African Literature Festival - Dialogue with Africa
Schedule
Fri Oct 11 2024 at 03:00 pm to Mon Oct 14 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Vogn 1, Godsbanen, Kjeld Tolstrups Gade 3, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark | Arhus, AR
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Come to African literature festival at Godsbanen and hear many intriguing lectures, debates, and readings with Ghanaian, Ugandan, Kenyan, and Danish authors and researchers. The festival explores parts of the contemporary African literary scene through three themes: ‘Debates in African Literature Right Now’, ‘Africa’s Diverse Languages’, and ‘Writers in Exile’.Danish Pen, Aarhus University, and Aarhus Litteraturcenter invite you to an African literature festival where African authors can provide the Danish public with new insights through literature.
PROGRAMME 12/10
10:00 Welcome by Danish PEN
10:10 Debates in african literature right now / Billy Kahora, writer and editor
10:40 Africa’s Diverse Languages / Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, writer, journalist, and lawyer
11:10 Panel discussion: Dialogue through literature
11:45 Break
12:00 Readings of selected works by Billy Kahora, Thomas Boberg, Helen Atawube Yitah, and Kakwenza Rukirabashaija
12:30 Lunch break and book exhibition
13:30 Writers in Exile / Qaali Schmidt-Sørensen, writer
14:00 Panel discussion: Conditions for authors at home and abroad
14:45 Readings of selected works by Qaali Schmidt-Sørensen, Billy Kahora, Thomas Boberg, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, Gabriel Awuah Mainoo/Anne Green Munk, and Kofi Anyidoho.
15:30 Thank you for today
PROGRAMME 13/10
10:00 Welcome by Mads Anders Baggesgaard
10:15 Emmanuel Saboro: Historical and Cultural Memories of the Slave Trade in Ghana: the Hidden and Lost Stories that Spaces and Places tell
10:45 William Nsuiban: “‘Blind Spots: Unveiling the Shadows’, exhibiting slavery in contemporary Ghana”
11:15 Break
12:00 Jeppe Brixvold: “I de levendes verden” (In the World of the Living)
12:45 Panel discussion: Representing slavery in Ghana
13:30 Thank you for today
Free entrance 12-13/10. Register to: [email protected]
OTHER EVENTS
11/10 at 15:00 Vor Frue Kirke
Concert and reading by Gabriel Awuah Mainoo, Anne Green Munk, and Torben Bjørnskov.
14/10 at 17:00 Løve’s Bog- og Vincafé
Reading by Gabriel Awuah Mainoo and Anne Green Munk
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Language: English
Find the full programme at www.litteraturen.nu
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Where is it happening?
Vogn 1, Godsbanen, Kjeld Tolstrups Gade 3, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark, Kjeld Tolstrups Gade 48, 8000 Aarhus C, Danmark,Aarhus, Denmark, ArhusEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
