Another Kool Thing: Partnerschaft mit Afrika

In November 2006 and January 2007 I was part of a multi-sectorial group of "young leaders" who were to advice the governments of Ger many and African countries on increasing cooperation around specific areas. The programme was called Partnership With Africa and was organised by the office of the President fo Germany. These pictures are from the pre-conference in Wittenberg, Germany.

The delegates were about 25 young leaders from 22 African countries and about 25 young leaders from Germany. I was in the working group discussing Education and Wmployment Opportunities.

There were also 3 other groups discussing Violence in everyday life and Armed Conflict , Environment and the Natural Habitat and Youth Political Participation in Society .

Our task in Wittenberg was to deliberate on these issues in small groups focusing on what the issues were in each area, suggestion of solutions particularly ones that would involve Africa and Germany cooperating. The output for each group was a paper outlining the above which was fed to the Presidents and influential people who were at the follow up conference in Ghana in January 2007.

On the whole, it was a kool event and the location added to the good ambience besides ofcourse, the high quality of the participants. The bulk of the events happened at the University in Wittenberg where the reformer Martin Luther lectured. Actually, that's an image of him in the background. This was taken in the Martin Luther Hall which had been his former house. In the hall we had a conversation with the President of Germany and an official lunch.



Afterwards, we went to Berlin where we toured the parliament building and had some chat with 2 member of parliament before getting to the dance floor at the GTZ offices.

The Martin Luther Hall

Group portrait with the German President (what was I talking about)

More pictures from the event can be found here