3rd Pan-Africanism congress in Munich on the 28th and 29th October 2011
In
commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his killing, this year’s congress is
dedicated to the memory of the first democratically elected Prime Minister of
the Republic of Congo, Patrice E. Lumumba (1925-1961), whose son, Guy
Patrice Lumumba, will be attending the congress as guest of honour.
Pan-African
organisations, initiatives and friends of Africa, including a representative of
the African Union, will be coming together in October in Munich under the
congress theme “Africa’s challenges” for the third time to exchange ideas about
feasible ways and means of creating new perspectives for Africa.
Under
the four topics
- The
Pan-African Renaissance - The
case of Lumumba and the situation of the Democratic Republic of Congo - Migration
and the so-called „Development Cooperation“ and - The
African Diaspora and the African Union (AU)
We
will discuss with representatives of the global Pan-African movement from Mali,
Congo, Ghana, Uganda, France, Great Britain, USA, Canada and Germany amongst
others, the question of where Africa stands 50 years after its
independence:
- What
have the African countries achieved in the last 50 years?
- What
has not functioned and why? - What
are the challenges that still lay ahead?
The
Keynote address „The challenge of rethinking Africa and the prospects of
reshaping it“ will be given by Dr. Ms. Aminata Traoré, social-psychologist,
author and former culture & tourism minister of Mali.
According
to Hamado Dipama, from the Pan-African Working Group, Munich, “If in the
21st Century, children still die of hunger in a continent full of
riches and potential, and if on this same continent numerous civilian lives are
lost through NATO military operations 'in the name of Democracy', then there is
an urgent need to advocate for another Africa”.
Apart
from lectures, the programme also includes workshops and film screenings such as
the documentary film on Patrice Lumumba, „Murder in colonial style“, produced by
Thomas Giefer who will also be present. The programme will be rounded off with
art exhibitions by African artists and a cultural programme with traditional and
contemporary African musicians including the Senegalese Political Hip-Hop star
Didier Awadi.
Admission
is free!
For
more information, please visit: http://www.panafrikanismusforum.net/start.en.html
On
the website, there is a review of the congresses of 2007 and 2009 including
Photo Galleries.
With
best regards,
The
congress organising team
Contact:
AK
Panafrikanismus München e.V.
sekretariat@panafrikanismusforum.net
Augsburger
Str. 13
80337 München
Tel:
Tel: 089-416159959
Fax: 089 – 76 22 36