As part of Africa Month celebrations, the Department of Arts and Culture will conduct a series of colloquia under the theme, "The Year of OR Tambo: Building a Better Africa and a Better World" to celebrate the legacy of OR Tambo and to promote African Unity. A panel comprising of leading minds in the country and the continent has been assembled to deliberate on issues of decolonization, given the lingering legacy of colonialism and apartheid, especially that in recent years there has been an upsurge in thinking about decolonisation especially by younger generations and also in the context of our quest for radical socio-economic and cultural transformation.
Termed, A Festival of Ideas, the colloquia programme will be graced by experts, scholars, public intellectuals, authors, novelists, filmmakers, poet and activists poets such as Prof Horace Campbell from Syracuse University in the USA and also the Kwame Nkrumah Institute in Ghana, Prof Zakes Mda and Dr Wally Serote, alongside Tsitsi Dangarembga from Zimbabwe, Odia Ofeimun from Nigeria amongst others, will be participating in discussions and readings around the country. This year's discussion programme also looks at the importance of narratives for a reading nation and the crafting of stories for the African child. Therefore we will be joined by 7 year old author, Michelle Nkamankeng, alongside other authors of children's books.
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