Boletín Trimestral del Centro de Estudios Africanos e Interculturales de Barcelona | nº 11 Septiembre 2013

Westgate o el posible fin de una forma de hacer diplomacia Fernando Díaz Alpuente:  El ataque al centro comercial Westgate, en Nairobi, trae olores de la Guerra Fría, la interminable lucha de Bush contra el terror y discursos paternalistas sobre África. Pero en realidad oculta el debate sobre la pobreza y sus consecuencias sociales; locales y globales. Leer más Baba Jukwa. Debate, democracia y redes sociales en Zimbabue Carlos Bajo: Las redes sociales permiten movimientos de contestación impensables en otros momentos y además nos los traen a nosotros. Nos los acercan, nos los ponen delante de los ojos y de alguna manera, nos hacen partícipes, al menos informándonos. Los ejemplos se multiplican. El de hoy es Baba Jukwa un personaje zimbabuense de Facebook.Leer más Leymah Gbowee, activista liberiana feminista  Carla Valle: Los hombres nacen a través de las vaginas de las mujeres, y exponerla a la vista es como decir “te quito la vida que te di “en África el hecho de que una mujer casada o de edad avanzada se desnude intencionadamente representa una maldición espantosa. Leer más  África al socorro de África, de Sanou Mbaye Enrique Bermejo Dotor: Pese a la concepción pesimista sobre África basada, entre otras cosas,  en la imagen que los medios occidentales proporcionan de África y su población, el economista Sanou Mbaye, llama a los africanos y, en particular, a sus élites, a retomar las riendas destino del continente para salir de la situación de dependencia en la que se encuentran inmersos. Leer más Migraciones en Sudán Enrique Bermejo Dotor: La migración en Sudán, es un caso típico de flujos migratorios mixtos. Con un gran número de refugiados y solicitantes de asilo, Sudán también ha sido un importante receptor de migrantes laborales y migrantes en tránsito desde los países vecinos, los cuales, no necesitan un permiso de residencia para vivir en Sudán. Leer más Arte de protesta: The South African Poster Movement  Vanessa Anaya - Wiriko: El apartheid (separación en afrikáans) sudafricano fue la instauración y formalización de un proceso que ya se había iniciado con la llegada de los europeos, la segregación racial. El establecimiento de zonas étnicamente segregadas con peores condiciones para los negros, el desalojo de la población negra de sus tierras y casas y un sinfín de leyes racistas que mantenían intacto el poder de esta minoría blanca en detrimento de la mayoría negra, obtuvieron una contundente respuesta a partir de los años setenta. Con el creciente endurecimiento del régimen, se intensificaron las protestas sociales y la resistencia. En ese momento, el arte se erigió como un medio de expresión y organización esencial. Leer más El Islam del África Negra, de Ferran Iniesta (ed.) Daniel Giménez: ¿Existe realmente en África negra un Islam propio y característico? Esta es la pregunta fundamental a la que pretende responder esta obra colectiva, coordinada por Ferran Iniesta. Leer más Mamphela Ramphele, tras la estela de Mandela  Laura Buil: La activista y médica sudafricana Mamphela Ramphele tratará de conquistar la presidencia de Sudáfrica en los próximos comicios en 2014 y reavivar con su triunfo el ‘legado de Mandela’. Leer más   |  |  Centro de Estudios Africanos e Interculturales de Barcelona Ronda Sant Pere 17, Barcelona www.centredestudisafricans.org darse de baja de este boletín | actualizar preferencias

The Nordic Africa Institute - Newsletter, October 2013

Problems reading the newsletter? Click here!    Send to a friend   |   Newsletter Archive   |   Unsubscribe Facebook Twitter LinkedIn    www.nai.uu.se    Sweden's past colonial links The image of Sweden is one of a small country without the moral burden of a colonial past. However, in NAI's latest Current African Issue this is brought into question. "The big powers in Europe were keen to have Sweden and other small countries onboard. This gave legitimacy to the conference", says David Nilsson who has written the article 'Sweden-Norway at the Berlin Conference 1884-85'. Read the interview. Marginalized African farmers Countries in Africa need to produce more food, not least for the growing urban populations in the cities. However, there is also a global demand for cash crops.  "Agricultural investments don’t necessary have to be bad. It all depends on how they are carried out which in turn depends on the legal framework. Unfortunately, few frameworks are in practice", says NAI researcher Atakilte Beyene. Read the interview.   Africa and the rising powers “The challenge for African nations is to draw relevant lessons from China, India and other rising economic powers,” states Sumit Roy, the latest researcher to join NAI’s African International Links cluster. His research aims to use political economy to make a more balanced analysis of the challenges and the opportunities stemming from the growing ties between Africa and two key Rising Powers-China and India.  Read the interview.  UNACKNOWLEDGED GAP FILLERS Those involved in informal waste management are at the bottom of the waste value chain in Nigeria. People look at waste pickers as poor, dirty or criminal, a view that is often borne out of unawareness. "But the cities would drown in garbage if it wasn’t for the waste pickers. Their work is as important as other professions," says NAI researcher Chidi Nzeadibe.Read the interview. LAND, IDENTITY, POWER IN DR CONGO Professor Koen Vlassenroot is among the world's leading experts on the deep conflict in eastern DR Congo. He is also the first speaker of a new lecture-series at NAI about the relation between land and violence in Africa. His lecture on October 16th is entitled "Land identity and power: land-related conflicts in eastern DR Congo.  Read more.  DIG DEEPER WITH LIBRARY DOSSIER The staff of the NAI Library have compiled a web dossier of literature, publications and web resources with background information for the upcoming lecture series on violent conflicts over land in Africa.    FORMER MANDELA MINISTER TO NAI On 22 October NAI is visited by Jay Naidoo, a prominent political commentator on South Africa. He served as minister in the first post-apartheid government in South Africa under president Nelson Mandela. He is currently chair of the Partnership Council of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). He is also a board member of Mo Ibrahim Foundation, formed to further the progress of African development through good governance and leadership. Read more (pdf). MELES STILL RULING? When Meles Zenawi died a year ago, many people hoped for a liberalization of state control in Ethiopia, while others feared bloody power struggles and revolts. Both hopes and fears came to naught, writes Cecilia Bäcklander on NAI Forum. ARMED FORCES IN GREAT LAKES A workshop on armed forces and conflict dynamics in the Great Lakes region will be held in Kampala 28-30 October. The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden and the Refugee Law Project, Makerere University, Uganda are organisers. Read more. ECAS: METHODS FOR CONFLICT SETTINGS Marsha Henry was happy to find several ECAS panels devoted to methodological questions raised by conducting research in conflict areas . Read more on Mats Utas' blog. The Nordic Africa Institute P O Box 1703, SE-751 47 Uppsala, Sweden Visitors' address: Villavägen 6 SE-752 36 Uppsala Org.number: 202100-2726 Telephone: +46 18 471 52 00 Fax: +46 18 56 22 90 E-mail: nai@nai.uu.se Webmaster: webmaster@nai.uu.se www.nai.uu.se

The Royal African Society's Anual Film Festival - 1-10 November 2013 - FILM AFRICA

Film Africa 2013 - 1 - 10 November 2013 - www.filmafrica.org.uk We're just three weeks away from Film Africa 2013! And you can now book tickets for all films, at all participating venues of the festival! We invite you to experience the most riveting of contemporary African film, alongside classics of the African screen during the ten days of film Africa. From Friday 1st November till Friday 10th – you can go on a journey across Senegal with Touki Bouki, lose yourself in the stunning visual odyssey that is La Pirogue, and follow a man on what is possibly his last day of life, in Tey; and you can see many more films in our programme, attend one of our Film Africa LIVE! events and even have a chat with one of our visiting directors. And if all that’s not enough, we’re also offering a 3 for 1 offer on all Film Africa screenings at Hackney Picture House and the Ritzy in Brixton.  Tey Sat 9 Nov l 20:45 l BFI Southbank |  Get tickets  Followed by a Q&A with the director. Dir. Alain Gomis. With Saul Williams, Djolof Mbengue, Anisia Uzeyman. France/Senegal. 2012. 86min. Colour. Poet Saul Williams stars as Satché, newly returned from America to his Senegal hometown, where he listens to the announcement of his imminent death. Harking back to the aesthetic delights of Senegal’s rich auteurist history, Gomis crafts his own mood, combining past and present; traditional and modern. The Pirogue (La Pirogue) Sat 7 Nov l 21:00 l Ritzy Cinema | Get Tickets  Dir. Moussa Touré. With Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Laïty Fall, Malaminé ‘Yalenguen’ Dramé. France/Senegal/Germany. 2012. 87min. Colour. Moussa Touré’s visually stunning odyssey tells the story of Baye Laye (Ndiaye), a retired boat captain who reluctantly agrees to take a group of 29 African men across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain aboard a ‘pirogue’ (a wooden fishing boat). Their ensuing passage is far from smooth. Exceptional in the way it deals with a political hot-potato issue (illegal immigration) in a clear-eyed, compassionate manner, Touré crafts a drama that’s simultaneously fiercely contemporary and haunting. Horses of God (Les Chevaux de Dieu) Thu 7 Nov l 18:45 l Ritzy Cinema | Get Tickets  Dir. Nabil Ayouch. With Abdelhakim Rachi, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek. Morocco/Tunisia/Belgium/France. 2012. 115min. Colour. In Sidi Moumen, a slum district of Casablanca, two brothers grow up in a world of football, close friendship and hard knocks. But as they approach adulthood, the dreams of youth give way to the realities of poverty and violence. This provocative and dazzlingly-shot film casts a compassionate eye over the sources of extremism that fuelled the 2003 terrorist attacks in Morocco. A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie) Wed 6 Nov l 21:00 l Hackney Picturehouse | Get Tickets Dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.With Youssouf Djaoro, Dioucounda Koma, Emile Abossolo M’bo.France/Belgium/Chad. 2010. 92min. Colour. Adam (Djaoro) is a pool attendant at a fancy hotel in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital, where everyone still calls him ‘champ’ after his heyday as a competitive swimmer. His son, Abdel (Komo), works under him at the pool, but the old order is changing as economic pressures force the hotel management to promote Abdel and move Adam to demeaning front-gate duty. The spectre of war is also upsetting the natural state of things, and Adam enters into a terrible bargain when a local chief pressures him to contribute to the war effort, financial or otherwise. With masterful control, Haroun transforms the personal and emotional turmoil of his story into still, meditative, and quietly devastating filmmaking. African Film Conference Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 November | University of Westminster | Registration Fee:  £175, £95 student concessions | Register here We are partnering with the University of Westminster’s Africa Media Centre, to support their 5th annual African Film Conference. This year’s conference will focus on the relationship between African film and politics in changing global and local contexts. Jean-Pierre Bekolo – award-winning film director, writer, artist, professor and social activist from Cameroon – will be delivering the keynote speech using his latest film, The President, as a case study. Festival highlights Celebrating the Classics  Black Girl (La noire de...) Director Ousmane Sembene 4 Nov I 6pm I Ritzy cinema I Get Tickets  Sembene’s first feature is the tale of a young black domestic servant's isolation in Antibes, and the first feature to be produced and directed by an African. “For us, it was necessary to become political”, said Sembene, “to become involved in a struggle against all the ills of man’s cupidity, envy, individualism, the nouveau-riche mentality, and all the things we have inherited from the colonial and neo-colonial systems.” His film bears out this attitude in unforgettable fashion. Touki Bouki – 40th Anniversary Special Screening Director Djibril Diop Mambéty 9 Nov I 5pm I Hackney Picturehouse I Get tickets  Still thrilling, the mythical, freewheeling road-movie pioneered the spirit of punk and forged a new direction for sub-Saharan cinema. Two young lovers plot their route out of Senegal in this cornucopia of stunning imagery, sonic dissonance and slyly political subtext. ToukiBouki is a classic that’s not to be missed. Mille Soleils Director Mati Diop 9 Nov I 7:15 pm I Hackney Picturehouse  Diop’s compelling mid-length essay film retraces and investigates some 40 years later the journeys of the two main characters from Touki Bouki, the cult film made by her late uncle Djibril Diop Mambety (which we are also screening). Diop’s family is inextricably entangled with the dual histories of cinema and Senegal, and, in Mille Soleils, she uses this fact to merge temporalities to haunting effect. Winner, Grand Prix International Competition, FID Marseille 2013 Borom Sarret Director Ousmane Sembene 8 November 8:45PM | Get tickets  Sembene’s Borom Sarret,  considered the first film directed by a black African, is fable of a poor Dakar man trying to make a living as a cart driver is . Don’t miss this rare chance to see it on the big screen. Screened alongside Tey(Director Alain Gomis) follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2013 Royal African Society, All rights reserved.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

Call for Presentations: Desafios Atuais dos Feminismos

ECAS 2013

5^th European Conference on African Studies

African dynamics in a multipolar world

Call for papers

The call for papers is now open and will close on 16th January 2013.

Please browse the list of accepted panels and make your proposal to an appropriate panel. On the panel page, beneath the long abstract you will find a link stating 'Propose a paper'. Click that to access the online form.

All proposals must be made via the bespoke on-line facility that ECAS2013 is using to handle all proposals. Proposals should not be sent by email. Convenors wishing to present in their own panel should also use the online form to enter their proposal.

Proposals should consist of a paper title, a (very) short abstract of less than 300 characters, and an abstract of 250 words. The proposal may also state the audio-visual requirements you have for your presentation.

On submission of the proposal, you should be taken to a screen stating that your submission was completed successfully. If not then you need to try again. On completion the convenors will be sent an automated email alerting them to your proposal. You will also be sent such an email. If you do not receive this email, please first check the login environment (click login above) to see if your proposal is there. If it is, it simply means your confirmation email got spammed/lost; and if it is not, it means you need to re-submit, as the process went wrong somewhere!

Proposals will be marked as pending until the Call for Papers closes, and convenors are asked to make decisions. They will then be marked as accepted or rejected; and the panel convenors will inform you of their decisions.

Rules

Delegates may only make one presentation, although they may also convene one plenary session or panel; or be discussant in one plenary session or panel.

Clearly delegates may make multiple proposals, however we discourage this practice as later you will be required to withdraw papers where you have multiple acceptances, inconveniencing those convenors. 

Useful information for after you've proposed your paper

Paper authors can use the login link in the toolbar above to edit their proposals. Co-authors cannot be added/removed nor can papers be withdrawn through this environment - please email ecas2013(at)nomadit.co.uk to do this.

Pre-circulation of papers

ECAS has no rule about this; however many convenors are keen to pre-circulate completed papers. To facilitate this and save on email traffic, if requested by convenors, authors can upload PDFs of their papers within the online system, which will then show as a downloadable file beneath their abstract on the public panel page on this site.

Timing of presentations

Convenors are free to allocate the time of their sessions as they like. The ECAS norm is to allot each presenter a maximum of 22 minutes (for presentation and questions/discussion), however convenors should let you know about this nearer the conference.

We are unable to represent specific intra-panel timings in our programme. Delegates reading the conference book will have to work on the assumption that papers will be evenly distributed through the panel.

Communication between authors/convenors

Convenor/author email addresses are not shown on the panel pages for anti-spam reasons. However there is an in-built secure email messaging system. If you cannot work that, please email ecas2013(at)nomadit.co.uk to obtain relevant email addresses.

Any queries with the above please email ecas2013(at)nomadit.co.uk