3L Conference on Literature, Language and Linguistics, National University of Lesotho (5-7 February 2019)
Members of the Maseru Working Group presented their first academic paper, ‘Decolonial Literary Practice in Lesotho: The Work of Ba re e ne re Literature Festival’ at this conference, which was jointly organised by Departments of African Languages and Literature, English, French and Communications and Study Skills Unit of the Faculty of Humanities at the National University of Lesotho.
Maseru Working Group Collaborates with Inkanyiso (ZA) for the Rutanang Project (28 January - 1 February 2019)
Member organisations of the Maseru working group collaborated with Inkanyiso, a South African queer media and activism organisation, to co-facilitate a photography and creative writing workshop for young women. The aim of the Rutanang project was to produce a body of visual and written work on the topic of violence against women and vulnerable groups. The workshop gave participants a platform to talk about their lives, society, and environment while also providing an opportunity for them to gain practical transferrable skills in photography, videography and writing.
Nyanza Working Group convenes a Conference at Kagbayi Grand Seminary Philosophicum St Thomas Aquinas for UNESCO World Philosophy Day (23 January 2019)
In January 2019, Christian Nyampeta and Isaie Nzeyimana of the Nyanza Working Group co-convened a conference on the occasion of World Philosophy Day, an event organized annually by the National Commission of UNESCO, in collaboration with ARPHI (the Association Rwandaise des Philosophes).
Lubumbashi hosts the Cairo and Nyanza Working Groups for an Exhibition, Work Week and Workshop at Waza Art Centre (25 November – 10 December 2018)
The Lubumbashi Working Group invited members of the Cairo and Nyanza working groups to meet them for two weeks at Waza Arts Centre. The invitees were all member of an internal Another Roadmap working group tasked with creating an ‘exhibition kit’ for the Intertwining Hi/Stories cluster, and the aim of this gathering was to continue the reflections and practical explorations they had begun at the International Meeting of the Another Roadmap School in Huye, Rwanda, earlier in the year. They sought primarily to explore the possibilities of materialising and (re)presenting, through an exhibition model, the research, ways of life, practices, protocols, programmes and activities conducted by the network. The meeting in Lubumbashi was attended by members of the Lubumbashi, Nyanza and Cairo Working Groups and consisted of different public and semi public engagements as well as various research meetings.
Kampala Working Group Research is Published in The Palgrave Handbook on Race and the Arts in Education
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa of the Kampala Working Group had her essay, ‘Margaret Trowell’s School of Art, or How to Keep the Children’s Work Really African’ published in 2018 in the Palgrave Handbook on Race and the Arts in Education, which was edited by Amelia M. Kraehe, Stephen B. Carpenter II and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández of the Another Roadmap Toronto Working Group.
