Video and audio on Africa research

Many lectures, seminars and other program activities of the Nordic Africa Institute are recorded on video. This web page holds video and audio files from selected lectures and seminars arranged by the NAI, and other videos associated with research at the Institute.

VIDEO FILES

2011

Lecture with Professor Kjell Havnevik, 'The Concept of Food Security'. The last seminar in the Challenging Concepts series. Filmed 14 December 2011 at The Nordic Africa Institute (60 min.).

Lecture by Professor Amanda Hammar. Filmed 9 November 2011 at the Nordic Africa Institute (50 min).

The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding. Lecture by Assistant Professor Séverine Autesserre. Filmed 2 November 2011 (50 min.).

Tuesday 27 September 3 pm, from the seminar: “Dawn in the Serengeti – Sweden’s partnership with a Young African Lion Economy”. Participants: The Vice President of Tanzania Dr Mohamed Bilal, the Swedish Minister for International Development Co-operation, Gunilla Carlsson, Mikael Samuelsson, Stockholm School of Economics, and NAI Director Carin Norberg.

Filmed events and seminars during the Conference on African studies ECAS 4, 15-18 June 2011, can be found at this page.

Result based management: Can ”obsessive measurement disorder” be avoided?
Filmed 10 May 2011. Four speakers and one panel discussion - five films in total.

2010

Lecture by Professor Yacob Arsano. Beyond Drops Water: Four Imperatives to Cooperation in the Nile Basin. 'Claude Ake Memorial Lecture 2010'. Filmed 15 December 2010 (48 min.)

'Writers' Africa' with Brian James. Filmed 16 November 2010 (63 min.)

Africa Day for Librarians - 9 November 2010.
The state of open access publishing and open access repositories in Africa. Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme manager, EIFL. (49 min.).

Information flows to and from sub-Saharan Africa: a social justice perspective. Dr Peter J Lor, Visiting professor at School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. (64 min.).

'Writers' Africa' with Petina Gappah. Filmed 12 October 2010 (62 min.)

Lectures in the 'African Security' Series (NAI - FOI agreement on research cooperation and capacity building in African studies). Filmed 31 May, 2010.

Film 1: Nigeria: Dilemmas and Dimensions of Violence and Conflict. Professor Darren Kew, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA (61 min.)

Film 2: Niger Delta Crisis and Security in the Gulf of Guinea. Professor Charles Ukeje, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. (43 min.)

Lecture by Ronald Atkinson, The Regionalisation of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Filmed 5 May 2010 (52 min.).

Lecture by Professor Frances Stewart, Inequalities between social groups leading to conflicts. Filmed 11 March 2010 (46 min.).

2009

Lecture by Yash Tandon, 'Claude Ake Memorial lecture'. Filmed 16 December 2009 (55 min.)

Lecture by John Githongo, Zinduko Trust, Kenya. Governance Reform from Below. Filmed 24 November 2009 (62 min.)

"Trade, EPAs and Regional Integration" - with Dr. Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu, Manchester University. Moderator: Christian Palme, NAI. (EDD, European Development Days, October 22, 2009)

Bwagamoyo: The father (part II of Migritude). Shailja Patel. Script Premiere filmed at Slottsbiografen, Uppsala, 3 June 2009 (67 min.)

Lectures in the 'African Security' Series (NAI - FOI agreement on research cooperation and capacity building in African studies) Country Case Studies Southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe and Angola). Filmed 1 June, 2009. Lecturers: Alex Vines, Anders Möllander, Chris Saunders and Josephine Nhongo-Simbanegavi.

Lecture by Deepa Narayan and Nora Dudwick, World Bank. Moving out of poverty. Success from the Bottom Up. Filmed 27 May 2009 (40 min.)

Lecture by Professor David Anderson, University of Oxford, England. Violence and Politics in Kenya’s Uncivil Society. Discussant: Shailja Patel. Filmed 7 May 2009 (1 h 50 min.)

Lecture in the 'African Security' Series (NAI - FOI agreement on research cooperation and capacity building in African studies). Lecturers: Ken Menkhaus and Abdi Samatar. Country Case Studies: The Horn of Africa (Somalia-Eritrea-Ethiopia ). Session 1: Ken Menkahus (66 min.) Session 2: Abdi Samatar (55 min.). Filmed 4 May, 2009.

Lecture by Professor Göran Hydén, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. Power - the missing link in development policy analysis. Filmed 22 April 2009 (47 min.)

Workshop on 'Migration, Diasporas and Development: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives', Stockholm, Sweden. Filmed 16 March 2009.
Session 1: Laying the Groundwork for Diasporas’ Development Potential (46 min.)
Session 2: Migration and Development: National Perspectives (50 min.)

Lecture by Professor Derick W. Brinkerhoff, George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. 'Promoting development in fragile states: What have we learned?' Filmed 13 March 2009 (53 min.)

2008

Lecture by Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Oslo universitet, Norge. 'Possible Models for Nationhood in Africa'. Filmed 30 Oct. 2008. (58 min.)

Lecture by Tim Kelsall, Senior lecturer, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK. 'Reconciliation, Justice and Democracy in Sierra Leone: a road to lasting peace?' Introduction by Carin Norberg and Mats Utas, NAI. 28 Oct. 2008. (67 min.)

Lecture by Carolyn Nordstrom on the theme of 'Civilians in warzones' (within the framework of a "African Security" course organized on behalf of FOI). Filmed 26 september 2008. (38 min.)

International conference 'China and India in Africa: New Strategic Encounters', Uppsala, Sweden, 22-23 September 2008. Filmed 22 Sep.
Part 1: Opening of the conference (50 min.)
Part 2: The Big Picture: China and India as Emerging Giants (78 min.)
Part 3: Samir Amin: The New Scramble for Africa: The Roles of China and India - Public lecture (73 min.)

Lecture by Professor Abdi Ismail Samatar 'The War on Terror and the Terror of War: Somalia and the Horn of Africa'. Filmed 11 September 2008.

2007

Lecture by Nuruddin Farah 'The History of Somalia and the Causes of Conflict'. Filmed 9 October 2007. (42 min.)

Civli rule. Freetown, Sierra Leone. Anthropologist Mats Utas is a member of Civili and has filmed and taken pictures of Civili between 2004-2007. (5 min.)

The Pentagon guys. A brief introduction to street life in Freetown, Sierra Leone, filmed by anthropologist Mats Utas who conducted fieldwork in the area for two years between 2004-2006. (6 min.)

AUDIO FILES

The Challenges of Democracy, Peace and Security in the Sudan. NAI-FOI lecture on African Security Series. Lecturer: Dr Gunnar Sörbö, CMI, Norway. Discussant: Per Karlsson. 1 September 2010. (Will be available shortly.)

Whatever Happened to the National Project in Africa? - A Retrospective and Prospective View.
Public research forum, 13 March 2008.
Introduktion
Professor Yash Tandon, The South Centre, Geneva Switzerland (24 min.)
Professor James Mittelman, American University, Washington, DC, USA (21 min.)
Professor Thandika Mkandawire, Director, UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland (23 min.)