Mozambique: Maputo Fast Forward Festival kicks off

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Mozambique: Maputo Fast Forward Festival kicks off

2:41 CAT | 18 Oct 2024

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The eighth edition of the Maputo Fast Forward Festival (MFF) kicks off on Friday and will run until 26 October, with the main venue being the JFS Tower on Rua do Bagamoyo in Maputo, which will be transformed into a centre for ideas, creativity and innovation.

According to a press release, the theme of the festival is “Hyperconnected bodies: Proposals for the post-Anthropocene”, and will include a conference with national and foreign personalities participating.

There will be a total of five talks surveying de-colonial, pan-African and feminist perspectives on the main theme, namely: Opening: How to listen to the planet?; Planet body: From extractivism to regeneration; Social cup: Democracy in reinvention; Human body: Being in digital times; and, Body time: Memories and dreams.

The conference is “a space to dream, reimagine and propose other ways of relating to the Planet and to all those who co-inhabit it, in response to the multiple planetary crises that mark the current Anthropocene Era. Despite our short presence on Earth, the impact we have already left is profound and devastating, which places us before the need to conceive other ways of being and existing in order to co-create ecologically healthy and socially and economically fair futures”, the organization states in a press release.

For this year’s edition, speakers include, among others:

History and politics researcher Achille Mbembe (Cameroon),

Writer and ecofeminist Patrícia McFadden (Eswatini),

Professor of Post-Decolonial Theories and Literature Rolando Vásquez (Mexico),

Activist and storyteller Eliana N’Zualo (Mozambique),

Anthropologist and writer Ruy Llera Blanes (Spain),

Environmental justice activist Anabela Lemos (Mozambique),

Ecologist Elisângela Rassul (Mozambique),

Anthropologist Aristide Bitouga (Cameroon),

Peace and security and gender specialist Kamina Diallo (Senegal),

Political scientist Marie Boka (Ivory Coast),

Choreographer Cebolenkosi Zuma (South Africa),

Actor Yuck Miranda (Mozambique),

Director and educator Maria Askew (England/Equatorial Guinea), and

Human rights lawyer Anyieth D’Awol (South Sudan).

The sessions will be moderated by Professor Isabel Casimirio; Researcher and ethnomusicologist Marilio Wane; Anthropologist Kátia Taela; Expert in Governance and Women’s Rights, Fidélia Chemane; and cultural journalist, Benilde Matsinhe.

The MFF is a biennial festival created in 2016, consisting of several thematic events organised around a central theme and an international conference.

Organized by 16Neto, the festival seeks to stimulate Mozambique’s innovation ecosystem through conferences, exhibitions, concerts, publications, networking, research, workshops, masterclasses and residencies. Connecting the local to the global and vice versa.

Source: O País