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Colloquium to be held on 17/18 November 2000 at Churchill College, Cambridge. Brief details are outlined below. For further information and registration details please contact the Colloquium Administrator, Mrs Paula Halson, on [log in to unmask] THE POWER OF THE WORD/LA PUISSANCE DU VERBE 17/18 November 2000 A Millennium Colloquium of Francophone and Anglophone Writers from West Africa and the Caribbean Participants Anthony Kwame Appiah, Biyi Bandele, Assia Djebar, Gaston-Paul Effa, Akin Euba, Christiane Fioupou, Lorna Goodison, Wilson Harris, Marika Hedin, Femi Osofisan, Niyi Osundare, Wole Soyinka and Véronique Tadjo. Facilitators Irène d'Almeida, Jacques Chevrier, Tim Cribb, Abiola Irele, Anny King, John Kinsella, Alain Ricard, Nouréini Tidjani Serpos, Alioune Sow and Maria Tippett. Special Events Exhibition curated by the October Gallery, introduced by Taiwo Jegede Full concert performance of Chaka led by the composer, Akin Euba, with Tunde Jegede Film: La Vie Sur Terre, presented by the Director, Abderhamane Sissako Aims of the Colloquium To bring together writers, supported by critics, in French and English. The languages themselves and their relations to literary production and to indigenous languages will be the framework of the discussion. In the past, this has been a vexed topic and one pursued mainly within the world of each language. On the threshold of the millennium we feel the need for a reassessment of the literary relations between imported and indigenous languages, in a widened and comparative context. Our hope is that this Colloquium will open a dialogue between writers and critics in the two languages that will continue into the future. Full details are also available on our web site at www.chu.cam.ac.uk. Paula Halson Colloquium Administrator Churchill College Cambridge CB3 0DS Tel: 01223 336221 Fax: 01223 336177 mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%