In October 2022, a second edition of the Conference was held in Dakar, Senegal, bringing together scholars, policy-makers and activists from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America to seek alternatives to the global crises .
Participants of the Conference endorsed a new declaration emphasizing the critical role of solidarity with workers, the landless, peasants, women, climate activists and similar groups around the world.
Read the Dakar Declaration and help us promote itProspects for an economically sovereign Africa, Caroline Cornier
You can find below the synthesis of the Dakar Conference (October 2022) on African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty. The report was written by our colleague Caroline Cornier, PhD student, whom we thank a lot.
You cand find it in English, German, or French.
Read the report in EnglishEconomic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa traces the recent history of African monetary and financial dependencies, looking at the ways African nations are resisting colonial legacies. Using a comparative, multi-disciplinary approach, this book uncovers what went wrong after the Pan-African approaches that defined the early stages of independence, and how most African economies fell into the firm grip of the IMF, World Bank, and the EU’s strict neoliberal policies.
Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar, Senegal
Delinking and the Question of
Global Reparations
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