Learning with Africa

Jacinta Castelo Branco Correia

This article discusses the outcomes of the Organisational Laboratories (known in English as the “Organization Workshop – O.W.”)-method as used in the Chiuta District (Mozambique) Development Program, run under the auspices of the “Norwegian People’s Aid” NGO (NPA). This method has the potential to generate organizational and entrepreneurial capacities on a massive scale while, at the same time, ensuring professional capacitation.

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Maaya Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurial Model of the Festival sur le Niger
By Godelieve Spaas

“This book tells the story of the Festival sur le Niger. The festival, a yearly cultural event held on the Niger river and its banks in Ségou, Mali, combines musical, dance and visual arts. Traditional and contemporary artists perform and exhibit their work for an international audience. Over the years the number of people visiting the festival annually has grown to exceed twenty thousand, many artists have become internationally known
thanks to the festival and many local entrepreneurial activities have matured into companies capable of supporting families and the community”.


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Gavin Andersson on the Origins of the Concept

EvelinGavin Andersson gives a brief introduction on the origins of the concept of Unbounded Organization, starting with his childhood on Tristan da Cunha island, continuing with his cooperatives in Botswana, and the Organisation Workshop (OW) of Clodomir de Morais and Iván Labra. Gavin Andersson is the director of the Seriti Institute in the Johannesburg Area, South Africa. This presentation took place in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa on 30th May 2013, and was recorded by Evelin Lindner and Justine Richards.

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