PROGRAMME

•  Selma Alves Pantoja – Brazil

•  Jurema Pinto Werneck – Brazil

Moderator: Lady Gloria Chuma-Ibe

13h00 – 14h30 – Lunch

14h30 to 16h30 – Parallel Sessions

Room 1: Panel Discussion I - Women in the History and Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora

Moderator: Molara Ogundipe

•  Janaina Couvo Teixeira Maia de Aguiar - Sergipe
Women of Ase: A reconstruction of the biography of Iyalorishas in the city of Aracaju – SE.

•  Magali da Silva Almeida – Rio de Janeiro
From the Black Brotherhoods of the XVII – XIX Centuries to the Contemporary Social Policies of the Brazilian Government: a compulsory reflexion on the invissibility of the Blacks as Historic Subjects

•  Tereza Almeida Cruz – Santa Catarina

Quilombo Women of the Vale do Guaporé (Rondônia) and the Mayombe Forest (Angola) and their ecological relationship with the Environment

•  Afia S. Zakiya - Nigeria

Culture, Rites and Rights in African Indigenous Societies: Unraveling Symbolic Meaning, Myths and Gendered Practices in Transition Rituals of Death.

Room 2: Panel Discussion II - Women in the History and Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora

•  Tatiana Raquel Reis Silva - Bahia

Gender in Africa: the rabidantes women and the practice of informal commerce in Cape Verde

•  Deize de Jesus Rodrigues Ribeiro, Waldirene Pampolha de Melo eHelena do S. C. da Rocha - Pará
Access and continuation opportunites for Black Women to the Post-Graduate Programmes of the IFPA as a form of Social Inclusion

•  Jacimara Souza Santana - Bahia
News on Mozambican History and Culture in the Tempo Magazine (1975-1985).

•  Tanimara Santos – Distrito Federal
Body and Identity Politics: an Analysis of Esthetic Elements of Black Women in the Brazilian Federal Capital

16h30 – 17h00 – Coffee/Tea Break and transfer to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Opening Ceremony

18h – Opening Ceremony –

Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Esplanada dos Ministérios / Palácio do Itamaraty

Auditorium Wladimir Murtinho

19h30 – Keynote Address: The History of Africa and the African Diaspora in the 21st Century

21h – Cocktail

DAY 2 - Tuesday 10/11 – Universidade Corporativa dos Correios

08h to 9h30 – Auditorium

Lead Paper Presentation IV. Culture and Identity in Africa and the African Diaspora

Moderator: Kabenguele Munanga / Congo-Brazil

9h30 to 11h - Auditorium

Lead Paper Presentation V: History and Historiography in Africa and in the African Diaspora

Moderator: Prof. Tunde Babawale

11h00 to 11h30 – Coffee/Tea Break

11h00 – 13h 00 – Panel Discussions

Auditorium : Panel Discussion III - Experiences in the Teaching of African and Diaspora History and Culture in Brazilian Primary and Secondary Schools

Moderator: Prof. Kofi Anyidoho

•  Edeh Peter Daniel - Nigeria

Teaching the History of African Philosophy to Africans in Diaspora .

•  Fayemi, Ademola Kazeem & Omotoso, Sharon (Mrs.) - Nigeria

Teaching Ancient History of African Philosophy in Continental and Diaspora Africa

•  Bruno Guilherme dos Santos Borda e Lúcia Maciel Lima - Pará
Rethinking Sociology through Rap Musical Expressions

•  Menkowra Clem Marshall - Canada

Talking Cheddo to Teach Tough Kushitic Truths

Room 1: Panel Discussion IV – Culture and Identity in Africa and in the African Diaspora

•  Amailton Magno Azevedo – São Paulo

Cultural Expressions in the African Diaspora of the South Atlantic through Music

•  Ires dos Anjos Brito - Bahia
The research into Traditional Samba and its links to Afro-Brazilian identity

•  Jaqueline Lima Santos – São Paulo
Blacks, Youth and Hip-Hoppers: Narratives, Histories and Identities in Sorocaba.

•  Dele Layiwola - Nigeria

The African Diaspora and the Re-invention of an Other Identity

Room 2: Panel Discussion V - Experiences in the Training of Teachers in Africa and the Diapora

Moderator: Prof. Binam Bikoi

•  Aline Garcia, Benedito G. Eugênio - Bahia

Teaching African History and Culture as a Subject in the School Curricullum of Jequié Municipality: Feedback from the Teachers

•  Sérgio Roberto Cardoso – São Paulo
Africanities in the Classroom: An experiment on the Teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian Culture and Historydades no Horário de Trabalho Pedagógico Coletivo. Uma experiência de Ensino de Cultura e História Africana for Public School Teachers in Sorocaba/SP.

•  Carmen Silvia Batista – Distrito Federal
Constructing Citizenship: Pedagogical Actions for the Establishment of Ethno-Racial Relations in the Federal Capital through the Continous Education of Teachers

•  Amilton Gonçalves Sá Barretto - Pará

Land Ownership in Quilombo Communities in the State of Pará and the Training of Quilombo Teachers for the Teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture

•  Ynaê Lopes dos Santos – Rio de Janeiro
AFRICA: TEACHING TO TEACH: Reflexions on the Challenges of Teaching African History in Tertiary Institutions

13h00 to 14 h 30 – Lunch

14h30 – 16h00 – Parallel Sessions

Auditorium – Panel Discussion VI – Experiences in the Training of Teachers in Africa and the Diapora

•  Bárbara Oliveira Souza e Edileuza Penha Souza – Federal Capital Territory

Experiences in the Training of Teachers in Africa and the Diapora ( African and Diaspora History: Issues of Pedagogy and Methodology)

•  Rosangela Malachias – São Paulo
Experiences in the Training of Teachers in the Diapora . Issues of Pedagogy and Methodology . Educommunicative Practices in the Execution of the Federal Law 10.639/03.

•  Vivian do Carmo, Fernanda Arruda e Eliana Marques Ribeiro Cruz – São Paulo
Challenges and Possibilities open to Teachers of Primary School within the context of the Execution of Federal Law 10.639/03.

•  Josiane Angélica de Melo Ferreira, Marina Rosa da Conceição Rodrigues Lopes and Juan Rodrigo de Ávila Barão – Rio de Janeiro

Descovering the roots of the “ciranda das palavras” cultural expressions

Room 1: Panel Discussion VII – Culture and Identity in Africa and in the African Dispora

Moderator: Prof. Dele Layiwola

•  Winston Wreford LaRose – Canadá

A Stolen Legacy: The Cultural Heritage & Legacy of African Peoples of the Caribbean Diaspora to Canada : In Dispute.

•  Maria de Lourdes Teodoro - Brasília
Introduction to Angolan culture

•  Luciana L. Contarino Sparta - Argentina
From Invissible to Diaspora Subjects: a Case Study of People of African Descent in Argentina.

•  Beatriz Morales Faba – USA

Racism and the Study of People of African descent in Cuba and Mexico :  A Comparative Analysis of two Indigenous Knowledge Systems.

Room 2: Panel Discussion VIII – Experiences in the Training of Teachers in Africa and the Diaspora

•  Elisângela Ferreira Sentanin – São Paulo
Demystifying Racial Differences in Early Childhood Education: A School/Community Partnership

•  Fábio Baqueiro Figueiredo, Zelinda Barros - Bahia
Distance Education options for the Training og Teachers of African History – Bahia.

•  Henrique Cunha Júnior - Ceará
Alphabets, writings and symbols in African Cultures: An Aspect of the Teaching of African History and Culture

•  Jorge Luís Rodrigues dos Santos – Rio de Janeiro
Curricullum Project: “Knowing Africa and understanding Brazil"

16h00 – 16h30 – Coffee/Tea Break

16h30 – 18h00 – Parallel Sessions

Auditorium: Panel Discussion IX – Experiences in the Teaching of African and Diaspora History and Culture in Brazilian Primary and Secondary Schools

Moderator: Prof. J-M Mabeko Tali

1. Antonia da Silva Bezerra, Lucélia Lima de Vasconcelos and Nadson Nei da S. de Souza - Roraima
Mini - Workshops and Handouts on Religiosity and Africanity: an Alternative approach to the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian History to Infant Education Pupils in Roraima.

•  Azoilda Loretto da Trindade – Rio de Janeiro
Daily Occurrences of Racism in Brazilian Schools Before and After the Promulgation of the Federal Law 10639/2003.

•  Benedito G. Eugênio, Justino Cosme dos Santos - Bahia
Marujada, class teachers and ethno-racial relations in a Quilombo community school

•  Edimilson Antônio Mota – Rio de Janeiro
The perception of educators on the Challenges of implementing the Federal Law 10.639/03

Room 1: Panel Discussion X – Culture and Identity in Africa and in the African Diaspora

•  Karla Leandro Rascke and Paulino de Jesus Francisco Cardoso – Santa Catarina

Feasts and procession of “Our lady of the Rosary” and St. Benedict in Desterro/SC between 1860 and 1890.

•  Vanessa Adriano Marinho - Pernambuco

Cuá Téla: African Oral tradition and popular culture in São Tomé e Príncipe.

•  Ilka Joseane Pinheiro Oliveira - Pará

Marujada de Tracuateua – African Heritage in the Amazon region

Room 2: Panel Discussion XI - Experiences in the Teaching of African and Diaspora History and Culture in Brazilian Primary and Secondary Schools

Moderator: Greg Carr

•  Allan Santos da Rosa – São Paulo

Imagination, Body and Pen – Afro-Brazilian Values in the education of Black Youth and Adults

•  Ibrahim Maina Waziri - Nigeria

Towards an effective reconstruction of the history of Africans: the need for an African and Africans in diaspora's oral traditions in teaching and research in the history of Africa .

•  Angela Baraldi Pacheco - Alagoas

Litterature and Identity: some reflexions on the educational practices in some secondary schools

•  Giovani Grillo de Salve – São Paulo
Speaking to those who speak: What History of Africa are we going to teach?

18h00 – End of the Sessions for Day 2

DIA 3 – Quarta-feira - 11/11

08h to 9h30 – Auditorium

Lead Paper Presentation VI: Policies of the Consolidation of Compulsory Teaching of African and Diaspora History

Moderator:

9h30 – 11h00 - Auditorium

Lead Paper Presentation VII : Creativity, arts and theatre in Africa and in the African Diaspora

Moderator: Prof. Femi Osofisan

11h00 – 11h30 – Coffee/Tea Break

11h30 – 13h00 - Parallel Sessions

Auditorium : Panel Discussion XII – Experiences in the Teaching of African and Diaspora History and Culture in Brazilian Primary and Secondary Schools

•  Djalma Bruno da Silveira Luiz, Leni Nobre de Oliveira, Marcus Caetano Domingos e Rodrigo Borges de

Andrade – Minas Gerais
Memory and Tradition of Afro-Descendants in Araxá.

•  Felippe Jorge Kopanakis Pacheco - Goiás
Historical Cartography and the Geography of the African Continente, the African Diaspora, its peoples and their History

•  Maria Goretti da Costa Tavares - Pará
Mozambique and South Africa – Similarities and Diversities. Exploring the Geography of Africa.

•  Luiz Fernandes de Oliveira – Rio de Janeiro
New Technologies at the service of the Promotion of Racial Equality

Room 1: Panel Discussion XIII – Culture and Identity in Africa and in the African Diaspora

Moderatora: Aminata Kiello

•  Maria Caroline de Figueiredo Veloso

Identity and Difference – Representations of Black Men and Women in the Nossa História Magazine – 1st Year (2003/04)

•  Silvio Cezar de Souza Lima

Medicine and Slavery during the Imperial Era in Brazil

•  Olukemi A. Fadehan, PhD - Nigeria

Cultural Renaissance through Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Africa : Opportunities and Challenges for Memory Institutions

4. Cândice Elizabeth Nery Silva Teixeira

The Marajoara Struggle and the Process of Cultural Resistance among Afro-Brazilians on the Island of Marajó/Pa

Room 2: Panel Discussion XIV – Policies of the Consolidation of Compulsory Teaching of African and Diaspora History

•  Ademir Ribeiro Junior, Antônio Luiz Santos Figueiredo and Kilma Fernanda Duarte Castro - Bahia

Art as a pedagogic aid for the propagation of African History and Culture: An Experiment with the Mounting ofClaudio Masella Room of African Art (DIMUS/IPAC).

•  Ana Paula Brandão – Rio de Janeiro
The Collor of Culture Project

Maria Isabel Mena Garcia - Colômbia
Colombia: Dilemas on the Teaching of African History in Colombian Schools – An Analysis of Textbooks and their Illustrations.

•  Tomás Fernández Robaina - Cuba

Experiences of a Programme on the History of Blacks in Cuba and the African Diaspora in the Americas

13:00 to 14:30 – Lunch

14h30 to 16h Grupos de Trabalho:

Auditorium : Panel Discussion XV – Experiences in the Teaching of African and Diaspora History and Culture in Brazilian Primary and Secondary Schools

Moderator: Prof. Ibrahim Maina Waziri

•  Mateus Ceni de Oliveira – Rio Grande do Sul
Capoeira angola in our School

•  Antonio Gomes da Costa Neto – Distrito Federal
Black Traditions ou White Politics: religious education and the religions on African origin

•  Eunice Ngongkum PhD - Cameroon

African Literature as a Valid Tool for Teaching African History and Culture in the Diaspora

•  Arthur Leandro, Gianno Quintas e Alex Leovan - Pará

Cinema as a playful mechanism of teaching Afro-Brazilian History – Report on experimentations at the Nangetu Institute in Belém do Pará.

Room 1: Panel Discussion XVI – Culture and Identity in Africa and in the African Diaspora

•  Leni Nobre de Oliveira – A Diaspora in the Diaspora: Quilombos in the Interior of Farinha Podre

•  Maria Aparecida de O. Souza – Neither a model nor a copy: the simgularity of Conceição das Crioulas

•  Ana Paula de Mesquita Sampaio – Pará –

The Black Body between the cross and the crossroad: The understanding of the Black Body within the mysteries of Afro-Brazilian religions

Room 2: Panel Discussion XVII – Policies of the Consolidation of Compulsory Teaching of African and Diaspora History

Moderator: Alh. Sheidu Ozigis

•  Graziela dos Santos Lima, Paulino de Jesus Francisco Cardoso, Tamna Amandio, Thaís Regina de Carvalho, Virginia Ferreira Boff, Maria Aparecida Clemêncio, Neli Góes Ribeiro – Santa Catarina

Cultural Diversidade, Africanities and the School Arquives in Santa Catarina: A Study on Um estudo on the process of implementing the Federal Law nº. 10639/03

•  Luiza Nascimento dos Reis - Bahia

Academic Exchange between Brazil and Africa: the First Generation of African Students in Brazil (1961-1963).

•  Márcia Guerra – Rio de Janeiro

African History in a Comparative perspective – Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba.

•  Joseneida Mendes Eloi de Souza - Bahia

The Trajectories of African Literature in Brazil: Issues on publications

5. Marílio Wane – Moçambique / Bahia
Timbila as a World Heritage site: Contemporary Cultural Policies in Mozambique (1994-2007)

16h00 – 16h30 – Coffee/Tea Break

16h30 – 18h00 – Parallel Sessions:

Auditorium : Panel Discussion XVIII – Criatividade, artes e teatro na África e na Diáspora (Creativity, arts and theatre in Africa and in the African Diaspora)

•  Tama Hamilton-Wray, PhD – Estados Unidos

“Excising the Past: Haile Gerima and the Creation of Slave History in Sankofa ”

•  Akinwale Onipede - Nigeria

Towards a Better Appreciation of Africaness through Visual and Verbal Definitions

•  Babásèhìndé Adémúlèyá PhD - Nigeria

From Bahia back Home: An Exposition on the synthesis of form, structure and motifs of the Bahia and Yoruba Architectures in Afro-Brazilian Buildings

•  Jeleel O. Ojuade - Nigeria

Negotiating the ‘Nexus' in the Teaching of Nigerian Yoruba Bata History and Culture to the Diaspora and Africa.

•  P rof. Femi Osofisan - Nigeria

“The African Playwright and the Burden of History – Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Osofisan's Nkrumah-Ni, Africa-Ni!”

•  Josephine Mokwunyei, PhD - Nigeria

An Alternative Music Experience for the Diaspora

Room 1: Panel Discussion XIX – Culture and Identity in Africa and in the African Diaspora

Moderator: Shedrach Y. Golen

•  Deyse Luciano de Jesus Santos - Bahia

“I reproach you in the name of Jesus!”

•  Lia Paula Rodrigues - Denmark

The Epistemic Subject in Candomblé

•  Aminata Roommata Kiello - Niger

The Imperative of an African Identity

•  Joy A. Prime – United Kingdom

Closing the Cultural Divide between Continental Africans and Diaspora Africans: The connectivity of Culture, Clothing and Identity

Room 2: Panel Discussion XX – Policies of the Consolidation of Compulsory Teaching of African and Diaspora History

•  Iris Maria da Costa Amâncio - Minas Gerais
African and Diaspora Litteratures as aids to the teaching of African History

•  Vanicléia Silva Santos - Bahia

Writing African and Diaspora History in Brazil

•  Rafael Antonio Díaz Díaz

The Absence and Presence of Africa in Texbooks of Colombian Schools

4. Creusa Barbosa dos Santos, Adriana Leonidas de Oliveira and Ricardo Augusto Gomes Pereira - Pará

Educational Policies and Diversity in the State of Pará between 2008-2009: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Education in overcoming racial Inequalities

18h00 – End of presentations for Day 3

DIA 4 – Quinta-feira - 12/11

08h to 10 h30 – Grupos de Trabalho:

Auditorium : Panel Discussion XXI – Criatividade, artes e teatro na África e na Diáspora (Creativity, arts and theatre in Africa and in the African Diaspora)

Moderator: George Ufot

•  Sola Olorunyomi, PhD - Nigeria

Conceptualising Continuity and Shifts in the African and the Black Diaspora Performance Traditions

•  Prof. Duro Oni – Nigeria

Towards a Historiography of Representations of Africans and Disporan Africans in Theatrical Works: Performance Paradigms of Walcott, Aidoo and Onwueme in Perspective.

Room 1: Panel Discussion XXII– Culture and Identity in Africa and in the African Diaspora

•  Maria Paula Fernandes Adinolfi - Bahia
Treating African History and Afro-Brazilian religiosity through the lenses of a Museum: The Experience of the Afro-Brazilain Museum at UFBA

•  Jegede, Charles Obafemi - Nigeria

Global African Identity beyond Colour and Boundary: Evidences from Participation in Festivals and Initiation into Yoruba Orisa Cults.

•  Alyxandra Gomes Nunes - Bahia

Nigerian Litterature in Brazil: translation, themes, authors and challenges

•  Joseph Muleka - Kenya
African Oral Culture: Linking Continental Africa and the Diaspora

Room 2: Panel Discussion XXIII– Policies of the Consolidation of Compulsory Teaching of African and Diaspora History

Moderator: Senador Yisa Braimoh

•  Ivan Costa Lima - Ceará

The African Continent as a reference in the pedagogy of the Black movement: a proposal for the Brazilian educational system

•  Mônica Velasco Molina - Mexico
Racism, Inequality and Exclusion: The Brazilian reality

•  Rita de Cássia Camisolão – Rio Grande do Sul
Public University and the Local Authority: Possible Articulations towards the effective Implementation of the Federal Law 10639/03 in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre

•  Eliane Costa Santos – São Paulo

Material Culture from Ghana: a new possibility for teaching and learning experiences in Mathematics

•  Maria Roseane Corrêa Pinto Lima – Rio de Janeiro

“Black Britons”: Barbadians in the Brazilian Amazonia Region in the Early decades of the 20th Century – identity and racism

•  Olufolajimi Adejokun – USA

Political Ethnicity and Racism: A Hegemonic Power Politics.

10:30h to 11:00h – Coffee/Tea Break

11h00 – 13h00: Parallel Sessions

Auditorium : Panel Discussion XXIV – History and Historiography (Group I)

•  Conchita Penilla-Cespedes - França

Orality as the expression of African Culture on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

•  Edna dos Santos Oliveira - Amapá
Oral Tradition in the Quilombo Community of Curiaú.

•  Tayo Ajayi – Nigeria

The Brazilian Nagô or Yoruba: A Dialect or an Archaic Language?

•  Adewale Banjo – África do Sul

AU-CARICOM Partnership and the Modern History of Diaspora Diplomacy

Room 1: Panel Discussion XXV – História e Historiografia (Group II)

Moderator: Hon. Kanayo Oguakwa

•  Lisa Earl Castillo - Bahia
The 1835 Exodus: Life Histories, Social Networks and the Return to Africa

•  Amani Olubanjo Buntu – África do Sul

From Powerlessness to Empowerment; Countering After-effects of Historical Oppression on Africans and African Descendants.

•  Gustavo Henrique Araújo Forde – Espírito Santo
The African Presence in the History of Mathematics: The reappearance of the African Corpus in Western Mathematics

Room 2: Panel Discussion XXVI– History and Histoiography (Group III)

•  Elias Alfama Vaz Moniz – Cabo Verde
Cape Verde, matron of the Black Diaspora !

•  Bankie Forster Bankie - Namíbia

Sudan and the ‘Borderlands' - Area Studies in African and Diaspora History

•  Larissa Oliveira e Gabarra – Rio de Janeiro
Difficulties and prospects of the study of the Kingdom of Kongo in Central Africa seen from the angle of the folkloric manifestations of the Congados in Brazil

•  Jesiel Ferreira de Oliveira Filho – Bahia
Tropical Triangulations: Alternative interpretations of the cultural value of miscigenization

13:00h to 14:30h – Lunch

14:30h to 15:30 – Parallel Sessions

Auditorium : Panel Discussion XXVII – History and Historiography (Group I)

Moderator: Dr. Taiwo Oladokun

•  Paulo Vinicius Figueiredo dos Santos – Rio de Janeiro
Images of pious and of the infidel muslim in Muqadimah , by Ibn Khaldun

•  Renato Fonseca Lima – Distrito Federal
The Epistemological Rupture of Cheikh Anta Diop and the concept of Scientific Pan-Africanism

•  André Santos Luigi – São Paulo
Economic Traits in the societies of the central West African region

15:30 to 16:30: Presentation of the Rapporteurs reports

16:30 to 17:00 – Plenary session for the discussion and initiation of Exchange programmes

17:00h to 17:30 - Closing

17h30 – Gala/Social Night
18h – Transfer to Hotel

10h to 13h – Meeting of the Joint Scientific Committee and Partners to evaluate the Colloquium