AFRICAN LITERATURE FESTIVAL

Danish Pen, Aarhus University, and Aarhus Litteraturcenter invite you to the African literature festival ‘Dialogue with Africa’ taking place in Aarhus at Godsbanen the 11^th – 14^th of October 2024 where African authors can provide the Danish public with new insights through literature. At the festival, you get to hear many intriguing lectures, debates, and readings with Ghanaian, Ugandan, Kenyan, and Danish authors and researchers. The festival explores parts of the contemporary African literary scene through three themes: ‘Debates in African Literature Right Now’, ‘Africa’s Diverse Languages’, ‘Writers in Exile’, and ‘Representing slavery in Ghana’.

REPRESENTING SLAVERY IN GHANA – 13/10 2024

Today’s festival programme deals with strategies and problems related to the contemporary representation of the Transatlantic slave trade in what is today Ghana. Our three speakers highlight the complexities inherent in narrating this story and presenting it both in a European and West African context.

10:00 Opening and welcome by Mads Anders Baggesgaard.

10:15 Emmanuel Saboro, Cape Coast University, Ghana: Historical and Cultural Memories of the Slave Trade in Ghana: The Hidden and Lost Stories that Spaces and Places Tell.

10:45 William Nsuiban, Ghana Monu: “’Blind Spots: Unveiling the Shadows’, exhibiting slavery in contemporary Ghana”.

11:15 Break.

12:00 Jeppe Brixvold: Presentation of his novel ”I de levendes verden” (In The World of the Living, 2023).

12:45 Panel discussion: Representing slavery in Ghana.

13:30 Thank you for today.

Language: English

See the full festival programme and read more about the authors and researchers at litteraturen.nu (click ‘Læs mere her’).