Science & Technology

Wole Soyinka was addressing a conference on the issue of the ‘brain drain’ from African countries. He remarked on how many of the speakers before him had lamented the flight of millions of Africans to the West and how apparently desperate were these speakers, who included African heads of state, to reverse the trend so that the bright young minds and their skills could be retained on the continent. [Pambazuka]

Vortrag von Maisha Eggers im Rahmen des AfricAvenir Dialogforums am 04. Juli 2007 in der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Dr. Eggers erörtert
die „gläsernen Decken“, an die afrikanische WissenschaftlerInnen in Deutschland im Wissenschaftsbetrieb stoßen, beim Versuch, weiter Karriere zu machen.

Vortrag von Neville Alexander im Rahmen des AfricAvenir Dialogforums am 21. November 2007 in der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Dr. Alexander erörtert die ungebrochene Prominenz europäischer Sprachen in Bildung und Forschung in Afrika, deren Ursachen und Folgen.

This work by Dr. Neville Alexander deals with the social, political and economic implications of the intellectualisation of indigenous African languages and suggests a long-term, large-scale and systematic strategy for effecting this core aspect of the revitalisation of Africa. PRAESA Occasional Papers No. 13. [Full Text Article, pdf, 195 Kb]

Lecture held by Grada Kilomba in the framework of the AfricAvenir Dialogforum on 09 May 2007 at the Heinrich-Böll- Foundation in Berlin on the topic of “Africans in Academia - Diversity in Adversity”.

Vortrag von Kofi Yakpo anlässlich des AfricAvenir Dialogforums am 19. September 2007 in der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Welcher Zusammenhang besteht zwischen der Unterdrückung bzw. Befreiung eines Volkes, zwischen seiner “Unterentwicklung” bzw. “Renaissance” und der implementierten Sprachpolitik? Kann eine Afrikanischen Renaissance ohne die Revitalisierung der afrikanischen Sprachen gelingen?

Vortrag von Dr. Michel Foaleng beim AfricAvenir Dialogforum am 09. Mai 2007 in der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung zur aktuellen Situation des Umgangs mit afrikanischen WissenschaftlerInnen in Deutschland.

Paper presented by Abraham Chupe Serote on 03 October 2007 at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town. Using two studies both about the experiences and perceptions of black members of faculty on race and racism, in predominantly white academic milieus, the paper demonstrates that ‘race’ is still a significant marker of privilege and despite the rhetoric of equity and redress, black faculty has continued to live in the fringes. [Full Text Article]

By Grada Kilomba. The following article was presented by the author in the framework of the AfricAvenir Dialogforum on 09 May 2007 at the Heinrich-Böll- Foundation in Berlin. (more…)

‘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 Africans to re-appropriate their own languages or face intellectual genocide. (more…)

Grada Kilomba analyses hierarchies of race and gender with respect to the privileging of authority, scholarship and knowledge production. ‘Academia is not a neutral location’, she says. Derived from her experiences of working in Germany, her comments are widely applicable to debates about academia, identity, power, the centre and the periphery. [AfricAvenir/ Pambazuka]

Hindernisse in der Zusammenarbeit zwischen deutschen und afrikanischen Wissenschaftlern. Artikel von Dr. Michel Foaleng aus epd-Entwicklungspolitik 5/2003, den wir anlässlich seines Vortrags im AfricAvenir Dialogforum am 09. Mai 2007 veröffentlichen. (more…)

Par Ousmane Kane, Document de travail, CODESRIA, 2003. L’auteur fait le point sur l’état l’avancement de la recherche sur la bibliothèque islamique afin de mettre en évidence l’existence en Afrique sub-saharienne d’un nombre substantiel d’intellectuels ayant écrit en langue arabe ou en langues africaines avec des caractères arabes. [Full Text Monograph, pdf]

By N’dri T. Assié-Lumumba. CODESRIA Working Papers Series, 2006. The state, prospects and challenges of higher education in Africa, conceived as a microcosm of the broader society, reflect those of global society at specific historical moments. [Full Text Monograph]

Quelle est la situation de nos universités ? Sont-elles toujours des centres de production de connaissances ? Les universitaires sont-ils toujours à la recherche de la vérité ? Nos universités sont-elles toujours le symbole du nationalisme, comme ce fut le cas dans les années 60 ?CODESRIA Bulletin, Nos 1 & 2, 2005, pages 3-24. [Full Text Article, pdf]

Kameelah Rasheed argues that we should not abandon the WSF or global civil society to the bourgeoisie and liberals who we assume are harmoniously preoccupied with talking and reform agendas but should work toward radical re-appropriations of this problematic space. [Pambazuka]

Conférence par Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III, Professeur des Universités, lors du congrès ‘Linguapax Afrika’: Langues, diversité culturelle et paix en Afrique, Yaoundé, 12-13 décembre 2006. [Full Text Article, pdf]

Par Cheikh Anta Diop. Ce texte est un extrait d’un exposé donné en 1974 sur la recherche en Afrique de l’Ouest que Diop resitue dans une ambition continentale plus vaste et plus viable. [Afrikara]

By Henning Melber (2006-11-09), Pambazuka. Scholars and intellectuals are faced with stark socio-political choices, writes Henning Melber. Do they side with those maintaining the status quo in unequal societies or do they demand the right to engage in social struggles? [Full Text Article, html]

By Ali A. Mazrui. First of three Lectures, Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial lectures, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, 2002. [Full Text Article, html]

Prof. Birgit Brock-Utne. This essay discusses the problems of validity and reliability in qualitative research within education in Africa. In a different version also published in International Review of Education 42 (6): S. 605-621. [Full Text Article, pdf]
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By A. E. Ibe and Martin I. Nwufo. In: Africa Development/Afrique et Développement, Vol. XXX, No. 3, 2005, Special Issue: All knowledge is first of all local knowledge. [Full Text Article, pdf]

By Patrick Mathias C.Ogomaka. In: Africa Development/Afrique et Développement, Vol. XXX, No. 3, 2005, Special Issue: All knowledge is first of all local knowledge. [Full Text Article, pdf]

By Theophilus Okere. In: Africa Development/Afrique et Développement, Vol. XXX, No. 3, 2005, Special Issue: All knowledge is first of all local knowledge. [Full Text Article, pdf]

By Theophilus I. Okere, Chukwudi Anthony Njoku & René Devisch. In: Africa Development/Afrique et Développement, Vol. XXX, No. 3, 2005, Special Issue: All knowledge is first of all local knowledge. [Full Text Article, pdf]