Symposium in Zurich at Shedalle
The symposium intertwining hi/stories of arts education took place in June 2018 in Zürich, Switzerland. The symposium invited students, art educators, researchers and cultural producers to reflect on the histories of education in and through art.
École du soir (The Evening Academy)
Christian Nyampeta, conceived a reiteration Ecole Du Soir of EDS (Evening School) a concept first introduced by legend Ousmane Sembene of Senegal.
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 to advocate for their cultural and political representation. The event served as a platform for Balisa ba ka Sefikeng to express their creativity, frustrations and ambitions.
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.
