# Tony Chafer (*) et Gordon Cumming (*) animeront le 3 Novembre 2010 une conférence-débat sur le thème “La coopération entre la France et le Royaume-Uni en Afrique: Des capacités sous-utilisées” dans le cadre du programme Afrique subsaharienne de l’Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales). Comment les deux anciens colonisateurs, concurrents historiques, coopèrent-ils en Afrique […]
@ Theodore Trefon (*) wrote a brief for the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen (Norway). This September 2010 brief is titled “Forest governance in Congo: Corruption rules”, and it can be accessed at: http://www.u4.no/document/publication.cfm?3776=forest-governance-in-congo-corruption-rules. @ Josef Gugler (*) is the editor of a forthcoming book: “Film in the […]
@ Tony Chafer (*) and Gordon Cumming (*) have published the final Executive Report from their research project ‘Anglo-French cooperation in Africa since Saint-Malo’. Entitled ‘Punching Below their Weight? Anglo-French Cooperation in a Changing Africa’, it was presented at Chatham House in June and is available at: http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/events/view/-/id/1574/. @ Leonardo Villalón (*) has published “From […]
Crossing Cultures Senegal Summer 2011 Intercultural Dimensions, Inc. (a 501(c)(3) educational organization) offers a stimulating travel and educational program focused on the French-speaking Republic of Senegal, West Africa. The program dates for the 2011 Crossing Cultures Senegal program are June 27 to July 12. It will be ID’s 21st program to Senegal. Led by two […]
# Achille Mbembe (*) confie ses impressions et ses pronostics sur la Coupe du Monde de Football aux journalistes d’Africulture. À lire sur: http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=article&no=9555. @ John F. Clark (*) will deliver a paper titlled “The Impact of Foreign Occupation on the Natural Environment in the DRC” at a conference called: “Environnement, Sociétés et Conflits en […]
# Claire H Griffiths (*) nous écrit de Dakar: “J’ai quitté Hull il ya quelques mois ayant été nommée à une chaire d’études francophones – la toute première dans la discipline de ‘Modern Languages and Area Studies’ à l’Université de Chester, une petite université ouverte depuis 1839 mais qui ne s’est engagée dans la recherche […]
@ Phyllis M. Martin (*) is the author of “Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times” (Indiana University Press, 2009; 280 pages, photos, maps – ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22055-4) The book explores the changing relationship between women and the Catholic Church from the establishment of the first mission stations in the late 1880s to […]
@ Bogumil Jewsiewicki (*) spoke about the history of copper mining in Lubumbashi and the significance of artist Sammy Baloji’s photographs taken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Baloji’s recent series entitled The Beautiful Time in Lubumbashi, the artist employs photomontages to combine archival images of copper mine workers and colonial administrators with […]
@ Thomas A. Hale (*) and Kora Véron co-authored an article titled “Is There Unity in the Writings of Aimé Césaire?” in the journal Research in African Literatures, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2010), pp. 46-70. The abstract reads: “Researchers unfamiliar with the entire corpus of Césaire’s writings question the connection between his literary works […]
@ Célestin Monga (*) has published (Januray 2010) a 55-page monograph titled “Hegelian Macroeconomics: The Dialectics of Global Imbalances” in the World Bank’s series of Policy Research Working Papers (WPS 5175). The paper argues that China and the United States have become economically so interdependent that fears of any abrupt change in their current Nash […]