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Projektpraktikum: Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte sichtbar machen
Für das Projektpraktikum "Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte sichtbar machen" ab April 2015 bei AfricAvenir (Berlin) und Gapo Heritage Consult (Accra) könnt ihr euch noch bis 10. Januar hier bewerben!nBei ASA-SüdNord arbeitet ein internationales Team für ein halbes Jahr zusammen: zwei Teilnehmende aus Deutschland und zwei aus dem Partnerland im Globalen Süden besuchen und gestalten zunächst zwei mehrtägige…
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AfricAvenir Windhoek setting the scene for the cinema season 2015
AfricAvenir Windhoek is busy setting up the screening schedule for 2015, bringing once again high quality cinema from Africa to Namibian audiences. The year will start with a Big Bang, as AfricAvenir opens its “African Perspectives” series in 2015 on 31. January 2015, at the Goethe-Centre Windhoek, with the Namibian Premiere of “Toussaint Louverture”, directed…
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AfrikAkzent-Radio Feature about the AfricAvenir-Conference „The Post-2015-Agenda – African Perspectives on global Challenges“
Listen to the AfrikAkzent radio programme broadcast on December 11, 2014 about the conference, includind interviews with conference speakers Boniface Mabanza and Chika Ezeanya. nListen to the full Radio InterviewsnDr. Boniface Mabanza, chairperson of the Church Work on Southern Africa (KASA) in Heidelberg and long-time observer of global development cooperation, talks about the disguising function…
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On Thomas Sankara’s 65th Birthday: “Your Ideas Live On”
Today, the 21st of december 2014, Sankara would have turned 65 years old. For this reason, the Balai Citoyen has invited for a ceremony on the cemetery in Dagnoen, where his remains are assumed to rest (an investigation about the real whereabouts of his body, which has been claimed for years, is pending, if we…
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PM: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz verweigert Dialog zum Humboldt-Forum und zur Rückgabe von menschlichen Gebeinen aus Afrika
Pressemitteilung des Kampagnenbündnisses „No Humboldt 21!“ (AfricAvenir International, AFROTAK TV cyberNomads, Artefakte / Anti-Humboldt, Berlin Postkolonial, glokal, Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland, Zentralrat der Afrikanischen Gemeinde in Deutschland) 8. Dezember 2014 Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz verweigert Dialog zum Humboldt-Forum und zur Rückgabe von menschlichen Gebeinen aus Afrika Berlin. Der Präsident der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) Herrmann…
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Videointerview with Liepollo Lebohang Pheko: “Colonialism, Development Cooperation and the MDGs in Africa”
In this short interview, Liepollo Lebohang Pheko outlines the background of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)’ formation at the beginning of the 2000s and puts them in their colonial and neoliberal political context. She offers a trenchant critique of the MDGs from a feminist and anti-colonial perspective and shows how the post-2015 development agenda reproduces…
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Documentation of the dialogue forum “Is the current consensus on the post-2015 agenda favourable to Africa?” with Dr. Ibrahima Hathie – presentation and additional information
Dr. Ibrahima Hathie, renowned development economist and member of the Steering Committee of Southern Voice, a network of thinks tanks from the Global South, discusses in this presentation the emergence of the Common African Position on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and shows its chances and weaknesses. Here you will find the full version of the…
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Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III honored by Martin Luther King’s Family through the “A.D. King Foundation”
AfricAvenir International Foundation and its international sections have the great pleasure to announce that its Founder and President, the Prince Bele Bele Kum’a Ndumbe III, retired University Professor and throne successor to the legendary King of the Bele Bele in Cameroon Lock Priso Kum’a Mbape, was awarded for “Leadership in Social Empowerment” on Saturday 15…
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AfricAvenir Windhoek Announces New Season for “Inspiring Young Imaginations” – African Films for Children and Youth Screenings from February 2015
In 2015 AfricAvenir and FNCC will continue screening African films for children within the “Inspiring Young Imaginations” series. The first movie of the year will be "Zambezia", which will be screened on 07 February. Thereafter we will present an African movie for children on every first Saturday of the month. nThe films will start at…
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Le Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III honoré par la « A.D. King Foundation »
Le 15 novembre 2014, le Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III sera honoré dans la ville d’Atlanta aux États-Unis d’Amérique, par la « A.D. King Foundation », la Fondation du feu Révérend A.D. Williams King, frère de sang et de lutte de l’illustre héros de l’histoire du monde qu’était le grand Révérend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.…


