
Novel: A Thematic Rendering of Urban Spaces=E2=80=9D (Tunmike Pages, 2019).=
</span></u></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">----<br>
<span class=3D"gmail-textexposedshow">The LSA is pleased to organize a pane=
l on Lola
Akande=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CThe City in the African Novel=E2=80=9D at the 4th=
 edition of its annual
conference. From the 1950s, novelists have committed significant creative
energy in making sense of what it means to be an urbanite. In this highly
original and truly fascinating book, Lola Akande takes her readers into the
ingenious mind of African novelists who place the city at the center of the=
ir
imagination. The themes engaged in the 15-chapter book vary from gender, cl=
ass,
power, and self-fashioning to chaos, creativity, modernity, and
cosmopolitanism.</span></span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:0in 0in 4.5pt;background-image:initial;background-positi=
on:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-ori=
gin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times =
New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">Akande renders l=
iterary
impressions of daily life, place-making, and identity construction in ways =
that
insert =E2=80=9Cordinary=E2=80=9D people at the core of their own existence=
. She successfully
proves that the intersections of factual and fictional representations in
African novels must be understood within the context of major structural
transformations that took place across the African continent from the late =
19th
century. To make sense of the representation of African cities in novels is=
 to
come to terms with some of the central themes that define Africa in colonia=
l
and postcolonial contexts.</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">Akande presents a to=
pnotch
scholarly interpretation of the works of some of Africa=E2=80=99s most resp=
ected
creative writers (Buchi Emecheta, Sefi Atta, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong=
=E2=80=99o,
Ben Okri, Toni Kan, Cyprian Ekwensi, Binwell Sinyangwe, Amma Darko, Naguib
Mahfouz, and Maik Nwosu, among others) in a way that problematizes the unst=
able
character of the city. Her attention to details, her impeccable prose, and =
her
meticulous interpretations of texts present an uncommon access to the multi=
ple
realities, personalities, events, and ideas that define urban subjectivity
across time and space. &quot;The City in the African Novel&quot; is a testi=
mony
to the availability of a vast array of new ideas waiting to be explored.</s=
pan></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">The LSA is grateful =
to the
following friends and colleagues who have agreed to participate in this pan=
el.</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><u><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">Panelists</span><=
/u><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)"><br>
</span>Abimbola=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.facebook.com/Adunnibabe?fref=3D=
gs&amp;__tn__=3D%2CdK-R-R&amp;eid=3DARBBSuHVbKbBF8drJfR8BFL7qhhsBbK19Kg2KPF=
EKnoE5RVz74VIgsBYCS8SgT5Fq2iMJvO1W_vMJpgM&amp;dti=3D205111409881162&amp;hc_=
location=3Dgroup" style=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text=
-decoration-line:none">Adunni
Adelakun</span></a>=C2=A0(University of Texas at Austin)=C2=A0<br>
<span class=3D"gmail-MsoHyperlink" style=3D"color:blue;text-decoration-line=
:underline"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"><a h=
ref=3D"https://www.facebook.com/lola.akande.965?fref=3Dgs&amp;__tn__=3D%2Cd=
K-R-R&amp;eid=3DARAS-vsJp62077qQD81SVXAkJYNPIMvN3e_IBWFUJhr9ZF2fgMKi4pDaLNj=
i2S4tZMafiyPJg2GQjaVa&amp;dti=3D205111409881162&amp;hc_location=3Dgroup" st=
yle=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:non=
e">Lola Akande</span></a></span></span>=C2=A0(University
of Lagos)=E2=80=94Book author<br>
<span class=3D"gmail-MsoHyperlink" style=3D"color:blue;text-decoration-line=
:underline"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"><a h=
ref=3D"https://www.facebook.com/oluwole.coker.96?fref=3Dgs&amp;__tn__=3D%2C=
dK-R-R&amp;eid=3DARDY-srXX5OcIrX0y8cnj5NQwBOCNwF1YuVx3_QLw71YcV_5DiC0dY8KyS=
kFcO3D_FN9-tm60hU1pCS0&amp;dti=3D205111409881162&amp;hc_location=3Dgroup" s=
tyle=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:no=
ne">Oluwole Coker</span></a></span></span>=C2=A0(Obafemi
Awolowo University)<br>
Anne Gulick (University of South Carolina)<br>
Omolola Oladele (Lagos State University)<br>
<span class=3D"gmail-MsoHyperlink" style=3D"color:blue;text-decoration-line=
:underline"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"><a h=
ref=3D"https://www.facebook.com/kolawole.olaiya.31?fref=3Dgs&amp;__tn__=3D%=
2CdK-R-R&amp;eid=3DARCfzrScJ1tiMncP61FrV50MyVcidjo5DX90l3wXugEAoSyBasOyYXgF=
E6rRzs_FrMsYP2shq3olEdH4&amp;dti=3D205111409881162&amp;hc_location=3Dgroup"=
 style=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:=
none">Kolawole
Olaiya</span></a></span></span>=C2=A0(Anderson University)<br>
<span class=3D"gmail-MsoHyperlink" style=3D"color:blue;text-decoration-line=
:underline"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"><a h=
ref=3D"https://www.facebook.com/senayon.olaoluwa?fref=3Dgs&amp;__tn__=3D%2C=
dK-R-R&amp;eid=3DARBXKzwXRcegKhAtqXLklDzcVQYI887SJFjkY8GKcwTnfOe5QieH0S-23x=
uz-kI-xv7m2GfG2qQjk0md&amp;dti=3D205111409881162&amp;hc_location=3Dgroup" s=
tyle=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:no=
ne">Senayon
Olaoluwa</span></a></span></span>=C2=A0(University of Ibadan)<br>
<span class=3D"gmail-MsoHyperlink" style=3D"color:blue;text-decoration-line=
:underline"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none"><a h=
ref=3D"https://www.facebook.com/oyeleye.o.abiodun?fref=3Dgs&amp;__tn__=3D%2=
CdK-R-R&amp;eid=3DARC4LshUNr-xdtx41eYpYlXVkJBy5jHCpwQDeShtYVmuYsIrEqXP1unfq=
pkIeuQzLzorxtAEBJct68MB&amp;dti=3D205111409881162&amp;hc_location=3Dgroup" =
style=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:n=
one">Dipo Oyeleye</span></a></span></span>=C2=A0(University
of Wisconsin-Madison)</p>

<p style=3D"margin:4.5pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">The book is availabl=
e for
purchase on amazon.=C2=A0</span><span class=3D"gmail-MsoHyperlink" style=3D=
"color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href=3D"https://www.amazon.c=
om/City-African-Novel-Thematic-Rendering/dp/9789692749/ref=3Dsr_1_fkmrnull_=
1?keywords=3Dlola+akande&amp;qid=3D1552613421&amp;s=3Dgateway&amp;sr=3D8-1-=
fkmrnull&amp;fbclid=3DIwAR1lss83Lt__p4jlw8iVgNlmvAvWOt1_4cxthmDIRsAUIOGSBdJ=
rk93umI8" style=3D"color:blue">https://www.amazon.com/City-African-Novel-Th=
ematic-Rendering/dp/9789692749/ref=3Dsr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=3Dlola+akande=
&amp;qid=3D1552613421&amp;s=3Dgateway&amp;sr=3D8-1-fkmrnull&amp;fbclid=3DIw=
AR1lss83Lt__p4jlw8iVgNlmvAvWOt1_4cxthmDIRsAUIOGSBdJrk93umI8</a></span><span=
 style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=A0 </span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">-------------------------------=
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<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">4. <u>LSA-sponsored panels at t=
he African
Studies Association Conference (Boston, Nov. 2019)</u></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">We submitted seven panel propos=
als (six
regular panels and one roundtable) for the African Studies Association
Conference (Boston, Nov. 2018). We won=E2=80=99t know the outcome of our pr=
oposals
until around May. </span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style=3D"line-height:normal;ma=
rgin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">=
<span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif=
">1)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:norm=
al;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;T=
imes New Roman&quot;">=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
</span></span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Rom=
an&quot;,serif">Lagos
History in Transition (Parts I and II)</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"line-height:normal;m=
argin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"=
><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,seri=
f">2)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:nor=
mal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;=
Times New Roman&quot;">=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
</span></span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Rom=
an&quot;,serif">Film,
Digital Culture, and Musicality (Parts I and II)</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"line-height:normal;m=
argin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"=
><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,seri=
f">3)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:nor=
mal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;=
Times New Roman&quot;">=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
</span></span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Rom=
an&quot;,serif">Gender,
Power, and Expressivity</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"line-height:normal;m=
argin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"=
><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,seri=
f">4)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:nor=
mal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;=
Times New Roman&quot;">=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
</span></span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Rom=
an&quot;,serif">Literature,
Textuality, and Encounter </span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style=3D"line-height:normal;mar=
gin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">5)<s=
pan style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;fon=
t-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times N=
ew Roman&quot;">=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
</span></span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Rom=
an&quot;,serif">Roundtable:
Conducting Research in Nigeria: Reflections on Archive and Fieldwork Experi=
ence</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-m1692407500084634718gmail-m-8913633009943745943gmail-xmso=
normal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;backgroun=
d-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;backgr=
ound-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quo=
t;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">5). <span style=3D"color:rgb(33,33,33)">We h=
ave updated our Facebook page with professional
development opportunities, articles, and LSA and members=E2=80=99 activitie=
s and
news:=C2=A0</span><span class=3D"gmail-MsoHyperlink" style=3D"color:blue;te=
xt-decoration-line:underline"><span style=3D"color:rgb(5,99,193)"><a href=
=3D"https://www.facebook.com/groups/205111409881162/" target=3D"_blank" sty=
le=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.facebook.=
com/groups/205111409881162/</span></a></span></span></p>

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size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Sincerely,</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Saheed Aderinto</span></p><div>=
<br></div>-- <br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signature" data-smartmail=
=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=
=3D"ltr"><p><br></p><p><span><span style=3D"text-decoration:underline"><b>U=
S Address</b></span></span></p><p></p><p>The Lagos Studies Association</p><=
p>C\O Saheed Aderinto<br></p>286 Central Drive<p>History Department</p><p>M=
cKee Building</p><p>Western Carolina University</p><p>Cullowhee NC 28723</p=
><p>Website: <a href=3D"https://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/" target=3D"_blank">ht=
tps://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/</a> <br></p><p>Email Address: <span><a href=3D"=
mailto:lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">lagosstudiesass=
ociation@gmail.com</a></span></p><p><br></p><p><b><span style=3D"text-decor=
ation:underline">Nigeria Address<br> </span></b></p><p>The Lagos Studies As=
sociation</p><p>C\O Dr. Yetunde Zaid<br></p><p>University of Lagos Library<=
/p><p>P.M.B 1012</p><p>Akoka, Lagos</p><p>Nigeria</p><p>Email Address: <spa=
n><a href=3D"mailto:lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">la=
gosstudiesassociation@gmail.com</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div=
></div></div>

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