AFRICA CENTURY INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN WRITERS CONFERENCE
2014
Date : 7th November 2014
Venue : National Library of South Africa, 228 Johannes Ramokhoase (Proes),
St, Tshwane
Time : 08H00 – 15H00
Programme Director: Prof Aubrey Mokadi
| TIME | EVENT |
| 08H00 – 09H00 | Registration and tea
Book Exhibitions/sales |
| 09H00 – 09H05 | Welcome Remarks
Mr Douwe Drijfhout: Executive Librarian for Preservation Services |
| 09H05 – 09H10 | Opening Remarks
Mr Morakabe Seakhoa Managing Director: wRite associates
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| 09H10 – 09H40 | Keynote Address
Minister of Arts and Culture Honourable Nathi Mthethwa
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| 09H40 – 11H05 | Chair: Ms Susan Nkomo
Speakers: Prof Andries Oliphant Head: Theory of Literature – UNISA
“Tradition and Democracy: Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Post Colony”.
Dr Zagba Narh Oyortey Executive Director: Ghana Museums and Monuments
“The African Literary Imagination and the Quest for African Liberation”.
Dr Wangui wa Goro Associate Fellow: Institute of Human Rights and Social Justice at London Metropolitan University President: Translation Caucus of the ALA President: ALTRAS (African Literary Translators and Subtitlers Association) “Governance and the role and place of literature and culture in Africa’s development vision 2063” |
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11H10 – 11H30 |
TEA BREAK |
| 11H30 –13H00 | Chair: Dr Zagba Narh Oyortey
Speakers:
Dr Marlies Taljard North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus
“Women, words and reconciliation”
Ms Kedumetse Montlhakane North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus
“Redefining Womanhood: a critic of the re-presentation of the changing position of women in Dangarembga’s The Book of Not (2006) and Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut (2007)” Ms Susan Nkomo Independent consultant and founder of the South African Observatory on Women’s Rights, housed at Statistics South Africa
“W/Righting the Narrative: Centering Women Nation Formation” |
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13H00-14H00 |
LUNCH
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| 14H00–15H00 | International African Writers Day Lecture:
Honourable Samia Yaba Nkrumah: Executive Director: The Kwame Nkrumah Pan African Centre; Chairperson and Leader: Convention Peoples Party
“Towards Africa’s Socio-cultural Liberation”.
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| 15H00 – 15H30 | 2014 Programme Overview and Way Forward 2015
Facilitators: Prof Nhlanhla Maake Chairperson of the Conference Content Development Panel
Ms Susan Nkomo
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| 15H30 – 15H35 | Vote of thanks
Mr Winston Mohapi Deputy Chairperson: South African Literary Awards |
