Programme

9:30 - Opening interventions - FLUC, Paulo Quintela Theatre
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Albano Figueiredo - Director of FLUC
Paula Dias - Director of the Department of Languages, Literature and Culture of FLUC
Tiago Santos Pereira - CES Director (to be confirmed)
Catarina Martins - Curator of the Afro-Portugal Festival
Apolo de Carvalho - Colloquium Organiser

10:00-12:30 - FLUC, Paulo Quintela Theatre
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Djumbai
“Djumba” is a Guinean word meaning “conversation”. The focus will be on discussing African ideas about Africa through individual presentations. The interventions will have an academic character, centred on research themes with a theoretical and analytical approach.

Panel:
From the colonial library to the pan-African library: philosophy and local knowledges | Jessemusse Cacinda
Decolonising empowerment: the role of Mozambican women in the struggle for justice and social transformation | Paula Machava
Behold the arbitrary and (im)potent realities: an analysis of the dystopian aspects of the Angolan film “Nossa Senhora da Loja do Chinês” (2022) | Peilin Yu
Language and literature: reflecting on the literary “canon” in the CPLP | Salvador Tito

Facilitator: Sumaila Jaló

15:00-18:00 -  Centre for Social Studies, Seminar Room 1
Access by registration, limited to the number of places available.

Ahibuleni
“Ahibuleni” means “let’s talk” in Xichangana (the second most spoken language in Mozambique, mainly in the southern region). This moment will cover a roundtable that symbolically recreates the “dismemberment” conference (Berlin), where the world powers decided the future of Africa without talking to Africans. We thus propose a space for an interactive and performative conversation guided towards the “rememberment” of Africa. The roundtable will include practical, artistic, theoretical, and analytical approaches, promoting a collective reflection on the role of Africans in building their own future.

Panel: Ilda Vaz, Ivânia Vera Cruz, and Nuna
Facilitator: Apolo de Carvalho

18h - Closing reception