Panel Organiser: Annekie Joubert

This interdisciplinary panel focuses on different modes of communication in diverse African and non-African contexts. The panel starts out with a paper on the life narratives of Mozambiquean children who were sent to the former German Democratic Republic; the second paper disclose some prominent discourses of oral memory where stories become performative utterances and historicizing gestures; the third paper explores the cultural cues revealed through body movement in face-to-face interaction with Angolan students living in Portugal; and our last paper investigates the expansion and endorsement of Yoruba women's scopes of action in the Oodua People's Congress in Nigeria.