"Good evening and welcome in the Heinrich Boell Foundation for the public discussion
AfriqUPrising – Protest- and democracy movements in Africa, a cooperation between the Heinrich
Boell Foundation and the Deutsche Welle.
My name is Claudia Simons and I work in the Africa department of the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
It is good to see so many familiar faces here tonight.
We are having this event at a time when Africa figures quite prominent in the German news:
we hear about "Marshall Plans" and "Compacts with Africa", the potential for economic
growth and investment.
In a nutshell, the idea of Africa rising has definitely reached Germany this year.
However, the event is also taking place at a time when many people in African countries
are taking to the streets to protest against their governments.
Just a few days ago, you might have heard it in the news, 17 people of La LUCHA, a movement
that is protesting against president Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo, were
arrested.
Examples like these are many.
We had massive protests in Burundi the last years.
We just showed some pictures by Teddy Mazina, a photojournalist who documented the protests
in Burundi in 2015 and who is here tonight.
We had protests in Ethiopia last year, in the Republic of Congo in 2016 and the Democratic
Republic of Congo since 2016, which are still ongoing.
Just to name a few.
So parallel to the discourse on "Africa rising" we actually see "Africa Uprising".
We do hear about these protests however, mostly when they become violent, when police is clamping
down on the demonstrations, when people get arrested or tortured.
But who are these people protesting?
What are they doing?
What are the visions and how do they organize themselves?
What are their plans and what are the obstacles they are facing?
Who are the people that take to the streets, that blog, twitter, and make their voices
heard in manifold ways and who are not afraid of the
police and state violence?
This is why we are here tonight.
I am very happy to you Dr. Dirke Köpp who will lead us through the evening.
Dirke Köpp is the head of the French for Africa Programme at the Deutsche Welle.
Welcome Dirke, the floor is yours" I will start in German, but the discussion
later on will be in English.
As Claudia Simons just introduced me, my name is Dirke Köpp and I am the head of Deutsche
Welle's French for Africa service.
We produce many radio programmes, but also social media, internet and meanwhile even
TV production.
Have a look at our website if you like.
Today we want to talk about something else.
Please let me briefly tell you what can be expected from our event tonight.
First we will watch a short film that was produced for this evening and will premiere
tonight.
It is a short film about the various protests on the African continent in the last view
years.
Of course we can only show some examples and the film raises no claim to completeness.
We picked those protest with the "best pictures".
Because in fact, this is often the biggest problem for media in the international context:
Often there are no pictures of what you want to report about.
After we watched the film, I will welcome the panel and shortly introduce everybody.
We will then discuss for approximately one hour or one and a half hour on the panel.
After that you in the audience are of course welcome to join in the discussion and ask
your questions.
If you wish not only to the panelists, which sat here, but also to the other activists
in the audience, which I want to introduce to you at the end of the panel-discussion.
They all took part in a workshop today and tomorrow
that was organized by the Deutsche Welle and the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
Now let us watch the film first
The protests differ from country to country and from context to context.
The reasons for the protests are many.
The one thing in common is that the people had enough of their life
We will talk about the reasons later on.
I just wanted to mention, that today is a very special day in regard to protests.
Two years ago to the day the protests in Burundi started.
Two years ago to yesterday the president of Burundi announced that he
will run for a third term in office.
Many people saw
that as unconstitutional and the protests began.
Unfortunately the president
still
is in power.
There are 400.000 refugees, of which many went to exile.
Many many who died during or after the protests, which
is sad and we are going to talk about that today with one of the panelists
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