Towards an Africa without Borders Conference
Invitation
The Department of African Languages and Literature,
UW-Madison invites you to the conference, "Towards an
Africa without Borders: Unification and Fundamental
Change," to be held at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison from October 24 to 26, 2003.
The conference's purpose is to bring scholars,
writers, and political activists together to discuss
theoretical and practical approaches to change and
unification in Africa within the context of
Pan-Africanism.
The keynote speakers include Prof. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o,
Porf. Angela Davis, and Prof. Maina Wa Kinyatti. In
addition to our Keynote speakers, we are also hosting,
Munyaradzi Huni, Political Editor at the Sunday Mail
(one of Zimbabwe's leading weekly newspapers) and
Pikirayi Deketeke Chief Editor of The Herald, the most
widely read daily paper in Zimbabwe. We are also
expecting several other scholars and activists from
Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, and Cameroon. The
conference promises a timely and productive discussion
over the future of change in Africa.
We are very pleased to be working with the Wisconsin
Book Festival (which attracts about 8,000 People over
five days). UW-Professor Daniel Kunene will host
Prof. Ngugi and Prof. Maina for readings and
conversations for an event titled “Barrel of a
Pen-Literature and Resistance”. The book festival
website is at
http://www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/.
For conference program, registration, travel and hotel
information
please visit our website at
http://african.lss.wisc.edu/all/Studconference. For
more information please contact Mukoma Wa Ngugi at the
following e-mail address:
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phone (608) 251-6136 or James Magua, by e-mail,
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