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African Studies around the GlobeInternational Conference:African Studies and Land Questions in AfricaText DORIS LÖHRFrom 27 to 29 November 2019, an internationalconference at the Universityof Cape Town in South Africadebated an issue that is at the heartof African Studies today: Land questionsin Africa. Scholars from various fi elds illuminatedthe topic from a wide rangeof perspectives and disciplines.In collaboration with the Institute of AfricanStudies at Hankuk University of ForeignStudies in South Korea and the AfricaMultiple Cluster of Excellence, LungisileNtsebeza, the National Research FoundationChair in Land Reform and Democracyin South Africa at the University ofCape Town (UCT), invited scholars to aninternational conference on the topic of“African Studies and Land Questions inAfrica.” Following that invitation, around35 scholars and activists met at the UCTUpper Campus from 27 to 29 November2019 in order to engage in discussion andanalyses on various aspects of the topic.“Land questions” at theheart of African Studies todayOrganisers had settled on the topic of“land questions” at the preceding conferencein 2018. Th e 2018 conference, co-organisedby the Institute of African Studiesof Hankuk University of Foreign Studiesin South Korea and the Institute of AfricanStudies (IAS), University of Bayreuth,and held in Hankuk, the second of theseries of South-South dialogues debated“Africa in an Ever-changing, Multi-facetedand Multi-layered World.” Duringthe discussions, it became more and moreapparent that land questions were at theheart of African Studies, especially incountries such as South Africa, which isgenerally regarded as industrialised comparedto other countries on the continent.Land as a rural and urban concernFor years, many academics and politicianshave perceived labour and not landas central in understanding South Africansociety. However, the implementationof the African National Congress’s policyof land expropriation without compensation(aft erwards adopted by the NationalAssembly) put the land question in SouthAfrica high on the agenda. In all the yearsof its democracy, South Africa has marginalisedthe land question in economic,political, and social debates and discussions.“Land” has been considered tomerely concern rural areas and agriculture.But persistent struggles for housingand livelihoods of black Africans, especiallyin urban areas, have been a constantreminder that the land question is asmuch of an urban concern as it is a ruraland agricultural issue.A comprehensive conference agendaTh e conference in Cape Town adoptedthis broader view of the land questionand, due to the multi-disciplinary natureof African Studies, received contributionsto the topic from a broad spectrum ofperspectives and disciplines. During theevent, linguists, philosophers, educationists,and artists expressed their views onthe question of land in Africa throughThe workshop participants enjoyed their lunch break in the shade. Photo: Minga Kongo, UCT56
their respective disciplinary lenses. The30 presenters had travelled from near andfar, coming from four continents and 13countries: Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon,Ethiopia, Morocco, Mozambique,South Africa, Sudan), Americas (CostaRica), Asia (India, Japan, South Korea)and Europe (Czech Republic, Germany).The conference started with a welcomespeech by Shose Kessi, the Dean of Humanitiesat UCT. Lungisile Ntsebeza introducedthe participants to the conferencesubject before presenting the firstkeynote speaker, Fred Hendricks fromRhodes University. Hendricks gave hisinsights on “African Studies and LandQuestions: Two Sides of Exclusion.”Six panels during the following two dayscentred around various aspects of theland question (especially land redistributionin South Africa), the agrarian question(e.g., land reform), land tenure andadministration (especially land rights),land governance in Africa (e.g., land conflicts),land grab (especially displacedcommunities), land and development inAfrica, and language (case studies fromSudan, Mozambique, and India), and cultureand urbanisation in Africa.The second keynote by Ekkehard Wolff(Leipzig) focussed on the question, “Languageand Territoriality in PostcolonialAfrica: How ‘Indigenous’ are AfricanLanguages?” A concluding round tablediscussion attended by the co-organisersUte Fendler (Bayreuth), Lungisile Ntsebeza(Cape Town), and EunKyung Kim(Hankuk) summarised the previous discussionand illuminated the future of thepartnership and network that has beenestablished and developed since 2017. Apublication on the topic is planned.The Cluster’s special network partnersseized the opportunity of this intercontinentalmeeting to discuss further topics ofthe network. Representatives came fromuniversities of New Dehli, India (AjayK. Dubey, Chandani Tiwani), Hankuk,South Korea (Yuh Jin Bae, Chul-JoonYang and EunKyung Kim), Kyoto, Japan(Akira Takada), Ouagadougou, BurkinaFaso (Yacouba Cissao), Rabat, Morocco(Moulay Driss El-Maarouf), San José,Costa Rica (Guillermo Antonio NavarroAlvarado), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (KelemeworkTafere Reda), Prague, Czech(Petr Skalnik), Cape Town, South Africa(Lungisile Ntsebeza), Bayreuth, Germany(Ute Fendler, Doris Löhr), and Khartum,Sudan (Azza Mustafa Babiker).Photo: Doris Löhr57
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