Keynote
Prof Pumla Gqola
Pumla Gqola is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and the DSI-NRF SARChI Chair in African Feminist Imagination at Nelson Mandela University. She is the author of ground-breaking studies on slave memory in South Africa, What is Slavery To Me? Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-apartheid South Africa, and on rape culture, Female Fear Factory: Gender and Patriarchy under Racial Capitalism, and Rape: A South African Nightmare, which won the 2016 Alan Paton Award. She has written extensively on slave memory, Black Consciousness, African and postcolonial feminisms, African and Caribbean writers, South African visual and musical artists, and post-apartheid public culture.
Title: Senses, Repair, Irresolution and A/apartheid A/archive
Performer
Buhle Ngaba
Buhle performed in the world premiere of John Kani’s play Missing at the Baxter Theatre (SA) and went on to tour internationally with the production earning her nominations for the “Best Supporting Actress” for the South African Fleur Du Cap Theatre Awards as well as the Naledi Theatre Awards. She wrote her first play Swan Song during her time at the Royal Shakespeare Company(Stratford) and since its premiere in 2017, Ngaba has won two South African Kanna Theatre Awards including “Best Upcoming Artist”. The production was adapted into a screenplay streamed globally during the course of the National Arts Festival 2020
Title: Guerillas