The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) will on Saturday, 3 June 2017 host Africa Month colloquium on Creative Africa at Afro Zanaka Café in Soshanguve, North of Pretoria as part 2017 annual Africa Month celebrations under theme: “The Year of OR Tambo: Building a Better Africa and a Better World”.
The colloquium is part of a series of colloquia conducted by the department around the country in celebration of Africa Month. This will provide platform for authors to talk about their writings and read from their works in a celebration of what it means to be an African in the present time.
The assertion of a new Africa is present in poems and novels, essays and stories. This year’s Africa Month celebrations is a Festival of Ideas in which the department have invited eminent thinkers from the rest of Africa and the Diaspora to participate in conversations about the continent.
A panel is comprised of some of the leading minds in the country and the continent, namely Dr Don Mattera, South African poet, author and a Living Legend; Nathalia Molebatsi, writer and a poet; Prof Kole Omotoso, an author and literary academic; as well as Kgothatso Madise will participate in a roundtable discussions with Frelimo Mnisi as the facilitator.
Media is invited in the following as follows:
Date: 3 June 2017
Time: 12h00
Venue: Afro Zanaka Café in Soshanguve
RSVP:
Madimetja Moleba
Cell: 072 842 6594
E-mail: Madimetjam@dac.gov.za
For enquiries contact:
Lisa Combrinck
Cell: 082 821 4886
E-mail: lisaco@dac.gov.za
