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*The 2nd Cultural Compounds presentation: * *IS AFRICAN IDENTITY LOST IN TRANSLATION?* *Announces its guest speakers – Afua Hirsch and David Olusoga* Cultural Compounds is a series of one day symposiums to explore how the cultural and the personal conditions of African diasporic society, relate to current practices and theories, our knowledge of the past and contribute to our aspirations for the future. The second symposium in the series is on Saturday 7th July at City, University of London EC1V 0HB . The guest speakers are two of Britain’s most prominent thinkers, speakers and award winning writers today, Afua Hirsch and Dr. David Olusoga. Afua Hirsch is a journalist and author of the *Sunday Times* best-selling book, *Brit(ish):** On Race, Identity and Belonging* (Jonathan Cape) David Olusoga is a broadcaster and author of the multi-award winning book *Black British:* *F**orgotten History* (MacMillan). The symposium also includes panellists drawn from prominent and popular cultural theorists, activists, arts practitioners and artists of African descent in the UK, including BBC New Generation Thinker (2016) Dr. Louisa Uchum Egbunike, a Lecturer in English at City, University of London City, University of London’s Postcolonial Studies Research Seminar Series. Larry Achiampong (visual artist) Hassan Aliyu (visual artist) Zena Edwards (Performance Poet) Louisa Uchum Egbunike (Lecturer in English at City University) Kwame, *(*Black British Music/Black Music Congress *) *Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm (novelist and magazine publisher) Coco Mbassi (Singer) *Patrice Naia*mbana (Actor and musician) Minna Salami ‘aka’ Ms Afropolitan (cultural theorist) Carleen De Sözer (visual artist) Onyekachi Wambu (Director of A.F.F.O.R.D.) Bibi Bakare Yusef (Cassava Republic - publisher) www.culturalcompounds.org *Aims and objectives of the symposiums* The Cultural Compounds aims to create a series includes keynote presentations, conversations, debates and performances to explore how the word 'Black' translates currently in various art and cultural forms and what the drivers are for these. *Objectives * To discuss in a public space such questions as: In a society made up of people with multiple cultural references and hybrid identities how do we name ourselves? Do we identify with received and perceived representation? To create an environment for live and online dialogue to exchange ideas and opinions and highlight urgent questions about Afro-Modernist cultural expression and inheritance in the UK and beyond. To examine and challenge cultural, artistic and curatorial practices, theories and traditions as they relate to race, representation and identity with reference to people of African descent. Supported using public funding by ACE England In collaboration with the English Department at City, University of London Organised by African Writers Abroad, The Watch-Men Agency and Picture Bright *To Book**/More information* https://is-african-identity-lost-in-translation.eventbrite.com -- *The Writer & The City: Kadija in The Gambia http://tinyurl.com/y9vzlpv8 <http://tinyurl.com/y9vzlpv8>* *The Importance of Independent Black Publishing* *http://tinyurl.com/yc838cdn <http://tinyurl.com/yc838cdn>* *Arts can save children, no matter what's going on in their homes. Afeni Shakur* ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BASA list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BASA&A=1