Schools and Schooling as a Source of African Literary and Cultural Creativity
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/en/region/africa/events/workshops/schools-and-schooling-as-a-source-of-african-literary-and-cultural-creativity
- Schools and Schooling as a Source of African Literary and Cultural Creativity
- 2015-09-10T14:00:00+02:00
- 2015-09-11T13:00:00+02:00
- Workshop at the Department of African Studies
- When Sep 10, 2015 02:00 to Sep 11, 2015 01:00
- Where IAAW, Invalidenstr. 118, 10115 Berlin, Raum 410
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Thursday, September 10th
2 pm:
Tobias Robert Klein / Susanne Gehrmann (Humboldt University): Introductory Remarks
Panel 1: Cultural Creativity and Institutional History
2:15 pm:
De-Valera N. Y. M. Botchway (University of Cape Coast): Djama Songs in Ghanaian Schools. A Note on a Students’ Musical Creativity
Yusuf M. Adamu (Bayero University): School as a Place of Literary Inspiration. An analysis of Three Poetry Anthologies from Northern Nigeria
3:45 pm: Coffee-Break
4 pm:
Jacob Mapara (Humboldt University): Mission Schools and the Rise of the Shona Novel in Zimbabwe
Uyilawa Usuanlele (State University of New York): Holy Aruosa Cathedral School and Development of Creative Arts in Edo Language in Benin City, Nigeria, 1945-1965
6 pm: Evening-Lecture
Terri Ochiagha (University of Sussex): Achebe and his friends at Umuhia
Friday, September 11th:
Panel 2: Faction or Fiction? Schools and/in (Auto)biographical Writing
10 pm:
Tobias Robert Klein (Humboldt University): “They were among my happiest days”. Faction, Fiction and Future Nostalgias at the West-African Boarding School
Emmanuel Penion Lema (University of Dar es Salaam): Schooling as an Experience in Mwakimatu’s The Choice and Ogbu’s The Moon also sets
11:30 pm: Coffee-Dreak
11:45 pm:
Senayon Olaoluwa (University of Ibadan): “Knowledge Gained Outside a Formal Setting”. Invisible School School Curriculum and Ngugi's Formation as Writer in In the House of the Interpreter
Williams Catherine Olutoyin (Tai Solarin University of Education): Childhood Autobiographical Memory and Literary Development: A Reading of Achebe's There was a Country and Emecheta's Head Above Water