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SAIP SUMMIT 2022
IN VERNACULAR: REDEFINING AFRICA ON OUR OWN TERMS
March 30th - April 2nd
SCHEDULE
WednesdaY
March
ThrusdaY
March
30th
FilM Screening
31st
Poetry
in AFrica
Friday
April
1st
Innovation africa
SaturdaY
April
Banquet
LOcusT
Takeover
30th
2nd
Thursday
March
locust Walk
Take over
March, 30th
@ 5pm on Locust Walk
Join us as we march across
Locust Walk with all our flags as we kick off the week!
Film
screening
March, 30th @7pm
Join us as we all watch a film portraying the rich heritage of the continent with snacks provided
African
Poetry
With Tawanda Mulalu
March, 31st
Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. He is the author of Nearness (The New Delta Review, 2022) and Please make me pretty, I don't want to die (Princeton University Press, 2022). His poems appear or are forthcoming in Brittle Paper, Lana Turner, Lolwe, The New England Review, The Paris Review, A Public Space and elsewhere. He mains Ken in Street Fighter.
African
Innovation
With Jovin Mwilanga
April, 1st
Jovin completed his B.A. in Computer Science at Harvard University. He is originally from Tanzania and has always been interested in leveraging technology to bring about positive change in the world. He is currently a Software Engineer at Twitter, building tools to help manage Twitter's Knowledge Graph. Jovin's work spans several products, including Twitter's trending topics service, the live events service, and the Twitter search service.Jovin is also passionate about movies. He is the founder of Pendwa, a streaming platform with a mission of being the best place to watch Swahili films and TV Shows. Pendwa's vision is to empower us, Africans, to tell our stories on our terms.