AN OVERVIEW OF THE EVENT: SHAPING A NEW AFRICA
Online debate for youth in Africa and The Netherlands
Seven topics, seven weeks, seven opportunities to influence Dutch policy on
Africa.
November 5th - December 19th 2003
Join our African debate at www.baobabconnections.org
Do you know that the Dutch government takes decisions that directly affect
Africa? Most of the time we only hear one side of the story. Not anymore!
Get in touch with Baobabconnections and find out what young people in
Africa
and The Netherlands think about the Dutch policy towards Africa. Do you
agree with them?
JOIN OUR ONLINE DEBATE
Baobabconnections invites you to take part in an online debate on the New
Dutch Africa Memorandum. Starting on November 5th 2003, we will host an
International forum on our website where youth from Africa and The
Netherlands will share ideas and opinions on seven different topics,
concerning the Dutch Africa policy. Every week for a period of seven weeks
we will launch a new topic on our website and we invite everybody to take
part in our online discussion. The most creative and innovative responses
will be discussed with the Minister of Development Cooperation at the
Africa
Conference in April 2004.
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
Africa is in the process of reshaping itself, refinding and expressing its
strength. Africa is exploring the road towards African unity, preparing
itself for a stronger global political presence.
At the same time the current Dutch political debate on development in
Africa
is increasingly dominated by gloom and doom. The image people have of
Africa
is one of starvation, poverty and HIV/Aids. Many Dutch people can only
think
that government policies and development efforts have failed completely in
Africa.
These two viewpoints are rather conflicting and stress the need to have
African and Dutch people share their views. "Shaping a new Africa" wants to
establish such a dialogue and stimulate an open-minded debate on
alternative
policies towards Africa.
Finally, through the use of the Internet, Africans can have a say in
policies that directly influence The Continent. So it is time to let your
voice be heard and take part in this dialogue.
We need to do this together!
ABOUT BAOBABCONNECTIONS
Baobabconnections is a website on globalization where young people from
Africa and The Netherlands meet each other and share ideas. Currently we
have over a thousand members in 80 countries and our online community is a
truly global network. Baobabconnections organizes this online debate in
cooperation with NCDO, the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA)
and SAHAN Consultancy.
www.baobabconnections.org
yehudi@baobabconnections.org
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