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The Courier: Issue Nº XXIV (N.S.) - September/October 2011

The Courier: Issue Nº XXIV (N.S.) - September/October 2011

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Table of content

Editorial

The index finger and the road ahead

Opener

Jacques Delors, a pragmatic visionary
An architect of the ACP - Profile of Sir Shridath Ramphal

To the point

United Kingdom overhauls its development spending - Interview with Stephen O’Brien, the UK’s Under-Secretary for International Development

Round up

Liberia is doing well – on the outside
Pan-African University on track
Ken Ndiaye and L’Horloge du Sud, Brussels - Putting a swing into the diaspora
Point of view article by courtesy of editorial committee "Africa-EU partnership" - A Sound Framework for African Agriculture
The poorest nations are forgotten by the MDGs
Birth of the 54th African nation
South Africa vies to site world’s largest radio telescope
African body plays a leading role in capacity-building
EU Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps is piloted
ACP winners of ‘Drawing a better world’

Dossier

ACP-bound tourism buoyant - More scope for cooperation with EU in fast-growing sector
“Africa is a tourism success Story” - Interview with Taleb Rifai, Secretary General of the World Tourism Organisation
More visitors spending less in Caribbean
West Africa moves up rankings
EU project to boost Pacific’s tourism - The region seeks to fulfil its potential

Civil Society

Giving help and hope to children in need

Our Planet

East Africa, a geothermal showcase

Discovering Europe

Iceland, where unpredictability has been elevated to a way of life
From the Althingi to the European Parliament
Ethics and finance
Next objective, Europe
Targeted and effective cooperation
Literary Reykjavik
Lava in its veins
From the Althingi to the European Parliament

Trade

EIB and ACP - New dynamic for financing SMEs

Zoom

Zinkpè, the Beninese artist - The mirror to the soul

Report

Nigeria: Waiting to join the ranks of emerging nations
History - The fault line between the tribes of North and South, and Islam and Christianity
Nigeria. Development goals within reach
Nothing less than helping Nigeria to become… a world power - Interview with David Macrae, EU Ambassador
EU Aid to Nigeria - Combatting poor governance to unleash a vast potential
Permanent ministerial dialogue between Nigeria and EU
Opposition critics - Anti-system rather than anti-Head of State
Nigerian NGOs: more pragmatic and less critical
Femi Kuti: Afrobeat’s undisputed heir
Nigerian ingenuity fuels Nollywood’s surge
Nollywood - the new film empire - documented
Buzzing Abuja
Caribbean diaspora
NIDO: Nigeria’s flagship Diaspora platform

Interaction

Africa-EU Strategy meeting homes in on democracy and economic growth
Proposal for a new global agricultural policy
ACP and EU Ministers talk migration, trade and South Sudan

Creativity

Musa. A Sudanese art icon
Couleur Café 2011 Brussels’ musical cocktail
'SFINKS Mixed' festival - The shared discovery of music
Fetish Modernity
African Films Available on Demand
MobiCINE: A New Initiative for the Distribution of African Cinema
Death and Fertility: Haiti’s First Appearance in Italy
Dismantling the concepts of fetish and of modernity