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SIGNPOST CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THEME: CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS / ENCOUNTERING CULTURES
APRIL 17– 19, 2008
Opening Ceremony
8:00am - Arrival of Participants
8:30am - Arrival of guests
9:00am - Opening Address by the Coordinator of Signpost
9:10am - Poetry Dramatisation -YUPOC
9:20am - Address by the Head of Department, English
9:30am - Keynote address
9:55am - Poetry dramatisation - YUPOC
10:30am - First Presentation Session
PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
Date
/Session/Time
/Moderator
/Title of paper / Presenter / Institution
THURSDAY17/04/08 / 1st Session
10.30am -12:00 / 1. Cultural Absolutism: The Achanian Interpretation of Bole Butake’s Lake God. Alexander Mba’ah Mbatu Dept. of African Literature and Civilisations, Uni. Y’de
2The Aesthetic Relevance of Symbols in Kom Culture. Rene Young. Dept. of English, Uni of Buea
3. “Niggers don’t go to Hell”: Cultural Resistance in Sankie Maimo’s Sov Mbang the Soothsayer and Succession in Sarkov. Eleanor A. Dasi Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
4. The Chaos Unleashed by Money: A Critical look at Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy Nyaa Hans Ndah Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
BREAK
2nd session
12.30pm-1.30pm / Dr Ayuk Ako / PANEL Theorising in Language and Literature
Panelists: Dr Veyu Ernest, Ubanako Valentine Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
FRIDAY 18/04/07 / 1st Session
9:00am-10:30am / Dr Sala B. / 1. “A Houseless Widow of a Member of Parliament”: An Existentialist Approach to John Nkemngong Nkengason’s The Widow’s Might. Blossom N. Fondo Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
2. The Irrelevance of Human Diversity as the Main-spring of Psychological Frustrations and Social Maladjustments. Aka Florence Muluh Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
3. Language and Natinal Development in Cameroon Press Media. Mfong Zackari Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
4. Natural and enforced Lingua francas: The race for the Construction of National Unity in Cameroon. Fonka Hans Mbonwuh Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
2nd Session
10:30-12:00 / 1. Fulfulde, Wandala and Kirdi languages in the Far North Cameroon: Sociolinguistic Stakes Francois Baimada Gigla Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
2. The Dysphemistic and Euphemistic Semantics of Cameroon Pidgin English Joseph Nkwain Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
3.Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes: Prefiguring Modern Sexuality in S. T. Coleridge’s ‘Christable’ Dr Charles Ngiewih TEKE, Higher Teachers’ Training College, Yaounde
4. Female Representation in Jewish-American Fiction. Njume Emmanuel Ekinde-Sone,
Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
Break
3rd Session
12:30-1:30pm / 1. The Aesthetic Relevance of Rituals in African Tradition: Retuals in Preparations of the “Abini nfor” in Bafut Cosmology. Amabo Mirabel Dept. of English, Uni of Buea
2.Cultural Metissage, a shock? Reviewing Alobwed’Epie’s The Death Certificate. Vivian Bongka Tah Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
3. Mortality and Postcolonial Discourse :A study of selected poems by Ofeimun, Ndu,Ngongkum and Brutus Elsie Enanga Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
4. Deconstructring Cultural Hegemony in Pamela Jooste’s Frieda and Min: A Postmodernist Perspective. Zumbushi Eric Dept. of African Literature and Civilisations, Uni. Y’de 1
4th Session
1:30-2:30pm / 1. Apocalypses of Liberation and Post-Ahidjo Nihilism in Anglophone Cameroon Drama . Oscar Chenyi Labang Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
2. Anti-Racist Racism: Shamon Sarif’s The World Unseen and V.S Naipaul’s A Bend in the River . Edwin Ntumfon Tangwa Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
3. Gender, National Consciousness and Reconciliation in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning and Under the Tongue ANGWE MILDRED AMBANG Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de
4. Youths and Politics in Cameroon Dr. Dez Ngwa Willibroad Dept. of History
SATURDAY
19/04/08 / 1st Session
9:00am-10:30am / 1. Postdiaspora Identity in Derek Walcott’s Omeros Kelvin Toh Dept. of African Literature and Civilisations, Uni. Y’de 1
2. “Deconstruction or Renaming”: The West Indian Cultural Parameters Nah Charles N.
Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
3. Cultural Authenticity in selected works of Isidore Okpewho and John Nkemngong Nkengasong Perpetua Nchang Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
4. Power and Powerlessness in a Multicultural Society: An Examination of Mathew Takwi’s People Be Not Fooled Nwufor Irene Bilem Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
2nd Session
10:30am -12:pm / 1. Pedagogic implications of Regional and Functional Varieties of Cameroon English Ubanako Valentine Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
2. From Input through Developing to ‘Developed’ Systems: An interconnected Process in Multilinguals’ development in Language Learning . Ekembe Eric Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
3. Language Management in Cameroon: An Analysis of Texts Governing Biligualism in Education Kiwoh Terence Dept. of English, Uni. Y’de 1
3rd Session
11.30am-1.30pm / Dr. Teke Charles / PANEL Politicising Literary Theory
Panellists: Oscar Chenyi Labang and Zuhmbushi Eric