Online Workshop: Decolonial Perspectives – Imagining the International Cooperation of Tomorrow

Date and Time: 16.10.2025, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Germany Time)
Location and Registration: Zoom meeting via https://bit.ly/4nwz21A
Language: French with simultaneous translation into English

In the face of multiple social, political, and environmental crises, international cooperation is called to reinvent itself. Too often shaped by top-down logics inherited from colonial and neo-colonial history, it struggles to meet the real needs of the communities involved.

Adopting a decolonial perspective, and in light of the UN Decade of Action for People of African Descent, means rethinking the very foundations of cooperation. It means recognizing the plurality of knowledge, experiences, and worldviews. It means imagining relationships based on equality, reciprocity, and justice to build sustainable and solidaristic futures.

With this theme, we invite you to reflect, exchange, and co-create around a central question: how can international cooperation evolve to include the perspectives and experiences of historically marginalized populations, breaking with colonial continuities?

Register via https://bit.ly/4nwz21A to actively participate, explore these perspectives together, and open new horizons with our Development Policy and Cooperation expert, Dr. Boniface Mabanza Bambu, who brings over thirty years of experience in the field. More details are available on the workshop flyer attached.

This workshop is organized by Black Academy in collaboration with MeineWelt e.V., PLACE e.V., and PLACE for Africa, funded through Mannheim’s municipal action fund aimed at strengthening civil society engagement against right-wing radicalism, anti-Muslim sentiment, antisemitism, and anti-Romani discrimination.

For more information, write us to info@black-academy.org .