"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
The Benin Plan of Action is no plan of action and does not deal with restitution of the looted Benin bronzes. After 50 years Africans must demand a concrete time frame within which the artefacts are to be returned as a condition for participating in future meetings.
While some in the virtual AIAC office have been putting together their summer lists, I thought I’d keep it real and put up a winter list. (Yes, it’s winter here in South Africa.) If you ever get tired of summer in the Northern hemisphere, this list is for you. While this is by no means a definitive list, all these festivals are worth the travel to get there. Here are my top winter festivals to visit in Southern Africa.
An artist by profession and a philanthropist at heart, Collin Sekajugo is on a mission to change lives. His works reach back to the twin traditions of oil painting and tapestry to produce images that are intensely modern.
29 June-1 July
Africa Energy Forum 2010
Basel, Switzerland
Website: http://www.energynet.co.uk/AEF/index.html
1 July
Beginning of Belgium EU Presidency
Website: http://www.eutrio.be/
31 August-3 September 2009 3rd Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge
Kumasi, Ghana
Organized by Africa First, in association with the Ghana Ministry of Health, World Health Organization, UNAIDS Ghana
Website: www.africa-first.com/index.asp
31 August-4 September 2009 World Climate Conference-3
Geneva, Switzerland
WCC-3 will establish an international framework to guide the development of climate services which will link science-based climate predictions and information with climate-risk management and adaptation to climate variability and change throughout the world.
Website: http://www.wmo.int/wcc3/
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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