We Africans – who entered the 20th century before the rest of the world through the contrasting gates of freedom and annihilation; who face the radical deepening of all inequalities; and the continuous irruption of the unprecedented, but also of hope, even as old issues remain pending – are challenged to think and build the futures we desire for Africa and the Planet. The only viable options will be those that place courage, freedom and truth – whose conquest is a never-ending struggle – at the heart of new social contracts. In the context of today’s technological and digital revolution, humanity has rarely had so many opportunities to transform the material existence of men and women. However, we have never…
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Tomorrow’s Africas, Worlds and Knowledge
Global Africa strives to be a vibrant pan-African community of aspirations, that welcomes anyone keen on inhabiting a space that is not free of challenges, but where they will not …
Man’s condition, his projects and collaboration with others on tasks that strengthen man’s totality, are new issues which require genuine inspiration. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of…
The expression Global Africa appears more and more regularly in a wide range of areas. In English it is mainly used to illustrate the relationships and interconnections between Afr…
DiasporasGeneral History of AfricaHistorypan-AfricanismReparations
Should a writer just sit in a room churning out novels to be sold in the United States, or become a wandering minstrel? None of these cities are sacred to us, they cannot be—New Yo…
Africa/AmericaColoniality/modernitydecoloniality/Third Nomos of the Earthinvention/discoveryRenaissance/Enlightenment
The epistemological questions of what type of knowledge, how are they produced, and for which purposes, are fundamentals for Africans in their struggle for political, cultural and …
African social sciencescolonial libraryEcology of knowledgeepistemologyknowledge
In this contribution, I call for centering “global humanitarianism” in Africa. I take global humanitarianism to include what Alex de Waal in 1997 termed “the humanitarian internati…
“We encourage aid that helps us to do without aid. But in general the policy of assistance and aid only results in disorganizing us, subjugating us and disempowering us.” – Thomas …
Berber women’s art is the oldest art in North Africa that goes back to ancient times and has survived in the face of powerful conquering civilizations to date. It has fascinated an…
The governance of coastal zones has been on the agenda of major international organisations since the end of the twentieth century (Billé et al. 2006 and 2007), and, with the rise …
