12:15 to 12:30
Symposium

Writing and performing in Africa today

Dieudonné Niangouna
Thinking and writing about Africa today
12:15 to 12:30
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Abstract

    Being a writer and playwright today, in a politically turbulent Africa. What is the role of the artist? Does the writer help him to give an answer on stage? What can theater do for African youth today?

    Speaker(s)

    Dieudonné Niangouna

    Writer, playwright and actor, Congo-Brazza

    Events

    Symposium
    09:30 to 09:40
    Alain Mabanckou

    Introduction
    Symposium
    09:40 to 10:10
    Souleymane Bachir Diagne

    The African philosopher as translator
    Symposium
    10:10 to 10:30
    Lydie Moudileno

    Thinking Africa through its literature
    Symposium
    10:30 to 11:00
    Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux

    Mirror effects : Thinking Africa, thinking the world
    Symposium
    11:00 to 11:30
    Célestin Monga

    Thinking about a starving Africa
    Symposium
    11:30 to 11:45
    Sami Tchak

    The Ego in the fragmented mirror of Nous
    Symposium
    11:45 to 12:00
    Armand Gauz

    Kong de Binger's dreams
    Symposium
    12:00 to 12:15
    Lucy Mushita

    Today's Africans, yesterday's Africans
    Symposium
    12:15 to 12:30
    Dieudonné Niangouna

    Writing and performing in Africa today
    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:30
    Pascal Blanchard

    Black France in French history
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00
    Pap Ndiaye

    Representations of Africa for Afro-descendants in France
    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30
    Rokhaya Diallo

    Formulating the black question in the media : from denial to affirmation
    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:00
    François Durpaire

    Being black in France in 2016 : what goes and what doesn't
    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:30
    Dominic Thomas

    Africa at the University : globalization and decolonization
    Symposium
    16:30 to 17:00
    Dany Laferrière

    Haiti : African presences, ruptures and mythologies
    Symposium
    17:00 to 17:30
    Françoise Vergès

    Oceanic Africa
    Symposium
    17:30 to 18:00
    Achille Mbembe

    Afropolitanism and Afrofuturism
    Symposium
    18:00 to 18:30
    Alain Mabanckou

    Closing address : Putting an end to the black man's sob story

    See also

    Alain Mabanckou, chair Artistic creation
    Thinking and writing about Africa today