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AFRICA DAY at HKU - Workshop promotes academic exchange for African Studies

19 May 2009

 

The AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAMME at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) is organizing a workshop to commemorate AFRICA DAY on May 25, 2009.  Hon. Magda Nasr, Consul-General of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Hong Kong and Macao, Hon. Tembi Tambo, Consul-General of the Republic of South Africa in Hong Kong and Macao, Hon. Jose Bravo da Costa, Consul-General of the Republic of Angola, Hon. David Obasa, Consul-General of the Republic of Nigeria in Hong Kong and Professor Kam Louie, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, will officiate at the opening ceremony.

Africa Day falls on May 25 each year. It is a day Africans in all parts of the world come together to celebrate and affirm their unity as a people and to pledge to fight together for a better future for themselves and for the world.  At HKU, three distinguished speakers from Canada, America, and the United Kingdom, will deliver speeches on the topic of "Signs of the Times: Discourse Ecologies and Self-Fashioning on Oxford Street, Accra", "Reconceptualizing African Liberation for the 21^st Century: Lessons from Amilcar Cabral and "China's Education Cooperation with Africa: Meeting the Targets through FOCAC 2009".

Members of the media are cordially invited to attend the workshop, with details as follows:

Date:        May 25, 2009
Time:       10:30am - 6:00pm
Venue:      The Convocation Room, Main Building, HKU

For media enquiries, please contact Dr Adams Bodomo, African Studies Coordinator at abbodomo@hku.hk.

For information on the African Studies Programme, please visit: www.hku.hk/scoh/AfricanStudies/ 

Rundown of Africa Day

10:30-11:00	Welcome address (by Prof Kam Louie Dean of the Faculty of Arts, HKU)
	ii. Opening remarks (by Hon. Magda Nasr, Consul-General of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Hong and Macao)
	iii. Introduction of Speakers (by Dr Adams Bodomo, African Studies Programme Coordinator)
11:00-12:00	1st Speaker: Prof Ato Quayson, University of Toronto Title of talk: Signs of the Times: Discourse Ecologies and Self-Fashioning on Oxford Street, Accra
12:00-12:30	Lunch Break
12:30-14:00	Introduction of Film Screening (by Hon. Tembi Tambo, Consul-General of the Republic of South Africa in Hong Kong and Macao)
	Film Screening SKIN
14:00-15:00	2nd Speaker: Prof Horace Campbell, Syracuse University, USA Title of talk: Reconceptualizing African Liberation for the 21st Century: Lessons from Amilcar Cabral
	Closing Remarks (by Hon. Jose Bravo da Costa, Consul-General of the Republic of Angola in Hong Kong)
15:00-15:30	Break
15:30-16:30	Introduction of Speaker (by Prof Mark Mason, Hong Kong Institute of Education)
	3rd Speaker: Prof Kenneth King, University of Edinburgh, UK Title of talk: China's Education Cooperation with Africa: Meeting the Targets through FOCAC 2009.
16:30-18:00	Film Screening IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA Closing Remarks (by Hon. David Obasa, Consul-General of the Republic of Nigeria in Hong Kong)
END OF WORKSHOP