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WARC Lecture Series: "Ecriture, Creation Litteraire et Langues Nationales" (Writing, Literary Creation and National Languages)

Venue:       West African Research Center
Date:          Wednesday, May 11, 2005 from 4pm to 7pm
Topic:        "Ecriture, Creation Litteraire et Langues Nationales"
                   (Writing, Literary Creation and National Languages)
Panelists:  Cheikh Aliou Ndao, writer
                   Boubacar Boris Diop, writer
                   Bassirou Dieng, Professor of Oral Literaure,
                   Department of French, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop

Professor Madior Diouf, former Minister of Education and currently a Member of Parliament in the Senegalese National Assembly, lauded the efforts of the West African Research Center (WARC) after a recent talk held on May 11, 2005 at the center in Dakar, Senegal. Entitled "Ecriture, Creation Litteraire et Langues Nationales" (Writing, Literary Creation and National Languages), Diouf noted that in organizing its lecture series, WARC offers specialists as well as the larger public the occasion to learn from and interact with nationally and internationally known scholars who are doing cutting edge research, and together to discuss and reflect upon seminal issues. Professor Diouf's comments were followed by a lively discussion with comments and questions from academics, writers, West African and American university students, and other participants interested in the development of African letters in indigenous languages. The rewarding exchanges were widely transmitted in the national print and electronic media.


From left to right, WARC Director Professor Ousmane Sene, Professeur
Bassirou Dieng of UCAD, writers Cheikh Aliou Ndao and Boubacar
Boris Diop, and (with back to camera) Professor Ibrahima Thioub


From left to right, Professor Bassirou Dieng, Cheikh Aliou.Ndao,
Boris Diop, and Professor Ibrahima Thioub


Former Minister of Education Professor Madior Diouf (left),
Professor Amadou Ly (center), and Professor Bassirou Dieng (right)


The audience, largely composed of specialists in
literature, oral literature, and languages

 

The panel discussion coincided with a beautiful exhibit of the artistic productions of American university students who took an art class with the famous Senegalese painter and WARC artist-in-residence, Germaine Anta Gaye.
Highlight Date: May 19, 2005