The NORDPLUS for Higher Education’s Creative Arts Pedagogy and the Environment / The CAPE Network ZOOM Webinar #8 Kenneth Nsah, Aarhus University, Denmark, Thursday, December 9, 2021

For our 8th and final 2021 NORDPLUS CAPE Network Zoom Webinar, we were proud to have Kenneth Nsah, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Kenneth’s presentation is titled: “The Congo Basin and Literary Arts”. Kenneth Nsah (pen name: Nsah Mala), is a poet, children’s author, writer, translator, and language teacher (English and French), currently rounding off his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University in Denmark. His research interests include literature and migration, diaspora literature, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities, comparative literature, Anglophone and Francophone African literature, and creative writing. He has published and co-edited many literary books and contributed to numerous magazines and anthologies internationally. And he has won literary prizes in Cameroon and France.

https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/kenneth-toah-nsah(3d83d38b-8789-4994-95cf-a1736a83175b).html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethnsah/

Bibliography

Heart of Darkness (1899), novel by Joseph Conrad, British writer.

Une Saison au Congo (1966), play by Aimé Césaire, Martinican writer 

Le Cri de la forêt (2012/2015), play by Henri Djombo and Osée Koagne

Njogobi Festival (2013), play by John Nkemngong Nkengasong

Le Voyage d’Aurore (2007/2014), novel by Nadia Origo

The Last Hope (2007/2011), commissioned play by EKpe Inyang; note that he has authored many others, not all commissioned.

Le Mal de terre (2014), play by Henri Djombo

Les Marchands du développement durable (2006), novel by Assitou Ndinga

Congo Inc. : Le testament de Bismarck (2014), In Kole Jean Bofane, already translated into English 

Forest Echoes (2012), poetry by Nol Alembong

Le Silence de la forêt (1984), Étienne Goyémidé

Bites of Insanity (2015), poetry by Nsah Mala

If You Must Fall Bush (2016), poetry by Nsah Mala

CONSTIMOCRAZY: Malafricanising Democracy (2017), poetry by Nsah Mala

Les Pleurs du mal (2019), poetry by Nsah Mala – in French

 

The NORDPLUS Creative Arts and Pedagogy in the Environment / The CAPE Network is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Baltic Countries through the Nordplus Higher Education Programme.  The Arts Academy, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland acts as the coordinator of the CAPE Network.  https://www.tuas.fi/en/about-us/facul…

Contact David Yoken david.yoken@turkuamk.fi