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Thursday, 18th November 2004Panel I:
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| 9:00-9:30 | Ernest E. Emenyonu (Flint/Michigan, USA) The dynamics of creativity in Igbo language literature: from Pita Nwana to Tonie Ubesie |
| 9:30-10:00 | Erika Eichholzer (Hannover, Germany) The first novel in Twi/Akan |
| 10:00-10:30 | Crispin Maalu-Bungi (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Kongo) Written literature in Congolese languages: genesis and principal genres |
| Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Philemon Buti Skhosana (Pretoria, South Africa) Thematic survey of isiNdebele short story writing |
| 11:30-12:00 | Daniel Kunene (Madison/Wisconsin, USA) The beginning of literacy among the indigenous people of South Africa |
| 12:00-12:30 | Flora Veit-Wild (Berlin, Germany) Creation, reception and literary features of Feso by Solomon Mutswairo |
| 12:30-13:00 | Maurice Taonezvi Vambe (Pretoria, South Africa) The Shona novel and the promises of postcolonial reading |
| Lunch break |
| 14:00-14:30 | Mélanie Bourlet (Paris, France) The emergence of contemporary creative writing in Fulani/Pulaar |
| 14:30-15:00 | Christine Glanz (Hamburg, Germany) Creative writing in Luganda |
| 15:00-15:30 | Kiba-Mwenyu (Stockholm, Sweden) Kimbundu literature: origins and continuity |
| Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Abdalla Uba Adamu (Kano, Nigeria) Loud bubbles from a silent brook: trends and tendencies in contemporary Hausa prose fiction |
| 16:30-17:00 | Jerry Mojalefa (Pretoria, South Africa) Growth and development of Sepedi dramatic authorship |
| 17:00-17:30 | Ashlee Lenta (London, UK) Trying to perform in print: David Yali-Manisi's written praise poetry |
| 17:30-18:00 | Memory Chirere (Harare, Zimbabwe) Stylistic development of the Shona novel: Mapenzi and the craft of leaving the centre |
| Dinner |
| 9:00-9:30 | Mikhail Gromov (Moscow, Russia) The Swahili novel on the turn of the centuries |
| 9:30-10:00 | Lutz Diegner (Cologne, Germany) New trends in the contemporary Swahili novel: some tentative observations |
| 10:00-10:30 | Kimani wa Njogu (Nairobi, Kenya) Grandfather resurrects: Said Ahmed redefines realism in Kiswahili literature |
| Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Thomas Geider (Cologne, Germany) The appropriation of world literature by modern Swahili literature since Mambo Leo (1923) |
| 11:30-12:00 | Fr. Peter Muiruri (Murang'a, Kenia) The editor's knife: pending and past issues on writing in Gikuyu |
| 12:00-12:30 | Jeff Opland (London, UK) The newspaper as empowering medium of Xhosa literature |
| Lunch break |
| 14:00-14:30 | Sola Ajibade (Ile-Ife, Nigeria) Cosmetics, character, women and the politics of appearance in Yoruba literature |
| 14:30-15:00 | Uta Reuster-Jahn (Mainz, Germany) The presentation of women characters in Swahili novels |
| 15:00-15:30 | Euphrase Kezilahabi (Gaborone, Botswana) Absence and concealment in Swahili poetry |
| Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Almuth Seiler-Dietrich (Bensheim, Germany) Reflections on the issue of language in 'Un latin né parmi les Welches': the diaries of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo |
| 16:30-17:00 | Alina N. Rinkanya (Nairobi, Kenya) Sheng literature in Kenya: a revival? |
17:00-17:30 | Wangui wa Goro (London, UK) Translation: the future of African letters |
| 17:30-18:00 | Kwadwo Osei-Nyame (London, UK) Transliterating/translating African language literatures into English: contextual and ideological relationships with examples from Ghana |
| Dinner |
| 9:00-9:30 | Anja Oed (Mainz, Germany) Audio-visual transformations of Yoruba literary texts: Akinwumi Isola's O le ku and Tunde Kelani's film based on the novel |
| 9:30-10:00 | Walter Bgoya (Dar es Saalam, Tanzania) The endeavor of publishing: its limits of success with Swahili readership |
| 10:00-10:30 | Akin Oyetade (London, UK) Publishing and the market for books on African languages and literatures in the diaspora |
| Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Francis Moto (Zomba, Malawi) Attitudes towards African language literatures in education: the case of Malawi |
| 11:30-12:00 | Dinah Kereeditse Itumeleng (Gaborone, Botswana) Teaching Setswana literature in postcolonial Botswana: past, present and future. |
| 12:00-12:30 | Clara Momanyi (Nairobi, Kenia) The place of Kiswahili literature in higher education: the case of Kenya |
| Lunch break |
| 14:00-14:30 | Chege Githiora (London, UK) Knowledge of language and creative writing in African languages |
| 14:30-15:00 | Fekade Azeze (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) The däbtära 'church intellectual' as an agent of change in Feqer Eskä Mäqaber |
| 15:00-15:30 | Cristina Boscolo (Mainz, Germany) Mediation and continuity in the transmission of the Yoruba aesthetic canon. Moremi: a woman, a story, two plays |
| Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Akinwumi Isola (Ibadan, Nigeria) Literature in African Languages: key to our own bank of developmental images |
| 16:30-17:00 | Jean Chrysotome Nkejabahizi (Kigali, Rwanda) To understand the literature of Rwanda written in Kinyarwanda: writers' concerns, themes and publishing problems |
| 17:00-17:30 | Alena Rettová (Prague, Czech Republic) Ngobani AmaNdebele? The elements of philosophical reflexion in Zimbabwean Ndebele ethnography and historiography |
| 17:30-18:00 | Farouk Topan (London, UK) The expanding world of the Swahili writer |
| Dinner | |
| 20:00 | Literary reading With contributions in different African languages (in both the original version and an English translation) |