Saturday, 04. July 2020
13:00
Sexism and Racism:
What we need now: Another Form of Resistance
Covid-19 uncovers omnipresent manifestations of sexism and racism. We should address this, while replying with adjusted modes of resistance. Talk by Johanna Melissa Lukate, Cambridge & Melody Howse, Leipzig (tbc).
Keynote: Amanda Gouws, Stellenbosch
Chair: Shirin Assa
14:00 Reading for Care & Solidarity
As public intellectuals, many African writers have contributed to the debate on how to deal with Covid-19, some, like Véronique Tadjo co-signing an appeal by African intellectuals. We have invited African writers to share their views about Covid-19, reading texts that deal with Covid-19 and/or issues of care, solidarity, and responsibility.
Blesz, Spoken Word, Amsterdam
Nicksha Mwanandimayi, Creative Non-fiction/Poetry, Windhoek
Maryam Gatawa, poet, Sokoto
Chair: Oliver Nyambi & Dikko Muhammad
15:00 We Care About This 'we'
Eating together, talking, exchanging, listening to music, postcard…
15:15 Queer care needed! Pleasure in crisis
In conversation with activists and writers of HOLAAfrica: Tiffany Mugo, Siphumeze Kundayi and talk with iwalewabooks about the necessity of pleasure in collective work, and provide insight into the publication project "We're f*****ng here! An anthology of queer African writing".
Chair: Ulrike Bergermann
16:15 Spoken Word
Towards Hope and Healing - Iyanu Adebiyi, poet, Lagos.
Chair: Toluope Oke
16:30 Connecting Dancing
Lulu Sala, Contemporary Dance & Choreographer, Maputo
Chair: Ute Fendler
17:00 Handle with care!
"Handle with Care – Post Colonial Object Matters" - A conversation based on the zine presented by iwalewabooks, which asks: What are the possibilities that can open up after an act of restitution to establish future-oriented relationships between different people, institutions and objects? How can we work with these “loaded” objects and generate a future with and for them? How can we create new platforms of welcoming these objects back on the African continent? How can we bring critical approaches from art, academic research, activism and museum practices in a fruitful dialogue with each other that works towards a responsible engagement with the colonial history and its material and immaterial traces?" Authors of the zine, Nashilongweshipe Mushaandja, Katutura & Peju Layiwola, Lagos in conversation with the editors Nadine Siegert, Johannesburg & Katharina Schramm, Bayreuth.
Chair: Katharina Fink
17:15 We Care About This 'we'!
Eating together, talking, exchanging, listening to music, postcard....
18:15 Reading for Care & Solidarity
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, writer, Kenya
Chair: Samuel Ndogo & Mingqing Yuan
19:15 We Care About This 'we'!
Eating together, talking, exchanging, listening to music, postcard...
19:30 Reading for Resistance
Death in Custody & Spoken Word: Egbon Kola, Bayreuth, "Hatuwezi Kupumua (We Can't Breathe)". A poetic rendition of remembrance and resistance.
Chair: Katharina Fink & Tolulope Oke
20:30 Lecture & Talk:
Alice Hasters: Racism in Germany
Racism endangers people all across the globe and in the midst of Germany. Violations in Police, Institutional Representation, Language.
The author and anti-racism advocate Alice Hasters has been one of the most visible speakers in the discourse around the BLM-Movement - and she will talk about her resistance and her visions.
Alice Hasters, Journaliste, Cologne
Chair: Susan Arndt & Shirin Assa
21:30 Sundowners & Concerts
A digital and polyphonous conversation musical sets:
Wonder Wonder, Bayreuth
3Women, Berlin
Amororo Music Dynasty, Lagos
Chair: Kolade Igbasan