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„No country has ever developed on the basis of a foreign language“ – Interview with Birgit Brock-Utne
In this interview, Prof. Birgit Brock-Utne, who recently held a talk in the framework of AfricAvenir’s public lecture series, answers questions by AfricAvenir’s Natalia Kolodziejska & Eric Van Grasdorff.nAfricAvenir (AfA): As an introduction, can you explain in general terms why mother-tongue as Language of Instruction (LOI) matters both for the individual child learners and for…
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Video: “If we really want to change the world, we need to bring the voices of African women to the center!”
In this inspiring talk, Theo Sowa challenges the myths on which today’s world seems to run, namely that all African women are victims, and as victims can’t contribute to finding solutions. If we really want the big picture, if we really want to change the world, states Theo Sowa, we need to bring African women…
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Video interview with Aziz Salmone Fall – African Social Forum in Dakar 2014
In this video, Aziz Fall evokes the development aid allocated to African countries within the context of the Millennium Development Goals. He returns to the economic definition of development, a definition he thinks is problematic. Aziz Fall explains that in a capitalist system while development serves the interests of the market, its realization contributes to…
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Interview avec Dr. Boniface Mabanza: Bien vivre ne peut être qu’un objectif collectif ! – des OMD aux ODD. Exigences et réalités du discours sur le développement mondial du point de vue de la société civile africaine
Boniface Mabanza, spécialiste en politique du développement, revient sur la critique des objectifs du millénaire pour le développement (OMD) qui ont échoué pour des raisons structurelles. Il évoque également les flagrantes oppositions entre les objectifs de développement et les autres secteurs politiques, par exemple à l’échelle européenne. Il explique pourquoi l’inégalité ne peut être éradiquée…
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Videointerview mit Dr. Dereje Alemayehu: Illegitime Ressourcenabflüsse und die Finanzierung der Post-2015 Ziele in Afrika
Dereje Alemayehu erklärt in diesem Interview, warum die Annahme falsch ist, Afrika sei Nettoempfängerin von Kapitalflüssen. Er zeigt, wie die negativen Effekte illegitimer Ressourcenabflüssen im Allgemeinen und Steuerflucht im Konkreten durch Steuerreformen insbesondere mit Hinsicht auf multinationale Unternehmen alternative Finanzierungsmechanismen zum Erreichen der UN-Entwicklungsziele beitragen könnte und analysiert in dieser Hinsicht auch den Bericht des…
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Video interview with Chika Ezeanya: „What comes after 2015? Visions from an African perspective”
In this interview, Dr. Chika Ezeanya elaborates on the MDGs’ failure in Africa and shares her vision of a successful post-2015 agenda, especially stressing the need to refrain from a mere financial discussion and underlining that development cannot be imposed from outside. For Ezeanya, people have to change the way they think, and this won’t…
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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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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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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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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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