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Their talk, titled “Managing access: spatial challenges and the regulation of culture”, will look at the challenges that Cape Town will face in trying to fulfil its bid for the World Design Capital 2014.
The series of talks are part of the Infecting the City Public Art Festival. Pieterse and Farouk will be speaking on Thursday 14 March from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM at 6 Spin Street.
Muzi Kuzwayo, author of Black Man’s Medicine, has written a column for Business Day in which he talks about education as a foundation for the economic liberation of all Africans.
I am as happy as a pig in mud because I see Africa uniting and rising in our lifetime. South Africans are getting married to Zimbabweans and the Nigerian accent is the new cool as Nollywood grows.
Judging by the number of friends and relatives I have whose parents came from Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Botswana or Namibia, these countries may well be provinces of the Republic of South Africa.
über(W)unden: Art in Troubled Times is a wide-ranging and illustration-rich investigation into how writers, visual artists, theatre practitioners, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers and photographers from various sub-Saharan countries, including Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe, as well as their counterparts in Germany, have creatively engaged with social traumas.
How does social trauma impact on the making of works by artists? What role do artists play during times of crisis and social change? What aesthetic vocabularies do artists develop to engage with social traumas? And, in societies recovering from war, mass killings, xenophobia or racism, can the arts play a healing role? This volume presents a range of responses that intellectually and imaginatively engage these pressing issues.
The title of this book, über(W)unden, has a double meaning in German. As a noun, über Wunden means “about wounds”, whereas, as a verb, überwunden translates as “to overcome” or “to heal”. Artistic work dealing with traumatic experiences may produce both these effects: they may directly engage with the wounds of conflict and trauma, but they may also underline societal changes and upheavals as catalysts for new beginnings.
Although largely historical in nature, the line of enquiry in this book is particularly relevant to the turbulent times of the present. über(W)unden: Art in Troubled Times immerses the reader in an urgent dialogue around culture and conflict.
Contributors
Aboudia, Diane Awerbuck, Sammy Baloji, Vincenzo Cavallo, Center for Historical Reenactments, Kudzanai Chiurai, Jens Dietrich, Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, Stacy Hardy, Sam Hopkins, Malte Jaguttis, Emmanuel Jal, Rumbi Katedza, William Kentridge, Antjie Krog, Faustin Linyekula, Kathleen MacQueen, Zanele Muholi, Djo Tunda wa Munga, Hans Narva, Warren Nebe, Théogène Niwenshuti, Marcel Odenbach, João Orecchia, Sello Pesa, Jo Ractliffe, Dierk Schmidt, Véronique Tadjo, Marcel van Heerden.
About the editors and designer
Lien Heidenreich-Seleme is head of cultural programmes sub-Saharan Africa at the Goethe-Institut South Africa. She studied Languages and International Law at the Freie Universität in Berlin and joined the Goethe-Institut in 2004. She was the director of the Goethe-Institut in Afghanistan before coming to Johannesburg in 2008 to support the opening of new institutes and offices of the Goethe-Institut in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2011, she organised the regional project über(W)unden: Art in Troubled Times as part of the Goethe-Institut’s focus theme “culture and conflict”.
Gabrielle Guy is a graphic designer based in Cape Town. She has designed numerous monographs and photobooks, notably for Guy Tillim, Claudette Schreuders, Steven Cohen, Youssef Nabil, Anton Kannemeyer, Jo Ractliffe and Zanele Muholi – the latter two receiving Photobook Award 2011 nominations. She has also collaborated on projects with photographer Stan Engelbrecht, designing Das is(s)t Deutschland (2008) and Bicycle Portraits (2012). She is a former art director of Art South Africa magazine.
The Chair of Judges, Bernardine Evaristo MBE, announced Rotimi Babatunde as the winner of the £10 000 prize at a dinner held on Monday, 2 July at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Bernardine Evaristo said: “‘Bombay’s Republic’ vividly describes the story of a Nigerian soldier fighting in the Burma campaign of World War Two. It is ambitious, darkly humorous and in soaring, scorching prose exposes the exploitative nature of the colonial project and the psychology of Independence.”
Rotimi Babatunde’s fiction and poems have been published in Africa, Europe and America in journals which include Die Aussenseite des Elementes and Fiction on the Web and in anthologies including Little Drops and A Volcano of Voices. He is a winner of the Meridian Tragic Love Story Competition organised by the BBC World Service and his plays have been staged and presented by institutions which include the Halcyon Theatre, Chicago and the Institute for Contemporary Arts. He is currently taking part in a collaboratively produced piece at the Royal Court and the Young Vic as part of World Stages for a World City. Babatunde lives in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Also shortlisted were:
Billy Kahora (Kenya) “Urban Zoning” from McSweeney’s Vol. 37 (San Francisco, 2011)
Stanley Kenani (Malawi) “Love on Trial” from For Honour and Other Stories published by eKhaya/Random House Struik (Cape Town, 2011)
Melissa Tandiwe Myambo (Zimbabwe) “La Salle de Départ” from Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.2 (New Orleans, June, 2010)
Constance Myburgh (South Africa) “Hunter Emmanuel” from Jungle Jim Issue 6, (Cape Town, 2011)
The panel of judges is chaired by Bernardine Evaristo, the award-winning author of six books of fiction and verse fiction. Her new novel, Mr Loverman, will be published by Penguin in 2013. She is a literary critic, teaches creative writing at Brunel University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
Alongside Bernardine on the panel of judges this year are cultural journalist Maya Jaggi; Zimbabwean poet, songwriter and writer Chirikure Chirikure; Associate Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC Samantha Pinto; and the Sudanese CNN television correspondent Nima Elbagir.
Once again the winner of the £10 000 Caine Prize will be given the opportunity of taking up a month’s residence at Georgetown University, as a Writer-in-Residence at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. The award covers all travel and living expenses. The winner will also be invited to take part in the Open Book Festival in Cape Town in September 2012 and events hosted by the Museum of African Art in New York in November 2012.
Previous winners are Sudanese Leila Aboulela (2000), Nigerian Helon Habila (2001), Kenyan Binyavanga Wainaina (2002), Kenyan Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (2003), Zimbabwean Brian Chikwava (2004), Nigerian Segun Afolabi (2005), South African Mary Watson (2006), Ugandan Monica Arac de Nyeko (2007), South African Henrietta Rose-Innes (2008), Nigerian EC Osondu (2009) and Sierra Leonean Olufemi Terry (2010).
The Caine Prize, awarded annually for African creative writing, is named after the late Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc and Chairman of the Booker Prize management committee for nearly 25 years. The prize is awarded for a short story by an African writer published in English (indicative length 3 000 to 10 000 words). An “African writer” is normally taken to mean someone who was born in Africa, or who is a national of an African country, or whose parents are African.
The African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee, are patrons of The Caine Prize, as is Chinua Achebe, winner of the Man Booker International Prize. Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne is President of the Council, Ben Okri OBE is Vice President, Jonathan Taylor CBE is the Chairman and Ellah Allfrey OBE is the Deputy Chairperson.
The stories written at Caine Prize workshops are published annually alongside the Prize’s shortlisted stories by New Internationalist (UK), Jacana Media (South Africa), Cassava Republic (Nigeria), Kwani? (Kenya), and this year’s new co-publishers: Sub-Saharan Publishers (Ghana), FEMRITE (Uganda), and Bookworld Publishers (Zambia). Books are available from the publishers or from the Africa Book Centre, African Books Collective or Amazon.
The Walkers discussed their book, which deals with the current rhino crisis in South Africa, and explain the various solutions that people are putting forward to curb poaching:
We saved the rhino once and we can save it again, says conservationist Clive Walker, co-founder of the Endangered Wildlife Trust. Clive and his son, Anton Walker, are in Joburg to promote their book, The Rhino Keepers: Struggle for Survival (Jacana Media). That they are clearly more at home in the bush is not surprising — Clive is a conservation legend, and Anton, who is the GM of Lapalala Wilderness, is quietly making a name for himself in the rhino world too.
South Africa’s rhino story is remarkable in conservation circles across the world. By 1900, hunters had left only about 50 white rhino in Africa and about 25,000 of the more elusive black rhino. Last year, South Africa was home to about 20,755 white rhino and 4,985 black (an improvement on 1992’s 2,300). More than 80% of the world’s rhinos live here. Poaching has always been with us, but of the about 1,530 rhinos wiped out since 1980, 1,280 were killed between 2007 and mid-July this year. This year alone, 281 were dead by mid-July.
Cara Snyman, who co-edited Shoe Shop along with Marie-Hélène Gutberlet, spoke to The Citizen‘s Leigh-Anne Hunter about the notions of belonging, boundaries and migration that formed the idea for the book.
Snyman and Gutberlet noticed that when people spoke about movement and space they tended to use general terms and overarching narratives. The book offers an alternative space for people to tell their personal stories and explore the subtleties of these issues.
“Step, tread, pace, stride, stroll, saunter, strut, stalk, prance…” begins the book, Shoe Shop, a Goethe- Institut initiative.
Walking is something we do every day, yet we seldom slow down to appreciate what this means for us as individuals and in a broader social context.
“It would be close to impossible to find a single individual in South Africa whose history and self-de-finition is not related to some form of migration,” write Marie-Hélène Gutberlet and Cara Snyman in Shoe Shop.
Adebajo was in conversation with Gilbert Khadiagala, head of the Department of International Relations at Wits, in a session chaired by UWC‘s Jimi Adesina.
The CCR has made a series of podcasts from the discussion available for download:
Chair - Professor Jimi Adesina: Download Speaker - Dr Adekeye Adebajo: Download Speaker - Professor Gilbert Khadiagala: Download Audience Q&A: Download
Jacana Media, Hyde Park Corner and Exclusive Books are delighted to invite you to the launch of The Rhino Keepers: Struggle for Survival at Tashas le parc in Hyde Park Corner on Thursday 19 July at 6:30 PM.
Purchase a Save the Rhino bracelet from Rhino Force (R30) to gain entry. Available at Hyde Park Exclusive Books and the Information stand (Woolworths entrance).
Event Details
Date: Thursday, 19 July 2012
Time: 6:30 PM for 7:00 PM
Venue: Tashas le parc,
Hyde Park Corner,
Cnr William Nicol Drive and 6th Road,
Johannesburg | Map
Dr Adekeye Adebajo, author of UN Peacekeeping in Africa and Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), will speaking at two public dialogue sessions, “UN Peacekeeping in Africa: From the Suez Crisis to the Sudan Conflicts” and “The EU and Africa: From Eurafrique to Afro-Europa”.
Event Details: UN Peacekeeping in Africa
Date: Sunday, 17 June 2012
Time: 10:00 AM
Venue: Cape Town Book Fair (Room 1.42),
Cape Town International Convention Center,
1 Lower Long Street,
Cape Town | Map
Speakers: Jimi Adesina, Adekeye Adebajo and Gilbert Khadiagala
Event Details: The EU and Africa
Date: Sunday, 17 June 2012
Time: 2:00 PM
Venue: Cape Town Book Fair (Room 1.43-1.44)
Cape Town International Convention Center,
1 Lower Long Street,
Cape Town | Map
Speakers: Gilbert Khadiagala, Adekeye Adebajo and Talitha Bertelsmann-Scott
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