Events

This documentary tells a story of two Czech development experts in Zambia. For the first time since the release of the film, a discussion with the director, the main actors of the film as well as other experts will follow the screening.

The opening of the exhibition EMIL HOLUB AND THE VICTORIA FALLS will take place on February 10, 2012 at 5.00 p.m at the Regional Museum K.A.Polánek in Žatec.

A new LINGALA course will open on 6 February 2012 at the African Information Centre. Please find the details of the course below. For information about course content and registration, please write to info@humanitasafrika.cz

The first meeting of the Book Club in the new year is scheduled to take place on 2 February 2012 from 7 p.m. at the African Information Centre. The discussion will centre around one of the greatest works of African literature, the novel Things Fall Apart written by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

Humanitas Afrika with the support of the Embassy of South Africa and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Prague cordially invites you to celebrate this important woman and strong advocate for environmental issues in Africa.

The Book Club will this time look at the phenomenon of fair trade. We will consider its positive sides as well as the challenges it faces, looking at who it impacts and how.

In January 2012 we are starting another Swahili course for beginners with a lecturer from Tanzania.

November meeting of the bookclub will focus on Africa after independence.

Lingala is one of the main languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville). It has more than 10 million speakers and it is also spoken in parts of Angola and Central African Republic. Famous Congolese stars like Pépé Kallé, Koffi Olomide have also made it popular through music in other African countries, so you can hear it in the streets of Lagos, Lomé or Nairobi.

Next meeting of the bookclub with the theme Famine: causes and solutions. Possibilities for private sector involvement in humanitarian crises will discuss Alex de Waal's book Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa.

Introduction by Iva Petříčková

Screening of the film Madame Brouette

Dear friends, readers and supporters of the African Information Centre.

The next meeting of the book club where we discuss interesting titles and hot issues, is about to take place. The theme for our next discussion is "Radically new thinking of the way to fight global poverty?"

The book discussed: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011), Authors:  Abhijit Banerjee a Esther Duflo

The discussion is usually in English and the club meeting is open to anybody who is interested in the topic.

On 13 September 2011 we are starting a Swahili course for false beginners with a lecturer from Tanzania.

An informal meeting of the readers, library members and sympathizers! There is no need to read anything before coming as this summer meeting should only encourage you to engage in an informal discussion about what you are focusing on right now. A film about piracy in Somalia will also be screened. Everyone is welcome!

Dear visitors to the African Information Centre.

African Information Centre and the library will be closed in the usual opening hours from 1 July to 19 August due to the holiday season in Czech Republic. However, if you wish to visit us within this period or borrow/return books, you are welcome to do so. Just send an e-mail to info@humanitasafrika.cz to agree with our staff on the date and time.

Thank you for your understanding!

It is now 50 years since the first democratically elected Prime Minister of then Congo-Kinshasa was assassinated, which is by many Africans and non-Africans considered as an act against progressive leadership and development in Afrika. 30 June is also the 51st independence anniversary of now Democractic Republic of Congo.

In celebration of the International Year for People of African Descent, Humanitas Afrika invites you African-Caribbean Evening.

Come to the African library on Saturday.

Don't miss this year's Prague Day for Africa - a cultural and football event in the centre of Prague which is organized by INEX-SDA in collaboration with Humanitas Afrika.

The third meeting of the book club where we discuss some of the most popular titles in our library collection will take place on 2 June 2011 from 6.30 pm. The book to be discussed is Paul Collier, Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (2009). The club is open to everybody interested in the topic.

African Information Centre invites you to a discussion on Cultural dimension of development work. The speaker, a cultural anthropologist Zuzana Hrdličková, will talk on this topic and her own experience with humanitarian and development work in South Asia.

Development projects often have the ambition to change social and cultural conventions. Are they succeeding in it? Are the projects changing the cultures or is the culture changing the projects? How did development work change over the last 50 years and how did the experience of development workers and cultural anthropologists contributed to these changes? How and where are he "right" tdevelopment projects implemented?

Meet African traditions. Taste the rhythm of African music and dance. Try your hands on African art techniques or play typical board games.

Come and enjoy an African afternoon with your children.

Invitation to a screening and discussion with Sebastian Lindström who has lived and worked in West Africa and authored many successful movies dealing with efficiency of development aid and developing countries in general.

Cry Freedom is based on the true story of Steve Biko (Denzel Washington), the charismatic South African Black Consciousness Movement leader, and Donald Woods (Kevin Kline), the liberal white editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper.

Exclusive and rare documentary focuses on the early stages of Ghana’s development shortly before and after the independence, in particular the Akosombo Dam project.

UN Information Center in Prague, Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute of Ethnology of the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University and Humanitas Afrika cordially invite you to a colloquium

50 years of independence in Africa: On the way to development and democracy?

Main speaker:

Cheick Sidi Diarra, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries

On 3 February 2010 we are starting a Swahili course for false beginners with a lecturer from Kenya.

Forum, discussion, film, cultural performance.

The film examines the cultural, economic and environmentalimpact of a transnational gold mining operation on a remotefarming community in northeastern Guinea.

Do you know the story about Kirikou who outsmarts the wickedsorceress Karaba and her army of fetishes?

If not, come to our workshop where you can listen to the story and learn a song about Kirikou. This will be a pottery workshop whereyou can make a small African Christmas present for with help of Patrik from Ivory Coast.

Film director Thomas Allen Harris made this film to pay atribute to his stepfather Benjamin Pule Leinaeing (Lee) andthousands of other South Africans who endured decades ofexile to keep the freedom struggle alive against whitesupremacist apartheid regime.

Africa has always been a continent with vast potential for entrepreneurship. In spite of negative images in the media that largely focus on poverty and conflict and discourage investment, many African countries have been able to attract entrepreneurs from around the world who found new markets there.

If you would like to know more about Africa as a continent of opportunities for entrepreneurship, HST Chamber of Commerce Switzerland - Czech Republic in cooperation with African-Czech NGO Humanitas Afrika, cordially invite you to a seminar and a Fair Trade breakfast.

Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of child soldiers in the continent´s recent civil wars. Ezra is a remarkably complex complex psychological study of a child soldier.

Inpiration from Congolese cuisine. Come and learn some few delicious recipes prepared by Patricia from Congo.

Programme for children: African games (Oware, Ampe)

You are invited to a small picnic with a presentation by Lenka Cerna from Excellent Plzeň s.r.o.

Citizens of Angola struggle to piece themselves back together after the end of the country's thirty year civil war.

Kombi is a poverty-stricken city dominated by a tyrant king. In order to bring back prosperity, the king is advised by his priests to make the traditional human sacrifice.

Tasuma is an utterly charming rumination on French colonialism; and on the role of elders, women, and children in small African communities.

We are opening another course Swahili for beginers with a native speaker from Kenya. Those who are interested to learn the basics of one of the major African languages can request further information and application form by writing to info@humanitasafrika.cz

Humanitas Afrika, in colaboration with the French Institute, cordially invites you to a screening of African films for and about children..

Arlit is a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger.

Art workshop for kids inspired by the cartoon hero Kifikou.

Lecture and screening of a documentary about the life and visions of the charismatic army captain who came to power in Burkina Faso in 1983.

This Saturday afternoon will be devoted to Mali culture. Come and enjoy the drumming, balafon and kabaruperformance, a Malian film and the delicious Malian food.

You can also buy handmade products from Mali at the event.

Organized in collaboration with African Culture & Art

Entrance free

Monday's Girls (1993, 50 min) The documentary provides a look at tradition in today's changing Africa. It examines the Iria, a women's initiation ceremony of the Niger River delta, through the contrasting viewpoints of two young women with different educational background and attitude towards tradition.

Entrance free (with English subtitles)

Art workshop for kids with screening of a cartoon introducedby a lecturer from Kongo.

DR Congo is one of the richest countries in Africa in terms of natural resources. The Congolese people endured brutal colonial rule under King Leopold's Belgium;  following the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first post-independence democratically elected leader in 1960's, Congo was plunged into an era of generation-long suffering under Mobutu dictatorship, and is now troubled by the unstable situation in the Eastern part of the country. To understand what has been happening in DR Congo in the recent decades, it is necessary to know the history of the problems.

Promítání filmu režisérky Apolline Traore z Burkiny Faso, který je převyprávěním pověsti o trpasličí ženě.

Přijďte k nám strávit příjemné odpoledne plné her, vyprávění a afrických pochoutek. Workshop pro děti od 5 do 12 let povede Eli Lusaku.

Autor dokumentu se vrací po deseti letech studia v Evropě do své rodné vesnice v severním Beninu, aby poctil památku svého otce, významného člena kmene Borgu. V průběhu natáčení však začne objevovat pro něho dříve neviditelný svět jemu blízkých žen - matky a sester.

Tři krátké příběhy z Tanzánie, Nigérie a Etiopie nabízí kritický pohled na vztahy otců a jejich dětí v dnešní africké společnosti.

„Srdce Afriky", „země medu a mléka", „dvojče Rwandy" – tak bývá přezdíváno Burundi, malé zemi nacházející se ve středu afrického kontinentu, která v současnosti hledá cestu z dlouholetého etnického konfliktu.

Promítání dokumentu nigerijského filmaře o tom, jak digitální technologie ovlivňují každodenní život a kulturu v Africe a zda mohou sloužit rozvoji globálního jihu obecně.

Film natočený na Jamajce vypraví příběh chlapce, který přichází do města hledat bohactví a slávu v reggae, postupně je však donucen zvolit drsnou cestu a stát se gangstrem. Film je klasikou reggae kultury a hlavní roli v něm obsadila žijící legenda reggae - zpěvák Jimmy Cliff. 

Režie: Perry Henzell, trvani: 103min

Vstup volný

Chystáte se cestovat do Afriky? Fascinují Vás lidé jiných kultur a chcete se s nimi dorozumět? Hledáte v Africe pracovní příležitost nebo se chcete stát dobrovolníkem? Od 3. září otevíráme nový kurz svahilštiny pro začátečníky.

Již po čtvrté se v malebném parku Podviní v devátém pražském obvodu bude konat festival Etnofest, na kterém se představí cizinci i menšiny žijící mezi námi. Kromě programu plného muziky, tanečních vystoupení, divadla i módních přehlídek láká i bohatý doprovodný program a celofestivalová hra pro děti i rodiče.