Month: April 2021
Reading Notes: Africa is the future of the world (by Pierre Papon)
Carlos Lopes, Africa is the future of the world, Rethinking development, Paris, Seuil, 2021. How should Africa envisage its future when the development model embodied by the West seems, today, to have reached a dead end? This is the question that Carlos Lopes answers in his book. In the preface, Alain Soupiot, honorary professor at...
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) 1: Background
Aminata DIABY Doctoral student in international economic law – University of Burgundy I The beginnings of African integration The time has come for the endogenous development of the African continent. Institutional, economic and environmental development is necessary in order to promote the growth of the African continent on the international scene. Africa has the...
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) 2: The Rationality of a Great Challenge
Manga KUOH Economist and international relations specialist Former international civil servant at the World Bank and the IMF Introduction The creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) [1] by the Heads of State and Government meeting in Kigali on March 21, 2018, was intended to be a high point in the Agenda...
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) 3: Challenges to be addressed
Mathurin DOUMBE EPEE Chairman of the Board of Directors of Société Générale Cameroon I read with great interest the article by my friend Manga KUOH whose service allows for an informed opinion on the FTAA. I largely share his opinion on various points developed on the economic dimension of the FTAA, while being more...
Tribute to Cardinal Christian Tumi: an extraordinary destiny (by Mathurin Doumbé)
By Mathurin DOUMBE EPEE First President of the Board of Directors of the Catholic University of Central Africa “UCAC” His Eminence Christian, Cardinal WIYGHAN TUMI, Archbishop Emeritus of Douala rests since April 20, 2021 at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of the economic capital, in the vault of the Bishops, alongside...
Tribute to Cardinal Tumi (by Jean-Bernard Bruneteaux)
It was on the occasion of the solemn opening of the Catholic University of Central Africa (UCAC), which he presided over in his capacity as Grand Chancellor of the University, that I met Cardinal TUMI in November 2001 and 2002. During one of his talks to the students, I noted his message to them: Love...