Day & Venue

Activity

Time

Presenters

Topics

Day 1

Morning Session

Venue: Maison Francaise Conference Room

Panel for UG student presentations

9:30am-11:10am

Philomina Mintah

Silence on Slavery and trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Ghanaian Novels

Amma Dankwa

Retracing the Past for the Future: A Reflection on Slavery in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons

Akua Bobson

Expressions of Trauma in Descendants of Enslaved Africans

Ruth Abeduway Quansah

Women and Anti-Slavery in Selected African Texts

Anne Green Munk

Sketching the Concept for a Creative Writing Workshop

Coffee Break:  11:10am – 11:25am

Discussion:  11:25am – 12:15pm

Lunch Break:  12:15pm – 1:30pm

Day 1

Afternoon Session

Venue: Maison Francaise Conference Room

Faculty Panel

1:30pm – 3:00pm

Mawuli Adjei

The Continuing Dialogue with Ghana’s Slave Forts: Fort Prinzenstein in Anlo History, Folklore and Literature

Mads Anders Baggesgaard

TBA

Day 1

Evening

J.H. Kwabena Nketia Conference Hall/

Maison Francaise

Poetry

Dramatization

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Kofi Anyidoho with Osei Korankye (IAS), Nana Asaase, Chief Moumen

Anyidoho

poems

on the legacy

of slavery

Day 1

Evening

Dinner

Off-campus

7:00pm

Project Team

African Regent/Golden Tulip

Day 2

Morning Session

Maison Francaise

Panel

Presentations

9:30am - 11:00am

Lotte Pelckmans

Testimonies and Oral Renderings of Legacies of Slavery in Anti-Slavery Work and Court cases, Mali

Emmanuel Saboro

Oral Tradition and Slavery in Northern Ghana

William Gmayi

Blindspots: Images of Slave Narratives of Ghana

Coffee Break:  11:00am - 11:15am

Presentations continue

11:15am - 12:05pm

Helen Yitah

The slave figure in Kasena Folktales

J.B. Amissah-Arthur

Sunsum: A Psychic Archaeology of Unknown Slave Routes and Slave Lives

Discussion:  12:05pm – 12:45pm

Lunch Break: 12:45pm – 2:00pm

Day 2

Afternoon

J.H. Kwabena Nketia Conference Hall, IAS/Maison Francaise

Screening of  

Documentary

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Kofi Anyidoho & Doris Adabasu Kuwornu

Two episodes of GTV’s Slave Routes: a trail so long gone.

Evening

Venue: National Theatre, Accra.

Dance Drama

6:30pm - 9:30pm

Originally written & directed by F. Nii-Yartey;

Performed by the National Dance Company.

MUSU: saga of the slaves