Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world

In deze lezing onderzoekt schrijver In Koli Jean Bofane (Mbandaka, 1954) de manier waarop Congo's traumatische geschiedenis de Afrikaanse literatuur en Bofanes eigen schrijfstijl heeft beïnvloed.

Aan de hand van een aantal vragen aan zichzelf en aan de lezer, gaat hij na hoe vandaag een dekolonisatie van de verbeelding kan tot stand komen.

You are warmly invited to the 2023-2024 lecture series on African history, organized by Samuël Coghe, Felicitas Becker, Eric Vanhaute, Pieter De Coene and Gillian Mathys.

In the next couple of months there will be lectures from amongst others Nicole Eggers and David Mwambari.

This conference on victims and transitional justice will focus on dynamics of participation in, mobilization around, and resistance to various kinds of transitional justice initiatives.

The conference will take place in Ghent (Belgium), March 13-15, 2024.

Ce workshop (à l'Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor, Sénégal) est organisé pour présenter les résultats préliminaires de l’étude sur le bien-être des jeunes Casamançais et accueillir les commentaires et réactions de différents parties afin de les prendre en compte pour le reste du projet.

En complément, cet évènement sera l’occasion de croiser les témoignages et perspectives de différents secteurs afin de réfléchir et proposer ensemble, dans une démarche de co-création, des recommandations académiques, politiques et/ou interventionnelles visant à une meilleure prise en compte de la situation économique et mentale des jeunes en Casamance.

This lecture adopts three vantage points: (1) since the mid-nineteenth century successive global transformations pose challenges to the people who make the town of Kigoma-Ujiji, (2) the uncertainties accompanying these challenges are, again and again, met with problem-solving creativity and resilience, and (3) the urban area of Kigoma and Ujiji has been noticed, represented, and symbolized on global stages for 170 years already.

We propose a reading of the history of Kigoma-Ujiji as a characteristic site of spatial-temporal transformations, which merits its global attention.

Rebekah Vince is a Lecturer in French at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a memory studies scholar specialising in French postmemory narratives, francophone postcolonial studies, and the Mediterranean francosphère.

Her research moves at the intersection between postcolonial studies, Jewish studies, and transnational French studies, engaging with dialogic approaches to memory.

Suppliers of its largest workforce to colonized Mauritius for over a century, slavery and indenture were characterized by structural violence. This violence was physical, psychological and discursive, marked by misrepresentations, gaps, and the suppression and destruction of archival material.

This talk highlights key features of this intergenerational trauma in and through Dr Sraddha Shivani Rajkomar's English translation of  the novel Gandhiji Bole The.

This hybrid conference is an initiative of the Food Bridge vzw in partnership with Diaspofood ULB, the Africa Museum Tervuren and others.

We are interested in papers and presentations that will showcase the nuanced understanding of the multifaceted relationship between decolonization, diaspora, and the African food system. The aim is to contribute to the ongoing discourse on African food system transformation by examining through diasporic lenses the relevance of (de)colonization concepts on food systems.

The aim of the ICON programme is to promote, facilitate and/or strengthen collaboration between SGroup institutions (such as Ghent University) and their overseas partners, thereby contributing to the SGroup’s commitment to expanding collaboration opportunities in education and research through the transfer of knowledge and the development of strategic alliances.

The ICON programme for the year 2024 will provide 10 grants for applications from academic and/or administrative staff.