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Critical Literary Arts in Action: The Decolonial Project of Ba re e ne re within and beyond Lesotho
In this article Lineo Segoete and Zachary Rosen of the Maseru Working Group explore the historical construction of literary infrastructure established in Lesotho. Building on an analysis of Sesotho language orthography by Dr Litšepiso Matlosa , the pair recall the colonial genesis of written Sesotho by Swiss and French missionaries. As a result of this influence,…
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Nyanza Working Group launches «École du Soir» (February 2020)
École du soir (Evening School, EDS for short) is a multiform hosting structure for collective feeling, cooperative thinking, and mutual action. EDS is convened by artist Christian Nyampeta, with the support of and alongside a chorus of fellow artists, institutions, and networks. The structure of this “evening school” draws from Senegalese writer and film director Ousmane…
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Maseru Working Group in Dialogue with the Balisa in Sefikeng for International Literacy Day (10 September 2019).
The Maseru Working Group was invited to collaborate with the Lesotho Council of NGOs (LCN) and Lesotho Association of Non-formal Education (LANFE) to host a community dialogue with Herders (Balisa) in Sefikeng, Berea on 10 September 2019. The aim of the event was to engage on the value of literacy and education among Balisa and…
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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…
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Decolonising Literacy with Critical Pedagogy
WORKING GROUP: MASERU AUTHORS: BA RE E NE RE LITERARY ARTS : LINEO SEGOETE, ZACHARY ROSEN ABSTRACT This Learning Unit is intended to provide activity plans for students or other learners in late primary to high school, though they can be shared with any group of people with moderate literacy skills. The activities may be…
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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…
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Maseru and Cuernavaca participate in «Elephants in the Room» at Casco, Utrecht (November 2018)
Elephants in the Room, presented by Casco Art Institute in the Netherlands in November 2018, was the first in a new yearly assembly aimed at becoming a meeting place for art organizations to question habitual institutional patterns and imagine ways of “commoning” together. This year’s assembly was designed to investigate how, in relation to ideas…
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The Maseru Working Group contributes to the VANSA Organising Handbook (October 2018)
Lineo Segoete (Maseru) was invited by Visual Arts Network South Africa (VANSA) to attend a meeting of arts, cultural and arts educational peers from the region that eventually resulted in the creation of a handbook for ‘organising’. The book details some of the experiences of and strategies for organising that are currently adopted by arts…