Arrival and registration
ICACD Documentary Film Festival Starts – starts 7:30pm

Venue: The Alliance Francaise Accra outdoor cinema (behind Opeibea House) Liberation Link, Airport Residential Area. The films are listed in their screening order.

N’dimagou : Dignity ( Mauritania)             
Director: Abderrahamane Sissako

In a bustling African city, people on the street, in cars, at work are asked what dignity means to them. The answers may surprise you in this verite documentary.
Length: 4minutes   Language: Arabi

La mangue (Burkina Faso)    
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo

A little girl plants a mango seed and carefully tends her sapling. As a woman, she gives the same nurturing care and love to her child, in the shade of a beautiful mango tree.
Length: 4minutes  Language:  nil

USIPOZIBA UFA: When you don’t fix a crack (Tanzania),
Director: Chande Omar

A docudrama about the tragedy of adolescent pregnancy in southern Tanzania. The video raises community debates on the challenges of parenting, on how to empower young girls to stick to cultural foundations especially now that many of these customs are changing.
Length: 30minutes   Languages: Kiswahili with English subtitles

Sketches of Love: who are you to judge? (Ghana),

People living with HIV are just like you – a documentary on a collaboration between the Ghana AIDS Commission and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts as a strategy for the National HIV Stigma Reduction Campaign.
Length: 30minutes    Language: English

Les Amazones du Danxome “Agoodjie” (Benin),
Director: Nelly Sename Denakpo

A documentary on the Danxome Amazon women of Benin. “This film relates a part of the life of these noble and proud women who fought a resistance struggle with the European invaders.”
Length: 26minutes    Language: Fon and French with French subtitles
 

Monday November 16th  -  ERATA Hotel, East Legon

8am – 9am

Registrations

9am – 10.00am

Opening ceremony:

Welcome performance by EHI Cultural Group from Jamestown, Accra – traditional GA drumming and dancing.

MC Host:  Mr. David Kwao-Sarbah
Culture and Development International.

Hon. Samuel Kojo Appiah-Kubi,
Chairman and Founder, Culture and Development International presenters of the 2nd International Conference on African Culture and Development.

Mr. Azonko Simpi,
Deputy Chair Accra Culture and Arts Network.

Mbizo Chirasha, Poet
The Anthem of the Black Poet

Mrs Anil Von Maltitz, Deputy High Commissioner, South African High Commission.

Hon. Fritz Baffoe, Member of Ghana Parliament

Re-locate to the opening of the exhibition by the Foundation of Contemporary Art Ghana by Ms Mulenga Kapwepwe, Chairperson Zambia National Arts Council and founding Chairperson of the African ARTerial Network.

The exhibition features work by Everlove Tetteh, Jennifer Opare, Kofi Dawson, David Charway,  Adwowa Ammah-Tagoe, Sir Black, Ruth Annor, Joyce Akwele, Adwoa  Amoah, Agyenim-Boateng, Tei Huagie and Eric Anane.

Dance and drumming performance by the children of the Freespirit Art Group, Moree, Ghana.
 

11:00am

Refreshment Break

11.30am – 1:00pm

African Culture: viewing our past through the lense of the present on our journey to the future
To truly develop we must understand who we are, where we come from and where we are going. Pre-colonial, post-colonial, traditional, modern we are all these and we are all African.

Dr. Seth N. Asumah:
African Traditional Cultures and the Quest for Modernization and Development in the Era of Globalization.

Dr. Mokong Simon Mapadimeng: Indigenous African Cultures and Relevance to Socio-Economic Development in the contemporary era.
 

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Lunch break

2pm – 3.30pm

 Art and Culture as tools for Conflict Resolution
From age old oral traditions of story and joke telling, through contemporary theatrical and visual arts interventions this session will offer and examine case studies and examples of how art and culture have been utilised to reduce, prevent and heal conflict.

Mr. Charlie Haffner
– theatre and artists interventions Sierra Leone

Ms. Lindsay McClain
– visual arts and creative arts initiatives in Uganda

Mr. Solomon Tsehaye Baraki
– Aspects of traditional wisdom from Eritrea.

3.30pm

Break

4pm – 4.45pm

Performance:
EWAYI by Igodo: One Voice Cultural Ensemble, Imo State, Nigeria.
Set in South eastern Nigeria the piece describes the effects of the economic breakdown on individual family units. The story is told through music and dance.

Close of day session and transportation to British Council

6.30pm

Women Culture and Development
Venue: British Council Accra auditorium

The evening will be hosted by Nana Aba Anamoah from Ghana’s TV3.

Guests include:

Dr Desta Meghoo - Ethiopia
A Development Consultant with over twenty five years experience in entertainment, public relations and social development.

Dr Elise Huffer – South Pacific
Cultural Advisor for the Human Development Program of the South Pacific Commission (SPC).

Dr Daisy Ebeniro – Nigeria
A Sociologist by training with a specialization in criminology, police science and social work,  and a multi-disciplinary researcher by choice, best known for her work on prostitution and unemployment in Nigeria.

Grace Flavia Barya – Uganda
Winner of the 2006 World International mentoring Award at the 10th World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs as well as a winner of the 5th NURRU (Network of Ugandan researchers and Research Users), research grant.

Mulenga Kapwepwe – Zambia
Founding Chairperson of the African ARTerial Network and is the Chairperson of the National Arts Council of Zambia, as well as a published author of a number of books.

Akorfa Ejeani-Asiedu – Ghana
Actress and producer in the Ghanaian Film and Television industry. She is best known for her films and television drama.

Performers:
Bandile Gumbi – South Africa poet

EHI Performing Group Women’s Ensemble.

Tuesday November 17th - Erata Hotel, East Legon

9am – 10.30am

People and Participation: through engaging civil society, supporting participatory governance and sharing experiences the processes of development are activated.
This session examines these options and presents comparative examples from Africa and the South Pacific region

Ms. Mulenga Kapwepwe : The role of civil society in culture and development

Mr. Israel Jacob Massuanganhe, PhD : Touching the Poor: Re-thinking the Millennium Development Goals by Promoting Participatory Governance and Local Development.

Dr. Elise Huffer: Culture and Development in the Pacific Region

10.30am – 11am

Break

11.00am – 12:30pm

Culture, Governance and Traditional Leadership
One of the most important liberators or inhibitors to the successful development in Africa is the changing roles and relationships for the traditional leaders.

Prof. Irene K. Adotei – the Ghana experience

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

1.30pm – 3:00pm

Breakout sessions: please select one from the three listed:

The Value of Cultural Exchange: who benefits, what are the risks – discussion on methods to expand the role of cultural exchange and to increase its importance to society.
- Marisa N. Benson

Dr. Akinola Oriola: The ambivalence of leadership and gender problem in Tess Onwueme’s “The Reign of Wazobia”.

Artist Walkabout – meet some of the artists from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Ghana who are exhibiting at the Conference and hear their perspective on their work and on the role of art in social change.

3.00pm – 3.30pm

Coffee break

3.30pm – 5.00pm

Ensuring Environmental Sustainability – an African Cultural and artistic perspective.
A presentation on the dynamic interplay between the arts and cultural practices of some African communities and the impact of foreign values and how these values are merging with the indigenous practices of the people in adapting and responding to the challenges posed by the unbridled environmental degradation witnessed today. Lecture presentation and performance.

Professor F. Nii-Yartey
The Noyam African Dance Institute Dancers

Close of day program

7pm - 9:30pm

The ICACD Awards event
 - NUBUKE Foundation, East Legon

Presentation of ICACD Awards.

Performances by: Sir Black – spoken word poetry
The Noyam African Dance Institute Dancers
EHI Acrobatic and Cultural Group
- Acrobatics, traditional drumming and dancing and Highlife Band.

Wednesday November 18th - Erata Hotel, East Legon

9am – 10.30am

Education: our strength and our survival.
The impact and importance of education through the traditional knowledge systems, the formal institutional sectors and informing life skills are all imperatives to our continued survival and future development.

Mrs. Apakama Lucy Mgbengasha: Traditional Igbo Education: A tool in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Dr. Leslie Casley-Hayford / Ms. Dalia Dove: The Education Outcome Gaps across poverty zones in Ghana and its relationship to socio-cultural transition.

Dr. Chioma Daisy Eberniro: Knowledge and beliefs about HIV/AIDS among male and female students of Nigerian Universities.
 

10.30am - 11am

Break

11:30am – 1.00pm

Breakout sessions: please select one from the three listed

1. Looking back moving forward: traditional culture and certain cultural practices can assist or hinder the development of a community or a society.

Dr Lanre Olu-Adeyemi: Cultural pact with poverty: the Almajiri’s encumbrance to the Millennium Development Goals.

Leopold Gadagoe: Sankofa: Engaging the indigenous in contemporary development.

2. Empowering Women: an examination of initiatives that work to empower Women and cultural practices that limit their potential.

Helga  Mangueira Olavo Gamboa: The role of ceramics in empowering women and their communities.
 

1:00pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 3pm

The Power of Performance: theatre and dance from its ritual ceremonial roots has been integral to the spirit of African society and communities. Modern theatre and dance has a powerful role to educate, challenge, liberate and generate livelihoods for people across Africa.

Grace Flavia Barya: Diversity of cultural dances and the socio economic development of rural Uganda.

Luckmore Jalisi: Using music and dance to communicate issues of HIV/AIDS – the case of Dance4Life.

Ukachi Wachuku: Community Theatre in achieving the MDG’s: a semiotic analysis of EWAYI, a dance drama
 

3pm – 3:30pm

BREAK

3.30pm – 5pm

Redemption Songs: Marley’s Message – Africa’s Aspiration: for the attainment of the hopes and aspirations of Africa and African people through the Millennium Development Goals there is a continued need to liberate self, family and community. “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds…”  sings Bob Marley inspired by the great Pan African Marcus Garvey’s words of wisdom.

Dr Desta Meghoo.
 

5:15pm – 6pm

Closing comments and recommendations - Hon. Kojo Appiah-Kubi.

Performance: Azonko the synchroniser and his virtual orchestra will perform “Life is Life. Aids is Real”

“Nkrumanomics”, excerpts from the Classic Africa Orchestral Delights.