The Collective for the Renewal of Africa (CORA) hosts conversation series to commemorate its launch

CORA is a Pan-African intellectual collective of over 100 writers, social scientists, natural scientists historians, medical doctors and artists from across Africa and the diaspora. CORA seeks to promote African knowledge and innovative thinking through the production of quality research, and to influence positive change within African nations and in service of African societies.

From 12-17 April 2021, the collective will host a launch series of insightful and stimulating conversations. These conversations are an inter-generational and interdisciplinary dialogue amongst intellectuals and thought leaders including: Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter, Boubacar Boris Diop; Biodiversity scientist and 6th President of Mauritius, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim; Former First Lady of the Malian Republic, historian and writer, Adame Ba Konaré; Kenyan writer and academic, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o; Tanzanian author and academic, Issa Shivji; Professor of political science, Scarlett Cornelissen; President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Fadhel Kaboub; Professor emeritus in the Africana Studies Center Theophile Obenga; Author of the African Pharmacopoeia, Raphael Eklu-Natey; and many others.

See details and registration at CORA CONFERENCES.

A l’heure où l’humanité entière est en train de réaliser ses limites et son extrême fragilité face à la pandémie du COVID-19, l’on aurait pu s’attendre à plus d’humilité de la part des spécialistes du mensonge international.

L’affront lancé au monde par cette pandémie doit nous inciter à opérer des changements substantiels de paradigme et du mode de société que nous voulons. Au contraire, c’est avec stupéfaction que les dirigeants du monde dominant se sont illustrés par une valse de déclarations cacophoniques et tonitruantes au sujet de la Dette africaine destinées à «aider» l’Afrique à faire face au ravage annoncé du COVID-19, en appelant, tantôt à l’annulation des intérêts de la Dette, tantôt à une annulation massive de la Dette ou pour d’autres à un moratoire sur les remboursements en cours.

Lire le communiqué entier Annulation de la Dette africaine ou la fable du pompier-pyromane

A source of fundamental references of our Bandung Spirit-based Academic, Social and Solidarity Movements, SAMIR AMIN, has just left us "physically" on August 12, 2018 - "physically" because his numerous works continue to guide us "intellectually" in our movements. He was involved in our movements since the setting-up of Bandung Spirit Network in 2005. See my article "Towards a Bandung spirit-based civil society movement: reflection from Yogyakarta commemoration of Bandung Asian-African Conference" (Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 7, Number 1, 2006). He gave an outstanding contribution to our conference "BANDUNG 60 YEARS ON: WHAT ASSESSMENT?" (The University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, June 27, 2014). His article "From Bandung (1955) to 2015 ; Old and new challenges for the States, the Nations and the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America" helped us in framing our commemorative conference "BUILDING SOVEREIGNTY, PREVENTING HEGEMONY: The Challenges for Emerging Forces in the Globalised World" (Jakarta-Bandung-Jakarta, October 27-31, 2015). Here are some tributes written by two members of Bandung+60 Scientific Board, Ama Biney and Ebrima Sall (Darwis Khudori, Paris, August 17, 2018).