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Demba Moussa Dembélé : L’affaire Aminata Traoré : Une honte pour la France !

demba moussa dembele

La France aurait interdit l’entrée sur son territoire à Madame Aminata Dramane Traoré du Mali ! Le prétexte en serait sa critique de l’intervention française  dans la crise que vit son pays depuis plus d’un an. Mais une analyse des causes profondes... |+| read article

Aminata Traoré: "Le naufrage et l'offense - Le Mali est à rendre au Maliens"

aminata traoré, picture: sera cakal

Nous publions ici un manifeste rédigé par Aminata Dramane Traoré sur la situation actuelle du Mali. Aminata Traoré s'est vu refusé le visa d'entrée sur le territoire francais récemment pour ces prises de position altermondialistes et critiques envers... |+| read article

Aminata Traoré: Lettre Ouverte au Président Hollande en réaction au refus de visa par la France

aminata traoré, picture: sera cakal

Nous publions ici la lettre ouverte qu'Aminata Dramane Traoré a adressée au Président Hollande en réaction au refus par la France d'entrée sur son territoire. Invitée par la fondation Rosa-Luxemburg, AfricAvenir et la fraction "La gauche" au... |+| read article

“High time for things to change..." - African Perspectives on the Energy Transition

Conference "Paradoxes of Sustainability", October 2012

Five dialogue forums and one conference in 2012 showed that the promotion of renewable energies is linked to high resource consumption needed for the production of "green" technologies and in this way promotes the "Green... |+| read article

Many Camara: Le tournant énergétique dans les pays d’exploitation d’uranium - Exemple du Mali

Dans son article „Le tournant énergétique dans les pays d’exploitation d’uranium- Exemple du Mali“ Many Camara, sociologue et représentant de l´Association des Ressortissants et des Amis de la Commune de Faléa ( ARACF), analyse les... |+| read article

Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor: The Real Price of Europe Going Green

Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor

In his paper “The Real Price of Europe Going Green” the Liberian social justice and community rights campaigner Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor exposes the... |+| read article

Nozipho Mabebe Wright: Who has access to renewable energies in Africa?

In her paper "Who has access to renewable energies in Africa?" the Energia Africa Programme Coordinator Nozipho Mabebe Wright discusses the importance of renewable energies for... |+| read article

Dr. El Mostafa Jamea: Local Alternatives to Desertec Initiative in North Africa

The Moroccan energy expert Dr. El Mostafa Jamea questions in his paper “Local Alternatives to Desertec Initiative in North Africa" the benefits of the large-scale... |+| read article

Kwame Opoku: What Game was James Cuno Playing in Davos?

Cultural commentator Kwame Opoku is seeing red after reading Lee Rosenbaum’s comments on James Cuno’s participation in the World Eonomic Forum, Davos, as well as Cuno’s report of his own performance at the Swiss holiday... |+| read article

Nnimmo Bassey: Between Eti Uwem and Green Capitalism (Green Democracy)

In the framework of "Paradoxes of Sustainability" the Nigerian environmental activist, Nnimmo Bassey, who is also a poet and the... |+| read article

Kwame Opoku: Declaration on the Importance and Value of the Universal Museum (DIVUM): Singular Failure of an Arrogant Imperialist Project

The Declaration on the Importance and Value of the Universal Museum (DIVUM) of 2002 in now 10 years old. The DIVUM, writes Kwame Opoku, is a very remarkable document that differs essentially from other declarations and documents that include in their title... |+| read article

“Destiny” - A film to be remembered today. Chahine and Averroes as relevant as ever. By Hans-Christian Mahnke, Windhoek, Namibia

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I visited Cordoba, Spain this year for the first time, attending the 9th African Film Festival Cordoba as a panellist and international guest. Here I came across the statue of an Arabic scholar born 1126 in Cordoba, and died in 1198 in Marrakesh. Abū l-Walīd... |+| read article

Kwame Opoku: Looted Nigerian Terracotta Returned by US Immigration are not Homeless or Orphans

On reading reports that the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM)) has declared that the Nigerian terracotta seized by United States Immigration (Homeland Security Investigations, HSI) and returned to Nigeria are not from the National Museum at... |+| read article

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