At the ANSA conference 2020 in Passau, Julia Renner gave a presentation on the topic “Kenya’s Government Under Pressure: Lockdown Increases Hunger and Unrest”. Here, she summarizes the talk and reflects on her experience of sharing her work during the conference.
What ANSAs do
Consequences of the corona pandemic for German-Kenyan cooperation
Participant report on her talk “Consequences of the corona pandemic for German-Kenyan cooperation using the example of an NGO-supported primary care hospital in Kenya (no intensive care unit)” by Lea Decker.
Bridging Gaps e.V.: Creating Awareness of Racism and Social Inequalities
In this article, ANSA member Nadine Segadlo tells us about her personal learning process regarding racism and colonial history and introduces us to the organisation “Bridging Gaps e.V.”, which has recently published a new brochure.
First Prize Cosmopolitanism?
Teilnehmer-Beitrag zur ANSA-Konferenz 2017 von Ann-Christin Hayk zu chinesischen Spielautomaten in der Peripherie Ghanas
An innovative approach for using ICTs in agriculture
Teilnehmer-Beitrag zur ANSA-Konferenz 2017 von Freddy Noma
Kognitive Entwicklung im ländlichen Kamerun und städtischen Deutschland
Teilnehmer-Beitrag zur ANSA-Konferenz 2017 von Moritz Köster
What Role Can Literature Play in the Anthropocene Age?
Mitgliederforschung Interdisciplinary endeavours under the umbrella term ecocriticism have in the three most recent decades begun to focus on the ways in which cultural and literary texts represent nature. Why has this been missing? Though the catastrophic imprint of human actions on the environment – pollution, ocean acidification or natural resource depletion – is being […]
Waiting for Oil in Uganda
Mitgliederforschung 2006 ushered in an oil-age era in Uganda with new prospects of unforeseen riches. How did Ugandans react to this new wealth and what changes would it bring to the country? I travelled to Uganda in 2012 to research on the social perceptions of changes set off by the discovery of oil. As I […]
Building up German-African partnerships to tackle animal and human diseases
ANSAs at Work Since my study of biology is focused on tropical diseases and parasites, I have been drawn into the African continent south of the Sahara. My first stay was in 2006 at one of Africa’s best universities in Cape Town, South Africa, where I attended lectures and courses on this topic. For my […]
Hochschulgruppe AfroFriends
ANSA Mitgliederprojekt Chancenkontinent Afrika, Zukunftskontinent Afrika. Von diesen beiden Begriffen halten die meisten in Deutschland sehr wenig. Sei es in den Medien, in der Schule, an der Universität oder in den Haushalten, Afrika wird mit Krieg und Armut gleichgesetzt. Ausgehend von einer während eines Workshops selbst erlebten negativen und erniedrigen Darstellung meines Heimatskontinents Afrika habe […]