(23/01/18)A welcome from The Unesco Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, Prof Alison Phipps.
This podcast provides a short introduction to the work of the Unesco Chair programme for the period 2018-2020.
UNESCO’s UNITWIN and Chairs programme promotes international cooperation and networking to mobilise collaboration around the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 and in key priority areas related to UNESCO’s fields of competence – education, natural and social sciences, culture and communication.
The UNESCO Chair supports learning from contexts which have long-term refugee and migratory experiences and where resilience has been developed, often in the face of overwhelming linguistic and cultural destruction. Working with our cross-sectorial partners, we engage in research and advocacy for creative and artistic approaches to integration, which sustain linguistic and cultural diversity, foster creativity and intercultural capabilities and promote peace.
Tawona Sitholé, Artist in Residence with the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow, introduces his poem Cape Coast Caper.
In 2019, Tawona visited Elmina slave castle in Cape Coast, Ghana, as part of the MIDEQ project. In this poem, he shares that experience. It is being released here to mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 2020.
