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Co-creation TOOLKIT for UNESCO
Phase 1 September -December 2023 As part of our residency at Javett-UP we were tasked with developing a toolkit for them as a deliverable to the UNESCO Office for Southern Africa. The project was building on the outcomes of the ongoing National Liberation Movements Heritage Programme implemented by the UNESCO Office for Southern Africa, as…
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JAVETT-UP RESIDENCY 2023-2024
August 2023 – March 2024 THE PROGRAMME WAS AS FOLLOWS August September October November December January February March
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ARAC METHODS
Where we work from Our respective countries, environments, and disciplines, inform what we end up contributing to the collective. This is to say we are inspired and motivated by our societies and their politics, the spaces we occupy; the architecture and natural topography thereof, things both tangible and intangible and of course the conversations we…
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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…