Presentations

1: Lagos Trickster-Hustlers: Humor as Socio-Economic Commentary in Basi and Company and Blackass

James Hodapp, Northwestern U in Qatar

2: The Interpreter as a Figure of Laughter in West African Literature

Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang, U of Toronto

3: Gossip and a Parallel Economy of Laughter in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Wizard of the Crow

Romy Rajan, U of Florida

Presider

Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, U of Ghana