IBBY Keynote Speakers
Professor Osazee Fayose
Head of the Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.
#212 Not Just 'Books for Africa', but a reading culture too!
This paper deals with fiction for African children. It looks at the various types of books published. Folktales and traditional stories form the bulk of creative work for children, but there are also family, school, crime and detection stories. They employ themes and motifs from the African world view, and are written in the language and style which
African children can appreciate.
Email: osazeef@yahoo.co.uk
Teresa Cárdenas
Storyteller from Ciudad Habana in Cuba.
#213 Black heroes in the literature for children and young people in Cuba.
Email: macucupe@cafe.icl.cult.cu
Professor Elwyn Jenkins
Professor Emeritus of English, University of South Africa.
#311 Sharing our stories.
We South Africans have shared our indigenous folktales with each other and the world. In recent years our writers have written stories enabling us to share our experiences. Young people have shared their lives and their hopes in books and magazines of children's writing. We have much to share with the rest of the world about how we lived through a period of deprivation of human rights, followed by a period of painful but
joyful transition to a post-colonial society, and how we are endeavouring to build a nation that will play a positive role in the globalisation of the 21st century.
Email: ejenkins@mweb.co.za
Tel: 012 / 9911403
Gcina Mhlophe
Brought up in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape with her grandmother who was "a master storyteller", Gcina has now settled in Durban where she established a storytelling group called Zanendaba (which means 'bringing me a story' in Zulu).
#311 Universal Storytelling Moment
Gcina Mhlophe will link the delegates of the 29th IBBY Congress with the moment of storytelling happening at primary schools all over South Africa. She will also link us with the oral tradition of Africa.
Email: gmhlophe@iafrica.com
Tel: 031 / 467 2131
Dr Beverley Naidoo
Born in South Africa, Dr Naidoo went to exile in England in 1965. Her fiction includes the award-winning novels Journey to Jo'burg, Chain of Fire and No Turning Back. Visiting Fellow at University of Southampton.
#411 Out of bounds: 'Witness literature' and the challenge of crossing racialised borders.
"South Africa's colonial past is deeply scarred with struggles over physical boundaries reflecting boundaries in the mind. Its children learned racialised histories. White Europeans controlled the narratives in books. Literature is a creative transaction between reader and writer. Combined with life experience, it has played an important part in taking me across the racialised boundaries of my South African childhood. I shall discuss my work within the context of crossing boundaries for myself and, hopefully, my readers."
Email: Beverley.naidoo@btinternet.com
Dr Neville Alexander
Director of PRAESA (Project for the Study of Alternative Education in
South Africa) at the University of Cape Town.
Carole Bloch
Co-ordinator of the Early Literacy Unit, PRAESA
#413 Feeling at home with literacy in mother tongue.
The devastating consequences of colonial conquest on the cultural and linguistic habitus of African peoples make it vitally important to rehabilitate the integrity and the foundational significance of African mother tongues. This includes considering both orality and literacy in the modern world, in particular the potential of early childhood for language and literacy learning and the significance of developing reading material for children growing up in Africa. All of this implies a concern to root literacy as a regular and meaningful practice among multilingual communities. This involves the development of African languages in print and a mother tongue-based bilingual approach to stimulating a variety of uses of reading and writing among children and their families.
Email: cbloch@humanities.uct.ac.za
Tel: 021 / 650 4013
BOOKS ALIVE
Katherine Paterson, Avi, Gcina Mhlophe and David Paterson present dramatised excerpts from notable children's books published in the USA and South Africa. With an interpretative introduction by Dr Elizabeth Poe, Assistant Professor of English Education, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
(Katherine Paterson: Andersen Award winner 1998, Barre, USA)
Email: patwkat@aol.com
(Avi: Newbery medal winner 2003 for Crispin: the Cross of Lead, Denver,
Colorado, USA)
(Gcina Mhlophe: storyteller & author, Durban, South Africa)
(David Paterson: playwright & screenwriter, Manhasset, New York, USA)
#435 11 am to 12.30 pm /Orchestra Room
WORKSHOP: THE STORY WITHIN
Joy Cowley
(Author: Fish Bay, New Zealand) This workshop offers techniques that will help us make our own stories for young readers. These are exercises to help us access our inner child as a source of authentic story, and advice with editing for the requirements of fiction. Meditation techniques help participants recall the more positive aspects of childhood. (Pen and writing paper required.)
(Joy Cowley is the author of over 600 titles for all ages. She has received the Commemoration Medal 1990, an OBE in 1992, and an Honorary Doctorate from Massey University 1993.)
Email: joycowley@xtra.co.nz
Summary of contact details of keynote speakers:
Professor Osazee Fayose (Ibadan University, Nigeria) osazeef@yahoo.co.uk
Teresa Cardenas (Cuba) macucupe@cafe.icl.cult.cu
Professor Elwyn Jenkins (UNISA) ejenkins@mweb.co.za
Gcina Mhlophe (South Africa) gmhlophe@iafrica.com
Dr Neville Alexander & Carole Bloch (PRAESA, UCT) cbloch@humanities.uct.ac.za
Beverley Naidoo (UK) Beverley.naidoo@btinternet.com
LitNet: 25 August 2004
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