Africa

Conference: Africa and Europe - Cooperation in a Globalised World

In September the IGP hosted an international conference of the Scribani - European Jesuit Network on the subject of ‘Africa and Europe. Cooperation in a globalised world’. It took place in the Munich School of Philosophy S.J., September 6 - 8, 2006.

As the Society of Jesus has made Africa one of its top priorities, the conference's aims were twofold: a) an analysis of the current relationship between Africa and Europe and b) giving Africans themselves the opportunity to voice their concerns in order to inspire Jesuit action towards Africa. The conference was open to the general public, was attended by more than 150 participants, among them Jesuits from both Africa and Europe, politicians, academics and members of civil society, and - according to the Scribani-Network's evaluation afterwards - was a rather successful, inspiring and forward-looking gathering.

• The conference proceedings were published in 2007: »Africa and Europe. Cooperation in a globalised world« (here you can get information about this book).
• A Changing Africa. Essay by William Chislett on "A Changing Africa. A Socio-Political Analysis" (download here)