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This panel aims to reflect on the conditions governing Achebe’s canonicity and their implications in the current literary landscape. What exact factors enabled Achebe’s canonicity and has/does it manifest? In what ways does it lend itself to or is undermined by reductive and exoticist circulations of Achebe’s work? Does the label ‘father of modern African literature’ hold and how do we make sense of the African texts and readerships untouched by questions of Western canonicity?
Panelists
Dr. Simon Gikandi – Princeton University
Dr. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi – NC State University
Dr. Ranka Primorac – University of Southampton
Dr. Meg Arenberg – The Africa Institute, Sharjah
Discussant: Dr. Terri Ochiagha – University of Edinburgh

Dr. Ranka Primorac and Dr. Meg Arenberg

Dr. Terri Ochiagha

Dr. Simon Gikandi

Dr. Terri Ochiagha

Dr. Ranka Primorac

Dr. Meg Arenberg

Dr. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

Dr. Ranka Primorac, Dr. Meg Arenberg, Dr. Terri Ochiagha, Dr.Simon Gikandi, and Dr. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

Dr. Ranka Primorac, Dr. Meg Arenberg, Dr. Terri Ochiagha, Dr.Simon Gikandi, and Dr. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi