Click here to download the PDF version of the synthesis Teaching of religion, secularism and interreligious dialogue: crossed views in France and West Africa. Chat on June 21, 2019 organized by the Africa World Institute Speakers : Dr René NOUAILHAT, Professor of Universities, historian of religions, founder of the Institute for the Study and Teaching...
Human Resources Management and Communication in Africa
Summary : The result of experience in companies, contacts with professionals and teaching at the Catholic University of Central Africa, this book responds in a practical way to the realities and objectives of the human resources function. Is there a specific human resources management in Africa? The human resources manager’s approach presented in the book...
Xi Jinping in Europe, a stopover on the New Silk Roads
Click here to download the PDF version of the synthesis Chat on April 4, 2019 organized by the Africa World Institute Summary written by Mr. Nicolas Klingelschmitt Speakers : Mr. Christian VICENTY, China/Russia/Ukraine & New Silk Roads Policy Officer at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. Mr. Manga KUOH, member of the Africa World...
Disturbed “Waiting Horizon”: Intercultural access to African stories
On November 2, 2018, the Africa World Institute organized in partnership with Sophia University in Tokyo (Japan) and the Catholic University of Central Africa (Yaoundé, Cameroon) a symposium on African Tales as a tool for conflict resolution, at the Centre Sèvres (35 bis Rue de Sèvres, 75006 Paris). On this occasion, Ms. Atsuko Nagai, professor...
Tontine, an economic vector of solidarity and entrepreneurship
African tontines: a phenomenon as widespread in Africa as it is unknown in Europe 9 December 2006: Neighbourhood tontine in Niamakoro, Bamako, Mali Jeanne Semin, L’argent, la famille, les amies: ethnographie contemporaine des tontines africaines en contexte migratoire. To fully understand the importance of tontines, it is necessary to start from one observation: in 2018,...
“The rush to Europe, the young Africa on its way to the old continent”
Presentation of Stephen SMITH’s book, La rée vers l’Europe – La jeune Afrique en route pour le Vieux Continent, published by Editions Grasset, 2018, 270 pages This 17th book by Stephen Smith is no longer that of the journalist he was once in France for Libération and Le Monde, for which he wrote columns on...
Portrait of Dr Denis Mukwege, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner
“THE MAN WHO REPAIRS WOMEN” IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: A LOOK BACK AT THE STRUGGLE OF DR. DENIS MUKWEGE, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2018 In Africa, women are the main victims of armed conflicts since they are, in particular, the targets of rape; in recent decades, many cases of rape have been recorded...
African urbanization: the prospects are overflowing, so are the garbage cans
“Africa in the face of waste management” ephemeral work of art, anonymous, 2010. Among the evils that affect the global ecosystem and from which the African environment is no exception, the overexploitation of resources leading to deforestation, pollution of rivers, air and soil, all accompanied by the rapid and large-scale disappearance of wildlife through the...