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Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa is a professor of Gender Studies and African Oral Literature at Babcock University, Nigeria.
Abikal Borah is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Introduction: African Historiography, Vernacular Epistemology, and the Making of the Historical Archive – Mobolanle Sotunsa and Abikal BorahPart I: Critiques of Postcolonial African Historiography- Modern African Historiography: Toyin Falola and the Others – Charles Thomas, The University of Texas at Austin.
- In Defence of the Pluriverse: A Critical Appreciation of Toyin Falola’s Scholarship – Abikal Borah, The University of Texas at Austin.
- African ‘Historians, Are Archaeologists Your Siblings?’: Evaluating Toyin Falola’s Contribution to the Archaeology of Africa and the African Diaspora, Benjamin Nutor, The University of Texas at Austin.
- “Ritual Archives” and OERs: Digital Humanities, Pedagogy, and African Studies, Danielle Sanchez, Muhlenberg College.
Part II: Gender, Sexuality, and African Historiography- Toyin Falola and the Pathologies and Pathways for African Feminist Scholarship – Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Babcock University.
- Beyond the Proscription of History and the Futility of ‘Feminist Talk’: Merging the Scholarship of Narrative Politics and Cinematic Frames in Gendered Escavations of the African Past – Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Ithaca College.
- Africa and African Women in Conversation – Nemeta Blyden, The George Washington University.
- The Politics of Polygyny and Subjectivity in Toyin Falola’s A Mouth Sweeter than Salt – Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa, Babcock University.
- Toyin Falola’s Scholarship on African Women and Gender: Conceptualizations at the Intersection of African and Feminist Epistemologies - Bridget Teboh, The University of Massachusetts.
- Dynamics of Female Gender Survival Strategies in Contemporary African Novels – Eziwanyi Adam, Babcock University.
Part III: Vernacular Epistemologies and the African Archive- The Archivist as Muse: Toyin Falola’s Experimentation with History in a Mouth Sweeter than Salt - Ademola Dasylva, University of Ibadan
- The Ancestral Memory and Invisible World of Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela - Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi, University of South Africa.
- Twin Rivers of African Cultural Heritage: Reading Falola’s A Mouth Sweeter than Salt – Aisha M Umar and Francis Miracle, Federal University, Nigeria.
- An Analysis of Narrative Language Use in Toyin Falola’s Memoir, A Mouth Sweeter than Salt - Joshua Agbo, Anglia Ruskin University.
- ‘Women are the Salt of the Earth’: A Folkoric and Feminist Re-Reading of A Mouth Sweeter than Salt – Bridget Anthonia Yakubu, National Open University of Nigeria.
- History of Development in Africa: An Exploration into the Works of Toyin Falola – Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo, Educor Hodings Johannesburg Area, South Africa