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photo copy of charcoal drawing by Thami Mnyele for University of Botswana student, and also available in one of the newsletter.
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photo copy of charcoal drawing by Thami Mnyele for University of Botswana student, and also available in one of the newsletter.
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Copy of a photograph by Mike Kalin, Gaborone, Botswana.
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The theme of poetry and music is about the world-wide and age-old oppression. It is a participation of different countries such as South America, Europe and Southern Africa.
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Pre-Seminar Paper from P & R: Suggestion for a 1982 Theme
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This pre-seminar paper from the Publishing and Research Unit entitled "Opening the Doors of Culture" suggests ideas for the a paper to be presented at a seminar in 1982. It gives reflections on how to bring culture to the people and how to use it as a tool for resistance. Handwritten notes on the paper.
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Standing Committee of officials met on the 2/3 July, Council of members met on the 4 July 1984 and Summit on the 6th July at Gaborone, Botswana.
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Publications and Research Programmes
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Publications and Research Reports
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Relevance and Commitment: Apprentices of Freedom
Nadine Gordimer writes this insightful paper on the key concepts of "relevance" and "commitment" in relation to black and white writers. She argues that black writers write from their communities and have daily lives which are embedded within relevant contexts. So too, their commitment to black liberation is innate. She suggests that white writers ought to break out of white value systems and a false consciousness to create relevant art and to openly admit that their experience as being white is of a different order to being black. These are the imperatives which both black and white writers face. The whole aim of art, in its attainment of truth and essence, requires the white writer to attain a true consciousness so that both black and white writers may work for the same end.
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Role of Culture in the Process of Liberation
Culture and liberation are intimately related. Life, according to the authors, is a process of struggle to reach higher levels of civilisation, a process in which art is deeply embedded. The struggle against Apartheid and different forms of colonial violence is one which is intertwined with culture and artistic expression. Even once equality is reached within society, a further cross-pollination of cultural ideas and forms will occur leading to a richer, popular and more universal culture.
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