Most of the different African contexts in which efforts are being made to establish and sustain feminist scholarship and activism are recognised as ‘post-colonial’, in the sense that they are no longer under the yoke of institutionalised colonialism.
However, ‘post-colonial’ also refers to academic and political pursuits and endeavours to dismantle deeply embedded eurocentric, globalised norms and biases within academic scholarship. The Colloquium will be an opportunity for Norwegian and Nordic scholars to gain insights from, and begin a dialogue with, scholars who are at the forefront of the development of postcolonial feminist approaches within, and in relation to, African contexts and the African diaspora.
Program
10.00 - 10.15 Welcome & Introduction by madeleine kennedy-macfoy (STK)
10.15 - 11.00 "Reprendre: The Colonial Library and the Modern Sub-Saharan African Subject."
Professor Frieda Ekotto, Department of Afro-American and African Studies (DAAS) and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
11.00 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 12.00 "Dancing the Kimba Vita Way: Postcolonial Feminist Readings of the Bible".
Professor Musa Dube, Faculty of Humanities, University of Botswana
12.00 - 12.30 Discussion