The Black Academy team would like to draw your attention to this event, where one of our members will be giving a workshop on “Decolonize now! – Young perspectives on Social Change.”

Rethinking Africa 2025: On the Necessity of a Radical Reorientation
Many EU member states, including Germany, have cut their so-called development aid – a global trend: the USA highlighted it publicly with the dismantling of USAID.
In view of strained budgets, geopolitical conflicts, and resurgent nationalisms, “aid” is not only being reduced but also increasingly tied to conditions and instrumentalized. In some affected countries, social security systems are collapsing, especially on the African continent.
At the same time, the question arises: How can this shock be used to build autonomous structures and understand the crisis as an opportunity for new independence processes?
Rethinking Africa 2025 examines which radical steps have already been initiated – and which could still follow.

Program
15:00: Welcome and Introduction
15:10: Lectures

• Geopolitical tensions, trade wars, cuts in development aid: what must Africa do? Prof. Adam Mahomed Habib, South Africa/London
• Liberation from the reactive mode and the necessity of controlling one’s own destiny: on the role of culture, N’Goné Fall, Senegal/Paris
• Liberation of Africa: on the interactions between the 6th Region and the African Union. Dr. Amara Enyia, Nigeria/Chicago

16:10: Panel and plenary discussion
16:40: Break
17:10: Workshops

1. In-depth workshop with N’Goné Fall
2. In-depth workshop with Prof. Adam Mohamed Habib
3. In-depth workshop with Dr. Amara Enyia
4. The Maat Cooperative Africa, Dr. Urbain N’Dakon, Côte d’Ivoire/Fulda
5. Funding project Decoloniality: get to know the criteria, develop your own project idea, and get started! Tzehaie Semere, Eritrea/Frankfurt

18:40: Plenary: Reports and conclusion
19:10: Dinner
20:00: Evening program
20:40: End of the event and informal exchange

Speakers
N’Goné Fall is an architect, was a professor at Senghor University in Egypt, and today works as an independent curator and expert in cultural policy.
Dr. Amara Enyia is president of the transnational lobbying organization Global Black and former Director of Policy and Research of Movement for Black Lives. As a Senior Fellow at the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School and as a strategic advisor, she works for organizations, companies, political campaigns, and public institutions worldwide.
Dr. Urbain N’dakon is a Germanist, musician, and board member of Maat Cooperative Africa – MacoopA eG.
Prof. Adam Mahomed Habib is a professor of political science between South Africa and the UK. He is the author of South Africa’s Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects.

Please download the complete program here.

Registration is not required, and participation is free of charge.