Sixth Annual African Studies Consortium Workshop

"Communicating Africa"

October 02, 1998

8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

University of Pennsylvania Faculty Club

The Program

(Papers provided by authors for electronic publishing)

• "Africa in the Western Media", (Rod Chavis)
• "Ikú and Cuban Nationhood: Yoruba Mythology in the Film 'Guantanamera'", (Solimar Otero)
• "Inspecting African Bodies: Television News Coverage and Satellite Imaging of Rwandan Refugees", (Jo Ellen Fair & Lisa Parks)
• "Representations of Blacks and The City in the Zimbabwean Post-Independence Television Drama", (Pedzisai Mashiri)
• "The Right of Self-Determination in the Angolan Enclave of Cabinda", (Elizabeth M. Jamilah Koné)
• "Ritual, Tradition and Reconstruction in Contemporary Nigerian Drama", (Nilgun A. Okur)
• "Seeing the Mirage: African American Narrative and Change", (Lynda Hill)
• "Blaming the Infected African Other: An Epidemic of Discrimination" (Tonya Taylor)