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Can high-level meetings and summits build trust and change a historically complex set of relationships between France and post-colonial African nations?

French president Emmanuel Macron visited Rwanda on 27 May, the first such trip for France’s head of state since Nicolas Sarkozy over 10 years ago. This was a highly anticipated visit aimed at normalising relations between the two countries, which have been tense over conflicting narratives about France’s role during the 1994 genocide. 

The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry invites you to a FarBar program of Sonic as Landscape with curator Mpho Matsipa, artist Olalekan Jeyifous, writer and researcher Wale  Lawal, and composer Dani Kyengo O'Neill.

The vastly different perspectives and treatments in two recent books about Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera leave the reader with tantalising questions beyond the subject matter.

My first encounter with Dambudzo Marechera is at assembly at an out-of-the-way rural boarding school. I was twelve. At this point I don’t know his story or reputations. His gender is fluid. For a while he stayed a woman in my imagination. He is not a man. Androgynous. – Tinashe Mushakavanhu   

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/fm-fox/2021-05-24-podcast-who-do-we-th...

2021 Africa Day Celebration

Keynote Address by Professor Achille Mbembe

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https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5SHALPpzRK2CkRVcZuHf7g

 

Youth and Feminism in South Africa (The French Embassy In partnership with The Forge)

Feminism is sometimes a contested space and keeps changing in purpose and meaning throughout the ages. The fight for space and equality demands that each of us speaks our truths. This panel, bringing together young inspiring voices, will discuss feminisms, gender equality and the rights of sexual minorities, including through the lens of decolonial and intersectional approaches.

Panelist included, WiSER's Associate Professor, Hlonipha Mokoena

Hosted on May 20. 

Congratulations to Editor Makhosazana Xaba, and the 23 contributors on winning the NIHSS award for non-fiction. The compelling book, Our Words Our Worlds, explores the history and impact of poetry by black women.

'In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family'.

by Sakiru Adebayo

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Keith Breckenridge's presentation to the HSRC African Narratives of AI workshop

Two days after Nigeria celebrated its sixtieth year of independence, a video of a young man brazenly killed by a member of the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad or SARS caught the attention of netizens. The Twitter user who posted the viral video claimed the man’s body had been left at the side of the road and his Lexus stolen.