Cultural and Creative Industries Supporting Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mapping and Analysis

Over the last 20 years, the power of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) as enablers and drivers of sustainable development has been broadly recognised. They are viewed as critical to social cohesion, social and economic transformation, and political stability. For this reason, it is important to explore and analyse what kind of CCIs supporting strategies, programmes and projects are in place in Sub-Saharan Africa, how they are working and their practical impacts. Furthermore, to deeply understand these dynamics and be able to provide accurate recommendations, this research looked not only at the practical cases of programmes developed multilaterally by the EU but also those developed individually by European countries’ cultural institutions. The authors show how, where and why CCIs programmes are implemented and put forward a case for more sustainable projects with a stronger focus on local ownership

Consultant for the EU - UNCTAD joint Programme for Angola Trade II: Creative Economy component

European Union – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development joint Programme for Angola: Train for Trade II: Creative Economy component (2020) Dr Carla Figueira was part of the UNCTAD Team, which included: ● Marisa Henderson - Chief, Creative Economy Program ● Carolina Quintana - Partnerships Networks, Creative Economy Program ● Adelino Muxito - National Project Coordinator Train for Trade II ● Pedro Affonso Ivo Franco - Principal Consultant / Coordinator ● Carla Figueira - Consultant: Training, Partnerships and International Marketing ● Carlos Martins - Consultant: Training, Cultural Tourism and Commerce ● Ingrid Fortez - Local Consultant Angola Dr Carla Figueira produced three internal reports for the project: • EU–UNCTAD (submitted 2020) The International Dimension of the Cultural and Creative Industries in Angola: Image, Export and Investment. Carla Figueira is the main author of this mapping report. • EU–UNCTAD (submitted 2020) Mapping the Creative Economy in Angola. Collaboratively authored mapping report for European Union. • EU–UNCTAD (submitted 2020) Angola: Cultural and Creative Tourism. Collaboratively authored mapping report. Dr Carla Figueira, collaboratively and on her own, also developed and delivered training modules for the project on the governance and international dimensions of the cultural and creative sectors

Mapeamento das indústrias culturais e criativas em Angola

O relatório foi elaborado no âmbito do Programa Conjunto UE-CNUCED para Angola: Train for Trade II (Formar para o Comércio II), financiado pela União Europeia. O objetivo da componente das Indústrias Culturais e Criativas do Programa Train for Trade II é “aumentar o potencial económico das indústrias culturais e criativas em Angola para ganhos em termos de emprego, comércio e desenvolvimento”. A publicação foi produzida com o apoio financeiro da União Europeia

Mapping the cultural and creative industries in Angola

The report was prepared as part of the EU–UNCTAD Joint Programme for Angola: Train for Trade II, with funding by the European Union. The objective of the Cultural and Creative Industries component of the Train for Trade II Programme is to “increase the economic potential of cultural and creative industries in Angola for employment, trade and development gains.” The publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union

Behavioral and Neurochemical Consequences of Pentylenetetrazol-Induced Kindling in Young and Middle-Aged Rats

(1) Objectives: Epilepsy disorder is likely to increase with aging, leading to an increased incidence of comorbidities and mortality. In spite of that, there is a lack of information regarding this issue and little knowledge of cognitive and emotional responses in aging subjects following epileptogenesis. We investigated whether and how aging distress epilepsy-related behavioral and biochemical outcomes are associated with cognition and emotion. (2) Methods: Young and middle-aged Wistar rats (3 or 12 months old) were treated with pentylenetetrazol (PTZ, 35 mg/kg) and injected on alternated days for 20 (young rats) and 32 days (middle-aged rats). Kindling was reached after two consecutive stages 4 plus one stage 5 or 6 in Racine scale. Control and kindled rats were evaluated in the elevated plus-maze (EPM) and object-recognition tests and their hippocampus was collected 24 h later for mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) dosage. (3) Results: Middle-aged rats presented a higher resistance to develop kindling, with a decrease in the seizure severity index observed following the 4th and 9th PTZ injections. Middle-aged rats displayed an increased duration of the first myoclonic seizure and an increased latency to the first generalized seizure when compared to younger rats. The induction of kindling did not impair the animals’ performance (regardless of age) in the object-recognition task and the EPM test as well as it did not alter the hippocampal levels of MAPKs. (4) Significance: Our findings reveal that, despite age-related differences during epileptogenesis, middle-aged rats evaluated after kindling performed similarly during discriminative learning and emotional tasks in comparison to young animals, with no alteration of hippocampal MAPKs. Additional investigation must be carried out to explore the electrophysiological mechanisms underlying these responses, as well as the long-term effects displayed after kindling

Narrando viagens e invenções. Hercule Florence: amigo das artes na periferia do capitalismo

O volumoso manuscrito de 423 páginas redigido entre 1837 e 1859, por Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence (1804-1879), intitulado L'ami des arts livré à lui-même. Recherche et découvertes sur différents sujets nouveaux, traz uma compilação dos principais objetos de estudo e reflexão desse franco-monegasco radicado no Brasil. Neste artigo, o L'ami des arts é compreendido como ponto de partida para uma contextualização das pesquisas que resultaram na invenção da photographie, método de reprodução de textos e desenhos anunciado na Província de São Paulo em 1834. Em seguida, a leitura do relato da Expedição Langsdorff apresentado no mesmo manuscrito foi, por sua vez, o ponto de partida para estabelecer uma classificação das diferentes versões escritas por Florence. A partir da pesquisa em suas correspondências ativas foi ainda possível recuperar o esforço do autor para publicar a conhecida narrativa de Viagem Fluvial. De modo geral, busca-se, aqui, problematizar a cronologia de suas invenções e das versões de seu relato da expedição Langsdorff, mostrando as intersecções entre as narrativas das invenções e das viagens, em especial o cruzamento fixado na matriz autobiográfica