Why African Studies in Africa?
Director of CAS presents at the IAS-HUFS and IAS-Universität Bayreuth Joint Conference on African Studies: 'The Different and The Similar', in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, 25-27 October 2018.
Professor Ntzebeza presented a paper on ”Why African Studies in Africa?” with Ajay Dubey of Jawahalal Nehru University, India who spoke on “African Studies in Asia: Initiatives and Imperatives for an Asian-Africanist Network”.
Other presenters included
- Livio Sansone (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil) on ”The South-South Perspective in African Studies and the Perils of New Populism”;
- Carlos Fernandes (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique) “The Elusive Center: Intellectual Legacies, Scholarship and Neo-liberalism in Post-independent Mozambique”;
- Itaru Ohta (Kyoto University, Japan) ”A Historiography of African Studies in Japan”;
- Kithaka wa Mberia (Division of African Studies-HUFS/University of Nairobi, Kenya) on ”The OZI Hypothesis of Kiswahili Origins”;
- Atta Britwum (University of Cape Coast, Ghana) ”The Colonial in the Post-colonial: Nationalist Discourse in African Literature”;
- Marta Emilia Cordies Jackson (Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba) on ”Oral Literature in Africa and the Caribbean Sea”; and
- Akua O Britwum (University of Cape Coast, Ghana) on ”Women’s Tenure Making Strategies: Bridging Gendered Land Rights as Agents”.
The 2019 international conference will be hosted at CAS.