And what is more: no African was invited to the conference or made privy to its decisions! Yet we still suffer its consequences! Osei Boateng takes us through the history of the abominable conference.Īt noon on 26 February 2010, anybody with the slightest drop of African blood in him or her should exercise one minute of silence in remembrance of the 125th anniversary of the end of the disreputable Berlin Conference. Held over three months in a snowy Berlin, and attended by 13 European nations and the USA, the conference set the ground rules for the partition of Africa, leading to what Mo Ibrahim now describes as the “unviable states” on the continent. Apart from slavery – both transatlantic and Arab – there is no single event in modern African history whose consequences have been so dire for the continent as the Berlin Conference of 1884-85. The 26th of February, marks the day on which the infamous Berlin Conference that led to the “Scramble for Africa” by European powers concluded after weeks of negotiating their carving up of Africa. We revisit Osei Boateng report of 2010, a year that marked 125 years of the Scramble of Africa. The Berlin Conference that led to the carving up of Africa into 53 countries, marked 133 years today. How the ‘messiah syndrome’ holds back Nigerian development.For Africa, extreme poverty is as urgent as climate change.The mice can influence the battle of the elephants.Africa must not develop new dependencies.Africa can follow its own models of governance.AUF: Promoting education and skills across the French-speaking world.Pascal Lamy: Africa can choose between its partners.Dismantling the fear factory of female oppression.‘We reproach regimes for being corrupt, but we corrupted them ourselves’ – Gérard Chaliand.Can collaborative leadership help bridge Africa’s education divide?.

Why financial literacy for women and youth matters.Fallism and restitution: Removing racist statues and returning looted art objects.The 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020.Voices of African women during the time of Covid.African authors – writing for the world.The overthrow of Gaddafi lit the tinderbox in the Sahel, says Mohamed Ibn Chambas.What lies behind Mozambique’s deadly insurgency?.Nigeria and Africom: The dangers of ceding sovereignty.‘What we have is an “executocracy”, not a democracy’ – Sam Jonah.Showmax – the great African storyteller.Private sector role vital for food security in Africa.Who is to blame for vaccine inequality?.Ethiopia – only African solutions can resolve crisis.Creating the African dream: African youth speaks.Chimamanda Adichie: There are many ways for youth to organise for change.Africa is not getting its fair share of global climate finance.Nigeria: Politics ‘as usual’ is no longer fit for purpose.Nigeria: King Oil is dying, arise Prince Tech.France and Western forces pull out of Mali, leaving a dangerous vacuum.How will Africa’s teams fare in the 2022 World Cup?.The sbe22 berlin D-A-CH conference is a collaborative project together with KIT Karsruhe, TU Graz and ETH Zürich. The conference will address different scales, disciplines and approaches ranging from material and product development, building design, structural engineering, urban and regional planning to innovative manufacturing processes and the design of circular value chains. The conference „Built Environment within Planetary Boundaries“ is to bring together and network the diverse communities of researchers, practitioners and decision makers to critically discuss cutting edge research as well as innovative policies and practice based on the planetary boundaries model. These themes represent key solution areas to address sustainability challenges within the planning and building sectors. socio-political frames for transitions.resource management and material flows.The sbe22 berlin will be hosted by the Institute of Architecture of TU Berlin which will provide a design-oriented, architectural and urban planning entry point to a broad, inter- and transdisciplinary debate on the following themes: Sbe22 berlin as an entry point to global discussions on a local level

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