Venue:
Eden Grove
Date: September 4 – 6
Date: September 4 – 6
Tuesday
3 September
16:00
– 22: 00 Arrivals, Registration and Welcome Cocktail
Wednesday
4 September
09:00
– 09:10 Opening of Summit
Allan
Magubane
Welcoming
09:10
– 09:20 Vice-Chancellor’s Office
09:30
– 11:30 Interrogating the African:
Conceptions
of Pan Africanism – The 21st Century African
Reuel
Khoza, Barney Pityana & (Youth Participant)
11:30
– 12:00 Tea
12:00
–13:30 Role of the 21st Century African in the Global Economy
(Min.
Trevor Manuel)
13:30
– 14:30 LUNCH
14:30
– 15:30 In Conversation With Reuel Khoza
15:30
– 16:30 Panel Discussions 1
(The
Postcolonial Condition: Fanon, Biko and Rethinking Aspects of
Marxism
for the 21st Century)
Panel:
Xolela Mangcu, Youth Participant & Richard Pithouse
16:30
– 17:00 Tea
17:30
– 18:00 Intergenerational Conversation Min. Trevor Manuel
......End
of Day 1......
Thursday
5 September
09:00
– 10:30 Session 1
Historical
Discourse & Gender in Africa
(Wanjiru
Kamau-Rutenberg)
Follow-up
Panel Discussions
(Youth
Participant, Sally Matthews)
Language,
Knowledge and Media
10:30
– 11:00 Tea
11:00
– 12:30 Urbanisation and the City
(Richard
Pithouse and Xolela Mangcu)
12:30
– 13:00 African Youth Charter
(Youth
Participant: Thabang Mokgatle)
13:00
– 14:15 Lunch
14:15
– 15:00 Panel Discussions 2
Africa
Narratives: Language and Media
(Barney
Pityana, Anthea Garman & Youth Participant)
Community
Values and Civil Society
15:00
– 16:00 Intergenerational Dialogue
Shifting
ideas of community, Engaged Citizenship and rethinking
the
NGO
(Thoko
Didiza, Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg)
Discussants
(Youth Participant)
16:00
– 16:30 Tea
16:30
– 18:00 Postcolonial Woundedness
(Pedro
Tabensky, Nomalanga Mkhize, Barney Pityana)
Discussions
on Possible Cathartic Habits
18:30
– 21:00 Dinner Banquet
.....End
of Day 2.....
Friday
6 September
09:00
– 10:30 Recent History of Political Economy in Africa
(Thoko
Didiza, Rev Frank Chikane)
10:30
– 11:00 Tea
11:00
– 12:30 Economic Practices and Human (Under)development:
(Rev
Frank Chikane)
12:30
– 13:30 Rounding Up and Concluding Remarks
13:30
– 14: 30 Lunch
.....End
of Day 3.....
Panels
and Descriptions:
1.
Conceptions of Pan Africanism – The 21st Century African
Speakers:
Xolela Mangcu, Min. Trevor Manuel, Reuel Khoza, Barney Pityana
This
idea will act as the centripetal thematic concern when we conceive of
Ethical Leadership in Africa. It must be understood as creating the
conceptual framework that will anchor the debates around Ethical
Leadership in Africa.
The
purpose, then, is to try and chart the trajectory of Pan Africanism
in the role of Ethics and Leadership, in order that we may be able to
break away from the established paradigms of Pan Africanism that
delimit our conception of Leadership. To be sure, the importance of
rethinking Pan Africanism is that it creates the enabling conditions
for the youth to begin to situate themselves in an increasingly
globalising world.
This
session will therefore focus on the relevance of a Pan African
discourse in our times, seeking to provide a working understanding
for Ethical Leadership and Pan Africanism that moves away from the
idea of leadership being invested in types of authority figures. A
new conception of Pan Africanism and leadership should release the
possibility of an engaged citizen who is not forever in a waiting
posture, but demonstrates ethical leadership even in her daily
interactions with the underlying social and economic base.
Furthermore, since the 21st Century African is a transnational
subject, what are the ways in which we can avoid the emergence of a
nativist and essentialist discourse about identity?
2.
Knowledge, Language and Media
Speakers:
Barney Pityana, Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, Richard Pithouse, Anthea
Garman, Sally Matthews
To
follow on form the 21st Century African, if language is implicated in
knowledge production, and if it is indeed the bearer of discourse, it
is also the bearer of ideology. That is to say, it constructs the
conceptual field which we have at our disposal. This session will
consider that language presents a natural and inevitable link between
both signifier and signified if it is allowed to remain invisible or transparent.
This link, of course, is arbitrary and conventional rather than
natural and must be (re)appropriated to affirm individual and group
identity.
In
this session, we explore the ways in which formative aspects of our
Pan African history “have been left out of the historical
narrative” (Mangcu 2) of the nations in our continent and the
implications of this for “developing a shared sense of identity”
(2). This session will undertake a few questions: what is the cost of
forgetting? And what role does language play in memory making (such
that it creates a particular kind of history)?
Related
to this, how do the media privilege certain histories/narratives over
others? And how does this give it the power to shape and mould the
memory of a civil society? This session must explore the current
shifts in cultural expression in the media that negate this
constructed memory/narrative and replace it with a new narrative that
responds to the issues of the day.
Representation
is another aspect of media; the session will look into the ways these
narratives are shaping the continent’s image of itself and its
image abroad.
3.
Community Values and Civil Society
Speakers:
Wanjiru Kamu-Rutenburg, Pedro Tabensky, Nomalanga Mkhize, Thoko
Didiza
This
session, following on from the previous, will seek to understand
those elements in our societies that operate as unifying forces
within the communities. Can ethical leadership be said to exist if
the ideas of community are increasingly shifting?
Related to the first session, this session must investigate the idea that the public and the private ought to collide to produce a ‘third sphere’ of citizenship and community in which the concept of an engaged citizenry is explored. Participatory models of leadership have proven to work far better when communities take it upon themselves to engage the state. This especially includes upwardly mobile citizens who are often concerned with their own advancement, rather than forming an engaged citizenry. Of course, the recalcitrance is not a one-way channel, but now involves the very state which is supposed to be in the service of the citizen. Here, the session should come up with ways in which we can transform the functions of participatory governance in Africa in order to establish movements that are concerned not merely with reactionary mobilisation, but with the cultivation of shared responsibility and accountability. The panel should consider, then, that the concept of the solitary individual, the mentality of middle-classism, may not be in keeping with Pan Africanism.
Related to the first session, this session must investigate the idea that the public and the private ought to collide to produce a ‘third sphere’ of citizenship and community in which the concept of an engaged citizenry is explored. Participatory models of leadership have proven to work far better when communities take it upon themselves to engage the state. This especially includes upwardly mobile citizens who are often concerned with their own advancement, rather than forming an engaged citizenry. Of course, the recalcitrance is not a one-way channel, but now involves the very state which is supposed to be in the service of the citizen. Here, the session should come up with ways in which we can transform the functions of participatory governance in Africa in order to establish movements that are concerned not merely with reactionary mobilisation, but with the cultivation of shared responsibility and accountability. The panel should consider, then, that the concept of the solitary individual, the mentality of middle-classism, may not be in keeping with Pan Africanism.
Individuality
“short-changed ideas of citizenship and community, and contrived a
fictional self so unencumbered by situation and context as to be
useful only in challenging the very idea of the political” (Mangcu
10). By focusing on inward-looking strategies of a community rather
than mobilisation of the masses, the continent’s leaders are able
to self-diagnose and prescribe a healing process for the postcolonial
woundedness/pain that has engulfed Africa.
4.
Trade and Economy
Speakers:
Thoko Didiza, Rev Frank Chikane
