Prof. Dr. Bea Lundt, Institut für Geschichte und ihre Didaktik, Universität Flensburg
Program
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Prof. Dr. Bea Lundt/Prof. Dr. Ulrich Marzolph/Robert Sobotta:
Introduction
Panel 1: Narrative Traditions in West-Africa between Oral Performance and Research
Prof. Dr. Esi Sutherland, African Studies, University of Ghana, Accra
The Saga of an Archive of Story Telling
Adeline Ama Buabeng, Storyteller, Accra, Ghana (and five members of her group):
Presentation of “Kodzi”, the Dying Story-Telling Art of the Fante
Panel 2: The Role of Storytelling in West-African Contexts. Part 1: Storytelling in Ghana
Mercy Adzo Klugah, Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Migration Narrative of the Ho-Asogli State: The Role of Storytelling in Assessing Local History
Dr. Mabel Mliwomor Komasi, Department of English Studies, Methodist University College Accra, Ghana
Narrating as a Means of Preserving Tradition and Adapting it to Modernity
Reception by the German Embassy
with Thomas Wimmer, Chargé d'affaires, German Embassy Accra
Evening Presentation with Narrations, Film and Music
Johannes Preuss, Filmmaker, GIZ Media Production Advisor, Berlin/Accra
Project about Ananse-Stories
Friday, October 19, 2012
Dr. Mawuli Adjei, Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, and Sela Adjei, College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana
Still Animation: An Alternative Means of Disseminating Ananse Stories in Ghanaian Indigenious Societies
Rev. Dr. Elias Kwaku Asiama, Lecturer, School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
Story- Telling: A Paedagogical Instrument
Panel 3: The Role of Story-Telling in West-African Contexts. Part 2:
Various West-African Countries
Patricia Enimien Ofili, Department of English, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria
Esan Folktales as Expression of Art and History: a Stylistic Study
Henry Kam Kah, Department of History, University of Buea, Cameroon
Ikuum and History Preserved: Story of a Regulatory Society Retold in Modern Times
Panel 4: Genres of West-African Narrative Traditions
Dr. Sinseingnon G. Sagbo, Department of German, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Ethnic Genres and Analytic Categories of Oral Tradition in Benin
Dr. Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara, Department of English, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Telling Poetry, Narrating Songs: Textual Orality in the Poetry of Kofi Anyidoho and Niyi Osundare
Alhaji Suleimana, Traditional Drummer and District School Advisor, Yendi, Ghana
Oral Traditions in Ghana
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Panel 5: West-African Narrative Traditions in an International Context
PD Dr. Dr. Ulrich van der Heyden, Kolonialgeschichte, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Jan Conny: ein Märchen oder ein memoriertes Kapitel preußischer Kolonialgeschichte in Westafrika?
Lena Siemers, M. A., Ethnology, Munich, Germany
Mami Wata Tales in West Africa and in the International Context
Dr. Dotsé Yigbe, Germanistisches Institut, Université de Lomé/Goethe-Institut Lomé, Togo
Die Wahrnehmung der afrikanischen Ewe-Märchen durch die deutschen evangelischen Missionare
Dr. Florian Carl, Department of Music, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and John Wesley Dankwah, M. Phil., Ethnomusicology, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Hiplife Music and Rap in Ghana as Narrative and Musical Genre
Panel 6: West-African Narrative Tradition in the Postmodern World
Dr. Simon Kofi Appiah, Department of Religion and Human Values, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Continuity and Discontinuity in Traditional African Narrative Ethics: Can a Crisis of Traditional African Morality be Due to a Crisis of Narrative?
Meshack Asare, Author and Illustrator of Books for Children and Young Adults, Ghana and Germany
As Old Janus Saw
Summary by Prof. Bea Lundt/Prof. Ulrich Marzolph/Robert Sobotta