Program

Front cover, Vu magazine, special issue, 1954

50th Anniversary of the 1st International Congress of Black Writers and Artists
September 19-22, 2006

KOïCHIRO MATSUURA
Director General of UNESCO

AIME CESAIRE
Writer, Honorary Mayor of Fort de France

ABDOU DIOUF
Secretary General of the International Francophone Organization

HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University

WOLE SOYINKA
Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, President of the Communauté Africaine de Culture

PROGRAM

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

TRIBUTES AND TESTIMONIESS

Morning (La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Descartes)

Opening Ceremony


10:00 - 10:10	Welcome	Mr. Maurice Quénet Rector of the Academy and Chancellor of the Universities of Paris
10:10 - 10:20	Welcome	Mr. Jean – Robert Pitte President, University of Paris IV
10:20 - 10:40	Speech	Mr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University

10:40 - 11:00	Speech	Mr. Noureini Tidjani-Serpos Under-Secretary General of UNESCO for Africa (UNESCO)

11:00 - 11:20	Speech	Mr. Wole Soyinka Nobel Prize for Literature (Africa), President of the Communauté Africaine de Culture, Goodwill Ambassador for UNESCO

11:20 - 11:40	Speech	Mr. Edouard Glissant Writer

11:40 - 12:00	Speech	René Depestre Writer

12:00 - 12:20	Speech	Mrs. Yandé Christiane Diop Secretary General of the Communauté Africaine de Culture, Director of Présence Africaine

12:20- 13:00	Medal presentation	W. E. B. Du Bois Institute