Speech on the Ivorian crisis for the FASV (June 18, 2011, Embassy of Côte d’Ivoire in France) Excellency Ambassador, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends of the Saint Viateur Fund, I do not think I am in the best position to talk about the long crisis that Côte d’Ivoire is going through in general, since everyone here...
Bitter News from “Eternally Developing” Places, by Jean-Pierre Listre François-Xavier Akono, a Cameroonian Jesuit priest, gives us a series of bittersweet chronicles of trying realities, around little people whose way out one day is not very clear. First of all his style: he writes in small incisive sentences, sometimes “poetic” but precise, never practicing melodramatic...
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Africa & Post-Covid-19 Africa's challenges in the present, the consequences of yesterday's Africa, and the prospects for post-Covid-19 Africa. Read the report
One life, from one challenge to another This is the title of the latest version of Bernard PUEPI's Memoirs, published by a Parisian publisher in 2019. A title sufficiently evocative of the personality and trajectory of the man I had the joy of getting to know, in such a short time! Our first meeting will...
Kako Nubukpo, Editions Odile Jacob; September 2019; 236 pages; €22.90, Professor Kako Nubukpo is an economist (with a sensitive historian’s tropism) and a renowned academic. He was Minister in charge of Prospective and Evaluation of Public Policies in Togo (2013-2015). His past experiences and a certain disenchantment inspired his recent book “L’Urgence africaine; changeons le...
On February 12, 2020, the Institut Afrique Monde (IAM) organized a conference at the Centre Sèvres on "China-Africa: What Perceptions? What realities? What perspectives?". Under the aegis of Mrs Denise Houphouët-Boigny, President of the IAM, this event, which brought together 250 participants, was led by Professor Kako Nubukpo, economist and politician, and Professor Thierry Pairault,...
Africa is a paradoxical continent, it has important energy resources (oil and gas, hydro and solar energy potential) and yet a significant part of its population suffers from energy scarcity. What solutions can Africans find to get out of this situation? It is useful to take stock of this issue which has been on the...
The International Joseph Ki-Zerbo Committee for Africa and its Diaspora (CIJKAD) deplores the death of Professor Beseat Kifle Selasiie (1941-2019). He had been designated as dean of the association at its last General Assembly. He sends to his family, the Ethiopian authorities and the people of Ethiopia his most heartfelt condolences. Beseat Kifle Selassie was...