{"id":983,"date":"2007-11-04T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-archive\/983"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:53","slug":"forum-for-african-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Forum for African Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linked with <a href=\"http:\/\/word.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/1670\">Demba Moussa Dembele &#8211; Senegal<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/916\">What Is Development Ethics<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/917\">People&rsquo;s Strugles, People&rsquo;s Alternatives<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/911\">EUROPE SELF-SERVING<\/a> IN TRADE TALKS WITH AFRICA, with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/910\">Millennium Development Goals and debt cancellation<\/a>, and with the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/798\">Jubilee South Network JS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum is dedicated to challenging the neo-liberal agenda in Africa and to proposing alternative policies. We have been involved in these activities for a long time. Almost three years ago, in December 2000, we organized a conference on debt cancelation in Senegal. I was the co-ordinator of that conference. That conference organized a big march in Dakar in which over five thousand people participated. Since then we have had other marches in Africa &#8211; in Nigeria, in Ghana. In South Africa a few weeks ago, during the World Summit on Sustainable Development,we organized a big march that overshadowed the official march sponsored by the government &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200210010002.html\">full text<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>There is no website, but Google search shows many items with the key words &lsquo;African Alternatives&rsquo;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Books about &lsquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_b\/105-9858842-5023659?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&#038;field-keywords=African+Alternatives&#038;x=25&#038;y=23\">African Alternatives<\/a>&lsquo; on amazon;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifaanet.org\/\">Institute for African Alternatives<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roape.org\/cgi-bin\/roape\/show\/7917.html\">East African Alternatives<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>AEGIS European <a href=\"http:\/\/ecas2007.aegis-eu.org\/\">Conference on African Studies<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural Biotechnology Reconsidered: <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_qa4106\/is_200612\/ai_n19197937\">Western Narratives and African Alternatives<\/a>, African Studies Review, Dec 2006;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaworldpressbooks.com\/servlet\/Detail?no=170\">Same on AWP<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socanth.cam.ac.uk\/research\/researchProjects.html\">Research projects in the Department of Social Anthropology<\/a>, Univ. Cambridge, August 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?hl=en&#038;q=African+Alternatives&#038;btnG=Google+Search&#038;meta=\">this Google&rsquo;s search<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linked with Demba Moussa Dembele &#8211; Senegal, with What Is Development Ethics, with People&rsquo;s Strugles, People&rsquo;s Alternatives, with EUROPE SELF-SERVING IN TRADE TALKS WITH AFRICA, with Millennium Development Goals and debt cancellation, and with the Jubilee South Network JS. The Forum is dedicated to challenging the neo-liberal agenda in Africa and to proposing alternative policies. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=983\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Forum for African Alternatives&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}