German Africa Prize
The German Africa Prize has been awarded annually since 1993 by the German Africa Foundation eV for the promotion of peace, democracy, the social market economy and human rights. In addition to the actual funding goal, the German Africa Prize is intended to contribute to understanding Africa and to engaging with Africa in Germany.
Price categories
The main prize honors outstanding personalities from Africa who have made a contribution to peace, democracy, human rights or sustainable development.
In addition, the German Africa Prize will be awarded
- as an honorary award for German personalities who have made a contribution to Africa
- as an award for special Africa-related journalism
- as a sponsorship award for African and non-African scientists whose diploma theses, master's theses, dissertations and habilitations are particularly suitable for promoting the development of science, culture, democracy or the social market economy in Africa.
Award criteria
The award is announced through an annual invitation to tender - with the involvement of the German diplomatic missions and possibly the foreign representatives of the sponsors. The decision on the award winners is made by an independent jury, which, in addition to members of the Deutsche Afrika-Stiftung eV, includes representatives of the Federal Foreign Office , the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce , the German Society for Foreign Policy , the Science Foundation and Politics and belonging to Deutsche Welle. In addition, other jury members can be named by the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau , the Afrika-Verein eV and other German political foundations. Claus Stäcker, Head of the Africa Programs at Deutsche Welle, has been President of the jury since 2019.
Award winners
- 1993: Maîte Yawovi Agboyibo (Togo)
- 1994: Derek Keys and Trevor Manuel (South Africa)
- 1995: Peter A ´Nyong´o (Kenya)
- 1995: Brazão Mzula (Mozambique)
- 1996: Elizabeth Kayissan Pognon (Benin)
- 1997: Maître Blondin Beye (Mali)
- 1998: Sir Ketumile Quett Masire (Botswana)
- 1999: Waris Dirie (Somalia)
- 2001: Chenjerai Hove (Zimbabwe)
- 2002: Olara A. Otunnu (Uganda)
- 2003: Alpha Omar Konaré (Mali)
- 2004: John Githongo (Kenya)
- 2005: Paul Fokam (Cameroon)
- 2006: Segolame L. Ramotlhwa (Botswana)
- 2007: Francis Appiah (Ghana)
- 2008: Trevor Ncube (Zimbabwe)
- 2009: Christiana Thorpe (Sierra Leone)
- 2010: Mohamed Ibn Chambas (Ghana)
- 2011: Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed (Kenya)
- 2012: Marlene Le Roux and Pieter-Dirk Uys (South Africa)
- 2013: Muhammad Ashafa and James Wuye (Nigeria)
- 2014: Abdel Kader Haidara (Mali)
- 2015: Houcine Abassi (Tunisia)
- 2016: Thuli Madonsela (South Africa)
- 2017: Nicholas Opiyo (Uganda)
- 2018: Gerald Bigurube (Tanzania) and Clovis Razafimalala (Madagascar)
- 2019: Juliana Rotich (Kenya)
Sponsorship award
- 2002: Mirka Dreger (on Benin)
- 2008: Walter Bruchhausen (on Tanzania)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German Africa Prize . In: Africa Post . No. 4 , 2002, p. 7 .
- ^ Walter Bruchhausen: Tanzania: Medical Practice in the Diversity of Cultures. "Medicine Between Worlds" . In: Africa post . No. 4 , 2008, p. 72 .
- ↑ Recognize the new Africa. Greetings from Federal President Horst Köhler at the ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the German Africa Foundation on December 4, 2008 in Berlin, p. 2