Nordic Africa Institute

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The Nordic Africa Institute (Swedish Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ) at Uppsala University in Sweden is a research institute that also serves as a documentation and information center for Africa today in the Nordic countries . It was founded in 1962 by the Swedish sociologist Carl Gösta Widstrand at Uppsala University.

Nordiska Afrikainstitutet is funded by the Nordic countries and is administratively a Swedish government agency subordinate to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

The institute is a member of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS), which comprises 28 scientific institutes from the member states of the European Union from Barcelona to Vienna . Since 2005, AEGIS has held international conferences every two years on topics related to Africa today. The sixth took place in Lisbon in 2013 .

Iina Soiri headed the institute from March 2013 to June 2019.

Publications

  • Carl Gösta Widstrand: African Boundary Problems. Almqvist & Wicksells, Stockholm 1969.
  • Mai Palmberg, Ranka Primorac: Discussion Paper 30: Skinning the Skunk-Facing Zimbabwean Futures. Uppsala 2005, ISBN 91-7106-552-0 .
  • Fay King Chung: Re-living the Second Chimurenga. Memories from the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggles . Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 91-7106-551-2 .
  • Anita Theorell: Afrika har ordet , Biographies (Swedish), Uppsala 2010, ISBN 978-91-7106-673-2 .
  • Prosper B. Matandi et al. (Ed.): Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa . Zed Books, London / New York City 2011, ISBN 978-1-848138797 .
  • Margaret C. Lee: Africa's World Trade: Informal Economies and Globalization from Below . Africa Now series, Zed Books, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-78032-350-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katarina Sjöberg, David Wästerfors: Utrikes namnbok: Svenska myndigheter, organizers, titlar, EU-organ and countries på engelska, tyska, franska, spanska, finska och ryska. , 10th revised Edition, Stockholm 2015, Utrikesdepartementet (Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Keyword: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , p. 25.