Based on sources from FIFA archives, Zurich, the article analyses footballers' migration as a political stake from the interwar period to the post-colonisation times. Four examples are selected to ...study this sometimes-neglected angle of the professional sport elite moves. The first one illustrates how the migration of football players fit in with the general policy of "race" and of national prestige in Fascist Italy. The second and the third example consider football players as sports figures representing political refugees and other persons in exile; it deals with the case of the Basque team during the Spanish civil war and the case of Hungarian refugees in the first half of the fifties. The last example, of Mobutu's Zaire, demonstrates that the question of sports migration could also serve as a revelation of North-South relations during the sixties.
Das Millennium Summit, welches im September 2000 in New York abgehalten wurde, hat die Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) skizziert. Das erste davon betrifft die Ausrottung von extremer Armut und ...Hunger, indem es zwei Zielvorgaben angibt: die Halbierung des Prozentsatzes der Weltbevölkerung von 1990 mit einem Einkommen unter einem US-Dollar pro Tag bis 2015 (d. h. die Verminderung dieses Prozentsatzes von 27,9 auf 14%) und die Halbierung des Anteils an Menschen, die an Hunger leiden. Im Bereich der Bildung versuchen die MPGs weiterhin sicherzustellen, dass bis 2015 alle Kinder Zugang zu einer abgeschlossenen Grundschulausbildung haben. Anhand von Beispielen aus ausgewählten südafrikanischen Ländern erforscht die vorliegende Untersuchung die Notwendigkeit, die wirtschaftliche Unterstützung für die (Erwachsenen-) Bildung als Instrument zur Ausrottung der Armut zu stärken. Es wird dargelegt, dass Humankapital eine der grundlegenden Bestimmungen für wirtschaftliches Wachstum und dass diese wirtschaftliche Ressource sowohl in qualitativer als auch in quantitativer Hinsicht in wesentlicher Weise von der Bildung bestimmt ist. (DIPF/Orig.).
The Millennium Summit held in New York in September 2000 outlined the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The first of these involves the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, setting two targets: halving by 2015 the percentage of the world's populace in 1990 with income less than US-$1 a day (i.e., cutting this percentage from 27.9 to 14%); and halving the share of people who suffer from hunger. As for education, the MDGs seek to ensure that all children can complete primary schooling by 2015. Drawing on examples from selected southern African countries, the present study examines the need to strengthen economic support for (adult) education as an instrument of poverty eradication. It argues that human capital is one of the fundamental determinants of economic growth, and that this economic resource is essentially determined in both qualitative and quantitative regards by education.
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Afrikanischer Staatsbesuch in Wien - schon der zweite in diesem Sommer. Mit der Caravelle "Tyrol", dem Stolz unserer ...Fluggesellschaft AUA, kommt Präsident Fulbert Youlou. Bundespräsident Dr. Schärf begrüsst den Gast. Bundeskanzler Dr. Gorbach und Mitglieder der Bundesregierung sind erschienen und werden ihm vorgestellt. Präsident Youlou trägt mit Vorliebe eine weisse Soutane und einen schwarzen Priesterhut, obwohl er schon seit mehreren Jahren nicht mehr katholischer Priester ist. Er unterschreibt auch immer mit "Abbe Youlou". Sein Land war früher die französische Kolonie Mittel-Kongo. Jetzt heisst es Kongo-Republik. Um es von dem benachbarten früher belgischen Kongo zu unterscheiden, nennt man es gewöhnlich "Kongo-Brazzaville" nach seiner Hauptstadt. Präsident Youlou und seine Begleitung besuchen den Bundespräsidenten in seinen Amtsräumen in der Wiener Hofburg. Der Bundespräsident und der Präsident von Kongo-Brazzaville unterhalten sich in französischer Sprache. Später gibt es einen Diplomatenempfang im Palais Pellavicini. Die in Wien akkredidierten Botschafter und Gesandten werden dem Gast aus Kongo-Brazzaville vorgestellt.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain ...Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
This chapter describes Kongo Christian fashion. The Kongo elite expressed their status as Christian nobles and participants in the Atlantic world by combining local clothing with imported textiles. ...The combination of local and foreign regalia gave the kingdom's elite a defined image that contributed to the promotion of the kingdom and became a motif in European imagery of overseas Christianity. The image of the Kongo elite in the early 17th century functioned in European missionary circles as a metaphor for the expansion of the church in Africa and in the world.
Sangamentos Fromont, CéCile
Art of Conversion,
11/2014
Book Chapter
This chapter focuses on the sangamentos, a performance that gave rhythm to public life in the kingdom of Kongo. The Kongo sangamento evolved in form, nature, and purpose with the beginning of ...Catholicism in the 16th century. In the dances, the Kongo elite enacted mythological, religious, and symbolic local conceptions that merged with ideas from abroad to form a new Kongo Christian discourse. Christian king Afonso used mythology to combine and transform Christian history and central African traditions into Kongo Christian lore.
Introduction Fromont, CéCile
Art of Conversion,
11/2014
Book Chapter
This introductory chapter presents textual, visual, and archeological evidence for the creation, use, and meaning of Christian visual forms in the Kongo between the 16th and 19th centuries. The ...images, objects, and practices present how Christianity and its visual manifestations remained significant in the shaping of political and religious life in the kingdom of Kongo during civil and foreign wars and the transatlantic slave trade. It establishes dates and offers interpretations on the sources and historical significance of the iconography of two main visual corpuses: Capuchin didactic watercolors and Kongo Christian art.
This chapter discusses buildings, monuments, and movable objects that created a distinct Kongo Christian landscape in west central Africa from the 16th to the 18th centuries. The Christian ...architecture and visual environment of the Kongo kingdom not only manifested a political discourse of triumph and legitimacy for the ruling class, but also included a religious and cosmological dimension. Churches, crosses, and burial places defined a connection between the world of the living and the dead that structured the ritual, political, and religious life of the Kongo people.
Cosmopolitical realism requires states to be aware of the fact that external sovereignty necessitates the capability to cooperate in peace and security affairs. One important aspect is the ability ...and preparedness to participate in collective peace-keeping and peace-building efforts. From the ethical viewpoints inherent to the UN and the EU, it would be cynical to restrict oneself to naked realism. The same judgement also applies to mere moralizing policies, as the purported morality is seen to be based on political tactics. A purely normative approach is at best futile and at worst dangerous. Instead, there is a need for an ethical concept founded on a responsibility which adequately incorporates goals and means, norms and values, as well as »glocal« contexts which combine to enhance stability and peace. Applying this yardstick to the EU and UN engagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite all shortcomings, they appear to be on the right track.
Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage. Combining historiography and ethnography, this article illustrates the various ethno-religious streams that have fertilized Haiti’s thriving pilgrimage ...traditions. With particular focus on the cults and feasts of St. James the Greater/Ogou Feray in La-Plaine-du-Nord and of St. Philomena/Lasyrenn in Bord-de-Mer-de-Limonade, and with a careful consideration of Kongolese religious culture (both Catholic and traditional), a convincing case is made here that pilgrimage in Haiti owes much more to Central African traditions than is generally acknowledged by scholars of Vodou, who over-emphasize the religion’s West African roots.
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