Events
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Summer School: Intra-Regional Migration In Africa: Logics, Practices And Challenges
University of Ghana. Accra Intra-regional migration in Africa – voluntarily or forced – is by far the most dominant form on the continent compared to African migration to Europe or other parts of the world. The history of migration in Africa dates back to pre-colonial times. The movement of people has always been at the ... Read more
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Workshop: The Governance of Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Global South
Accra From 15 to 17 September 2019, fourteen scholars from eleven countries convened on the Campus of Ghana University, Legon in Accra, in order to discuss the governance of energy systems from a Global Southern perspective. The presentations covered a broad range of regional contexts with case studies mostly from West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Elite Power-sharing, Political Instability and the Allocation of Ministerial Posts in Africa; Speaker: Daniel Wigmore-Shepherd
Abstract How do political events and factors influence the composition of senior government elites? This presentation uses a newly created African Cabinet Political Elite Dataset (ACPED) to demonstrate how political factors such as regime strength or economic growth, along with key events such as elections or mass protest, exert influence on how leaders or regimes ... Read more
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Public Lecture: The relationship between the majority and minority divide of the Ghanaian parliament and democratic governance in Ghana; Speaker: Dr. Seidu Alidu
Accra Abstract This paper analyses candidate selection and nomination rules in Ghana’s two major political parties’ parliamentary primaries. It seeks to determine the extent to which the intra-party rules vary as an indicator of their selection of women and visible minority (people with disability) parliamentary candidates. The paper employed candidate selection methods framework designed by ... Read more
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Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop 2019
13-14 November, 2019, CREPOS, Dakar, Senegal Abstract What is the place of women at African universities today? What opportunities and solutions exist to imagine, plan and promote national and international women’s academic careers? How to facilitate the reconciliation of professional life with private and family life? Based on these questions, the workshop aims to discuss ... Read more
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Conference: Sustainability and the State in Africa: How political rules shape conflicts and their resolution, Point Sud, Bamako, Mali
Bamako, Mali The analysis of politics and the state in Africa is often marked by a strong essentialising tendency. The State appears to be a kind of maladjusted tropical “Leviathan”, as it is necessarily an imported product, a tool of government poorly controlled by indigenous people unfamiliar with modern governance rules. This perspective tends to ... Read more
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Public Lecture: “We disagree on politics, but we eat together” – The Parliament as a Social Space in Ghana, Togo, and Sierra Leone; Speaker: Dr. Anja Osei
Legon-Accra Abstract Actor-centric approaches to democratization place an emphasis on the development of a consensus on the “rules of the game”. Building on theories of institutional socialization, this paper is arguing that parliaments can be important arenas for the pacification of political struggles and the development of cooperation between political opponents: MPs learn to cooperate ... Read more
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Virtual Conference: Sustainable Rural Transformation in Africa
Organizers: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on Sustainable Rural Transformation (IFG 3) Virtual Conference: Sustainable Rural Transformation in Africa Organizers: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on Sustainable Rural Transformation (IFG 3) Africa’s rural areas are facing tremendous challenges including persistent poverty, demographic pressure, an eroding resource base, and climatic change. At the same time, the natural resources of the continent receive ... Read more
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Public Lecture: An Off-grid Solar Frontier: The Scalar Geographies of the Photovoltaic Turn in Ghana; Speaker: Paul Munro
via Zoom Speaker: Dr. Paul Munro, University of New South Wales Abstract The sale of off-grid solar products has undergone an extraordinary boom in the Global South over the past decade. In 2019 alone, an estimated 35 million off-grid solar products – in the form of solar lanterns and small solar home systems – were sold, ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Sociotechnical Typologies for National Energy Transitions; Speaker: Norbert Edomah
via Zoom Speaker: Dr. Norbert Edomah, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos AbstractThe energy landscape is changing dramatically. It is populated by many different and discrete energy transitions happening simultaneously across different sectors, with dynamically different drivers, and across varying locations. A new three-part categorization is proposed to help better understand the myriad sociotechnical changes being witnessed, which cut ... Read more
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Public Lecture: The Evolving Role of Finance in Renewable Electricity Systems in Senegal; Speaker: Dr. Lucy Baker
Virtual via Zoom Speaker: Dr. Lucy Baker, University of Sussex AbstractAccording to the IEA, in 2018 75 per cent of Senegal’s electricity was generated from diesel generators. Until recently, the country suffered from regular and prolonged electricity blackouts and load-shedding, accompanied by rising electricity tariffs. However, electricity security and access have started to improve since 2012 ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Barriers to Sustainable Electrical Energy Transition in Ghana; Speaker: Paul Osei-Tutu
Virtual via Zoom Speaker: Dr. Paul Osei-Tutu, KNUST AbstractRenewable electrical energy is an important policy objective in Ghana, as communicated in Ghana’s Renewable Energy Act (2011) and Renewable Energy Master Plan (2019). These policy documents communicate targets such as 10% new renewable energy in Ghana electricity supply mix by 2030 and off grid renewable energy to ... Read more
