SCOLMA Conference 2021 (online) - 14th June - Morning Session
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About this event
What is the state of African-language publishing and creativity today, and how has it changed? How should libraries and archives collect, provide access to and promote African-language material?
This year’s conference of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) will take place on 14 June 2021 online.
There are 2 sessions across the whole day conference, please make sure to sign up to both the morning and afternoon sessions if you want to receive the links to join.
Links to join us will be shared with you 24 hours before the event via the email that you register with.
Please note that Q&A will be recorded as part of the event. Recordings will be made available at some point after the live event, and we will send the link to the attendee list.
Morning Session Programme:
10.00 Welcome
10.05–10.50 Keynote - ‘Empowering African Languages through Publishing: Whose Responsibility?’
- Munyao Kilolo (Ngugi wa Thiong’o Foundation and Jalada Africa, Kenya)
10.50–11.00 Break
11.00–11.40 Panel 1: African Languages and Library Collections, Past and Present (1)
‘Bible translations into African Languages and Missionary Records in the Bible Society Archives’
- Onesimus Ngudu (Bible Society Collection, University of Cambridge Library, UK)
‘Africa in the SOAS Library Special Collections’
- Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb (SOAS Special Collections, University of London, UK)
- in cooperation with Dawn Wright (SOAS Library, University of London, UK)
11.40–11.50 Break
11.50–12.50 Panel 2: Yorùbá and Beyond
‘The Yorùbá Language Collections at the British Library’
- Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún (Yorùbá Names Project, Lagos, Nigeria)
‘From Crude Journalism to the Mainstreaming of an Indigenous-language Newspaper: Lessons from Alaroye’
- Francis Amenaghawon (North-West University, South Africa) and
- Abiodun Salawu (Indigenous Language Media in Africa Research Entity(ILMA), North-West University, South Africa)
‘Afrocentric Commemorations WW1’
- Dr Yewande Okuleye (University of Leicester, UK)
12.50–14.00 Lunch break
