Bitter News from “Eternally Developing” Places, by Jean-Pierre Listre François-Xavier Akono, a Cameroonian Jesuit priest, gives us a series of bittersweet chronicles of trying realities, around little people whose way out one day is not very clear. First of all his style: he writes in small incisive sentences, sometimes “poetic” but precise, never practicing melodramatic...
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Report of the June 29, 2020 webinar
Africa & Post-Covid-19 Africa's challenges in the present, the consequences of yesterday's Africa, and the prospects for post-Covid-19 Africa. Read the report
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Reading Note: Kako Nubukpo, The African Emergency, Let’s change the Growth Model! (by Jean-Pierre Listre)
Professor Kako Nubukpo is an economist (with a sensitive historian’s tropism) and a renowned academic. He was Minister in charge of Prospective and Evaluation of Public Policies in Togo (2013-2015). Professor Kako Nubukpo’s book is a useful reference point for outstanding issues, without claiming to provide, in all the fields explored, absolute answers to the...
What energy for Africa ? An emergency and a challenge
Africa is a paradoxical continent, it has important energy resources (oil and gas, hydro and solar energy potential) and yet a significant part of its population suffers from energy scarcity. What solutions can Africans find to get out of this situation? It is useful to take stock of this issue which has been on the...
African urbanization: the prospects are overflowing, so are the garbage cans
“Africa in the face of waste management” ephemeral work of art, anonymous, 2010. Among the evils that affect the global ecosystem and from which the African environment is no exception, the overexploitation of resources leading to deforestation, pollution of rivers, air and soil, all accompanied by the rapid and large-scale disappearance of wildlife through the...
African Think Tank Conference
In recent years, African countries have faced increasingly similar economic, social and environmental challenges. Jointly organized by the OCP Policy Center, the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, the African Think Tank Conference aims to provide a platform for think tanks across the continent to...
The debates of Le Monde Afrique: Women, the future of the African continent
THE AFRICAN WORLD invites you to its conference on: WOMEN, THE FUTURE OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT The second edition of the “Debates of the African World”, a series of meetings and discussions on the major issues facing the African continent, will take place on 23 February at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. For...