Higher Education and Handicap
Rouen Business School welcomes and accompanies
students with any degree of handicap throughout the duration of their studies.
For more information, please
contact Daniele Pederzoli who is dedicated to helping and advising students with handicap daniele.pederzoli@rouenbs.fr
Africa, fifty years of independence: the beginnings of a revival
Thursday October 21 at 17h30
Words&Debates Conference “DesMots&Débats”, Vaudour amphitheatre
Avec Achille Mbembe, Cameroon political scientist and professor of political science at Duke University, United States.
Professor of history and political science at Duke University in North Carolina, Achille Mbembe is internationally renowned for his research on the political fancies of postcolonial African societies. Struck by the major issues, with which contemporary Africa is faced, in his latest work “Leaving the dark night – Essay on decolonized Africa” (Sortir de la grande nuit - Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée), Achille Mbembe gives an analysis of postcolonial African societies. He turns his back on Afro-pessimism incarnated by president Sarkozy’s speech in Dakar in July 2007. Achille Mbembe specifies that “Africa needs to look at what’s new, to get moving and accomplish, for the first time, what has never been possible before. She needs to do it with the knowledge that she’s opening a new era for herself and for humanity”. We have invited professor Mbembe to talk to us about this budding new world.
