From: OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <toyinvadepoju@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: RAS Upcoming Events
To: Chikukuango Cuxima-Zwa <chikukuango@gmail.com>
thank you very much, please keep them coming
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From: RAS Research <ras_research@soas.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:29 PM
Subject: RAS Upcoming Events
To: RAS-L@listserv.soas.ac.ukDear all,
Please read below to find out about our upcoming events.
The highlight this month will be Africa Writes 2012 – the RAS's inaugural annual literature and book festival celebrating contemporary African writing. Please read below for more information on this festival and our other meetings.
We look forward to seeing you at some of our meetings. Please RSVP to all RAS events on RSVP@royalafricansociety.org
All the best,
Sheila
Local case studies in African Land Law & Essays in African Land Law
Friday 15 June 2012, 6-8PMBrunei Suite, SOAS
Book launch with author Robert Home, Professor in Land Management at Anglia Law School, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
Essays in African Land Law and Local Case Studies in African Land Law are published by Pretoria University Law Press as part of a series funded by the World Bank on the Rule of Law in Africa. The topic is complex and dynamic, and shaped by powerful forces which include population growth, market economics and environmental change. Over twenty authors have contributed, mainly African academics who may be based in their home countries, but also elsewhere in Africa and outside the continent. Most are lawyers, but other specialisms concerned with land are also represented, including planners, land surveyors, geographers and social scientists.
About the author
Robert Home is Professor in Land Management at Anglia Law School, Anglia Ruskin University, UK. His books include Of Planting and Planning: The making of British colonial towns (1997) and Demystifying the Mystery of Capital: Land titling in Africa and the Caribbean (edited with Hilary Lim, 2004). He has also undertaken consultancies in several African countries. His next book project is an edited collection on African urban planning history, returning to the subject of his PhD (LSE) on the influence of colonial government upon Nigerian urbanization.
The Challenges of Diaspora Media and its
development
Wednesday 20 June 2012, 6-8PM
Room G50, SOAS
A panel discussion jointly organised with the London Africa Media Network. Speakers: Mike McCahill (Film Critic, Sunday Telegraph); Solomon Mugera (Africa Editor, BBC); Tim Williams (Senior Advisor on Media Development, Panos London); Eric Chinje (Director of Strategic Communications, Mo Ibrahim Foundation).
The tremendous growth in African media during the last 15 years can be attributed to many factors, including notable improvements in systems of governance across the globe that have allowed for the freedom of press; rapid economic growth; the privatisation of several government-run media outlets; and undisputedly, the continuing rise in technology and connectivity on the continent - the most notable catalyst to Africa's socio-economic expansion.
The opening up of the media industry in Africa paved way for a related interest in the Diaspora as migrants living abroad grappled with identity issues in their 'homes away from home.' Mainstream media in the UK and elsewhere in the West has traditionally delivered a picture of Africa as a place of war, poverty, famine and disease, and, more recently, as an international security challenge. The lack of balanced representation of the continent in western mainstream media created a vacuum, which African entrepreneurs were quick to fill by setting up multiple radio and TV stations.
The various Diaspora media outlets that have sprung up are doing their best to address the needs of the African Diaspora as well as rake in some income. However, the jury is still out on whether or not they have or are achieving these dreams. Faced with various obstacles such us funding, professionalism, quality content, originality, Diaspora media outlets continue to grow and impact the African community in the UK greatly.
This forum will engage the UK-Africa Diaspora in its deliberations touching on some key issues including: UK Media Distribution; impact of Diaspora Media outlets on National cohesion; the need for identity (language, culture, Interpretation); addressing cultural diversity through media; quality control, programming and competition; regulation (ethical perceptions and vetting professionalism);
technological support and enhancement (Social networks); sustainability (funding and fair distribution); the way forward.
Africa Writes 2012
Photography by Okey Adichie
Saturday 30 June & Sunday 1 July 2012, 12-6PM
Brunei Gallery Building (SOAS) & Torrington SquareThe Royal African Society (RAS) is pleased to present Africa Writes - its inaugural annual literature and book festival celebrating contemporary African writing.
Africa Writes aims to enhance coverage and discussion about African literature and writers in London - and the UK, by extension - showcasing established and emerging literary talent from Africa and the Diaspora during a weekend-long series of events, including book launches, readings, panel discussions, children's workshops and other activities. The festival will also feature a two-day international book fair of publishers of African writing and an outdoor pan-African food market featuring dishes from all four corners of the continent.
This year Africa Writes will mark the 50th anniversary of the African Writers Series and the brilliant Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be delivering the main lecture focusing on the legacy of the series. Other confirmed authors taking part in the festival include: Ellen Banda-Aaku, Nuruddin Farah, Kojo Laing, Lily Mabura, Jack Mapanje, Obi Okigbo, Noo Saro-Wiwa, E. E. Sule, Goretti Kyomuhendo and the five shortlisted Caine Prize writers for 2012, namely Rotimi Babatunde, Billy Kahora, Stanley Kenani, Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, and Constance Myburgh. Participating poets include: Modeste Hugues, Oxmo Pucion, Kety Nevyabandi Bikura, Shalija Patel, T.J. Dema, Paul Dakeyo, Bewketu Seyoum, Abdulahi Botaan Hassan 'Kurweyne', Warsan Shire, Sam Elmi, Elmi Ali, Inua Ellams,Yemisi Blake, Safia Elhillo, Mariama Khan, Togara Muzanenhamo, and Lemn Sissay.
Festival highlights include: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's lecture focusing on the legacy of the African Writers Series (Saturday, 30th June, 6-7:30pm); an audience with the 2012 Caine Prize Shortlisted writers, in collaboration with the Black Reading Group and the London Afro-Caribbean Book Club (Saturday, 30th June, 3-4:30pm); interactive story-telling for children (Sunday, 1st July, 12-1pm); and panel discussions on the current publishing landscape for contemporary African writing and the phenomenon of "Writing Away from Home", which affects so many African writers living in the Diaspora. The festival's closing event will be Word from Africa, part of Poetry Parnassus at the Southbank (Sunday, 1st July, 6-10pm).
All events are free and open to the public except for the Caine Prize event (RSVP to tricia@paulwombell.demon.co.uk) and the Chimamanda lecture (RSVP here).
Evaluating the impact of aid to Africa:
Lessons from the Millennium Villages
Wednesday 3rd July 2012, 5-6:30PM
Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JDA panel discussion jointly organised with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Speakers: Michael Clemens (Senior Fellow and Research Manager, Centre for Global Development), others TBC. Chair: Dr Alison Evans (Director, ODI).
At the turn of the century, Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, in partnership with the United Nations, established integrated rural development projects, known as Millennium Villages, which are now underway in ten African countries. When they came to be evaluated in 2011, an intense row broke out between development experts about their impact and sustainability.
Michael Clemens will argue that aid projects in Africa need much more careful impact evaluations that are transparent, rigorous, and cost-effective. Transparency requires independent, disinterested analysts and open data. Rigor requires plausible comparison of clear and unchanging outcomes to what would most likely have happened to those same outcomes without the project. Cost-effectiveness requires choosing evaluation methods to fit the setting.
Our panel of experts will also discuss the Millennium Villages project within the wider context of international aid to Africa, analysing other development models and questioning the impact of each one.
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