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Provisional Programme – Accountable leadership and Sustainability in Africa
UNISA
21-24 April 2015
Session
21 April
Registration
Tea
Opening of
Conference
Plenary Session 1
Finger lunch
Parallel Session 1
Time
Session Title
9:00-10:30
Senate Hall Foyer
10:30-11:00
Senate Hall Foyer
11:00-11:45
Senate Hall
11:45- 13:15
Senate Hall
13:15-14:20
Senate Hall Foyer
14:30-16:00
Function Hall
Presenter
Paper
Prof Molobi
Welcome
Prof Moeketsi (Dean)
Welcome on behalf of the College of Human Sciences
Prof Du Toit
On behalf of the RITR
Prof Bentley
Housekeeping
Prof Vusi Gumede
Religion and
Transformation
1. Cossa
2. Sambaiga
3. Nel
Bamboo Hall
Religious Ethics and
Sustainability
1. Awoniyi
2. Adeyemi-Suenu
1. The emotional dynamics of Pentecostal discourses
amongst Nigerian and Congolese pastors in
Diaspora: from familial feelings and social
sentiments to transformations in the everyday life.
2. Religion as a social space to negotiate accountable
governance in Tanzania.
3. Reforming Missional Leaders Towards Social
Cohesion: Lessons from South African Youth and
Student Voices.
1. Religious ethics and development: The Nigerian
experience.
2. Religious values and social insecurity: An analysis of
the prescriptions in ‘Odu’-‘Ifa’.
Provisional Programme – Accountable leadership and Sustainability in Africa
UNISA
21-24 April 2015
Meeting Room 1
Leadership and
Conflict
1. Nel &
Etukamana
2. Ogunleye
Meeting Room 2
Religion and
Leadership
1. Garba
2. OguntolaLaguda
Meeting Room 3
Youth and
Leadership (1)
1. Chiroma
2. Anugwom
3. Abraham
22 April
Plenary Session 2
Tea
Parallel Session 2
9:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-12:30
Function Hall
Bamboo Hall
1. Leadership, violent conflict, peace and reconciliation:
The socio-cultural engagement of Luke’s Gospel visà-vis African experience.
2. Leadership role in conflict resolution: The Nigerian
experience
1. Striking a balance between Freedom of Religion and
State’s regulatory power in modern democratic
systems: State regulation of religious preaching
under scrutiny.
2. Religion, leadership and struggle for political power
in Nigeria: A case study of the 2011 General Election
in Nigeria.
1. Ecumenical Youth Leadership Development and
Peace Building in Northern Nigeria.
2. Occult and Youth Conflict in Nigeria: Perspectives
from the Niger Delta Region.
3. Evangelical Youth Culture in South Africa’s Moral
Economy: Creativity, Authority, and Anomie.
Prof. Dapu Asaju
Health and
Sustainability
1. Nkomo
2. Martin
3. Mwondayi
Transformational
Leadership
1. Schoeman and
Morenammele
2. Schoeman and
Pali
1. An exploration of including spirituality in healthcare.
2. Religion, health and sustainable development.
3. Biblical perspectives on health and well-being (Sirah
38:1-2, 4, 6-15 and 2 Kings 20:1-7) -navigating ways
and modes of understanding and appreciating
African traditional ways of healing and well-being.
1. Exploring authentic leadership in workplaces and the
role of parachurch organizations in Lesotho.
2. The search for transformational leadership in
congregations: an explorative study in an African
church.
Provisional Programme – Accountable leadership and Sustainability in Africa
UNISA
21-24 April 2015
Meeting Room 1
Religion and
Development (1)
1. Hiagbe
2. Manda
Meeting Room 2
Religion and
Democracy
1. Udeani
2. Yesufu
Meeting Room 3
Sustainability and
Development
1. Adeyeri
2. Agbiji (EO)
Lunch
(Protea Restaurant)
Parallel Session 3
1. The Church in Sub-Saharan Africa’s Quest for
Development.
2. Building citizenship: PACSA’s role in removing
impediments to participatory democracy in South
Africa.
1. Religion, Democracy and Civil Society – The Case of
Disjointed Leadership in Africa of 21st Century.
2. Religion, Constitutionalism and Secularism: The
Nigerian Experience.
1. Social Activism and Human Rights Violations in the
Niger Delta: Implications for Sustainable
Development in Nigeria.
2. The Identity role development of Pastoral Caregivers
(PCGs) in Sustainable Healthcare: Insights from Role
Theory.
12:30-14:00
14:00-15:30
Function Hall
Women and
Leadership (1)
1. Otieno
2. Van Wyk
3. Sintim-Adasi
Bamboo Hall
Youth and
Leadership (2)
1. Ovbiebo
2. Molobi
Meeting Room 1
Corruption
1. Emeka-Nwobia
Meeting Room 2
Power and Violence
2. Jones
1. Mapala
1. A Gender Perspective to Discipleship: A call to be
Women of Radical and Prophetic Faith.
2. First Ladies in African politics: Tinker, Taylor,
Trickster, Trophy or Trump Card?
3. African women and decision making positions: The
case of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana.
1. Church and youth empowerment: A study of
Pentecostal missional orientation in Edo state,
Nigeria.
2. Youth leadership development in the African
Independent Churches in South Africa.
1. Zero tolerance for Corruption’ in Nigerian
Presidential Discourse: A Pragmatic Exploration.
2. The vicious cycle of corruption.
1. Dr. Banda and the making of a dictator: A
Provisional Programme – Accountable leadership and Sustainability in Africa
UNISA
21-24 April 2015
Tea
Parallel Session 4
2. Muhammed
contribution of the Church in Malawi (1960-1971).
2. Ethnic violence and the quest for power in Nigeria’s
democratic governance: The case of Nasarawa state.
Meeting Room 3
Religion and Africa
1. Masoga,
Mabuza and
Muday
1. Chasing the wind amidst roaring lions!
Problematisation of ‘religiosity’ in the current African
socio-political and economic landscaping.
15:30-16:00
16:00-17:30
Function Hall
Women and
Leadership (2)
1. Van Schalkwyk
1. Women, gender and ecological/economic
sustainability in Africa.
2. Examining women’s participation in politics in
Lesotho.
1. An appraisal of political participation in Nigeria using
John Locke’s theory of political participation.
2. The Occupy movement and other recent forms of
social resistance: A Wesleyan reflection on sociopolitical accountability.
1. Cartoon Expression of Politicians in Selected Nigerian
Newspapers 1999-2003.
2. Music of politics and religion supporting
constitutional values in South Africa.
1. Checking corruption in Nigeria through financial
sustainability: The media perspective.
2. Traditional Leadership and Corruption in Pre-colonial
Africa: How the Past affects the Present.
1. From Living Together To Living Apart: Decades
(1980-2013) of Ethno-Religious Conflicts and Spatial
(Re)configuration of the Urban Centres of Jos and
Kaduna.
2. Religious Practices that endeavour to stop violent
conflicts and bring Peace and Reconciliation In Zakes
Mda’s The Heart of Redness.
2. Tlali
Bamboo Hall
Democracy and
Society
1. Grace
2. Bentley
Meeting Room 1
Leadership and the
arts
1. Labode
2. Lebaka
Meeting Room 2
Leadership and
Corruption
1. Chukwu
2. Igboin
Meeting Room 3
Religion and conflict
1. Amidu
2. Mashau
Provisional Programme – Accountable leadership and Sustainability in Africa
UNISA
21-24 April 2015
Conference Dinner
(Protea Restaurant)
23 April
Plenary Session 3
Tea
Parallel Session 5
18:00-21:00
9:00-10:30
Function Hall
10:30-11:00
11:00-12:30
Function Hall
Prof. Afe Adogame
Culture and
Leadership
1. Song
2. Olakunle
3. Gbenda
Bamboo Hall
Ecology and
Sustainability (1)
1. Ssebunya and
Okyere-Manu
2. Chirongoma
Meeting Room 1
Culture and
Development
1. Amenga-Etego
2. Mabuza
Lunch
(Protea Restaurant)
Parallel Session 6
14:00-15:30
Function Hall
Gender equality and
transformation
1. Chireshe
2. Latha
1. Role of Cultural and Religious Habits of the Heart in
Society: An Analogical understanding between
African Societies and Korean Society.
2. Traditional morality as panacea to a responsible
leadership culture in Nigerian politics: The Yoruba
example.
3. The moral foundations of chieftaincy institutions in
West Africa: Emerging trends and challenges.
1. Ugandan women as agents of environmental
conservation and sustainability: Ethical and
theological implications for faith communities.
2. Blending ecological conservation with Sustainable
Livelihood Strategies: A case study of Karanga
women within the ZIRRCON ecological project in
Masvingo, Zimbabwe.
1. Indigenous rituals and contemporary health crisis: A
test for sustainable development in West Africa.
2. Jesus’ biblical injunction in the context of HIV/AIDS
in the state institutions: A kairos moment to ponder
in South Africa.
1. ‘The wind of change in the church is blowing in the
direction of gender equality’: Myth or reality?
2. Religion and Gender Issues in society : Sanctity and
Provisional Programme – Accountable leadership and Sustainability in Africa
UNISA
21-24 April 2015
Tea
Plenary Session 4
24 April
Parallel Session 1
3. Siwila
3.
Bamboo Hall
Leadership and
Poverty
1. Landman
2. Williams
1.
2.
Meeting Room 1
Conflict and Justice
1. Abdulrassaq
1.
2. Hankela
2.
15:30-16:00
16:00-17:30
Function Hall
9:00-10:30
Function Hall
Prof Anne Kubai
Religious space and
Politics
1. Akinwumi
2. Sibanda
3. Agbiji (O)
Bamboo Hall
Gender and Equity
1. Okedele
subversion in the epistolary format of Mariama Ba’s
So Long a Letter.
A gendered discursive approach to negotiating
between the centre and the peripheral in religious
sacred spaces.
Township spiritualities, prayer and poverty.
Addressing the impunity of clerics, civil and
corporate leaders, the Follower’s poverty and
inequality in sub-Saharan Africa.
Analysis of alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
mechanism in the public sector: The case of Lagos
State Local Service Commission.
Migration and belonging in Johannesburg: What if
church leadership was accountable to young
Zimbabwean migrants?
Facing threats and consolidating achievements: Religion,
conflict and human security in East Africa.
1. Contesting the Religious space in Nigeria: The
Christian Association of Nigeria and the Nigerian
Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and the Political
Developments in the Country since independence.
2. ‘Prayers that preyed’: Theological Reflections on
Robert Martin Gumbura’s Church Saga in Zimbabwe.
3. A Quest for Probity and Accountability in African
Societies: Re-imagining the role of religious
practitioners in sustaining social morality.
1. Ensuring Development in Africa through Gender
Equity in Governance: Lessons from Traditional
Yoruba Societies.
Provisional Programme – Accountable leadership and Sustainability in Africa
UNISA
21-24 April 2015
2. Sande
Meeting Room 1
Religion and
Development (2)
1. Sebola
2. Swart
Meeting Room 2
Ecology and
sustainability (2)
1. Oluyinka
2. Methula
Meeting Room 3
Religion and
Accountability
1. Masomera
2. Egharevba
Tea
Plenary Session 5
10:30-11:00
11:00-12:30
Closing of
Conference
Lunchpacks and
Excursion
12:30-13:30
Function Hall
14:00-17:00
Prof Paulus Zulu
2. Reframing, matriarchal leadership debate within
Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe: The case of Apostolic
Faith Mission in Zimbabwe.
1. The role of African Traditional Religion in the notion
of development: South African Perspective.
2. Falling into the pragmatic trap: religious leadership
and development in post-apartheid South Africa.
1. The impact of information systems on ecological
sustainability and conservation concepts.
2. Teaching Transformational Ethical Leadership in
Soweto: My Personal Experience.
1. Faith based organisations and the dream of fostering
transparency and accountability in the Zimbabwean
political milieu: A hallucinatory vision?
2. Accountable leadership and sustainable
development in Nigeria: Wither religion?
Religion, Constitutionalism and Secularism: Morality and
Governance in the South African State.