Africa
Auma Obama
East Africa Coordinator for the Aid Organisation Care in Kenya
One-year Scholarship 1980 to 1987 University of Heidelberg
PhD Scholarship 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1994 University of Bayreuth
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"Germany really influenced and impressed me, and that contributed to turning me into what I am."
Mama Foupouagnigni
Professor of Mathematics at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon
DAAD-Scholarship 1994-1998, Université Nationale du Bénin
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"Mathematics is a permanent intellectual challenge and I love challenges in general . When I succeed in solving a mathematical problem,
I feel a great satisfaction that is difficult to describe. Then, I sometimes ask myself: Why didn’t I succeed in solving this problem earlier?"
Jean Claude Diallo
Psychologist, City Councillor and Head of the Integration Department, Frankfurt am Main
One-year Scholarship 1968-1971 University of Würzburg
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"Integration can only work through participation"
Abdourahman Waberi
Author and Literary Critic
Guest of the Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme 2006/2007
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"In Berlin I discovered the intellectual climate of a Europe that has been lost forever"
Asha-Rose Mtengeti-Migiro
Former Foreign Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania,
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
DAAD One-Year Scholarship 1988-1989, University of Constance
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"We still have a long way to go before we reach equality in all areas of life, but we will succeed."
Breyten
Breytenbach
South African Writer and Painter
Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme 1989 and 1994
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"Those who ignore the humanness of others deny
their own"
Mahmoud Hamdi
Zakzouk
Egyptian Minister of Religion and Philosopher
One-year Scholarship at Marburg and Munich 1962-1968
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"Islam is not a religion of dispute, crime
or violence."
Prof. Dr. Ashraf Mansour
Polymer Physicist
One-year Scholarship 1988 to 1992, University
of Ulm
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"When I returned to Cairo, I would ideally
have liked to have taken the University of Ulm
with me."
Nuruddin
Farah
Writer
Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme 1990
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"My Berlin friends may have influenced my style
of writing"
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