E-Learning Videos

In this video, Javier Becerril, Wangari Maathai Visiting Professor at the University of Kassel for the Global Partnership Network (Winter semester 2025), and Professor at the Faculty of Economics in the Autonomus University of Yucatán Mexico, presents the Mayan Milpa as a proposal to the world that resists economic pressures, neocolonial public policies and the challenges of climate change. Supported by historical examples and econometric models of the Yucatan region, he claims that the Mayan Milpa has been able to resist colonialism and the neoliberal and neocolonial pressure. However, the resistance has brought transformations to this epistemic subject and to the communities involved.

Join us in this travel to the Mayan tradition that has survived through generations for more than four thousand years.

In this video, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Wangari Maathai Visiting Professor at the University of Kassel for the Global Partnership Network (Winter semester 2023), and Emerita Profesor at the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana, reflects on how knowledge about Global Africa has been produced. Through historical and contemporary examples, she shows the significance of Africa’s representations in daily life, academia, politics, health, and economy. She claims that decolonising knowledge is a matter of human survival.

by Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai & Joshua Kwesi Aikins

by Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai