Dialogforum: Sprachpolitik im Rahmen der Afrikanischen Renaissance
In Kooperation mit der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung laden wir Sie zu einem weiteren Höhepunkt des diesjährigen Berliner Dialogforums ein. Dr. Kolyang Dina Taiwé und Kofi Yakpo reflektieren und diskutieren über die Rolle von Sprache und Sprachpolitik im Rahmen der Afrikanischen renaissance. Mittwoch, 19. September, 19:30 Uhr, Galerie Heinrich- Böll-Stiftung. (mehr)

Im Winteremester 2007 werden zwei Seminare zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit Rassismus und Weißsein in Deutschland an der Humboldt Universität Berlin (Gender Studies) angeboten.

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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? Dialogforum am Mittwoch, 19. September um 19.30 Uhr, Galerie Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.

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Tajudeen Abdul Raheem exposes the humour and absurdity in cultural and racial prejudices, and situations where Africans have absorbed ridiculous and pernicious colonial rules and persist in inflicting them on their fellow citizens. We really need to wake up’, he writes. [Pambazuka]

La culture africaine est enfin apparu sur le sol des Etats-Unis. En effet, dans les rues de New York, plus de 10 000 personnes présentes pour célébrer la première édition des African Day Parade. [Grioo]

Journaliste et écrivain autodidacte, lauréat du prix Pulitzer, Alex Haley est l’auteur de l’autobiographie de Malcolm X, mais c’est surtout avec Racines, un livre dont l’adaptation fut un des plus grands succès de l’histoire de la télévision, qu’il a marqué l’histoire. [Grioo]

Dans un nouveau livre paru fin juillet, intitulé “Appel à la Jeunesse Africaine : Contrat Social Africain pour le 21 ème siècle”, le professeur Théophile Obenga choisit de s’adresser directement à la jeunesse du continent. Il y traite de thématiques actuelles et importantes pour l’Afrique comme l’enjeu de l’immigration, la renaissance africaine, la constitution d’un Etat fédéral, le patriotisme et la corruption, la francophonie et le commonwealth… [Grioo]

By Binyavanga Wainaina. It seems, despite the best efforts to manufacture our nations, that things will be built from the ground up. I have spent the past few months traveling around West Africa and everywhere where people have created enclaves of coherence there is growth and progress. [Mail & Guardian]

Edited by Roselynn Musa, Faiza Jama Mohammed & Firoze Manji. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on Women’s Rights is arguably one of Africa’s most ground-breaking and progressive rights instruments for gender equality in Africa. This book is the product of a conference jointly convened in Addis Ababa by the African Union Women, Gender and Development Directorate and Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR), a coalition of more than 20 gender, human rights and development NGOs. The book is published with the full endorsement and support of the African Union Women, Gender and Development Directorate. [Full E-Book, pdf, 0,9 MB]

Edited by Firoze Manji & Stephen Marks. China’s involvement in Africa has provoked much debate and discussion. Is China simply the latest imperial power out to exploit Africa’s natural resources, putting its own economic interests above environmental and human rights concerns? Or is China’s engagement an extension of ‘South–South solidarity’, enabling African countries to free themselves from the multiple tyrannies of Western debt, aid conditionality, unfair trading rules and political interference? Much existing commentary on China focuses on the vested interests of the West. Lost in the cacophony have been the voices of independent African analysts and activists. Here, they present social, cross-continental perspectives on Chinese involvement in Africa in a unique collection of essays. The articles demonstrate that although there is no single ‘African view’ about China in Africa at a continental level, the authors are united in the belief that Africans must organise their side of the story, together, in their own interests, and in the interest of social justice for all. [Full E-Book, pdf, 1 MB]