Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) Festival 2022
Venue: Johannesburg The annual Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) Festival is returning to its in-person format after two years of online hosting! In 2022, the Festival will be held on the 16th and 17th of September at Wits University in Johannesburg. The key goals of the Festival include facilitating conversations on how to rethink economic theory, policy and activism. The Festival will include a combination of panel discussions, workshops, interactive sessions and a cultural component. 2022 will see the fifth iteration of the Festival and will host a diverse range of local and international speakers including student activists, prominent academics and civil society organisations. The Festival will serve as a platform for critical engagement with the economics discipline and with the economy in general, and will provide an opportunity to exchange ideas and tools on how to build a movement for rethinking economics in our universities and society more broadly. The event is hosted by the Institute for Economic Justice in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung South Africa, Rethinking Economics for Africa student chapters, the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development (SARChI), the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies and Wits University.
Summer University Tany Vao, Madagascar 2022
Global Africa participated in the “Madagascar 2022 Summer University” held in Antananarivo and Tulear from October 24th to November 5th, 2022. The event brought together around a hundred students and researchers from the eight universities of Madagascar. The agenda was divided into two parts: first, the first part of the program, organized in the form of plenary sessions, took place at the educational campus of the University of Ankatso, Antananarivo. On this occasion, the speakers addressed various topics such as the environment, health, climate change, water scarcity, vernacular knowledge, etc. Then, the rest of the program continued in Tuléar, where group work was conducted. The participants were divided into four workshops and worked on the following themes: “Environment, Socio-economic Development, and SDGs: An approach through data from the Makay Rural Observatory (OR-Makay)”, “Evaluation and Protected Areas”, “Ethnoecology in Interdisciplinarity to Address Nature-Society Interactions”, “Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Human-Environment Relationships.” #GlobalAfrica #environment #society #climatechange #tanyvaoMada #TanyVoa2022 #Africa #research #climatechange #tanyvaoMada #TanyVoa2022 #Africa #research #socialsciences
Forthcoming: The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
The Concept of Human Rights in Africa attempts to reconceptualise human rights ideology from the stand point of the working people of the continent. lt argues that the dominant human rights discourse in/and on Africa, however well-intentioned, is objectively a part of the ideologies of domination. Both the critique of the dominant discourse as well as the reconceptualisation are located firmly within the current social science and jurisprudential debates on democratic struggles in Africa. Hitherto, the human rights debate in Africa has been an exclusive preserve of lawyers and philosophers. Professor Shivji breaks new ground in this book in that he firmly anchors the debate on the social and political planes without losing sight of its legal and philosophical dimensions. About the Author Issa Shivji is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He taught law at the University of Dar es Salaam for 36 years (1970-2006). He was appointed the first Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Professor in Pan-Africanism between 2008-2013. He was the Director of the Nyerere Resource Centre at the Commission for Science and Technology (2014- 2019). He has published over a dozen books and numerous book chapters and articles. His latest book is a three-volume biography of Julius Nyerere called Development as Rebellion co-authored with other two colleagues. Read more here / Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici
Tunisian Confluences: Emigrations and Immigrations in Post-2011 Tunisia.
Just published Afrique(s) en mouvement 2023/2 (Issue No. 6) Tunisian Confluences: Emigrations and Immigrations in Post-2011 Tunisia. Pages: 120 Publisher: International University of Rabat Access this issue Editor’s note Abdelaziz Benjouad With this sixth issue, the journal Afrique(s) en mouvement makes its debut on the CAIRN platform, a significant milestone in the life of the journal and a recognition for the authors and readers who trust it. The current issue, titled “Tunisian Confluences: Emigrations and Immigrations in Post-2011 Tunisia,” allows the journal to solidify its missions: to speak to the world about Africa and to discuss the world from the perspective of Africa. Through innovative themes, the journal provides African researchers, both male and female, or those working on Africa-related issues, a dedicated and recognized space for publication. The previous issue, “African Confluences,” had already provided researchers with a platform to explore original paths and avenues for understanding the movement of people, knowledge, and cultural norms within the African continent, using the relationship between Morocco and Senegal as an example. Read more…
Africa Times #3. New Violence in Northern Mali
The the Citizen Security Barometer of LASPAD is pleased to invite you to a new edition of Africa Times, with a third webinar which focuses on the current situation in northern Mali. Discussions will focus on the new security situation following the forced departure of MINUSMA and the resurgence of violence between the FAMA and secessionist groups in the North. We look forward to seeing you on Friday October 13, 2023 at 4 p.m. GMT on: Zoom: https://lnkd.in/eDHsdgwJ Secret code: 969578 Webinar number: 884 2917 1584 International numbers accessible: https://lnkd.in/eTgjXUyu
Call for Contributions to Issue 3 of the Global Africa Journal
Pan-Africanism, Agenda of African Research and Planetary Futures Guest Editors: Cheikh Thiam, Amherst College: cthiam@amherst.edu Mjiba Frehiwot, University of Ghana: mfrehiwot@ug.edu.gh Pan-Africanism is fundamentally an epistemic project, born out of ontologies centered on Africa and rooted in a history that challenges and resists the pervasive influence of coloniality and the dehumanization of people of African descent. From the Haitian Revolution to decolonization, through Negritude, hip-hop, Afro-chic, and Afrobeat, Pan-African cultural, intellectual, and political movements have always sought to acknowledge the continuities and discontinuities in the lives of people of African origin while engaging in a common process of integration and liberation for Africa. Politically, Pan-Africanism is a condemnation of colonialism and its corollary, the partitioning of the continent. Culturally, it re-centers African modes of creation and voices in the complex task of envisioning and conceiving a Pan-African presence in world history. Epistemically, Pan-Africanism provides a theoretical foundation from which it is possible to question the foundations of coloniality. As such, it constitutes an epistemological alternative to the reductionist universalism of Western modernity. The 20th anniversary of the African Union, one of the most recent institutional forms of the Pan-African project, provides an opportunity to reexamine the epistemic relevance of Pan-Africanism in the context of unfinished decolonization. Despite two centuries of discourse on the meaning, relevance, perspectives, and challenges of the movement, a special issue on Pan-Africanism is particularly timely as it allows for a rethinking of Africa’s presence in contemporary knowledge creation processes. It is essential to read recent African intellectual propositions such as Afropolitanism, Afrofuturism, Afro-chic, as well as postcolonial and decolonial theories in light of the Pan-African tradition. A dossier on Pan-Africanism is even more relevant as it has the potential to create the conditions for radical engagement with the major issues confronting our world, such as the planetary boundaries posed by the Anthropocene. Its most detrimental effects include the destruction of natural habitats, climate change, and biodiversity decline, which threaten the future of our planet. Pan-Africanism also allows us to reconsider the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by the data economy, the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the extraordinary projections of transhumanism, and the digitization of societies that are reshaping the limits of our existence.How can Pan-Africanism contribute to identifying and constructing research agendas, intellectual priorities, and heuristic postures from Africa and the African diaspora? How can the Pan-African tradition help us question, support, nuance, and advance our engagement with the pluriverse and confront exclusion as well as the limitations of modern teleologies of progress? Under what conditions can it be a source of innovation and disruption when it comes to global governance, racism, heteronormativity, patriarchy, social inequalities, religious extremism, and armed conflicts? In other words, how can Pan-Africanism contribute to redefining the possibilities of a convivial and just world when it is increasingly shaped by populist, nativist, isolationist, and hostile discourses towards multiculturalism? The editors of this special issue invite researchers, activists, and artists to propose innovative contributions based on these inquiries. The proposed abstracts must be submitted to: https://globalafricapress.org/index.php/globalafrica/about/submissions For any inquiries regarding the special issue, please contact the editors at: redaction@globalafricapress.org See the call in French. See the call in English
Conference on Excellence in Research in Human and Social Sciences.
The conference will take place on Thursday, June 13, 2024, from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM (GMT+2). Global Africa is a multilingual and interdisciplinary pan-African academic journal. Published quarterly and available in Open Access, it hosts reflections on global issues and their challenges approached from Africa and its diasporas to demonstrate how world transformations unfold from the continent. Its 5th issue was released last March. However, the Global Africa program is broader: it aims to enhance the ecosystem of continental scientific publishing through the creation of journals, as well as the promotion of open access, capacity building for human resources in university presses, and scientific publishing professionals… Global Africa particularly prioritizes the digitization of academic archives: by digitizing and making accessible, in partnership, African journals lacking visibility, it will contribute to preserving and sharing Africa’s intellectual heritage. The main presenters of this conference : Mame Penda Ba is an associate professor of political science at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal. As the Director of Laspad (Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Human and Social Sciences), she is the editor-in-chief of the Global Africa journal. She is also the Executive Secretary of the African Studies Association for Africa (ASAA). Her work covers public policy analysis (education, research, health, gender, decentralization, security) and sociology of religion. Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula is a political analyst, researcher in social sciences, and Director of the Arrupe Research and Training Center in Lubumbashi, DRC. He is the president of the African Studies Association for Africa (ASAA) and deputy editor of the Global Africa journal. His research focuses on social justice, democracy and peace, political violence and conflicts, religion, and global public health policy. The conference is open to all, within the capacity of the software, at : https://ird-fr.zoom.us/j/92587870949?pwd=bEs0M04rYzNTaGt6WEs3b29JZEd2dz09 Passcode: 255578 Meeting ID: 925 8787 0949
PUBLICATION: The Pregnant Man. Power, Birth, and the Feminization of Existence by Mohammed Jouili
The Pregnant Man. Power, Birth, and the Feminization of Existence (in Arabic) is the title of a new book by Professor Mohammed Jouili, an associate member of LASPAD and deputy editor-in-chief of Global Africa. Published by Afrique-Orient, this book was recently presented at the Rabat Book Fair in Morocco (May 9-20, 2024). In this work, the author analyzes ten African and Arab versions of a popular female-centric fairy tale. This tale narrates the story of a barren woman who, after many difficulties, manages to obtain the fruit of pregnancy (in other versions, a citron, an egg, or a small fish). She hides this fruit in a safe place, but her husband, hungry upon returning home, finds and eats it. A few days later, he finds himself pregnant with all the symptoms of pregnancy. In most versions of this tale, the woman forbids her husband from leaving their home until his delivery to avoid scandal. He gives birth discreetly (according to various versions, either alone or with his wife’s help), far from the village, under a tree. He gives birth to a girl, whom he abandons under the tree before returning home. Birds find the baby, feed her, and protect her until she grows up and marries the son of a Sultan or King. It is no coincidence that in all versions of this tale, from North Africa to Yemen and Oman, the pregnant man never gives birth to a boy, always a girl. According to Professor Jouili, this is explained by the desire of the anonymous women who created and narrated this tale to feminize their social existence. The subtitle of the book is inspired by the great Andalusian Sufi Ibn Arabi, who valued femininity, stating that “woman carries the scent of divine creation.” Readers of Mohammed Jouili’s work may be intrigued by the unusual theme of a pregnant man. What nature denies, imagination creates! Are these stories told to amuse? Yes and no, because behind the grotesque image of male pregnancy lies a very serious subject, which is the focus of this book. As in myths, this Afro-Arab tale of the pregnant man, studied and analyzed by the anthropologist, contains an essential truth and reveals a significant ideological and social, even existential, issue: the battle of the sexes for power. Mohammed Jouili, a Sorbonne graduate, is a research director in cultural anthropology at the Faculty of Letters of La Manouba in Tunisia. A renowned writer in North Africa and the Arab world, he has already published six books on traditional oral tales and is considered the pioneer of the Arabophone anthropological school of popular tale studies, which succeeded the formalist school in the Arab world, founded by the Russian Vladimir Propp. Given its contemporary relevance and the universality of the themes addressed, this book will be translated into other languages, with Spanish and French translations already underway. Contact the author: mohajouili@yahoo.fr Follow the author: https://web.facebook.com/mohammed.jouili