Past Events

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Summer School: Intra-Regional Migration In Africa: Logics, Practices And Challenges Miasa, Network Point Sud And Centre For Migration Studies, University Of Ghana

Intra-regional migration in Africa – voluntarily or forced – is by far the most dominant form on the continent compared to African migration to Europe or other parts of the world. The history of migration in Africa dates back to pre-colonial times. The movement of people has always been at the centre of commercial exchanges before the colonial conquest. The valorization of the colonies perpetuated this “tradition”, drawing notably on a system of an “imported” workforce in the development poles created in Africa.

International workshop: Issues of Restitution and Repatriation of Looted and Illegally Acquired African Objects in European Museums

Kwesi Aning

“Whenever Africa is mentioned in a global setting, it’s not for its progressive contributions...but as a continent that should be helped through technocratic interventions”

This was one of many powerful calls from Dr. Kwesi Aning (Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra Ghana) to rethink how Africa is seen by the world during his lecture on "African Agency in R2P: Interventions by African Union and ECOWAS in Mali, Cote d’Ivoire and Libya" at the University of Freiburg, 23rd Oct. 2018.

Follow up: Inaugural conference: Africa’s Institutions for Sustainable Governance

The Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) has held its inaugural conference at the University of Ghana. Under the theme “Africa’s Institutions for Sustainable Governance” the event spanned between Thursday, 27th and Friday, 28th of September, 2018. The conference was attended by over 300 scholars from universities in Germany and across Africa. Participants were enlightened on topics in the areas of Gender, Democracy, Sustainable Energy, Agriculture, Elections and Peace during keynote addresses and plenary sessions.

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