Events & Issuess
Report: The African Century
ONE’s report The African Century presents evidence on the risks and opportunities of the current demographic development in Africa. It calls for a new partnership with Africa which doubles investments in education, employment and empowerment to support a programme of economic and policy reform across the continent. ONE also calls on the G20 to broaden their G20 “Compacts with Africa” and include more states, especially fragile states and Least Developed Countries.
With the African population expected to double by 2050 to 2.5bn people with 50% expected to be under 25 years old, African politicians together with the global community need to take action – to harness the so called demographic dividend and to avoid a destabilisation of the region which will have severe consequences also for Europe and the world.
Access The African Century report in the link below
https://researchafrica.duke.edu/files/2017/06/ENG-Brief-TheAfricanCentury.pdf
Article:
An interesting Article on Turkey’s Soft Power in Africa
التغلغل الناعم: إفريقيا في الاستراتيجية التركية.. المحدّدات والسياقات والتحدّيات
Author: مصطفى شفيق علام
بدأت تركيا استراتيجيتها الجديدة نحو القارة السمراء قبل نحو عقدَيْن من الزمان، وتحديداً منذ العام 1998م، ومرّت بعدّة مراحل مهمّة، توّجتها رؤية صانع القرار في أنقرة؛ باعتبار إفريقيا عمقاً استراتيجيّاً للدولة التركية المحورية «المركزية»، بعد عقودٍ من رؤية تركيا «الكمالية» لنفسها بوصفها دولة «طرفية»، تدور في الفلك الأمريكي الأوروبي، في سياق حرص النخبة التركية- ما بعد انهيار الخلافة العثمانية- على علمنة الدولة، والنأي بها عن تاريخها العثماني، وخبرتها الإمبراطورية ذات الخلفية الإسلامية.
وإذا كانت جولات الرئيس التركي رجب طيب أردوغان الإفريقية الدؤوبة خلال العام 2016م؛ قد جاءت بهدف تعميق «الشراكة الاستراتيجية» مع إفريقيا لتطوير العلاقات مع الدول الأعضاء في الجماعة الاقتصادية لدول غرب إفريقيا (ECOWAS)؛ فإنّ أردوغان قد قام قبل عامٍ بزيارة إفريقية أخرى ذات مغزى عميق، شملت كلاً من: (إثيوبيا، وجيبوتي، والصومال)، في سياق استراتيجيةٍ ممنهجةٍ لتوسيع النفوذ التركي في إفريقيا بما يتجاوز ثنائية الاستثمار والعطاء، بنكهتها الإسلامية المحببة للأفارقة، التي ربما عنونت فتراتٍ عدّة من مراحل الانفتاح التركيّ «الناعم» على العواصم الإفريقية، وصولاً إلى الانتقال بذلك الانفتاح إلى مرحلة «التغلغل الخشن» في إفريقيا، بالتوزاي مع إعلان أنقرة مطلع العام 2016م عن اتفاقيةٍ جديدةٍ مع الصومال لإقامة قاعدةٍ عسكريةٍ كبيرة، تضع قدماً للجيش التركي في خليج عدن الاستراتيجي، لتنضم أنقرة إلى عواصم كبرى لها قواعد عسكرية في منطقة القرن الإفريقي، وبخاصة جيبوتي.
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Conference:
Université de Carthage, Tunis
جامعة قرطاجة بالتونس تنظم لقاءا علميا عما بعد الربيع العربي:
نص الدعوة للمشاركة باللغة العربية يوجد في الرابط أدناه
Conference: Défis Sociaux en Tunisie post révolution, gouvernance et intervention sociale
Institut National du Travail et des Etudes Sociales En collaboration avec
La Fondation Hans Seidel L’Association Tunisienne de service social
Organise Le 1er Congrès scientifique annuel des Sciences de Travail et de service social «Défis Sociaux en Tunisie post révolution, gouvernance et intervention sociale»
Tunis,25 et 26 Octobre 2017
Cela fait plus que six ans que la révolution tunisienne a eu lieu, il s’agit d’un évènement ovationné par trois Expressions fondamentales: EMPLOI, LIBERTÉ ET DIGNITÉ, annonçant l’entrée de la Tunisie dans un nouveau tournant de son histoire avec des aspirations et affiches de changement structurel touchant les modèles politique, socioéconomique et culturel. Ce changement qui n’épargne aucun système s’insère dans une expérience qualitative ouvrant la voix à de nouveaux horizons et à de nouvelles perspectives qui attendent à être concrétisés.
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Call for Papers:
Small Wars & Insurgencies: Vol 28, No 2
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fswi20/current
Guest editors: Abel Polese (Dublin City University and Tallinn University of Technology),
Ruth Hanau Santini (University of Naples, L’Orientale)
Rob Kevlihan (Kimmage Development Studies Centre)
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2017
Deadline for first draft of papers: 30 September 2017
We are editing a guest issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies that will come out in 2018 and is intended to investigate the synergies generated by the co-existence, competition and conflict between competing actors of security governance.
Our main focus is on the multi-actor and multi-level nature of security governance across the Middle East and Africa, sidestepping the application of fictitious notions of state unitary actorness and absolute monopoly of violence. In particular, we expect to investigate, through a number of empirical case studies with strong conceptual components, the interplay between the mixed nature of security actors and the creation of specific security orders.
Read more details in this RA link
https://researchafrica.duke.edu/files/2017/06/Small-Wars-Insurgencies-Vol-28-No-2-.pdf
NEW BOOKS كتب جديدة
The Aftermath of the Cassinga Massacre. Survivors, Deniers and Injustices
[أخبار ما بعد مذبحة كاسينغا: الناجون والمردفون والمظالم]
Author: Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha
It took the former South African Defence Force (SADF) less than four hours to kill more than eight hundred Namibian refugees at Cassinga on May 4, 1978. Thousands of survivors were left with irreparable physical and emotional injuries. The unhealed trauma of Cassinga, a Namibian civilian camp in southern Angola before the massacre, is beyond the worst that the victims of the attack experienced on the ground. Unacceptable layers of pain and suffering continue to grow and multiply as the victims’ grievances and other issues arising out of the aftermath of the massacre have been ignored, particularly following Namibia’s political independence. In this book, the afterlife of the victims’ traumatic memories and their aspiration for justice vis-à-vis the perpetrators’ enjoyment of blanket impunity from prosecution, in spite of their ongoing denial of killing and maiming innocent civilians at Cassinga, are explored with the aim to create public awareness about the unfortunate circumstances of the Cassinga victims.
Publisher: Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB), 2017
(A centre of documentation and expertise on Namibia and southern Africa, located in Basel, Switzerland.)
publishing@baslerafrika.ch
Islamic Law and Practice Procedure in Nigerian Courts
[الشريعة الإسلامية وممارساتها الادارية في المحاكم النيجيرية]
Author: Adamu Abubakar
Islamic Law and Practice Procedure in Nigerian Courts is about the rules of practice, procedure and evidence in trials of civil and criminal cases before Area Courts, Sharia Courts, Upper Area Courts, Upper Sharia Courts, Sharia Courts of Appeal, Court of Appeal and indeed Supreme Court of Nigeria in matters concerning application of Islamic law and practice. The subject of the book is copiously elucidated for the first time with verity of dictas from the reported cases from superior courts in Nigeria. It is of nineteen chapters with a number of parts and paragraphs to make for easy application. The book is designed to ensure quick dispensation of justice without sacrificing the need for fair hearing. A must for judges, advocates and students of Islamic law and practice.
Publisher: Malthouse Press, Nigeria, 2017
Lewis Nkosi “The Black Psychiatrist” & “After” Fiction, Critical Perspectives and Hommage
[لويس نكوسي: الطبيب النفسي الافريقي و قصة ما بعد الرواية: تأملات نقدية في تأبينه]
Author: Dag Henrichsen, Astrid Starck (eds
This rich volume is dedicated to the astounding South African writer and literary critic Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010). In this book Nkosi’s celebrated one-act play “The Black Psychiatrist” is published together with its unpublished sequel “After”, a short novel on the satirically fictionalized inauguration of Mandela as South African president. Critical appraisals, tributes and recollections by scholars and friends reflect on the beat of his writing and life. An ideal volume for those encountering Lewis Nkosi for the first time as well as for those already devoted to his work. Edited by Astrid Starck, a literary scholar, and Dag Henrichsen, a historian.
Publisher: Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB), 2017
Higher Education Leadership and Governance in the Development of the Creative and Cultural Industries in Kenya
[دور القيادة في التعليم العالي وادارته نحو التطوير والابداع الثقافي في كينيا]
Author: (Editors) Emily Achieng’ Akuno, Donald Otoyo Ondieki and Peter Barasa
The role of higher education in establishing structures and procedures in society and industry is clearly articulated in scholarly discussions. The narrative has recently taken a new momentum in Kenya with acknowledgement of the creative industry involves many youth, as an area that impacts on the economy. In unravelling the link between higher education and industry, the authors focus on leadership and governance in higher education and its expected and perceived contribution to the shaping of the creative industry. Through analysis of cases, the authors interrogate the processes and structures that govern the teaching and practice of the creative subjects, noting how these affect the creative industry in Kenya. This book approaches the creative disciplines from the perspectives of the students, lecturers and university administrators.
Publisher: CODESRIA: Senegal, 2016
Website: http://www.codesria.org/
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Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
