Symposium on Modern Heritage of Africa – MoHoA

 

University of Cape Town

Centre for African Studies

 

Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 September

 

 

MOHOA in conjunction with the University of Cape Town and the UCT CMC(Conference Management centre) hosted a virtual conference from the 22-24 September 2021. Very interesting presentations and discussion took place over the 3 days and MoHoA would like to thank all the presenters for their valuable input and contributions. Each plenary session, breakout session and closing remarks session was recorded and edited and these videos are accessible via the MoHoA YouTube channel. You may access these video links directly by clicking on the link below each sub heading in the programme below. The conference proceeding can also be found below by clicking on the link

MoHoA Conference Proceeding

Day 1 - Wednesday 22 September 2021

 

Organisers

African World Heritage Fund (AWHF), Heritage Hub, University of Cape Town (UCT), Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL & UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Time

10:00 – 17:00 South Africa Time                      

10:00 – 10:05

Welcome by Program Director

  • Professor Shadreck Chirikure, University of Cape Town

10:05 – 10:30

Opening remarks

  • Prof Sue Harrison, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation - University of Cape Town (UCT)
  • Dr Jyoti Hosagrahar, Deputy Director – UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  • Mr Souayibou Varissou, Executive Director - African World Heritage Fund (AWHF)
  • Mr Joseph King,  Director, Partnership and Communication,ICCROM, on behalf of the Advisory Bodies
  • Prof L. Ntsebeza, Director- Centre for African Studies-UCT

10:30 – 11:15

Plenary 1 - Globality and Universal Relevance – Chair: Prof Shahid Vawda

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Plenary session 1_Globality and Universal Relevance_Dr Olga Bialostocka

11:15 – 11:30

Break

11.30-13.00

Breakout Session 1

 

  1. Assembling/Genealogies of Modern Heritages -    Chair:Laura Robinson

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Breakout Session 1A_Assembling/Genealogies of Modern Heritages

 

  • Ben Tosland

Godwin and Hopwood: within the Genealogy of Tropical Architecture (1956-’60)
  • Adekunle Adeyemo and Bayo Amole

A treasure trove of Modern Architecture: Arieh Sharon’s Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (Video presentation)
  • Alyssa K. Barry (French presentation)

The Heritage (s) of Independence for a Modern Approach to African heritage: the Ivorian and Senegalese examples
  • Affoh Guenneguez (French presentation)

A traditional heritage inseparable from modern heritage
 
  1. Heritage, Sustainability and Environment –  Chair: Muhammad Juma

 MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Breakout Session 1B_Heritage, Sustainability and Environment

 

  • Oscah Mahoso

Is nature and society a simple dichotomy or a complex one? Investigating the implications of bridging the gap between cultural and natural heritage in promoting sustainable development in Africa
  • Silvia Bodei, Rodney Harber

Modern Architectural Heritage at Risk: the Case of the Biermann House in Durban, South Africa
  • Michieletto M. & Bay V.

A lesson of sustainability given by the modern heritage in the DR Congo: The sacred architecture of Paul Dequeker
 
  1. Infrastructure and Immateriality of the Built Environment -   Chair:Toma Berlanda

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Breakout Session 1C_Infrastructure and Immateriality of the Built Environment

  • Anooradha Siddiq

Heritage as Restitution: The Dadaab Refugee Camps, Kenya
  • Tsholofelo Koopedi

From Dirt Roads to Black Gold Roads
  • Filippo De Dominicis

In the Middle of Nowhere: Infrastructural Mining Schemes and the Making of Global Africa
  • Dawit Abraha & Nelly Cantaneo

The Massawa-Asmara Ropeway:From a component of a multimodal transport system in the 19030’s to a missing heritage
 
  1. Pedagogy and Heritage -  Chair:  David Stehl

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Breakout Session 1D_Pedagogy and Heritage

  • Annabel Pretty and Bianca Muponda

Evaluating Great Zimbabwe through Analytical Drawing
  • Nmadili Okwumabua

A call for Academic Platforms for Teaching a New Pedagogy in African Centered Architecture.
  • Sibongiseni Phunguza

Cultivating Afro-Centric pedagogies through heritage institutions: A critical analysis of post apartheid South African high school history curriculum
 

 

13.00-14.00

Lunch Break

14.00 – 15:30

Breakout Sessions 2

 

  1. Assembling/Genealogies of Modern Heritages -   Chair: Philippa  Tumubweinee

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Breakout Session 2A_Assembling/Genealogies of Modern Heritages

The Modern Architecture of Arieh Sharons Obafemi Awolowo Univesity, Ile-iIe, Nigeria Campus
  • Daniela Ruggeri

On the way to the thousand kasbahs, tourist settlements of the Modernity: a heritage that needs to be preserved.
  • Karen Munting

Cultural Landscapes and the Vernacular: a Case Ytudy of the Tankwa Karoo
  1. De-centering Official Heritage -    Chair: Edward Denison

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Breakout Session 2B_De-centering Official Heritage

  • Leonhard von Reinersdorff

Relations Around Monumental Architecture in Post-Independence Cote d’Ivoire: Explored Through the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro
  • Keren Kuenberg, Dr. Takele Merid, William Heath, Pauline Swaby-Wallace

My (remote) Life and Ethiopia's Progress - A performative conversation exploring the domestic remains of the last Emperor of Ethiopia
  • Chandler McCoy

Twentieth-Century Historic Thematic Framework: Modern Heritage of Africa Workshop
  • Ralwala Anthony Oduor

Honouring National Heroes through Architecture: a case of the Presidential Mausoleum
 
  1. Heritage, Sustainability and Environment -   Chair: Shadreck  Chirikure

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Breakout Session 2C_Heritage, Sustainability and Environment

  • Michael Boyd

The N4 HIghway
  • Timpoko Kienon (French presentation)

The Colonial Architecture of Cote d’Ivoire : a Modern Heritage in Danger to be Safeguarded and Enhanced for Sustainable Development.When reconversation doesn’t meet sustainability: Case of some abandoned modern/ex-colonial architectures in Casablanca
  • Majda Abida , Giovanni Santi

When reconversation doesn’t meet sustainability: Case of some abandoned modern/ex-colonial architectures in Casablanca
 
  1. Heritage, Conflict and Change -    Chair: Albino Jopela

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Breakout Session 2D_Heritage, Conflict and Change

  • Khensani de Klerk

How might the everyday lived experiences of Black women and women of colour (WOC) in Cape Town reimagine approaches to improving safe space social infrastructures and ultimately play a role in refiguring the visibility of Black women in architectural and spatial archives?
  • Peet Van Biljon

The Significance of the De Bult Enclave Heritage in the Town of Carnarvon, Northern Cape, South Africa
  • Nocebo Bucibo 

Lived Space – Of Soul and Joy: The lived representational experience of Thokoza: Kuphela Amazinyo Endoda
 
  1. Past and present in Heritage-  Chair:       Noëleen Murray-Cooke

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Breakout Session 2E_Past and present in Heritage

  • Noëleen Murray-Cooke, Svea Josephy

Considerations of Architecture and Urbanism: Designing, Theorizing, Photographing Cities and Structures.
  • Dr Rachel King

Salvaging tradition, developing modernity: Practices and problematics in infrastructure’s heritage impacts, southern Africa
  • Dr. Denise Lim & Alison Gilchrest

Reclaiming African Heritage for the Post-COVID Era
  • Alexander Andreou

All That Glitters is not Gold: authenticity and historical accuracy in representations of Mapungubwe
 

 

15.30 – 15.45

Break

15.45 – 16.30

Summary of key issues to inform the Draft Cape Town Document

Prof Shadreck Chirikure, University of Cape Town

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium_Summary of key issues to inform the Draft Cape Town Document_Day 1

16.30 – 17.30

Keynote Presentation – Conceptualising MoHoA

  • Professor Ola Uduku, Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 1_Keynote Presentation_ Conceptualising MoHoA_Professor Ola Uduku
EVENING MANAGEMENT SESSION

 

Organiser

African World Heritage Fund (AWHF), Heritage Hub, University of Cape Town (UCT), Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL & UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Time

18.00 Wednesday 22 September 2021

 

Activities

Appraisal of the day’s events

Cape Town Document Drafting Group
 

Day 2: 23rd September 2021

Organiser

African World Heritage Fund (AWHF), Heritage Hub, University of Cape Town (UCT), Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL & UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Time

 10:00 – 17:00 South Africa Time                     

10:00 – 10:05

Welcome by Program Director

  • Professor Shadreck Chirikure, University of Cape Town

10:05 – 11:05

Plenary 2 – MoHoA  and World Heritage

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 2_ Opening Plenary_MoHoA and World Heritage 23 September

  • World Heritage Centre– Dr Jyoti Hosagrahar  
  • – Espéra Donouvossi, ICCROM
  • Response: AWHF

11.05-12.35

 

Breakout Session 3

 

  1. Performance and Orality as Contemporary/Modernity –  Chair: Shahid Vawda

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 2_Breakout 3A_Performance and Orality as Contemporary/Modernity

  • Mahlaselka, Lindixiwa

Senzeni Na? Honouring the Role of Liberation Songs as a Powerful Tool That Gave a Voice and Power to South Africa’s Oppressed Majority in the Struggle to End Apartheid
  • Yahya Mohammad

PERFORMANCE: Swahilili Music as traditional, sacred and modern: a shared heritage (video and narrative presentation)
  • Robert Mrima

PERFORMANCE: Case of Qaswida Music heritage under performing arts
 
  1. Urban Heritage, Colonialism and Modernity –  Chair: Edward Denison

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 2_Breakout Session 3B_Urban Heritage, Colonialism and Modernity

  • Corinna Del Bianco

Imagining new forms of urban development through the enhancement of the local culture of living. The Pemba case study in Mozambique.
  • Maurietta Stewart

Counter-Mapping Heritage: Memory and Significance in Places of Raciliased Land Dispossession- the Case of Lower Claremont, Cape Town
 
  1. Whose Shared Heritage? –  Chair: Philippa Tumubweinee

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 2_Breakout Session 3C_Whose Shared Heritage?

  • Palesa Kadi

The demise of Red Location Cultural Precinct: A glance into Public memory, Which public? Whose memory?
  • Julia Gallagher, Kuukuwa Manful, Innocent Ncube, Joanne Tomkinson

Ambivalent African Modernities
  • Patricia R. Noormahomed

Reading Modern Architecture in Mozambique as a palimpsest of (re)appropriation
 

 

12.35– 13:35

Lunch Break

 

13:35 – 15:00

 

 

 

 

 

Breakout sessions 4

 

  1. Performance and Orality as Contemporary/Modernity – Chair:  Mike Turner

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 2_Breakout 4A_Performance and Orality as Contemporary/Modernity

  • Swahiliport: Rajab Salim

Interpretation of the Modern Heritage of Africa in the Performing Arts: A Case Study of Swahili Culture Music Taarab.
  • Swahiliport:Raphael Igombo

Influence of Cultural Heritage on Visual Arts
  1. Urban Heritage, Colonialism and Modernity – Chair: Laura Robinson

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 2_Breakout Session 4B_Urban Heritage, Colonialism and Modernity

  • Naomi Roux and Deirdre Prins-Solani

Urban heritage for transformative futures: Architecture, intangible heritage and belonging in Cape Town
  • Swahiliport: Fatma Twahir

Swahili Architecture, fusion of the traditional and modernity
  • Rim Kelouaze

Expression of Liberation Movements through Modern Architecture in Africa: "Afro-Brazilian and Neo-Moorish" Liberation Architectures
  1. Whose Shared Heritage? – Chair: Toma Berlanda

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 2_Breakout Session 4C_Whose Shared Heritage?

  • Thomais Kordonouri 

Asmara’s architectural heritage as a bricolage: The case of St. Mary’s Orthodox Church
  • Franck Privat GONNÉ (French Presentation)

Urban heritage of Greater Abidjan and Alexandria: attractiveness and repulsion
  • Uta Pottgiesser,  Ola Uduku, Kuukuwa Manful, Taibat Lawanson, Mark Olweny

Shared Heritage Africa. A Documentary Rediscovery.
  • Dr Harriet McKay 

Between Historic House and Guesthouse: The Curious Case of Satyagraha, Johannesburg

 

15:00 – 15.30

Reporting from the Breakout sessions

 

15:30 – 16:30

Discussion of Draft Document

  • Discussants: Shadreck Chirikure and Edward Denison

16.30-16.45

Break

16:45– 17:15

End of Day 2 Plenary 3 – The way forward, Chair: Ishanlosen Odiaua

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium Day 2_ Closing Plenary_The Way Forward

Cape Town Document

Capacity Building – Heritage Hubs

Lessons from Africa - UCL 2022 symposium

17.15 – 17.45

Closing remarks

UCL 2022 –

  • Christoph Lindner, Dean, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment;

 

AWHF

  • Mr Souayibou Varissou, Executive Director - African World Heritage Fund (AWHF)
  • Dr Albino Jopela

 

UCT

  • Professor Shadreck Chirikure
  • Professor  Shahid Vawda

17:45-18:45

EVENING MANAGEMENT SESSION

Appraisal of the day’s events

  • Cape Town Document Drafting Group

10:00-11:00

24th September 2021 – South Africa Heritage Day

Presentation of Draft Cape Town Document

MoHoA Cape Town Symposium_South African Heritage Day_Presentation of Draft Cape Town Document