Perspectives 1/2016: Rights and Resources Building Community Voice in the Mining Sector Published: April 2016 With this edition of Perspectives, the Heinrich Böll Foundation explores some of the approaches and instruments that communities and their NGO partners have developed to create room for community-centred stakeholder participation, and to champion community interests and rights.
Perspectives 02/2015: Bodies, Morals and Politics Reflections on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa Published: November 2015 Despite the formal commitment of many African states to universal human rights, the realisation of those rights remains unfulfilled for a great number of their citizens, especially women. Reflections on sexual and reproductive rights in Africa.
Perspectives Africa: #Game-Changer How is new media changing political participation in Africa? Published: July 2015 Political discourse and action is coordinated more and more through Twitter, Facebook and Whatsapp. This edition of Perspectives Africa capture the complex and plural ways in which Africans are attempting to use new media to democratice democracy on the continent, the challenges they face, and the valuable lessons learned.
Perspectives 03/2014: What Ya Looking At? Africa Returns the Gaze Published: November 2014 For this edition of Perspectives the Heinrich Böll Foundation asked a number of African intellectuals, writers and analysts to provide their take on Africa’s relationship with Europe. The result is a small collection of interviews, short essays and comments that throw light on the complexities and complexes of this relationship, using analysis, imagery, experience, provocation and humour.
Perspectives 2/2014: Greening the Continent Reflections on Low Carbon Development Pathways Published: September 2014 For this edition of Perspectives, the Heinrich Böll Foundation offered Africa-based thinkers and commentators an opportunity to critically reflect on what a “transition towards sustainability” means or should mean for the region. The articles gathered here go beyond ideological debates to also provide some case studies where green-economy principles have been applied.
Perspectives Africa: Africa Rising - Who Benefits from the Continent's Economic Growth? Published: February 2014 With this edition of Perspectives, we give Africa-based commentators and experts from across the continent the opportunity to critically reflect on the “Africa rising” story and the sub-narratives it carries.
Perspectives Africa: Women, Custom and Access to Justice Published: December 2013 While legal entitlements to equality and justice for women have been achieved over the years, a persistent gender-bias in the administration of justice prevents those hard-won successes from becoming a reality. This issue of Perspectives provides insight into some country-specific challenges and controversies.
Perspectives Africa: Women and Land Rights - Questions of Access, Ownership and Control Published: September 2013 Women's land rights remain one of the most important sites of contestation in post-colonial Africa. Yet access, control and ownership of land still remain in the possession of the patriarchal structures.
Perspectives Africa: Movers and Shakers? Youth and Political Change in Africa Published: May 2013 Africa is the world’s youngest continent, with people under the age of 35 constituting about 65 percent of the population. This edition of Perspectives sheds light on youth politics and youth in politics in the continent and asks: Are the youth a political force?