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Africa seminar: Geopolitics, Economic Outlook, Cultural Changes

On September 25 and 26, 2007, some one hundred Total employees attended a two-day seminar on Africa, organized by Université Total. Through transverse topics or focusing on countries and regions, experts and academics discussed the economic, political, social and cultural issues of the African continent.

The first day of the seminar was introduced by Hubert Loiseleur des Longchamps, Vice President International Relations, Total. 

 

  SPEAKERS - 2007, September, 25 th
Mamadou Diouf

African History Professor, Columbia University

African Areas: History, Identity and Politics

 

Dominique Darbon

Professor at Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Brodeaux

South Africa

 

Roland Marchal

Member of the French National African Research Council (CERI/CNRS)

Soudan : outlook

 

Jean-Pierre Filiu

Professor at Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris

Algeria – Libya: Social, Political and Economic Challenges

 

Moustapha Niasse

Former Senegal Prime Minister and Company Director, former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General in charge of the peace process in the Great Lakes Region and in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Development, Governance and State

 

Daniel Bach

Member of the French National African Research Council (CNRS) and Professor at Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Bordeaux

New issues and new stakeholders in Africa

Jean Privey

Senior Vice President Africa, Exploration & Production, Total

 Total Exploration & Production in Africa

 

 

  SPEAKERS - 2007, September, 26th
Artur Pestana Dos Santos as Pepetela

Writer and Professor at the University of Luanda, Angola

Angola, between political stabilization and social fragmentation

 

Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos

African Conflicts Specialist

Order and Disorder in Nigeria


 

Vincent Foucher

Member of the French National African Research Council (CNRS)

Cultural and Religious Changes

 

 

Jean-Noël Schifano

Writer, Translator, Editor, Director of the “Continents noirs” book collection by the G allimard Editions

African Alchemies


 

Guy Rossatanga-Rignault

Professor at the University of Libreville, Gabon

Time: a Lesson on Relativity

Alain Champeaux

Senior Vice-President, Refining & Marketing Africa and Middle East, Total

Total Refining & Marketing in Africa

 


 

 


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Last revision 3/12/2008

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