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PARTICIPANTS AT THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING OF ALL-AFRICA STUDENTS UNION, AASU. ACCRA, MAY 2010
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT:
INVITATION TO AASU 10TH CONGRESS IN ABUJA, NIGERIA, 27 - 30
SEPTEMBER 2010 To all member unions and friendly organizations, The Executive Committee of the All-Africa Students Union, AASU, hereby announces that the 10th AASU Congress will be held from 27 – 30 September 2010 at the ECOWAS Secretariat, Abuja, Nigeria. This four day constitutional event will bring together all member unions of AASU and friendly organizations from across the African continent and the Diaspora with the aim of creating dialogue, discussion and debate around key leadership opportunities and/or challenges facing the African continent. The last Congress of AASU was in Tripoli in the year 2000 but AASU has not been able to organize this event despite the fact that the Congress suppose to be every four years event. Ten years since the last Congress in Tripoli, Libya, the All-Africa Students Union, AASU is co-operating with the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS to host the 10th Congress of AASU in Abuja, Nigeria from 26th – 30th September 2010. As you may recall, the Executive Committee Meeting (EC) of AASU held in Accra between April 30 and 1st May 2010 and hosted by the National Union of Ghana Students, NUGS where the hosing right was granted to Nigeria to host the 10th Congress of the All-Africa Students Union.....read more AASU Congress Bulletin! Accra, 29 June 2010 SASCO Backs AASU Congress in Nigeria as Libya requested for 30 days extension because of “Ramadan”.
The South African
Students Congress, (SASCO) has given its full support to the
hosting of the forthcoming 10th congress of the All Africa
Students Union AASU, by the National Association of Nigerian
Students, NANS, in N The endorsement by SASCO was conveyed to the organization during a meeting between top Executives of SASCO and the Secretary General of AASU, Oludare Ogunlana who was in South Africa recently as part of the delegation of the President of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan to the Historic opening ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World cup. read more
Jonathan petitioned over attack on Ekiti student
Against the
background of alleged brutalization of a student of Federal
Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Miss Abigael Ige, the Accra, Ghana based
All African Students Union (AASU) has petitioned President
Goodluck Jonathan and the Inspector General of Police, demanding
the probe of the maltreatment of the student. The union in the
petition signed by its Secretary-General, Oludare Ogunlana, said
the students would no longer fold their arms and watch some few
uncivilized elements within the society terminate lives of
promising young Nigerians for no just reason, “this we shall
ensure is followed to the most logical conclusion.” GUIDELINES FOR FORMULATION OF AGENDA MAJOR AND PRIORITY AREAS FOR DISCUSSION We are preparing for our 10th Congress in a qualitatively different political climate in Africa and in the world than that of our last Congress in Libya in March 2000. The dramatic and rapid changes that the world witnessed recently had affected, among other areas, the international students’ movement and posed different challenges and difficult tasks. These developments inevitably forced every body to readdress the new reality. In the student’s front, European Students Union, ESU is currently at the forefront at mobilizing regional student platform for Global Students Movement coalition. There have been meeting in Paris on two occasion with the aim at coming out with a radical plan to make the international student platform to survive. In Africa, the situation is that as a result of the external factors coupled with the internal process significant changes occurred in a number off countries, in which the student played a formidable role. The most potent political Agenda in this process today is the question of democracy and how to institutionalize. This of course needs to radically reform the existing socio-political institutions in the continent by way of introducing structural changes, and to make them more democratic, effective, efficient, dynamic, accommodative and viable to respond and progress the new reality. ...read more Circular to: All Member Unions, friendly organizations, and relevant government agencies on AASU 10th Congress Dear friends, The Executive Secretariat (ES) of the All-Africa Students Union, AASU is happy to extend warm and fraternal greetings to all member unions and wishes to announce the offer by the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS to host the 10th Congress of AASU in Abuja, Nigeria from 23 – 28 August 2010. For some time now, a number of consultations have been taking place around the crippling problems of the AASU and their relation to a lack of Congress since the year 2000. Some of these consultations took place in South Africa in 2006, Libya and Sudan in 2008 to mention but a few. The most recent case was in April/May 2010 in Accra when the Executive Committee, EC had the opportunity to meet with a good number of member unions in Accra. At that Conference a consultative meeting was held at which a number of issues were discussed and some recommendations made. Once again, the main issue in the discussions amongst the member unions which were represented at the EC concerned an AASU Congress. read more
INAUGURAL AFRICAN STUDENT LEADERS SUMMIT
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN RONDEBOSCH, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA MONDAY, 06 SEPTEMBER TO FRIDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2010 To all student leaders on the African continent: The Universities of Cape Town, Fort Hare, Western Cape and Witwatersrand hereby announce that an African Student Leaders Summit will be held on 06, 07, 08, 09 and 10 September 2010 at the University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa. This five day Summit seeks to bring elected student leaders from across the African continent together with the aim of creating dialogue, discussion and debate around key leadership opportunities and/or challenges facing the African continent. It is envisaged that the Summit will become an annual event hosted by each of the partner Universities. The African Student Leaders Summit is a partnership between the University of Cape Town; the University of Fort Hare, the University of the Western Cape and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It seeks to promote dialogue between elected student leaders on the African continent and key stakeholders across the continent on issues pertaining to student leadership, leadership broadly and the development of Africa and her people. It is envisaged that delegates will engage, discuss and debate the following topics: The State of African Politics The Rise of China and What that Means for Africa The African Renaissance The Scope for Youth Involvement in African Governance Structures Poverty Alleviation in Our Time Nationalisation in Africa Corruption in African Politics The State of Higher Education on the African Continent United States of Africa – Strengths and Weaknesses The Role of Africa in Global Institutions Beyond Dictatorship HIV and AIDS The Formation of the Youth Wing of the AU Africa and Trade Human Rights in Africa Women and Gender Relations The Environment and Africa’s response to Issues of Global Warming Please contact the Secretary-General of AASU for information about your participation on email secgen@aasu.org.gh. Other contacts are; Michael Ige at michael@aasu.org.gh, or Olufemi Lawson at lawson@aasu.org.gh or Ivy Da-Souza, International Secretary for the National Union of Ghana Students, NUGS
The Global University Network for Innovation
has launched a Call for Good Practices in the framework of
the 5th International Barcelona Conference on
Higher Education “Higher
Education’s Commitment to Sustainability: from Understanding to
Action”, taking place at the Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya in Barcelona on 23-26 November 2010.
More information is available in the attached document as well as at the GUNI Conference website: http://www.guninetwork.org/conference2010
Jacqueline Glarner Higher Education is a right - not a commodity - Secretary-General of AASU Mr Oludare Ogunlana, Secretary General of All-Africa Students Union has once again call on African government to accept higher education as a public good but not a commodity to be exchanged for money. He made this call in his presentation at just concluded conference organized by the European University Association in collaboration with the Association of African University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The purpose of the conference funded by Erasmus Mundus is to Improve University Cooperation between Africa and Europe (workshop on access to higher education in Europe and Africa ) read more - 18 November 2009 Press Statement for
Immediate Release
That was the message of Dr Kwame Nkrumah at the midnight on March 5, 1957, at Accra Polo Ground. Today, the whole world will join Africa for the centenary celebration of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Republic of Ghana and one of the pioneer of Africa liberation struggle and unity against imperialism and foreign domination of colonial masters. As we all celebrate the 100 years posthumous birthday of the illustrious son of Africa, Nkrumah is a phenomenon that never dies and we call on African leaders to emulate the ideals, learn from his legacy and imbibe his fighting spirit towards accelerated development of the continent. .....more AASU- is a continental representative organisation of democratic student unions founded in 1972 with 54 member unions from francophone and Anglophones Africa. Affiliated to the International Union of Students (IUS). AASU has a Consultative Status with UNESCO; ECOSOC accredited with UNCCD and enjoys a cordial working relationship with the UN system. The activities of AASU are carried out within the framework of its constitution these among other things are: To develop working relation/co-operation with other sub-regional, regional and international youth and student organizations, governmental, inter and non-governmental organizations on issues of common concern and interest; i.e. Access to Education, Democracy, project on HIV\AIDS, ICT in Higher Education in Africa, Gender issues and Academic freedom.
All-Africa
Students Union (AASU), State House Complex, Opp. Awudome Cemetery,
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between 26th -30th, September 2010. The Congress that was earlier
scheduled for the month of August 2010 was shifted by one month
at the instance of AASU member unions from the North Africa Arab
region in observances of Ramadan Muslim fast that falls within the
month of August and early September.
