Keynote address by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Thursday 7 Dec 6pm, Soweto Theatre
Tsitsi Dangarembga in conversation with Prof. Pumla Dineo Gqola
Friday 8 Dec 6pm, Soweto Theatre
Kopano Matlwa in conversation with Malebo Sephodi
Saturday 9 Dec at 10:00, Eyethu Lifestyle Centre, Soweto
About our guests:
Writer, filmmaker, teacher and cultural activist,
Tsitsi Dangarembga lives in Harare, Zimbabwe where she directs the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust, an institution focusing on the role of all arts disciplines in development, which she founded in 2009. She is currently working on her 4th novel, dystopian young adult speculative fiction SAI-SAI, WATERMAKER.
She began writing plays at the University of Zimbabwe, where The Lost of the Soil (1983) and She No Longer Weeps (1984) were first staged. The first volume in the Tambudzai trilogy, Nervous Conditions, appeared to critical acclaim in 1988. Its sequel, The Book of Not was published in 2006. Her third novel This Mournable Body is forthcoming from Graywolf Press.
Pumla Dineo Gqola is the author of What is Slavery to Me? Postcolonial/Slave memory in Post-apartheid South Africa (2010) and A Renegade Called Simphiwe (2013) and editor of Regarding Winnie: Feminism, race and nation in global representations of Winnie Madikizela Mandela. She has written non-fiction and opinion pieces for Pambazuka, Mail & Guardian, The Weekender and City Press as well as the British publications BBC Focus on Africa, SABLE and Drum (UK) and short stories in literary journals and books published in South Africa, USA and UK. Her book, Rape: A South African Nightmare was published in 2015 and won the Alan Paton Award 2016. Reflecting Rogue is her latest book.
Kopano Matlwa’s novels include Coconut, Spilt Milk, and Period Pain. Coconut was awarded the European Union Literary Award and won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2010. Period Pain was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Matlwa is also a physician, and a PhD candidate at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship.
Malebo Sephodi is a South African activist and writer. Her research interests include: Gender, Africa’s Economy and Development Discourse, and The Hegemony of Science. Her non-fiction titled Miss Behave, published by BlackBird Books, was released in May 2017. In her book, Malebo Sephodi tracks her journey as a Black Woman in South Africa challenging societal expectations. She addresses issues of Patriarchy, Sexism, Intersectionality, Economic liberation and many more rooted in African Feminism and Social Constructivism. She likes to be called “Lioness” and runs a space called Lady Leader where women can come and JUST BE.
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