2022

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2nd Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture: Decolonizing Knowledge Production in Africa, Speaker: Professor Sylvia Tamale (Makerere University)

The world lives with the falsehood that on planet earth, there is one universal correct way of being human, i.e., the Western way of thinking, of being and of doing, which is constructed as a one-size-fits-all model, the “default drive” for the entire world.

Conference: African Cities: Climate Change and the Search for Resilience

Programme

Conveners:

Prof. Dr. Ines Macamo Raimundo, Department of Geography, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo Mozambique

Prof. Dr. Charlotte Wrigley-Asante, Department of Geography and Resource Management, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Prof. Dr. Alex Barimah Owusu, Department of Geography and Resource Management, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Public Lecture: Bangui’s Everyday Statehood: Citizens and public authority in a context of chronic political crisis, Speaker: Lotje de Vries (Wageningen University)

Abstract:

While the state in the Central African Republic is characterized by what can be called chronic political instability, everyday life and administration in the capital Bangui seems quite steady. In this lecture, I analyze the various relations between citizens and public authorities in mundane interactions to investigate what I call ‘everyday statehood’. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews, I will elaborate on how public authorities and citizens build relations and manage expectations in urban Bangui, despite a rather absent central state.

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