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    8th Network Meeting of the Centres of African Excellence in Voi, Kenya, April 5 -April 8
    29.03.2017 CEMEREM, General - DAAD | Brendan Proctor

    Less than a week from now the representatives of the eight Centres of African Excellence will meet for the 8th time at Taita Taveta University in Voi, Kenya.  The Meeting will be hosted by the Kenyan-German Centre of Excellence for Mining, Environmental Engineering and Resource Management (CEMEREM). The main theme of the meeting this year is […]

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    Call for applications – International Alumni Conference
    27.03.2017 General - DAAD, SA-GER CDR | Britta Niklas

    The South African-German Centre for Development Research (SA-GER CDR) at UWC/Cape Town (South Africa) together with the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE) of Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) is happy to host the international conference “Tackling the root causes of displacement in Sub Sahara Africa” taking place 26 November – 01 December 2017 in […]

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    Films about the Centres of African Excellence-watch the trailers here!
    05.12.2016 General - DAAD | Brendan Proctor

    We are happy to announce that the last three films about the Centres have been finalized! You can watch the filmtrailers about the centres in Ghana, Kenia and DR Congo here. To view all seven films in full length go to our Website: www.african-excellence.de Enjoy the films! We are looking forward to your comments!  

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    How to put the image film of your center on your website?
    12.10.2016 General - DAAD | Brendan Proctor

    Or, how to put an african-excellence image film on any website? Updated October 2019 We made this a very easy task: Just visit the zazu.berlin video-embed-site and choose your video and subtitle version here: zazu.berlin – embed videos Now you just copy the code that appears in the grey field and copy and paste it […]

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    The Role of Competition Law in Regulating the Railway Sector in Kenya: A Study of the SGR Project
    18.08.2016 General - DAAD | Brendan Proctor

    Abstract to an LL.M. Dissertation The Kenyan Government, like other governments, took up the task of reforming its railway sector to create room for private investors’ participation. This was done by way of an amendment to the Kenya Railways Corporation Act, 1978 which saw the introduction of section 11A to allow for concessions. Despite this […]

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    Activity Based Costing and the MFI’s Performance By TAMELA Mouafo Alain
    11.08.2016 General - DAAD | Brendan Proctor

     “Until recently, microcredit critics and advocates alike focused attention on the pricing side of cost recovery without adequate attention paid to cost reduction strategies and efficiency” (United Nations, Blue book, page 58)   Indeed, talking about MFI performances and their aptitude to contribute on poverty reduction in the world, the literature always look for pricing […]

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    A picture shows the truth – a film shows 24 pictures per second
    18.07.2016 General - DAAD | Brendan Proctor

    This quote of the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is, seen from a scientific background, everything else but the truth! Since Immanuel Kant we know, that apperception is a function of our brain and to recognize the world, as it is “in-itself” is beyond our excellence. With the Austrian epistemologist Paul Feyerabend we could now shout […]

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    Latest news and developments about the DAAD “African Excellence” programme
    01.07.2016 General - DAAD | Brendan Proctor

    We are happy about the successful launch of the African Excellence Blog and looking forward to your posts and comments !!

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