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Movie Talk: "The Empty Grave" with ACT director Andreas Mehler (23.05.2024)

In a film talk at the Kommunales Kino, Andreas Mehler will share his expertise on coming to terms with German colonial crimes on the current film of the month "The Empty Tomb". The event takes place in cooperation with the ABI, freiburg-postkolonial and iz3w. The film will be shown in the original version in Swahili, German and English with German subtitles. Photo: Salzgeber

ACT Annual Report 2023 available (April 2024)

The Annual Report 2023 provides an overview of ACT's activities, is published once a year in retrospect and is available on the website!

Workshop Report: East African Citizenshop in Times of Change (22./29.04.2024)

The two-day workshop, organized by the ACT, ABI and ZASB, brought together reflections on citizenship in times of change from different disciplines and with different emphases. The report is now available!

Scientific talk: 'Agroforestry as Climate Change Adaptation: Experiences from the Ghanaian Cocoa Sector’ (08.05.2024)

Scientific lecture by Dr Bismark Kwesi Asitoakor from the CSIR Research Institute for Plant Genetic Resources, Ghana, on the topic "Agroforestry as an adaptation to climate change: Experiences from the Ghanaian cocoa sector". Jointly organised by the ACT and the Chair of Geography of Global Change.

Recording available: Germany and Africa - Quo Vadis?

On 18.04.2024, Ambassador Christoph Retzlaff and Prof. Dr. Alexander Makulilo spoke about the future of German-African relations. A recording of the Freiburg Africa Talk is now available on the University of Freiburg's video portal.

New Video: "Mortui Vivos Docent"

As part of the project funded by Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste on reciprocal research into the Alexander Ecker Collection, a new video with Prof. Dr. Albert Gouaffo has been produced and is available both in the project media library and on the University of Freiburg's video portal.

ASA project "Decolonise Universities" successfully completed (6 February 2024)

How is knowledge production at universities still colonised today? In the project "Decolonize Universities: Participating in approaches to the decolonisation of knowledge production", four students looked at the process of decolonisation at two universities, the University of Ghana and the University of Freiburg.