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Interview with Professor Eunice N. Sahle: "Moving Beyond the Language of ‘Help’"

In an interview conducted by Moses März (AfricAvenir) in Berlin, Prof. Eunice N. Sahle speaks about the 'development aid' regime and historical and present injustices in the global system. Moses März: Your lecture in Berlin suggested that its approach... |+| zum Artikel

Kwame Opoku: Reflections on the abortive Queen-Mother Idia Mask Auction: Tactical Withdrawal or Decision of Principle?

idia mask

Article by Kwame Opoku on the cancellation notice of the auction of Queen-Mother Idia mask on 4 December by Sotheby. What more does the cancellation tell us? Will the auction take place sometime in the future and somewhere else other than at Sotheby’s? Will... |+| zum Artikel

Kwame Opoku: They are selling Queen-Mother Idia mask and we are quiet

Idia Mask

Various media, including the Art Newspaper, and the Financial Times have reported that Sotheby’s, the auction house in London, will be auctioning a re-discovered masterpiece of Benin art, the ivory pendant of Queen-Mother Idia, on 17th February 2011 and other... |+| zum Artikel

Africa’s failings and the global system

Interview with Samir Amin, published by RFI and Pambazuka News. At 79, Samir Amin has lost none of his militancy. A leading thinker around ‘Third World-ism’, close to particular fathers of independence – like Modibo Keita – and the author of some 50 works on... |+| zum Artikel

Intellectual property: Pharmaceuticals, public health and subtle exploitation

Article by John Christensen and Khadija Sharife, first published by Pambazuka News. International intellectual property rights are increasingly serving the needs of the global pharmaceutical industry, write John Christensen and Khadija Sharife.

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Human rights, livelihoods and Ubuntu for the 21st century

Article by Horace Campbell, first published on Pambazuka News. We cannot separate ‘the question of human rights and Ubuntu – our linked humanity and our peaceful coexistence with planet earth’ in the pursuit of ‘international peace and security’, writes... |+| zum Artikel

Kwame Opoku: Should Aesthetic Considerations take Precedence over Protection of Human Rights with Regard to Looted Artefacts?

We read with great interest an article by Tom L. Freudenheim, a former art museum director and former assistant secretary for museums at the Smithsonian Institution entitled “What Is Lost When Works are Trophies” that first appeared in the Wall Street Journal... |+| zum Artikel

1960–2010: La France et le cinquantenaire; 50 ans d’ingérence et de mépris ça suffit!

Article paru chez |+| pambazuka. Les uns après les autres, les pays africains indépendants en 1960 et anciennement sous tutelle de la... |+| zum Artikel

La Françafrique a 50 ans par Sanou Mbaye

Ce mois-ci les pays africains francophones vont célébrer le cinquantième anniversaire de leur indépendance et des liens qu’ils entretiennent avec la France. Ont-ils seulement de bonnes raisons de le faire, se demande Sanou Mbaye ? Article paru chez |+| zum Artikel

Victoria Brittain: Political assassination as a strategy against liberation movements

Ruben Um Nyobe

The use of political assassination against liberation movements has changed the course of history in a number of countries in Africa and continues to devastate the Middle East, writes Victoria Brittain. The current power relations between the Third World and... |+| zum Artikel

Pambazuka Dossier: Cinquante ans d'«indépendance» et de dépendances

Prince Kum'a Ndumbe III

Pambazuka News vient de publié un dossier sur le thème "Cinquante ans d'indépendance et de dépendances" avec au centre le discours du Prince Kum'a Ndumbe III prononcé lors de la Conférence inaugurale sur les "50 ans des... |+| zum Artikel

Amady Aly Dieng: L’aide européenne au Sud : des valeurs mais pas de vertus

Les pays du Sud ne peuvent pas se développer en appliquant les politiques libérales préconisées par les institutions financières internationales. En 2008, «Alternatives Sud» avait publié une édition (1) consacrée à ce sujet, montrant par exemple que le «socle... |+| zum Artikel

Kwame Opoku: Reflections on the Cairo Conference on Restitution: Encouraging Beginning

Article by Kwame Opoku writing about the Conference on International Cooperation for the Protection and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, which was held 7-8 April 2010, Cairo, Egypt and which ended with demands for the return of certain cultural artefacts... |+| zum Artikel

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