Prince Kum'a Ndumbe III
Professor Kum'a Ndumbe III is a “cultural bridge-builder.” His entire life has been devoted to the fostering of peaceful and more equal and respectful relations between Africa and Europe. It has thus also been a life devoted to the uplifting and rehabilitation of Africa and African culture and history. In the early 1980s, Prof. Kum'a Ndumbe III launched the idea of an independent and deeply African cultural centre - AfricAvenir.
Language, liberation and development
Is there a connection between language and the enslavement or liberty of a people and their capacity for development? In this article, Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III elucidates this question and describes the approaches of the AfricAvenir Foundation to raise... |+| read article
Stopping intellectual genocide in African universities
'You have not mastered the white people’s foreign tongue? Then you do not have the right to education in your own country, not even at primary school. You have no right to any worthwhile education, however brilliant you are.' Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III calls on... |+| read article
Lesung: „Wenn er hier bleiben will, muss er schon Deutsch lernen!“
Am Mittwoch, den 11. April 2007 um 19:30 Uhr laden AfricAvenir und Exchange & Dialogue in Kooperation mit der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und der Werkstatt der Kulturen zu einer Lesung mit Prince Kum' a Ndumbe III. zum Thema... |+| read article
text & kritik: Das afrikanische Gesicht, das in deinem Raum spricht
Artikel von Prof. Dr. Sarah Lennox (U. of Massachusetts) über die Werke von Kum' a Ndumbe III. und Uche Nduka, erschienen in text & kritik, Sonderausgabe zu 'Literatur und... |+| read article
Ich klopfte an deiner Tür! Lesung von Prinz Kum’a Ndumbe III. am BRG 6
In Kooperation mit der Stiftung AfricAvenir in Douala/Kamerun und dem Verlag Exchange & Dialogue lud das BRG 6 Marchettigasse zur Lesung mit Prinz Kum’ a Ndumbe III. in den Festsaal der neu renovierten Schule. Unter dem Titel „Ich klopfte an deiner Tür…“... |+| read article
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Prince Kum'a Ndumbe III has written numerous articles and books, both prose, essays, letters, short stories as well as scientific works in political science, history and sociology. |+| recent books
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