The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in collaboration with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and the network “Politics of money” is organizing the International conference: “The quest for economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21^st Century Africa: lessons to be learnt and ways forward” from 6 to 9 November in the Cité de la Culture, Tunis.

This is the first conference of this scale organized in Africa on African economic and monetary sovereignty, which will be attended by researchers, economic experts, activists, and journalists from Europe, the United States, India, and from different African countries, such as Prabhat Patnaik, Jan Kregel, Silvia Federici, Fadhel Kaboub, Heiner Flassbeck, Chibuike Uche, Daniela Gabor, Jerome Roos, Cederic Mbeng Mezui, Ndongo Samba Sylla and Kai Koddenbrock, and about thirty other panelists. During which they will raise the issue of the monetary and economic sovereignty of our African countries and discuss the future paths that must be followed to ensure well-being, social justice, employment and a dignified life for the African peoples.

Our aim is to open the discussion about money, debt dependency, African dependency, and international monetary relations.

we will address questions regarding the potential shapes and forms of African monetary and financial independence and sovereignty. We will further explore the leeways for monetary policies for countries that depend on varying degrees of monetary sovereignty. The conference will also focus on alternative and transformative forms of organising financial and monetary systems that enable socio-ecological transformation of the continent and can help develop a dignified life for people in the African context.

The conference is open to the public, however we strongly recommend you to register in advance as places are limited, an email confirmation of participation will be sent to first registered participants.

Registration will be open between 29 October and 2 November. Register here: mes-africa.org/registration.php

Full program: mes-africa.org/prog.php

We will provide a livestream on our Facebook page or via the website of the conference or directly via our Youtube channel Using the hashtags #MESAfrica2019, #AfricanMonetarySovereignty, during the debate via Twitter to interact with the panelists.

For press or media inquiries, please contact Narjes Torchani : narjes.torchani@rosalux.org

For further information on the conference, please send an email to: contact.mes.africa@gmail.com