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Chika Ezeanya’s lecture on “Post-2015: Creating a Pathway for Africa’s Advancement? Political visions from an African perspective” – presentation and additional information
In this presentation, Dr. Chika Ezeanya examines the MGDs’ shortcomings one year before their phasing out and presents her vision for the post-2015 development agenda for Africa. She argues for a sustainable development grounded in indigenous knowledge and local resources while refusing to let Africa’s development depend exclusively on external financial aid. nread the full…
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Videointerview with Dr. Ibrahima Hathie: “Is the current consensus on the post-2015 agenda favourable to Africa?”
In this interview, Dr. Ibrahima Hathie presents what the post-2015 development agenda and the suggestions recently presented by the intergovernmental Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG) mean for African countries. He points to how crucial the Common African Position on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (CAP) is in this respect. In addition, he analyses…
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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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Kwame Opoku: Wilful Dispersal of Disputed Cultural Objects as Different Strategy: British Museum’s Defiant Tactics
The new strategy of the British Museum, writes cultural commentators Kwame Opoku, may in the short run bring cash to Bloomsbury but in the long term will damage its reputation and complicate its relations with other institutions and governments. Those who have followed the discussions on restitution of cultural artefacts in the last few years…
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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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Interview mit Kwesi Aikins: „Verhinderter Dialog: Der Streit ums Humboldt-Forum wird nicht ausgetragen“, Deutschlandradio Kultur
Joshua Kwesi Aikins vom Bündnis No Humboldt 21 im Interview auf Deutschlandradio Kultur zum Humboldt Forum und zur skandalösen Dialogverweigerung seitens der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz.nSendung hörenPM: Deutschland muss menschliche Gebeine und Kriegsbeute aus Kamerun, Togo, Tansania und Ruanda zurückgebenDossier "Kriegsbeute & Anthropoligica der SPK"
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Press Release: Germany must repatriate human remains and war spoils from Cameroon, Togo, Tanzania and Rwanda
After the refusal by the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) to take part in a panel discussion or radio interview on the controversial Humboldt Forum with African and Black experts, the alliance “No Humboldt 21!” presented concrete evidence of skulls and skeletons in the storage facilities of the National Museums in Berlin…
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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…