3rd Pan-Africanism congress Munich, 28th and 29th October 2011
Date: 28th & 29th Oktober 2011
Venue: Goetheforum, Dachauerstr. 122, 80637 München
Admission is free!
Interim Programme
Topics and Speakers
Main Topic:
The challenge of rethinking Africa and the prospects of reshaping it!
Speaker: Dr. Aminata Traore, social-psychologist, author and former culture & tourism minister in Mali.
Sub-Topics:
Block 1: The Pan-Africanism Renaissance!
1. Prospects and challenges of the Pan-Africanism renaissance.
Speaker: Ms. Affiong L. Affiong, Executive Director of the Moyo Pan Afrikan Solidarity Centre, Ghana & England.
Speaker: Omar Mariko, Member of Parliament in Mali.
2. The Pan-Africanist demands on the African Union for the next 50 years.
Speaker: Jules Souleymane Diop, Political Journalist & Columnist from Senegal, lives in exile in Canada since 2004.
3. Foreign military intervention in Africa: problem or solution?
Speaker: Bob Brown from the All African People’s Revolutionary Party, A-APRP (GC), USA.
4. Pan-African and International Strategies for the 21st Century: Panafricentrage
Speaker: Aziz Salmone Fall (Senegal), Political scientist, Internationalist & founder of Groupe de recherche et d’ initiative pour la libération de l’Afrique (GRILA), who lives in Canada.
Block 2: The case of Lumumba and the situation in D.R. Congo
1. Speaker: Guy Lumumba, son of Patrice E. Lumumba.
2. Speaker: Philippe Yangala, doctoral candidate at the Institute for Ethnology, Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Block 3: Migration and Development Cooperation
1. International development cooperation with Africa: Quo vadis?
Speaker: Ms. Aissa Halidou, doctoral candidate at the University of Bremen and HAW Hamburg.
Speaker: Ms. Odile Tobner, widow of Mongo Beti and President of the French association Survie.
2. The Goethe Institute in Africa, balance sheet and prospects followed by discussion.
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3. Europe and Africa’s Flight Movements.
Speaker: Uche Akpulu, co-founder, Pan-Africanism Working Group Munich & member of the Foreigners’ Council of the City of Munich.
4. African Diaspora & AU
1. Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: The role of the Diaspora!
Speaker: Sanou Mbaye, Senegalese economist, former senior officer of the African Development Bank & London-based Development consultant and an economic writer.
2. Coordination and Integration of Africa’s 6th region (Diaspora) in the AU: What prospects?
Speaker: Cheikh Niang, African Union (AU) representative in Brussels.
Workshops:
- Promotion of African languages and Pan-African educational system as well as currency and passport. Moderation: Ms. Lydie Seuleu.
- Prospects for African and Afro-European children & youth in Europe.
Opening speech: Dr. Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Councillor City of Erlangen and associate lecturer at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Moderation: Ms. Modupe Laja and Ms. Mathilda Legitimus-Schleicher.
Film Screenings:
- Documentary film on P. Lumumba, „Murder in colonial style“, by director and author Thomas Giefer will be shown on main congress day followed by a Podium discussion with the director.
- Film on racist violence will be shown on first congress day followed by a discussion with Mouctar Bah from the Initiative in Remembrance of Oury Jalloh.