Pan Africanism at UNAZA, Lubumbashi
After the 1969 Lovanium massacre, the entire university system was reformed, the three major tertiary institutions became one, UNAZA (Université nationale du Zaïre). The entire social science and arts faculties were moved to Lubumbashi campus along with the philosophers, historians and theorists of the time, including V.Y Mudimbe, Cheikh Anta Diop and many others.
13:00 – 14:00 warm up with vinyl selections from the Chimurenga collective
14:00 – 15:00 What we are calling Copperbelt Music, tracing the ideas and sensibilities vehiculated through music along the extractivist corridor between Lubumbashi, Kitwe, Lusaka, Bulawayo to Johannesburg with Jackie Kabedi, the Karindula musicians, and Feza Kayungu
15:00 – 17:00 Thinking through the writings and ideas of Pan Africanism at UNAZA, in conversation with scholar Kalênge Yamukêna Yantûmbi, the Prisme Collective and guests
17:00 – 18:00 warm down DJ Spilulu
tune in LIVE on the Pan African Space Station!
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