SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL APPEARANCES
• Presentation: "Mere hybridity or sheer profanity: the broken proverb text in African literature and film". March 1, 2010: 11:30hr, Humboldt University, Main Hall, Unter den Linden, Berlin (Conventions and Conversions: Generic Innovations in African Literatures, March 1-4, 2010).
• Presentation: "African proverbs at work: the aesthetics of instruction". November, 9, 2009: 18:00hr, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciencias Socias e Humanas, Instituto de Estudos de Literatura Tradicional, Lisboa (www.ielt.org)
• Participant, African Literature & Culture Series: New Trends in Creative Writing and the Media in Nigeria (“Neue Trends bei der Schriftstellerei und bei den Medien in Nigeria”); Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, Germany; February 1, 2007.
• Participant, International “Poetry Days” Festival, Riga & Ventspils, Latvia; September, 12-16, 2006. • Participant & Fellow, 3rd Seminar of SSASAA (Salzburg Seminar American Studies Alumni Association), Austria; September, 7 – 10, 2006.
• Guest Writer, “Night of Poetry”, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin; May 23, 2006.
• Guest Speaker, Distinguished Lectures Series at the Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden; May 10, 2005.
• Participant, 7th (Symposium Litteraire International Rencontre des PEN Afrique) Symposium on African Writing & Freedom of Expression, Organised by PEN International/Association des Écrivains Sénégalais, Dakar, Senegal; November 7-11, 2004.
• Guest Lecturer, Center for Society and Ideas, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA; October 21, 2003.
• Guest Lecturer, African-American Studies Program/International Center for Writing and Translation, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA; October 20, 2003.
• Resource Person, Africa Information Society Initiative Retreat, organized by United Nations Economic Commission for Africa/The Ford Foundation Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; June 14-17, 2003.
• Participant, Salzburg Seminar, Session 408/ASC 31 (Contemporary American Literature); Salzburg, Austria; April 02 – 09, 2003.
• Visiting Lecturer & Guest Writer, University of Nebraska at Kearney/Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NB, USA; September 2002.
• Guest Lecturer, South African National Writers’ Conference, Pretoria, South Africa; June 2002.
• Fifth & Sixth Poetry Africa Festival, Durban, South Africa; May 2001 & 2002.
• Visiting Lecturer & Guest Writer, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA; September 2001.
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