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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
13 February 2015
10 February 2015
This weekend two great African writers died, one from the south of the continent (see 'A Dutch salute to André Brink' below) and one from the north: Assia Djebar (pseudonyme of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen) died in Paris on the evening of 6 February at the age of 78. Born in 1936 in the village of Cherchell (northern Algeria) where her father taught French, she was to become one of North Africa's most important francophone writers. She has published nearly twenty titles - novels, prose and poetry - which were translated into more than twenty languages. In her work she defended women's rights and the emancipation of muslim women.
09 February 2015
André Brink, who died on 6 February 2015 (aged 79), was one of the most prolific writers of South Africa. Brink, who taught English literature at the University of Cape Town, died aboard a KLM flight when returning to Cape Town from Amsterdam after receiving an honorary doctorate at Leuven University. Though Brink was primarily known as an anti-apartheid writer, he was a many-sided author, who wrote novels, plays, travel literature and academic books. Brink wrote his novels simultaneously in Afrikaans and English. He was one of South Africa’s most outspoken literary figures.
06 February 2015
Africa is often associated with oral traditions. Little is known that a formal school system was introduced in the West-Central African Kongo kingdom in the beginning of the 16th century, some years after Portuguese navigators first established contact with the Kongo royal elite. Inge Brinkman (Ghent University) will discuss the Kongo school system in terms of global integration and local appropriation during this ASC seminar on 23 April.
06 February 2015
06 February 2015
This ASC seminar on 2 April wants to contribute to discussions that aim to reassess 'fortress conservation' ideas and practices. It does so by analyzing how new online media are changing the politics of access to and control over increasingly militarized protected areas. Focusing on South Africa’s Kruger National Park, Bram Büscher (Wageningen University) argues that new media such as online groups, webcams and mobile phone apps encourage a new politics of social distinction in relation to the park and what it represents.
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