Literature
Addis Ababa What's on
16 February 2011. This lecture is conducted by Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl, director of the Frobenius-Institut in Frankfurt, Germany, who presents the work of his institution, regarded as one of the lea...
Addis Ababa What's on
Lecture on Development and Cooperation in Ethiopia
23 February 2011. This panel discussion conducted in English is part of the series What is Zeminawinet? Perspectives on Ethiopian Modernity, organized by Addis Ababa University, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftu...
Cairo What's on
Lecture by American Human Rights Activist Aryeh Neier
24 January 2011. This lecture entitled What has the Human Rights Movement Accomplished? is by Aryeh Neier, founder and executive director of Human Rights Watch who is also president of the Open Societ...
Cairo What's on
Finance Lecture by Eskandar Tooma
13 December 2010. The associate professor in the department of management of the American University of Cairo and director of Citadel Capital Financial Services Center, Eskandar Tooma, will hold a lec...
Cairo What's on
Lecture on Acting by Mahmoud El Lozy
28 November 2010. The American University of Cairo hosts Mahmoud El Lozy, playwright, director and professor in the department of performing and visual arts, who will hold a lecture in Arabic on Actin...
Addis Ababa What's on
Lecture Series on the Roles of Women in Ethiopia
27 October 2010. This series of lectures in English held by Dr. Yonas Admassu, Professor of Ethiopian Literature, is entitled Perspectives on the Changing Roles of Women in Ethiopia. This event, which...
Nairobi What's on
Literature Forum at Goethe Institute
30 October, 27 November, 25 December 2010. This female literature forum, organized in collaboration with AMKA
Addis Ababa What's on
25-29 October 2010. This project, entitled Let Addis Read and organised by Adama, Awassa, Bahir Dar, Dire Dawa und Mekelle, is in its third edition. German literature is read and discussed in Amharic...
Cairo What's on
Lecture on Identity, Imagined Communities, and Language Learning
4 October 2010. This lecture on will be held by visiting Professor Bonny Norton, at the department of language and literacy education of the university of British Columbia.
Norton talks about her aw...
Accra What's on
7-8 October 2010. Goethe Institute in collaboration with different Ghanaian partners and media institutions organizes public reading sessions with local and international celebrities. This initiative...
Accra What's on
Development and Cultural Activities seminar at the Alliance Francaise
2-4 June 2010. This seminar includes round table discussions between Ghanaian, German and French experts on the state of development plans for public spaces around Accra and the future development of...
Nairobi What's on
Kenya resident association talk
26 April 2010. The Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations (KARA) welcomes Margit Hellwig-Boette, the German ambassador to Kenya, and Eugene Wamalwa, member of parliament for Saboti constituency, for...
Addis Ababa What's on
Jean-Loic Le Quellec on African rock art
14 April 2010. Jean-Loic Le Quellec, prehistorian, anthropologist, ethnologist and research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), gives an overview of rupestrian art in Afric...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
22 April 2010. International School of Tanganyika counsellor Marine de Labriolle gives a presentation on the impact on expatriate couples of living abroad.
Originally from France, de Labriolle has...
Cairo What's on
6 April 2010. Salima Ikram, professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and a leading scholar in Egyptian funerary archaeology, gives a lecture entitled Life Away from the Nile:...
Nairobi What's on
24 Feb 2010. Dr Richard Leakey gives the inaugural lecture in a series to mark the 40th anniversary of The Kenya Museum Society. The title of the lecture is The Leakey Family Story.
The Leakeys ar...
Cairo What's on
Head of League of Arab States Amre Moussa at AUC.
21 Feb 2010. This year the annual Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Amre Moussa, secretary-general of the League of Arab States and former minister of foreign affairs of the Arab Repu...
Accra What's on
9-23 Feb 2010. The Nkrumah Centenary Celebration Committee and the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture present a series of lectures and roundtable discussions on Black History. The...
Cairo What's on
Lecture by translator Humphrey Davies at AUC.
8 Feb 2010. The Centre for Translation Studies hosts a lecture on translation by the award-winning Arabic-English translator Humphrey Davies.
Davies has worked in Egypt, Palestine, Sudan and Tunisia...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Horticulture conference by Remi Kahane
4 Feb 2010. Remi Kahane, executive secretary of the Global Horticulture Initiative (GlobalHort) in Arusha, attempts to answer the question
