Barack Obama, de par la vision, le discours, le style et la méthode, est en train d’imprimer à cette campagne les marques d’un profond mouvement de renouveau, un mouvement total et intégral, une véritable refondation, ou, à tout le moins, la définition d’une toute nouvelle géopolitique planétaire. Par Mamadou diop. [Pambazuka]
Firoze Manji argues that in comparison to Europe and the US, China in Africa is still a small player. While keeping an eye out on China, Africans should not be distracted from paying attention to the West’s continued exploitation of the continent including the use of military might to protect its economic interests. [Pambazuka]
mit diesem Newsletter erinnern wir noch einmal an das anstehende Festival AfroBerlin (30. März bis 5. April 2008), das in diesem Jahr dem großen senegalesischen Dichter und Filmemacher Sembène Ousmane gewidmet ist. Darüber hinaus möchten wir schon jetzt die Premiere des Films “Ouaga Saga“ ankündigen Read the rest of this entry »
Im Rahmen der Filmreihe „african reflections“ lädt AfricAvenir am Donnerstag, den 22. Mai 2008 um 20.00 Uhr zur Filmpremiere von „Ouaga Saga“ in das Filmtheater Hackesche Höfe ein. Im Anschluss an den Film wird ein Gespräch mit dem Regisseur Dani Kouyaté stattfinden. Read the rest of this entry »
La glorification du libéralisme pur et dur domine le débat au sujet du meilleur avenir civilisationnel pour l’humanité. Pour Nsame Mbongo, les idéologies ultralibérales ont fait faillite comme modèle de développement en Afrique. Ce qui rend nécessaire la construction d’un discours développementaliste de libération, aux antipodes de l’asservissement post-moderne. [Full Text Article, pdf]
In this article, Kwame Opoku asks: How did African objects like Queen Nefertiti or Idia come all the way to Europe and why have they not been returned? Most of the African art objects now in European and American museums came there as a result of some illegality or some dubious means during slavery, colonialism and our present neo-colonial times. [Full Text Article, pdf]
La Diaspora a connu depuis la manifestation du 11 janvier 2008 contre les Accords de Partenariat Economiques (APE) à Bruxelles, une brutale accélération dans le processus de son organisation. Sékou Diabaté plaide ici pour une organisation unitaire, démocratique et indépendante de la 6eme région de l’Afrique. [Pambazuka]
In a nuanced article, Horace Campbell argues that Barrack Obama would only be trapped by a conservative and anti-people social and economic system if those “who are being drawn into the audacity of hope do not build their own political movement and political organization.” [Pambazuka]
The exhibition, Benin, 600 years of Courtly Art from Nigeria, Museum of Ethnology, Berlin, has demonstrated that there are no unbridgeable obstacles to presenting an exhibition which fulfils the demands of a good ethnological presentation of art works and artefacts and also takes into account modern aesthetic requirements of the public that visits such exhibitions. By Kwame Opoku. Read the rest of this entry »
Yav Katshung Joseph argues that as truth commissions multiply around the world it is important to look at their relationship to prosecutions and justice in an immediate and historical sense. Are TRC’s designed to generate more truth, more justice, reparations, and genuine institutional reform? Or are they designed to undermine the State’s and society’s legal, ethical and political obligations to their people? [Pambazuka]