On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 12:00pm(Eastern) AAAS College Fellow Bojana Coulibaly will moderate “Literature, The Politics of Memory, Countering Oblivion: Itsembabwoko, 27 Years Later,” a dialogue with the Senegalese award-winning novelist and essayist Boubacar Boris Diop, and Dr. Koulsy Lamko, Chadian novelist, playwright and essayist, Dr. Jean-Pierre Karegeye, author and scholar in Philosophy and Theology at Dickinson College. The event will address the questions of truth, social justice and reconciliation in an effort to counter genocide denial in the aftermath of the recent Duclerc Report commissioned by the French President Emanuel Macron on the role of the French government during and after the genocide against the Tutsi.
Attendance is free with advance registration.