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NGO criticizes “partisanship” of spaces for citizen participation in Angola and Africa

The director-general of Mosaiko – Angolan Institute for Citizenship – said this Tuesday that the “worst problem” that Angola and many African countries face is the “partisanship” of spaces for citizen participation and the “conditionalisms” of freedom of thought.

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"The worst problem that Angola and many African countries face is precisely that of seeing the spaces of thinking co-opted, the freedom to think conditioned, we have to think, we can think, but it seems that only the thinking of the parties is taken into account" , said this Tuesday Júlio Candeeiro.

For the Angolan Catholic friar, the "problem of partisanship of spaces for participation and even spaces for thinking" still persists in Angola and in many African countries.

"Therefore, this conference also wants to challenge us all, to start thinking from our history, in the present and with open eyes on the future", he pointed out.

Speaking on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the International Conference "Thinking Africa", which began this Tuesday in Luanda and runs until Wednesday, he said that Africa still has "problems" of valuing human life "in whatever space geographic to find".

Freedom "is freedom regardless of the geographic space in which the person is and these are, in our view, the challenges that Africa is struggling with and in a very special way this question of thinking about Africa has to do with the fact of thinking about Africa as ours".

The conference, promoted by Mosaiko in partnership with the Center for African Studies (CEA) of the Catholic Unit of Angola, takes place in the Angolan capital in a hybrid format and brings together Angolan speakers and speakers from different Portuguese-speaking and French-speaking African countries.

The meeting, which also celebrates the 25th anniversary of Mosaiko, a non-governmental organization for the promotion and defense of human rights, which affects the Angolan Catholic Church, also seeks ways to deal with the problem of hunger, war and "systematic violation" of human rights.

"Today's Africa is still marked by this dilemma of, on the one hand, we have included in our constitutional texts, in our programs the issue of universal human rights, but on the other hand we also have some difficulty in implementing them", said Júlio Candeeiro.

"We have scenes, episodes and facts of constant and systematic violations of human rights in most African countries," he noted.

The "problem" at the African level, added the Mosaiko official, is what is called "acceptance" of the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

"To the extent that, unfortunately, many human rights violating States use the argument that human rights are not African and under the guise of culture, of genuine African identity, we do not protect life, the common good, we violate the rights of others", maintained.

Africa and an inner look and African identities are the panels scheduled for the first day of this International Conference "Thinking Africa".

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