DHAXALREEBHIBF2014program

Sunday 10th August09:00-10:00: Celebrating Edna Adan Ismail’s contribution to her motherlandThe Honorary Doctorate for Edna from University of Pennsylvania is just the latest recognition of her numerousachievements. Edna has been a passionate leader not only as a hands-on nurse in Somaliland, but also inbuilding the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital and creating a training system to produce more nurses andmidwives to work in remote areas of Somaliland. She served as the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairsbetween 2003-2006. HIBF is delighted to celebrate this international recognition of Edna’s work; her talkwill be followed by a panel discussion.Speaker: Edna Adan IsmailRespondents: Suleiman Guleid, Shukri Bandare, Ayan Mahamoud10:00 - 11:00: In Conversation with Jon Lee AndersonAnderson is a prolific writer, and also the author of the best-selling 800-plus page biography of the iconicMarxist revolutionary Che Guevara, which was published under the title of Che Guevara: A RevolutionaryLife. HIBF is delighted to present a collection of his major works on Africa as an international investigativereporter, as well as an acclaimed biographer. This collection is locally published by Redsea Culture Foundationwith permission for widespread circulation in Somaliland. The Staff Writer of the New Yorker, Jon LeeAnderson, will share with his new audience his extensive reporting experience.The session will be followed by a book signing.11:00 - 12:00: Malawi Day - Mplive Msiska, John Mpane,Sambalikagwa Mvona, Norah Mervis LunguHIBF 2014’s Guest Country of the year is Malawi, a country that has manysimilarities with Somaliland. Despite its major economic, social andpolitical problems, Malawi seems to have managed to sustain its multipartydemocracy for almost twenty years. It is largely a peaceful country, andalso home to Africans from other countries, such as Eritrea, Ethiopia,Burundi, Rwanda, Congo, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, and among them alsopeople of Somali origin. Malawi has a rich and diverse indigenous culture. As archaeologists have shown, it has some of theearliest human settlements in the world. In the 15th century, it was home to the Maravi Kingdom, which reportedly stretched toparts of modern-day Mozambique and Zambia. The country has a huge oral literary tradition including proverbs, folktales,tongue-twisters, legends, myths and songs. There are traditional masquerades called Gule Wamkulu and dancessuch as Masewe, Tchopa, Indingala, Muganda, Ingoma and Visekese. HIBF is delighted to host academics, poetsand writers from Malawi. This session will be dedicated to learning more about Malawi as country, and Malawianculture and heritage. Professors John Mpane and Mplive Msiska will be accompanied by the President of theMalawian Writers Union Sambalikagwa Mvona, who will talk about his experience of standing as a candidate forparliament in the recent elections in Malawi. Norah Mervis Lungu, the Secretary of MWU who willread from her poetry collection.12:00 - 12:45: Launch of Bulhan’s BooksThe author of the classic work Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression (1985), Dr. Bulhan has recentlybeen working on Somaliland and has written a trilogy on the people, society and history of Somaliland: his11