UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
MWALIMU NYERERE CHAIR IN PAN-AFRICAN STUDIES
THIRD JULIUS NYERERE INTELLECTUAL FESTIVAL WEEK
APRIL 12-15, 2011
TUESDAY 12TH APRIL 2011
PAN-AFRICAN DAY I
MORNING SESSION
9.00 – 9.30
Guests to be seated in Nkrumah Hall by 9.30
Chair: Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rwekaza Mukandala
MC: Prof. Amandina Lihamba
9.30 - 9.40
Arrival of the procession of Nyerere Lecturer
Procession accompanied and led by ‘ngoma ya mdundiko’
9.40 – 9.50
Sisi ni Watoto wa Africa
Marlaw + secondary school students
9.50 – 10.10
Welcome address by the VC, Prof. Rwekaza Mukandala
10.10 – 10.25
Citation of the Distinguished Nyerere Lecturer -
Prof. Issa Shivji
10.25 - 10.35
Installation of the Distinguished Nyerere Lecturer, 2011
10.35– 11.30
BEREKET SELASSIE: BEYOND COLONIAL BORDERS TO PAN-AFRICAN AFRICAN UNITY
LECTURE I: POST-COLONIAL PAN-AFRICANISM: A HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL TESTAMENT
11.30 – 12.30
Audience Participation: questions, comments and answers
12.30 - 12.40
Host: Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority
(TCRA) invites participants to the Health Break
12.40 – 2.30
HEALTH BREAK
Invited Guests to VC’s residence
Host: The Pan-African Start Secretariat (PASS)
END OF MORNING SESSION
TUESDAY 12 APRIL 2011
AFTERNOON SESSION
2.30 – 2.45
Arrival and seating of guests in Nkrumah Hall
MC: Dr Tulia Ackson
2.45 – 3.00
Special song on Ukombozi - Karola Kinasha
3.00 – 3.15
Welcome of the panel and introduction of the topic –
Chief interlocutor:
Prof. Issa Shivji, Mwl. Nyerere Professor of Pan-African Studies
3.15 – 4.15
INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE - THINKING WITH MWALIMU: AFRICA AT 50 IN PAN-AFRICANISM
Chief Interlocutor:
Prof. Issa Shivji.
Participants:
Mzee Martin Shikuku, First Generation Kenyan Nationalist
Mzee Hashim Mbita, Former Head of OAU Liberation Committee
Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, Former OAU Secretary General
Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi, Director, UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP)
Prof. Severin Rugumamu, University of Dar es Salaam
Dr. Vicensia Shule, University of Dar es Salaam
4.15 – 5.15
Audience participation: questions, comments and answers
5.15 – 5.30
Winding up - Chief Interlocutor
6.00 – 9.00
VC’s Cocktail for invited guests
END OF DAY ONE
WEDNESDAY 13TH APRIL 2011
PAN-AFRICAN DAY II
MORNING SESSION
9.00 – 9.15
Guests to be seated in Nkrumah Hall
Chair: Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rwekaza Mukandala
MC: Prof. Saida Yahya-Othman
9.15 – 9.45
Performance
Fid Q & Prof. J.
9.45 – 10.30
BEREKET SELASSIE: BEYOND COLONIAL BORDERS TO PANAFRICAN AFRICAN UNITY
LECTURE II: PAN-AFRICANISM AND PROBLEMS OF AFRICAN NATION STATES: CHALLENGES IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
10.30 – 10.40
Host: UDSM-Computing Centre (UCC) invites guests to Health Break
10.40 – 11.30
HEALTH BREAK
11.30 - 12.30
Audience Participation: questions, comments and answers
12.30 – 12.50
Vote of Thanks to Prof. Bereket Selassie
Dr. Khoti Kamanga
12.50 – 1.40
THREE YEARS OF KIGODA CHA MWALIMU
Guest of Honour: Dr. Ebrima Sall, Executive Secretary of CODESRIA
Chair: Prof. Issa Shivji
12.50 – 1.00
Shairi: Heko kwa kutimiza ahadi –
Mwalimu Bashiru Ally
1.00 – 1.20
Taking Stock of Three Years –
Issa Shivji
1.20 – 1.30
Ng’wanza Kamata: Introduces the Chair’s publications & invites the Guest of Honour to launch by presenting them to the first laureates of the course: Pan-African Thought and Practice I: The Roots of Pan-Africanism
1.30 – 1.40
Brief remarks by the Guest of Honour -
Ebrima Sall
1.40 – 3.00
LUNCH BREAK
Invited Guests to VC’s residence
Host: `Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation (MNF) &Tanzania Gender Network Programme [TGNP]
END OF MORNING SESSION
AFTERNOON SESSION
SYMPOSIUM: WOMEN FREEDOM FIGHTERS
(Organised in collaboration with TGNP – Tanzania Gender Network Programme)
Chair: Ms. Mary Rusimbi, Chairperson – TGNP
3.00 – 3.30
Kwa nini? Theatre performance by Makanjanja group
3.30 – 3.40
Welcome remarks – Ms. Mary Rusimbi
3.40 – 4.40
Interactive Dialogue - Silences on Women Freedom Fighters: The Case of East African Women
Chief Interlocutor:
Ms. Demere Kitunga, Publisher and Former TGNP Board Member
Participants:
Prof. Sylvia Tamale, Makerere University
Ms. Ananilea Nkya, Executive Director – TAMWA
Prof. Godwin Murunga, Kenyatta University
Ms. Salma Maoulid, Gender Activist
4.40 – 5.20
Audience participation: questions, comments and answers
5.20 – 5.35
Launching of Popular Feminist Life Herstory Publications –
Prof. Alice Nkhoma Wamunza, University of Dar es Salaam
5.35 – 6.00
Summing up
Demere Kitunga & Mary Rusimbi
END OF AFTERNOON SESSION
WEDNESDAY 13TH APRIL 2011
PAN-AFRICAN DAY II
SPECIAL NIGHT SESSION: LEARNING TO STRUGGLE
VENUE: REVOLUTIONARY SQUARE
Sponsor: Legal & Human Rights Centre
7.30 – 8.00 pm
Arrival of guests and refreshments
8.00 – 08.10 pm
A word from Facilitator/moderator
Prof. Issa Shivji
08.10 – 08.40 pm
Reminiscences of the Ghanaian struggle –
Special Guest: Yao Graham
08.40 – 10.00 pm
Discussion of experiences and reminiscences of student struggles UDSM Students of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s
END OF DAY TWO
THURSDAY 14th APRIL 2011
CELEBRATING PAN-AFRICANISTS
[Sponsored by African Research and Resource Forum [ARRF]]
MORNING SESSION
9.00 – 9.20
Guests to be seated
Chair: Prof. P. Anyang’ Nyong’o, Minister of Health Service, Kenya
MC: Dr. George Omondi, Executive Secretary – ARRF
9.20 – 9.35
MC introduces books to be launched
9.35 – 9.50
Launching of the books and brief remarks by the Chairperson
9.50 – 10.30
A Panoramic View of the Books written by First Generation Nationalists by Jenerali Ulimwengu
10.30 – 10.55
Discussion
10.55 – 11.05
Host: Commission for Science & Technology (COSTECH) invites participants to Health Break
11.05 – 11.45
HEALTH BREAK
BUNGE LA VIJANA: THE YOUNGER GENERATION DEBATE ON NATIONALISM VS. PAN-AFRICANISM
Motion: This house believes that after 50 years of independence, it is time to consolidate nationalism in each of our countries rather than resurrect Pan-Africanism
11.45 – 11.50
Introduction of the topic by the Speaker, Ng’wanza Kamata
11. 50 – 12.50
Debate
12.50 – 01.30
Audience participation
01.30 – 01.40
Summing up – Speaker
1.40 – 02.40
LUNCH BREAK: Invited guests to VC’s residence for lunch [Host ARRF]
END OF MORNING SESSION
AFTERNOON SESSION
VICE-CHANCELLOR’S PALAVER: 50 YEARS OF GENERATING KNOWLEDGE AT THE HILL
3.15 – 3.30
Introduction of the topic: Vice Chancellor, Prof. R. Mukandala
REPOSITIONING UDSM AS A PANAFRICAN UNIVERSITY
3.30 – 4.30
Dialogue
Participants:
Amb. Juma Mwapachu, Secretary General, East African Community
Prof. Fred Kaijage, University of Dar es Salaam
Prof. Penina Mlama, CAMFED Tanzania
Dr. Saleem Badat, VC, Rhodes University, South Africa
Prof. Akosua Ampofo, Director, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
4.30 – 4.50
Audience participation
4.50 – 5.00
Winding up
Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rwekaza Mukandala
5.00 – 5.20 Special Thanks by Prof. Issa Shivji
8.00 – 12.00
PAN-AFRICAN DINNER AND DANCE
MC: Vicensia Shule
KAROLA KINASHA BAND
Hosts: UDASA & Economic and Social Research Foundation [ESRF]
END OF DAY THREE
FRIDAY 15TH APRIL 2011
ACADEMIC REFLECTIONS DAY
50 YEAR STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & CONSTITUTIONALISM
SCHOOL OF LAW IN COLLABORATION WITH
LEGAL & HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE
MORNING SESSION
SESSION I: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chair: Dean, Prof. Palamagamba Kabudi
MC: Ms. Asina Omari
9.00 - 9.30
Arrival and seating of guests
9.30 – 9.40
Welcoming remarks
Prof. Palamagamba Kabudi
9.40 – 10.00
Citation of the Keynote Speaker
Prof. G. Mgongo Fimbo
10.00 – 10.45
Keynote address
Human Rights and Constitutionalism in East Africa: A Panoramic View
Prof. Yash Ghai:
10.45 – 11.15
Audience participation
11.15 – 11.25
Thanks and summing up - Chairperson
11.25 – 11.30
Co-host [LHRC] welcomes participants to the health break
11.30 – 12.00
HEALTH BREAK
SESSION II: PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Chairperson: Prof. L. X. Mbunda
12.00 – 12.45
Paper presentations:
1. G. M. Fimbo: Fifty Years of Teaching and Researching Law in East Africa
2. M.K.B. Wambali: The Participation and Contribution of the Faculty of Law, University of Dar es Salaam to the Struggles for Constitutional Change, Democracy and Human Rights in Tanzania
3. P. J. Kabudi: The Future Perspectives of the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law (Formerly Faculty of Law)
12.45 – 1.30
Audience participation
1.30 – 1.45
Responses from presenters
1.45 – 2.00
Summing up - Chairperson
END OF MORNING SESSION
2.00 – 3.00
LUNCH BREAK
Invited guests to VC’s residence for lunch [Co-Host: LHRC]
AFTERNOON SESSION
SESSION III: BOOK LAUNCH
Guest of Honour: Hon. Justice Joseph Sinde Warioba
Chairperson: Prof. Palamagamba Kabudi
3.00 – 3.15
Arrival of guests and performance by Marlaw
BOOK LAUNCH:
RULE OF LAW versus RULERS OF LAW: JUDGE BARNABAS ALBERT SAMATTA’S ROAD TO JUSTICE
Compiled and edited by Issa Shivji & Hamudi Majamba
3.15 – 3.30
Editors’ introduction
3.30 – 3.40
Launch of the book - Guest of Honour
3.40 – 3.50
Brief remarks - Guest of Honour
3.50 – 4.00
Brief remarks and thanks - Justice Barnabas Samatta
4.00 – 4.15
Performance – Marlaw
SESSION IV: MOCK TRIAL: A SNIPPET FROM HISTORY
[This trial was organised by the then Faculty of Law sometime in 1981/2.]
4.15 – 5.15
Re-enacting the mock trial
[Based on the case of Republic vs Agnes Doris Liundi [1980] T.L.R 38.]
Prof. Penina Mlama in the role of the Accused
5.15 – 5.30
Official closing of the Festival by the VC
END OF FESTIVAL
UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Professorial Chair in Pan-African Studies
P.O.Box 35091, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Tel: +255 22 2410 763
Email: mwalimuchair@udsm.ac.tz
Website: nyererechair.udsm.ac.tz
Long Live Prof. Issa Shivji. Long Live UDSM!!!
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