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3rd Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual and Cultural Festival

September 20, 2021 - September 24, 2021

The Institute of African Studies is excited to invite you to the 3rd Kwame Nkrumah Festival scheduled to take place virtually from the 20th-24th September, 2021. The theme of this year’s festival is “Pan Africanism, Feminism and the Next Generation: Liberating the Cultural Economy”. 

The festival is being organised by the Kwame Nkrumah Chair, under the auspices of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Under the theme of Pan Africanism, Feminism and the Next Generation, the 3rd Kwame Nkrumah Intellectual and Cultural Festival will be a celebration of Dr Nkrumah’s philosophy of self-reliance, freedom from imperialism by pursuing culture, science and technology to enhance the condition of all people.

The Festival is a vibrant platform for intellectual debate on the cultural and economic architecture that is required to turn African material and cultural resources into decent livelihoods and wellbeing of Africa’s people.

Here is what will Festival achieve

  • Curate and promote creative cultural products from across the African region, especially those produced by women, the youth, but also other marginalized African groups.
  • Interrogate how the African community values, claims and protects African cultural and economic assets, and develops these to serve their own interests in the face of an unjust global regime of trade regulations and tariffs that has deepened North-South inequality and social injustice.

About the Festival

The 5-day festival will be broadcast virtually with a view to promote cultural products, innovations and new ideas, with particular emphasis on strengthening African cultural industries, local livelihoods and propagating cooperative economic strategies, business models and intra-regional trade relations.

It will include a suite of activities, notably:

  • Symposiums and debates
  • Exhibitions of art and fashion
  • Demonstrations of inventions and technological innovations
  • Musical and Poetry performances.
  • Presentations by feminist and youth resistance and liberation movements
  • Exploration of decolonial legal and policy frameworks and worker-owned business models that would facilitate intra-regional

For more information, see: https://kwamenkrumahfestival.com/

Details

Start:
September 20, 2021
End:
September 24, 2021
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