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AFRICAVENIR International e.V.
Book recommendation
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Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
A personal account of the African liberation struggle, this book was first published on March 6, 1957, to mark the day of Ghana's Independence, a day which signalled the launching of the wider Pan-African struggle for the liberation of the entire African continent. As the leader of the movement for independence, Nkrumah provides an illuminating discussion of the problems and conflicts along the way to political freedom, and the new prospects beyond. This book is essential for understanding the genesis of the African Revolution and the maturing of one of its outstanding leaders. Purchuase
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AFRICAVENIR International e.V.
Book recommendation
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Aké: The Years of Childhood
"Aké: The Years of Childhood" gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké. A relentlessly curious child who loved books and getting into trouble, Soyinka grew up on a parsonage compound, raised by Christian parents and by a grandfather who introduced him to Yoruba spiritual traditions. His vivid evocation of the colorful sights, sounds, and aromas of the world that shaped him is both lyrically beautiful and laced with humor and the sheer delight of a child's-eye view. Purchuase
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AFRICAVENIR International e.V.
Upcoming events
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Ein Ort namens Wahala – Filmvorführung und Diskussion mit Jürgen Ellinghaus
Thursday, 16. June 2022, 19:30
Afrika Haus Berlin
Bochumer Straße 25
10555 Berlin
1903 schuf die deutsche Kolonialadministration nahe des Flüsschens Chra eine „Besserungssiedlung“, in der Personen, die der kolonialen Ordnung wegen „Unbotmäßigkeit“ im Wege waren, zwangsangesiedelt wurden. Kabiye, Losso, Konkomba, Gurma, Mossi, Kotokoli, Akposso, Moba… wurden aus ihren Heimatorten, die zumeist Hunderte Kilometer weiter nördlich lagen, hierher gebracht. More
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AFRICAVENIR International e.V.
Upcoming (online) events
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Intersectionality: Social Justice, Mental Wellness, & Systemic Racism
Friday, 19. June 2022, 16:30
Online
Our cultural beliefs, sexual identity, values, race, language and environment all affect how we perceive and experience mental health conditions. In fact, cultural differences can influence what treatments, coping mechanisms and supports work for us. It is therefore essential that culture and race are a core focus of any conversation related to mental wellness, people of color and social justice. More
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AFRICAVENIR International e.V.
Upcoming (online) events
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Higher Education as a Site for Struggle in Africa
Thursday, 16. June 2022, 14:00
Online
CODESRIA invites you to a forthcoming webinar on the recently published text Chasing Freedom. This webinar conceptualizes Higher Education as a Site for Struggle in Africa and is inspired by the numerous stories of heroic struggle in the book Chasing Freedom: Histories, Analyses and Voices of Student Activism in South Africa. Taking South Africa as the case study, the authors of the book explore how student movements comprehend and articulate their demands in the process of decolonization and Africanization of the curriculum, their transformative effect on the university and the role that a decolonized and African university should play in the pursuit of freedom. More
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AFRICAVENIR International e.V.
Upcoming (online) events
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Media Decolonial Theory: Re-theorising and Rupturing Euro-American canons for South African media
Tuesday, 21. June 2022, 10:00
Online
The hegemony of Euro-American canonical approaches and theories in the study of Media and Communications has been epistemically criticised from both the Global North and Global South locations. In the last two decades there has been a Media Studies de-Westernisation movement comprising of a self-critique by scholars based in the West, that have moved towards exogenous calls to decolonise theory. The decolonial turn has epistemically begun in many Global South countries such as South Africa where it was ushered in by the “fallist” student protests in 2015 that highlighted the need for decolonising education and knowledge. More
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AFRICAVENIR International e.V.
Events, music, art & more
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Podcast:
Afropäisch – Schwarze europäischen Identitäten
Die Vielfalt und mitunter Banalität Schwarzer Erfahrungen im Europa des 21. Jahrhunderts verhandelt Jony Pitts in seinem Buch „Afropäisch“. Dafür hat sich der britische Journalist, Autor und Musiker auf eine Reise durch das Schwarze Europa gemacht. Listen
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Music:
Orchestra Baobab
Orchestra Baobab is a Senegalese band established in 1970 as the house band of the Baobab Club in Dakar. Many of the band's original members had previously played with Star Band de Dakar in the 1960s. Spotify
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