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Dear LSA Community:

Greetings! Please find updates on our activities below:



1)      *The British Academy Support for the LSA*

For the third consecutive year, the LSA has won a British Academy grant for
the pre-conference seminar and workshop of its annual conference. We could
not have achieved this without member Carli Coetzee (Journal of African
Cultural Studies) who wrote the grant proposal for us.

The grant would allow us to give five nights of hotel accommodation to at
least 50 graduate students and junior scholars and provide full meals
(breakfast, lunch, and dinner) to 200 participants during the free two-day
pre-conference event (June 23-24). This is a partial list of the great
things the award would help us achieve.

The LSA is grateful to the British Academy for this grant, which remains
our biggest institutional cash support.



2)      *LSA Lifetime Membership*

Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, professor of African politics, gender, migration,
and diaspora at Brooklyn College (The City University of New York) has
become the third life member of the LSA. Editor of *=C3=8Cr=C3=ACnk=C3=A8ri=
nd=C3=B2: A Journal
of African Migration*, Okome, who has also published over 10 books, has
supported the LSA since its inception. Not only did she chair a panel at
the inaugural LSA Conference at Barnard College (New York City) in 2016,
she actively participated in the post-conference deliberations that led to
the establishment of the association. She is a mentor in the LSA mentoring
program for women graduate students in Nigeria and served as discussant in
the LSA-sponsored panel at the African Studies Association Meeting (Boston,
2019). Okome also facilitated two successful panels in honor of
distinguished artist Nike Okundaye at LSA 2019. We are grateful for her
intellectual and material generosity.



Lifetime membership carries a one-time payment of $600.  Instruction for
membership payment is available here:
https://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/?page_id=3D215



*LSA Life members*

Judith Byfield (Cornell University)

Kristin Mann (Emory University)

Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York=
)





3)      *LSA Panels at the African Studies Association Meeting (Washington
DC, Nov. 19-21, 2020)*

For the fourth consecutive year, the LSA will organize panels at the
African Studies Association of the United States meeting (Washington DC,
November 19-21, 2020). If you would like to participate in our panels, send
a 250-word abstract to: lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com by March 10,
2020. For information about the conference see:
https://africanstudies.org/2020-asa-cfp/
<https://africanstudies.org/2020-asa-cfp/?fbclid=3DIwAR3hMOoPVsCmnir5HZ8jD9=
YrPrc8xbII3hQLD-L7PN-xYO9zCfOWx8KaZ90>





4)      *Monthly Membership Update *

Twenty members paid their annual membership due in February. Thank you!
Deadline for payment of membership due is June 25. Full list of dues-paying
members and payment instruction available here:
https://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/?page_id=3D215



1)      Samuel Ayoola Adejube (University of Ibadan)

2)      Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (Queen's University)

3)      Janet Tioluwaleyi Adesina (University of Lagos)

4)      Samuel Kehinde Adesubokan (University of Victoria)

5)      Shina Alimi (Obafemi Awolowo University

6)      Mauton Avoseh (Lagos State University_

7)      Mathew Brown (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

8)      Damilola Fagite (Obafemi Awolowo University)

9)      Kayode Fagite (Obafemi Awolowo University)

10)  Vic Martin Igwe (University of Uyo)

11)  Chikwurah Isiguzo (Abia State University)

12) Tim Livsey (Northumbria University)

13)E. N. Mordi (Delta State University)

14) Ayomide Ogunbanwo (University of Ibadan)

15) Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome (Life Membership) Brooklyn College (The City
University

      of New York)

16) Patrick Oloko (University of Lagos)

17) Babatunde Oluajo (Centre for Transparency Advocacy)

18) Olusegun Soetan (Pennsylvania State University)

19) Halimat Somotan (Columbia University)

20) Marion Tricoire (Grinnell College)



5)      *Highlights of the 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos. June 25-27,
2020*

*Public Intellectual Extraordinaire: Celebrating Sophie Abosede Oluwole
(1935-2018) [Part 1]*



Panel Chair and Organizer: Oyeronke Oyewumi (Stony Brook University)

*----*

*Revisiting Women and Gender Issues in Africa: The Travails of Sophie
Oluwole Philosophical Experience *by Ebunoluwa Olufemi Oduwole (Olabisi
Onabanjo University)



*Yoruba Women in African Philosophy: Understanding Oluwole=E2=80=99s Socrat=
es and
Orunmila *by Kemi Hamdat Olugbodi (Bayero University) and Linda Jummai
Mustafa (Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University)



*Sophie Oluwole=E2=80=99s African Worldview as Conceptual Base in Nigerian =
Visual
Arts *by Odun Orimolade (Yaba College of Technology)



*The Logic and Metaphor of Madonna and the Whore: Reflections on Sophie
Oluwole=E2=80=99s Conception of Womanhood in Traditional Yoruba Thought* by=
 Ademola
Fayemi (University of Lagos)



6)      *Highlights of the 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos, June 25-27,
2020. *

Author Meets Readers: Engaging Simidele Dosekun=E2=80=99s *Fashioning Postf=
eminism:
Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture *(University of Illinois
Press, 2020)

---

The LSA is glad to organize a panel on Dosekun=E2=80=99s *Fashioning Postfe=
minism*.
This book is about Lagos women who dress spectacularly, flamboyantly, and
extravagantly, wearing a combination of weaves and wigs, false nails, false
eyelashes, highest of heels, and immaculate makeup. She argues that
=E2=80=9CVisually, materially, and sym=C2=ADbolically, the style of dress i=
n question is
spectacular.=E2=80=9D The author conceptualizes the women=E2=80=99s look or=
 what she terms
=E2=80=9Cspectacularly feminine style=E2=80=9D as performative, positing fu=
rther that
class-privileged young Nigerian women who appear spectacularly feminine are
=E2=80=9Cfashion=C2=ADing postfeminist selves.=E2=80=9D The five-chapter bo=
ok explores the life
of eighteen Lagos women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, to
answer the following overlapping questions: Why do the women appear and
dress as they do? How do they manage to afford their fashion? How do they
respond to contestations over the =E2=80=9Csuitability=E2=80=9D of their st=
yle? What are
the misconceptions and social risks that they encounter and dread in their
daily lives?

*Fashioning Postfeminism *brilliantly weaves multiple themes
together=E2=80=94postfeminism, transnationalism, media and culture,
postcolonialism, fashion, and performative act=E2=80=94to produce a book th=
at would
compel scholars to rethink stale narratives about gender and feminism. By
tackling postfeminism from different intellectual standpoints, locations,
and epistemologies, this theoretically and conceptually sophisticated work
would easily find a respectable place in the galaxy of first-rate
scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities.



*Panel Chair*: Vicki Brennan (University of Vermont)



*Discussants*

Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (Queen=E2=80=99s University)

Abosede George (Barnard College-Columbia University)

Chinwe Ezinna Oriji (Wesleyan University)

Oyeronke Oyewumi (Stony Brook University)

Rosemary Popoola (Covenant University)



*Respondent/Author*

Simidele Dosekun (London School of Economics and Political Science)



For additional information on the book, see
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/68xcb7dm9780252043215.html



7)      *Highlights of the 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos. June 25-27,
2020*

*Exhibition: =E2=80=9CPostcolonial Infrastructure: Built Environments & The=
 African
City."*

by Ng=E2=80=99ang=E2=80=99a Muchiri (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

---

This exhibition interrogates spatial arrangements in contemporary African
cities. The state has continuously exercised a monopoly on urban planning
and development since the end of colonial projects in Ghana, Kenya,
Tanzania, and Zambia. Despite this, urban communities in both capital and
secondary cities negotiate unique visions of their lived spaces. Such
practices manifest singular ways of navigating the urban experience that
are often at odds with, or simply tangential to, top-down infrastructural
policy. Looking at residential, commercial, and cultural spaces in Accra,
Kumasi, Lusaka, and El Mina, this exhibition explores how urbanity has
evolved since the 1960s across diverse African nation-states. Using 15 to
20 large scale prints, this collection extends the work done by such
mid-twentieth century artists as Malik Sidibe and Seydou Keita in
chronicling urban lives. This exhibition would be positioned at a high
traffic area during the 2020 Lagos Studies Association conference. Not only
would this kind of energy mimic the vibrant nature of the spaces
represented, it would also spark and encourage further critical
conversations about postcolonial African cities. The exhibition will
include an online gallery that will serve as a complementary text,
mimicking the turn to digital devices and personal computing currently
ubiquitous in urban areas across the African continent.





8)      *Highlights of the 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos. June 25-27,
2020*



*Author Meets Readers: Engaging The Metal Sculpture of Dotun Popoola (2020)=
*



This panel launches and presents a new book on the metal art of Dotun
Poopola. Titled, *The Metal Sculpture of Dotun Popoola*, the book features
an introduction by the editor, Moyo Okediji. The four art historians who
have contributed the chapters to the book present their essays, while the
subject of the book, Dotun Popoola, provides an autobiographical sketch.

The four essays in this book grapple with the dynamics of Popoola=E2=80=99s=
 art and
life as each writer maps an aspect of Popoola=E2=80=99s imaginative journey=
, all
the back to his infancy. All the four essays provide insightful readings of
Popoola=E2=80=99s metal sculpture, both from the structural and cultural
perspectives. What all the writers agree upon is the slippery disposition
of his work. They all describe the welded metals as sculptures, while
acknowledging the painterly sensitivity of the surface treatments. They
also fully recognize the enigmatic aspects of the Popoola=E2=80=99s work, w=
hich
words fully fail to capture. What they all recognize in that elusive
character of his work is that it speaks to the present era, using familiar
cultural allusions and sophistical technical proficiency. Yet to be fully
appreciated is the ways in which Popoola addresses posterity even more
eloquently than his messages to the present age. Popoola=E2=80=99s surrepti=
tious
focus on possibilities and potentiality, rather than the crafty exterior
probabilities, is an enchanting extension that enables him to dialogue with
the unknown, the arcane, and inscrutable forces of deathlessness, known as
the *a=CC=80i=CC=80ku=CC=81* in his indigenous culture.



*Panel Chair and Organizer: *Moyo Okediji (University of Texas at Austin)



1. *Dotun Popoola=E2=80=99s Ecological Futurism *by Moyo Okediji (Universit=
y of
Texas at Austin)
2. *Asaro: Dotun Popoola=E2=80=99s Evocative Hybrid Sculptures* by Michael =
Olusegun
Fajuyigbe (Obafemi Awolowo University)

3. *Metal, Metaphor, and Materiality in the Synergetic Sculptures of Dotun
Popoola *by Kunle Filani (Federal College of Education, Lagos)

4. *Metal-Morphorsis: Dotun Popoola=E2=80=99s Zoomorphic Metaphors* by Kehi=
nde
Adepegba (Lagos State Polytechnic)

5. *Dotun Popoola: Style and Distinction in Welded Metal Art *by Tolulope
Sobowale (Olabisi Onabanjo University)



*Author/Respondent*

Dotun Popoola (Metal Artist)
To learn more about Dotun Popoola=E2=80=99s work, see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbpC2xV-TNfI



9)      *Highlights of the 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos. June 25-27,
2020*

*Continuity and Disruption: Death, Mourning, and Memorialization in
Postcolonial African Cities (Part I) *



*Panel Chair and Organizer*: Shina Alimi (Obafemi Awolowo University)

---

*Between Conformity and Syncretism: Muslim Cemetery in Lagos* by Mukaila
Akolade Akanbi (Lagos State University)



*Akodi Ile-Ife Graves* by Nurudeen Olatoye Arogundade (Obafemi Awolowo
University)



*=C3=8Cw=C3=B2r=C3=B9, =C3=8Cs=C3=B2g=C3=A0n, and Ob=C3=ACrin Il=C3=A9: Exp=
loring Ancestry, Death, and Secret
Societies in Ile-Ife Burial Rites* by Ayowole S. Elugbaju (University of
Ilorin)



*Disrupting the Commemoration of the Past in S=C3=A3o Tom=C3=A9 and Pr=C3=
=ADncipe* by Jo=C3=A3o
Sarmento (University of Minho)



10)  *Highlights of the 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos. June 25-27, 2020*

*Nigerian Cities Soundscape: Identity Formation, Social Protest, and
Popular Music in Lagos and Ibadan*



*Panel Chair and Organizer*: Olusegun Stephen Titus (Obafemi Awolowo
University)

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*Musical Performance in Ajegunle, Lagos* by Babarinde Babatunde (Obafemi
Awolowo University)



*Protesting Pollution in Lagos: The Role of Music* by Abimbola Aduloju
(Obafemi Awolowo University)



*The Musical and Environmental Effects of the African Shrine on Lagos *by
Lilien Chidera Ezeugwu (Obafemi Awolowo University)



*Music, Environmental Degradation, and Social Protest in Lagos and Ibadan*
by Leke Olayinka (Obafemi Awolowo University)



*Popular Music, Socio-economic Inequality, and the Lagos Soundscape* by
Olusegun Stephen Titus (Obafemi Awolowo University)



11)  *Call for Panelists*

*Public Education and the Fourth Sustainable Development Goal in Africa*

The 5th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference

Theme: Postcolonial African Cities at 60: Continuities and Discontinuities

June 25-27, 2020

Lagos, Nigeria



Panel Co-organizers: Ismail Adesina Raji, Kehinde Adeola Adekola
(University of Ibadan) and Tolulope Adelabu (University of Lagos)

----

The Fourth Sustainable Development Goal aims to ensure inclusive and
equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for
all. Nearly all the countries in the world have promised to improve the
planet and lives of their citizens by 2030. However, progress has been
tough in some developing countries, especially in Africa, due to high
levels of poverty, armed conflict and other emergencies. This situation may
likely get worse as such countries confront with a rising demand for
education due to a still growing school age population.

This panel invites contributions on the dynamics of education and the
Fourth Sustainable Development Goal focusing on the following themes, among
others:

- Why Equity in Education remains a serious challenge in some African
countries

- Monitoring of the comprehensive attainment of sustainable development
Goal 4 in Africa which is limited by data availability

- Supply of trained teachers and increasing demand for education

- Access to technical and vocational education, and training among
out-of-school children

- Realisation of equitable and quality primary and secondary education
leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes by 2030 for all girls
and boys.

- The elimination of gender disparities in education and the zeal to ensure
equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the
vulnerable ,indigenous people and children in vulnerable situations.

To participate in this panel, send a 250-word abstract to Ismail Adesina
Raji (rajismail2018@gmail.com), Kehinde Adeola Adekola (kubbie22ng@yahoo.co=
m),
and
Tolulope Adelabu (adelabutolulope9@gmail.com) by March 15. For information
about the conference, visit http://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/
<http://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/?fbclid=3DIwAR1oRWZuRVWU6wPpb--e9YMk81VTAzcMoC=
3mNelTAMdoSucHw6HwXjarJLU>



12)  *Facebook Update*

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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LSA Community:</span></p>

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to the establishment of the association. She is a mentor in the LSA mentori=
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the
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es New Roman&quot;,serif"><u><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,33,41)">LSA Life m=
embers</span></u></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Judith Byfield (Cornell Un=
iversity)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Kristin Mann (Emory Univer=
sity)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome (=
Brooklyn
College, The City University of New York)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">3)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-e=
ast-asian:normal;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><u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">LSA
Panels at the African Studies Association Meeting (Washington DC, Nov. 19-2=
1,
2020)</span></u></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">For=
 the fourth
consecutive year, the LSA will organize panels at the African Studies
Association of the United States meeting (Washington DC, November 19-21, 20=
20).
If you would like to participate in our panels, send a 250-word abstract to=
:
<a href=3D"mailto:lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com">lagosstudiesassociatio=
n@gmail.com</a> by March 10, 2020. For information about the
conference see: </span><span style=3D"color:black"><a href=3D"https://afric=
anstudies.org/2020-asa-cfp/?fbclid=3DIwAR3hMOoPVsCmnir5HZ8jD9YrPrc8xbII3hQL=
D-L7PN-xYO9zCfOWx8KaZ90" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:blue"><span style=
=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(=
56,88,152)">https://africanstudies.org/2020-asa-cfp/</span></a></span><span=
 style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;colo=
r:rgb(29,33,41)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001=
pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:in=
itial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:i=
nitial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-seri=
f"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,se=
rif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">4)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-=
variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:nor=
mal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
</span></span><u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Monthly
Membership Update </span></u></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Twenty members paid their annual membership
due in February. Thank you! Deadline for payment of membership due is June =
25. Full
list of dues-paying members and payment instruction available here: </span>=
<span style=3D"color:black"><a href=3D"https://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/?page_i=
d=3D215" style=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&qu=
ot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">https://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/?page_id=3D215=
</span></a></span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New=
 Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"=
><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,seri=
f">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">1)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font=
-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:no=
rmal;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;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Samuel Ayoola Adejube
(University of Ibadan)</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">2)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font=
-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:no=
rmal;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;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Grace
Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (Queen&#39;s University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">3)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font=
-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:no=
rmal;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;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Janet Tioluwaleyi
Adesina (University of Lagos)</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">4)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font=
-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:no=
rmal;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;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Samuel Kehinde Adesubokan
(University of Victoria)</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">5)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font=
-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:no=
rmal;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;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Shina Alimi (Obafemi
Awolowo University</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">6)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font=
-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:no=
rmal;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;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Mauton Avoseh (Lagos
State University_</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">7)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font=
-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:no=
rmal;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;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Mathew Brown
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">8)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font=
-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:no=
rmal;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;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Damilola Fagite
(Obafemi Awolowo University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">9)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font=
-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:no=
rmal;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;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Kayode Fagite (Obafemi
Awolowo University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.000=
1pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:i=
nitial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:=
initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-ser=
if"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,s=
erif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">10)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;fon=
t-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:n=
ormal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">=C2=A0
</span></span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Rom=
an&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Vic Martin Igwe
(University of Uyo)</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001p=
t 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:ini=
tial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:in=
itial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif=
"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,ser=
if;color:rgb(29,33,41)">11)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-=
variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:nor=
mal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">=C2=A0
</span></span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Rom=
an&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Chikwurah Isiguzo
(Abia State University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.25in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">12) Tim Livsey (Northumbria University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.25in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">13)E. N. Mordi (Delta State University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.25in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">14) Ayomide Ogunbanwo (University of Ibadan)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.25in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">15) Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome (Life Membership) Brooklyn Col=
lege
(The City University </span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.25in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 of New York)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.25in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">16) Patrick Oloko (University of Lagos)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.25in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">17) Babatunde Oluajo (Centre for Transparency Advocacy)</sp=
an></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.25in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">18) Olusegun Soetan (Pennsylvania State University)</span><=
/p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.25in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">19) Halimat Somotan (Columbia University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.25in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">20) Marion Tricoire (Grinnell College)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;line-=
height:107%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p=
>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">5)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-e=
ast-asian:normal;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><u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Highlights
of the 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos. June 25-27, 2020</span></u><span s=
tyle=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:=
rgb(29,33,41)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style=3D"font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=
Public Intellectual
Extraordinaire: Celebrating Sophie Abosede Oluwole (1935-2018) [Part 1]</sp=
an></b><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot=
;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Pan=
el Chair and
Organizer: Oyeronke Oyewumi (Stony Brook University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);back=
ground-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;ba=
ckground-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=
----</span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Ro=
man&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;background-pos=
ition:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-=
origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);back=
ground-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;ba=
ckground-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=
Revisiting
Women and Gender Issues in Africa: The Travails of Sophie Oluwole Philosoph=
ical
Experience </span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times=
 New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;backgro=
und-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;back=
ground-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">by
Ebunoluwa Olufemi Oduwole (Olabisi Onabanjo University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);back=
ground-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;ba=
ckground-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=
Yoruba
Women in African Philosophy: Understanding Oluwole=E2=80=99s Socrates and O=
runmila </span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times Ne=
w Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;background=
-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;backgro=
und-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">by<b> </b>Kemi Hamdat
Olugbodi (Bayero University) and Linda Jummai Mustafa (Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);back=
ground-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;ba=
ckground-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=
Sophie
Oluwole=E2=80=99s African Worldview as Conceptual Base in Nigerian Visual A=
rts </span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Ro=
man&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;background-pos=
ition:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-=
origin:initial;background-clip:initial">by Odun Orimolade (Yaba
College of Technology)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);back=
ground-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;ba=
ckground-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=
The
Logic and Metaphor of Madonna and the Whore: Reflections on Sophie Oluwole=
=E2=80=99s
Conception of Womanhood in Traditional Yoruba Thought</span></i><span style=
=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(=
29,33,41);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-s=
ize:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-=
clip:initial"> by<b> </b>Ademola Fayemi
(University of Lagos)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 12pt 0.5in;line=
-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=
=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">6)<span s=
tyle=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-str=
etch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Ro=
man&quot;">=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
</span></span><u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:=
initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin=
:initial;background-clip:initial">Highlights
of the 5<sup>th</sup> Annual LSA Conference. Lagos, June 25-27, 2020. </spa=
n></u><u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&qu=
ot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-s=
ize:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-=
clip:initial"></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:black;background-image:ini=
tial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:=
initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Author Meets Rea=
ders: Engaging </span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times=
 New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;backgro=
und-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;back=
ground-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Simidele
Dosekun=E2=80=99s <i>Fashioning Postfeminism:
Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture </i>(University of Illinoi=
s
Press, 2020)</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;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-i=
mage:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background=
-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">---</spa=
n><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,ser=
if;color:black"></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;color:black">The LSA is glad to =
organize a
panel on </span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New R=
oman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;background-po=
sition:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background=
-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dosekun=E2=80=99s <i>Fashioning
Postfeminism</i></span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Time=
s New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">. This book is about Lagos women who d=
ress spectacularly,
flamboyantly, and extravagantly, wearing a combination of weaves and wigs,
false nails, false eyelashes, highest of heels, and immaculate makeup. She
argues that =E2=80=9CVisually, materially, and sym=C2=ADbolically, the styl=
e of dress in
question is spectacular.=E2=80=9D The author conceptualizes the women=E2=80=
=99s look or what
she terms =E2=80=9Cspectacularly feminine
style=E2=80=9D<i> </i>as performative, positing further that class-privileg=
ed
young Nigerian women who appear spectacularly feminine are =E2=80=9Cfashion=
=C2=ADing
postfeminist selves.=E2=80=9D The five-chapter book explores the life of ei=
ghteen Lagos
women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, to answer the following
overlapping questions: Why do the women appear and dress as they do? How do
they manage to afford their fashion? How do they respond to contestations o=
ver
the =E2=80=9Csuitability=E2=80=9D of their style? What are the misconceptio=
ns and social risks
that they encounter and dread in their daily lives?</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-=
size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;=
font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">Fashioning Postf=
eminism </span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times Ne=
w Roman&quot;,serif;color:black">brilliantly
weaves multiple themes together=E2=80=94postfeminism, transnationalism, med=
ia and
culture, postcolonialism, fashion, and performative act=E2=80=94to produce =
a book that
would compel scholars to rethink stale narratives about gender and feminism=
. By
tackling postfeminism from different intellectual standpoints, locations, a=
nd
epistemologies, this theoretically and conceptually sophisticated work woul=
d
easily find a respectable place in the galaxy of first-rate scholarship in =
the
social sciences and the humanities.</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;color:black">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span style=3D"font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Panel Chair</span></=
u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,ser=
if">: Vicki Brennan (University of Vermont)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span style=3D"font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Discussants</span></=
u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,ser=
if"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyanki=
n
(Queen=E2=80=99s University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Abosede George
(Barnard College-Columbia University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Chinwe Ezinna Oriji
(Wesleyan University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Oyeronke Oyewumi
(Stony Brook University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Rosemary Popoola
(Covenant University)=C2=A0=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span style=3D"font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Respondent/Author</s=
pan></u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quo=
t;,serif"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Simidele=C2=A0Dosekun=
=C2=A0(London
School of Economics and Political Science)</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;color:black">=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">For additional information on t=
he book,
see </span><a href=3D"https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/68xcb7d=
m9780252043215.html" style=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;fon=
t-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">https://www.press.uillinois.edu=
/books/catalog/68xcb7dm9780252043215.html</span></a><span style=3D"font-siz=
e:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black"></span></=
p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">7)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-e=
ast-asian:normal;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><u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Highlights
of the 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos. June 25-27, 2020</span></u><span s=
tyle=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:=
rgb(29,33,41)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style=3D"font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=
Exhibition:
=E2=80=9CPostcolonial Infrastructure: Built Environments &amp; The African =
City.&quot;</span></b><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times=
 New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">by =
Ng=E2=80=99ang=E2=80=99a Muchiri
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">---=
</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Thi=
s exhibition
interrogates spatial arrangements in contemporary African cities. The state=
 has
continuously exercised a monopoly on urban planning and development since t=
he
end of colonial projects in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. Despite thi=
s,
urban communities in both capital and secondary cities negotiate unique vis=
ions
of their lived spaces. Such practices manifest singular ways of navigating =
the
urban experience that are often at odds with, or simply tangential to, top-=
down
infrastructural policy. Looking at residential, commercial, and cultural sp=
aces
in Accra, Kumasi, Lusaka, and El Mina, this exhibition explores how urbanit=
y
has evolved since the 1960s across diverse African nation-states. Using 15 =
to
20 large scale prints, this collection extends the work done by such
mid-twentieth century artists as Malik Sidibe and Seydou Keita in chronicli=
ng
urban lives. This exhibition would be positioned at a high traffic area dur=
ing
the 2020 Lagos Studies Association conference. Not only would this kind of
energy mimic the vibrant nature of the spaces represented, it would also sp=
ark
and encourage further critical conversations about postcolonial African cit=
ies.
The exhibition will include an online gallery that will serve as a
complementary text, mimicking the turn to digital devices and personal
computing currently ubiquitous in urban areas across the African continent.=
</span></p>

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al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Ca=
libri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New=
 Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">8)<span style=3D"font-variant-numer=
ic:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;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><u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:=
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:init=
ial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:i=
nitial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Highlights of the=
 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos. June
25-27, 2020</span></u></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
b><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,ser=
if;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Author Meets Readers:
Engaging <i>The Metal Sculpture of Dotun Popoola </i>(2020)</span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">This panel launches and presents a new book on the met=
al art of
Dotun Poopola. Titled,<span style=3D"border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in=
">=C2=A0</span><i>The Metal Sculpture of Dotun
Popoola</i>, the book features an introduction by the editor, Moyo Okediji.=
 The
four art historians who have contributed the chapters to the book present t=
heir
essays, while the subject of the book, Dotun Popoola, provides an
autobiographical sketch.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">The four essays in this book grapple with the dynamics=
 of
Popoola=E2=80=99s art and life as each writer maps an aspect of Popoola=E2=
=80=99s imaginative
journey, all the back to his infancy. All the four essays provide insightfu=
l
readings of Popoola=E2=80=99s metal sculpture, both from the structural and=
 cultural
perspectives. What all the writers agree upon is the slippery disposition o=
f
his work. They all describe the welded metals as sculptures, while
acknowledging the painterly sensitivity of the surface treatments. They als=
o
fully recognize the enigmatic aspects of the Popoola=E2=80=99s work, which =
words fully
fail to capture. What they all recognize in that elusive character of his w=
ork
is that it speaks to the present era, using familiar cultural allusions and
sophistical technical proficiency. Yet to be fully appreciated is the ways =
in
which Popoola addresses posterity even more eloquently than his messages to=
 the
present age. Popoola=E2=80=99s surreptitious focus on possibilities and pot=
entiality,
rather than the crafty exterior probabilities, is an enchanting extension t=
hat
enables him to dialogue with the unknown, the arcane, and inscrutable force=
s of
deathlessness, known as the<span style=3D"border:1pt none windowtext;paddin=
g:0in">=C2=A0</span><i>a=CC=80i=CC=80ku=CC=81</i><span style=3D"border:1pt =
none windowtext;padding:0in">=C2=A0</span>in his indigenous culture.<span s=
tyle=3D"border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">=C2=A0</span></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">=C2=A0</span></=
p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,ser=
if;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Panel Chair and Organizer: </span></u><span style=
=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(=
32,31,30)">Moyo Okediji (University of Texas at Austin)<u></u></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">1. <i>Dotun Popoola=E2=80=99s
Ecological Futurism </i>by Moyo Okediji (University of Texas at Austin)<br>
2. <i>Asaro: Dotun Popoola=E2=80=99s Evocative
Hybrid Sculptures</i> by Michael Olusegun Fajuyigbe (Obafemi Awolowo
University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">3. <i>Metal, Metaphor, and
Materiality in the Synergetic Sculptures of Dotun Popoola </i>by Kunle Fila=
ni
(Federal College of Education, Lagos)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">4. <i>Metal-Morphorsis: Dotun
Popoola=E2=80=99s Zoomorphic Metaphors</i> by Kehinde Adepegba (Lagos State
Polytechnic)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">5. <i>Dotun Popoola: Style
and Distinction in Welded Metal Art </i>by Tolulope Sobowale (Olabisi Onaba=
njo
University)<span style=3D"border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"></span></=
span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">=C2=A0</span></=
p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,ser=
if;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Author/Respondent</span></u></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><=
span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
color:rgb(32,31,30)">Dotun Popoola (Metal Artist)<br>
To learn more about Dotun Popoola=E2=80=99s work, see </span><span style=3D=
"color:black"><a href=3D"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbpC2xV-TNfI" sty=
le=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New=
 Roman&quot;,serif">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbpC2xV-TNfI</span></a=
></span><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quo=
t;,serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">9)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-e=
ast-asian:normal;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><u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Highlights
of the 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos. June 25-27, 2020</span></u><span s=
tyle=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:=
rgb(29,33,41)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style=3D"font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=
Continuity and
Disruption: Death, Mourning, and Memorialization in Postcolonial African Ci=
ties
(Part I) </span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span style=3D"font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=
Panel Chair and Organizer</span></u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-fami=
ly:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">: Shina Alimi (Ob=
afemi Awolowo University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">---=
</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=
Between Conformity and
Syncretism: Muslim Cemetery in Lagos</span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)"> by Mu=
kaila Akolade Akanbi (Lagos State University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);back=
ground-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;ba=
ckground-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=
Akodi
Ile-Ife Graves</span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Ti=
mes New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;back=
ground-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;b=
ackground-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> by
Nurudeen Olatoye Arogundade (Obafemi Awolowo University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);back=
ground-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;ba=
ckground-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=
=C3=8Cw=C3=B2r=C3=B9,
=C3=8Cs=C3=B2g=C3=A0n, and Ob=C3=ACrin Il=C3=A9: Exploring Ancestry, Death,=
 and Secret Societies in
Ile-Ife Burial Rites</span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&q=
uot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initia=
l;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:ini=
tial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> by
Ayowole S. Elugbaju (University of Ilorin)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);back=
ground-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;ba=
ckground-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=
Disrupting
the Commemoration of the Past in S=C3=A3o Tom=C3=A9 and Pr=C3=ADncipe</span=
></i><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,=
serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;background-position:init=
ial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:ini=
tial;background-clip:initial"> by Jo=C3=A3o Sarmento (University
of Minho)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;=
line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41)">10)<span style=3D"font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-=
east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font=
-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">=C2=A0
</span></span><u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Highlights
of the 5th Annual LSA Conference. Lagos. June 25-27, 2020</span></u><span s=
tyle=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:=
rgb(29,33,41)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style=3D"font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">=
Nigerian Cities
Soundscape: Identity Formation, Social Protest, and Popular Music in Lagos =
and
Ibadan</span></b><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
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Panel Chair and
Organizer</span></u><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times N=
ew Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">: Olusegun Stephen
Titus (Obafemi Awolowo University)</span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
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Musical
Performance in Ajegunle, Lagos</span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font=
-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-im=
age:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-=
repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> by Babar=
inde Babatunde (Obafemi Awolowo
University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
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Protesting
Pollution in Lagos: The Role of Music</span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12=
pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgr=
ound-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;back=
ground-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> b=
y Abimbola Aduloju (Obafemi Awolowo
University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
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12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);back=
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The
Musical and Environmental Effects of the African Shrine on Lagos </span></i=
><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,seri=
f;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;=
background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial=
;background-clip:initial">by Lilien Chidera Ezeugwu
(Obafemi Awolowo University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
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Music,
Environmental Degradation, and Social Protest in Lagos and Ibadan</span></i=
><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,seri=
f;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;=
background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial=
;background-clip:initial"> by Leke Olayinka (Obafemi
Awolowo University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
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=A0</span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);back=
ground-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;ba=
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Popular
Music, Socio-economic Inequality, and the Lagos Soundscape</span></i><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color=
:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;backgro=
und-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;backgr=
ound-clip:initial"> by Olusegun Stephen Titus
(Obafemi Awolowo University)</span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
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Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Call
for Panelists</span></u></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
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al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style=3D"font-si=
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Public Education and
the Fourth Sustainable Development Goal in Africa</span></b><span style=3D"=
font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,3=
3,41)"></span></p>

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background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">The=
 5th Annual Lagos
Studies Association Conference</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">The=
me: Postcolonial
African Cities at 60: Continuities and Discontinuities</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
l;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi=
al;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)">Jun=
e 25-27, 2020</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Lag=
os,
Nigeria </span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Pan=
el
Co-organizers: Ismail Adesina Raji, Kehinde Adeola Adekola (University of
Ibadan) and Tolulope Adelabu (University of Lagos)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">---=
-</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
Fourth Sustainable Development Goal aims to ensure inclusive and equitable
quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Near=
ly
all the countries in the world have promised to improve the planet and live=
s of
their citizens by 2030. However, progress has been tough in some developing
countries, especially in Africa, due to high levels of poverty, armed confl=
ict
and other emergencies. This situation may likely get worse as such countrie=
s
confront with a rising demand for education due to a still growing school a=
ge
population.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Thi=
s
panel invites contributions on the dynamics of education and the Fourth
Sustainable Development Goal focusing on the following themes, among others=
:</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- W=
hy
Equity in Education remains a serious challenge in some African countries</=
span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-
Monitoring of the comprehensive attainment of sustainable development Goal =
4 in
Africa which is limited by data availability</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-
Supply of trained teachers and increasing demand for education</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-
Access to technical and vocational education, and training among out-of-sch=
ool
children</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-
Realisation of equitable and quality primary and secondary education leadin=
g to
relevant and effective learning outcomes by 2030 for all girls and boys.</s=
pan></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- T=
he
elimination of gender disparities in education and the zeal to ensure equal
access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerabl=
e
,indigenous people and children in vulnerable situations.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">To
participate in this panel, send a 250-word abstract to Ismail Adesina Raji =
(</span><a href=3D"mailto:rajismail2018@gmail.com" style=3D"color:blue"><sp=
an style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;co=
lor:rgb(56,88,152);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;bac=
kground-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;ba=
ckground-clip:initial">rajismail2018@gmail.com</span></a><span style=3D"fon=
t-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,4=
1);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:ini=
tial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:in=
itial">), Kehinde Adeola Adekola (</span><a href=3D"mailto:kubbie22ng@yahoo=
.com" style=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;=
Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(56,88,152);background-image:initial;b=
ackground-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initia=
l;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">kubbie22ng@yahoo.com</=
span></a><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&qu=
ot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;background-position:=
initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin=
:initial;background-clip:initial">), and<br>
Tolulope Adelabu (</span><a href=3D"mailto:adelabutolulope9@gmail.com" styl=
e=3D"color:blue"><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New =
Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(56,88,152);background-image:initial;background-=
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></a><span style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,=
serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);background-image:initial;background-position:init=
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tial;background-clip:initial">) by March 15. For
information about the conference, visit </span><a href=3D"http://lagosstudi=
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ly,</span></p>

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line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span sty=
le=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Saheed
Aderinto</span></p>

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tmail=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>US 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>McKee Building</p><p>Western Carolina University</p><p>Cullowhee NC 28723=
</p><p>Website: <a href=3D"https://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/" target=3D"_blank"=
>https://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/</a> <br></p><p>Email Address: <span><a href=
=3D"mailto:lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">lagosstudie=
sassociation@gmail.com</a></span></p><p><br></p><p><b><span style=3D"text-d=
ecoration:underline">Nigeria Address<br> </span></b></p><p>The Lagos Studie=
s Association</p><p>C\O Dr. Yetunde Zaid<br></p><p>University of Lagos Libr=
ary</p><p>P.M.B 1012</p><p>Akoka, Lagos</p><p>Nigeria</p><p>Email Address: =
<span><a href=3D"mailto:lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank=
">lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com</a></span></p></div></div></div></div><=
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