Register to be part of the international literature conference is a celebration of African literature in honour of the Life & Works of the 2023 Nobel Prize Laureate: Abdurazak Gurnah. It is planned for November 22nd – 24th 2023.
The International Conference will be held in partnership with The Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA) and Makerere University, Department of Literature with support from The Ford Foundation, The Aga Khan Foundation, The Swedish Embassy and other friends of FEMRITE. The Nobel Prize, which started in 1901, has so far been awarded to 954 individuals. Prof. Gurnah, is the fifth black writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Prof. Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and later relocated to the United Kingdom in the 1960s during the Zanzibar revolution. The citation for his Award, stated that it was “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” He is a novelist and an academic, Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. Some of his notable works include Paradise (1994), shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize, Desertion (2005) and By the Sea (2001) longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is author of many short stories, essays and 10 novels.
This is the range of Subthemes:
- Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Life In perspective
- The Works of Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Migration and African Literature
- Literature in African Languages
- African Literature and Publishing
- The Nobel Prize and African Literature
- Literature and Modern Technology
- Literature and Cultural Technology
- Indigenous Languages in African Literature
- The Role of Translation in African Literature
- Literature and Climate Change
- Literature, Peace Building and Security
- Love, Romance and Betrayal in Abdulrazak works
- Women and African Literature
- African Oral Literature ( Orature) and Decoloniality
- Decolonisation in African Literatures
- Identity and the Diaspora in African Literatures
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
1.Prof. Tina Steiner
2.Dr.Godwin Siundu
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Prof Egara Kabaji (Chairman, Central Planning Committee – CPC
Ms Hilda J. Twongyeirwe (Executive Director FEMRITE – CPC
Dr Wale Okediran (PAWA Secretary General & Member – CPA
