We are pleased to invite you to the conference
"democratic process, Civil Society and Islam in two states of the Sahel: Niger and Mali"
to be held Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:00 to 18:00
ore at the Conference Center of the University, via Salaria 113, Rome
University of Rome La Sapienza.
For the case of Niger will host this meeting in Rome of two influential guests Niger: Maroua and Amadou Seyni Moumouni. In particular
Maroua Amadou is a French-speaking lawyer and has always been a human rights activist and civil rights internationally known who was driving the opposition anti-democratic authoritarianism represented by the Government Tandja in recent years. For his courageous opposition leader Croisade FUSAD and was imprisoned for several months in a maximum security prison of Koutoukalé and it is only thanks to the Battle of Amnesty International, which was released in September 2009.
When a military coup supported by civil society has re-established democracy in Niger, Maroua Amadou has not only received an important award in the United States for its activities in support of democracy but was also appointed Chairman of National Consultative Council (NCC) charged with drafting the new constitution.
Seyni Moumouni is the director of the Department of Arabic manuscripts at the University of Niamey and scholar of the history of Islam in the societies of the Sahel, this scholar is the intellectual elite arabizzante that supports the process of democratic transition currently under way.
will also present two well-known French university teachers. Jean-Louis Triaud, the greatest historian of Islam in West Africa, and Pierre Boilley, director of CEMAf Paris Touareg dissidents and a leading expert in Mali and Niger.
The convention will be provided a simultaneous translation service.
you there!
Sincerely, Adriana Piga
Department of Social and Political Systems of Africa contamporanea
Faculty of Communication Sc
La Sapienza University of Rome
