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Artist Exhibition: Poetography Workshop; Artist in Residence: Stone Karim Mohamad
Stone Karim Mohamad is a poet, photographer, and also a well-known spoken-word artist in Cameroon and Germany. He splits his time between Yaoundé, Buea and Stuttgart. He is currently artist in residence at MIASA, Univ. of Ghana.This workshop is comprised of two one-hour sessions, which will be offered on Tuesday, 17 October 2023, and Wednesday, 18 ... Read more
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Public Lecture: African cities and the Sustainable Development Goals: Political Settlement Analysis of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana; Speaker: Emmanuel Yeboah-Assiamah
MIASA Conference Room, 7th November 2023 Abstract: The role of politics in the enforcement of SDG 11 cannot be overemphasized. This goal is focused on cities, with targets to enhance access to basic services and safe, affordable housing, improve slums, increase public transportation, encourage inclusive and sustainable urbanization, safeguard cultural and natural heritage, lower the ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Elections in the Context of Digitalization in Benin: Issues and Challenges for People in Illiteracy; Speaker: Issifou Abou Moumouni
Abstract: At the end of the 2010s, Benin embarked on digitalizing the public services, which began with the instalment of the permanent computerized electoral register. This initiative has gained momentum in recent years, with the creation, from 2020 onwards, of numerous platforms to offer almost all public services. Since then, digitalization seems to be affecting ... Read more
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Policy Conference 2023: Accelerating Africa’s economic transformation towards shared prosperity and sustainability
Venue: ISSER Conference Centre, University of Ghana, 2023 Africa’s economic development is at the cross-roads. The 20 pre-pandemic years have been – for some parts of Africa – the most transformative since independence. Yet, there is a long way to go. First, the transformation needs to regain its momentum to lead to sustained increases in ... Read more
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Conference: Sustainable Regional Peacebuilding in Africa: Practices and Disconnects (IFG 9 Final Conference)
Convenors: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on Sustainable Regional Peacebuilding (IFG 9) Programme African regional organizations like the African Union (AU), ECOWAS and IGAD are increasingly important actors in resolving conflicts and building peace on the continent. In so doing, these organizations follow the aim of not only addressing the most immediate challenges to peace and security on ... Read more
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Thematic Conference 2023: The Role of Traditional Institutions in Promoting Sustainable Peace in Africa
Abstract Africa has the reputation of being the continent most prone to conflict, whether intra-commu-nity, inter-community or inter-state. These African conflicts differ according to their intensity, duration and territorial extension, as well as their nature. We observe both inter- and intra-state conflicts, armed and unarmed conflicts, conflicts linked to natural resources and ethnic conflicts. In ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Negotiating LPG in Urban Transportation: Taxi Drivers Stepping on the Gas in Accra and Bobo-Dioulasso; Speakers: Hold Kanazoé & Édith Nabos
Abstract: The use of LPG by collective transport actors is becoming increasingly widespread in many African cities. Moving beyond strict geographical and economic approaches to transport and mobility, our talk, based on ethnographic research in Accra and Bobo-Dioulasso, explores the way in which taxi drivers navigate their paths by transforming their cars, which goes well ... Read more
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Artist Exhibition: DEMO-CRAZY: Art Installation, Talk and Poetography; Artist in Residence: Stone Karim Mohamad
Information Stone Karim Mohamad is a poet, photographer, and also a well-known spoken-word artist in Cameroon and Germany. He splits his time between Yaoundé, Buea and Stuttgart. He is currently Artist in residence at MIASA, University of Ghana.
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Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture 2023: Building African Ecologies of Knowledge; Invited Speaker: Professor Felwine Sarr (Duke University Durham)
The Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture is organized annually by the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) in collaboration with the Institute of African Studies and the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Ghana. It is named after the 18th century philosopher from present-day Ghana who taught at the universities of Halle and Jena. ... Read more
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Public Roundtable: Addressing Asymmetries in Academic Knowledge Production on Africa: Potentials and Pitfalls
Abstract Although African scholars have challenged asymmetries in academic knowledge production on Africa for centuries, epistemic injustices resulting from colonial structures of power persist. One of the visible consequences is the underrepresentation of Global South scholars in leading journals. While this issue has long been known, measures taken by journals to address it have been ... Read more
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Publishing Workshop 2023
The MIASA Publishing Workshop for African scholars, jointly organised by Africa Spectrum (published by the GIGA Institute for African Affairs) and the Contemporary Journal of African Studies (published by the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana), will take place on 14 and 15 December 2023 at the University of Ghana in Legon-Accra. ... Read more
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Public Lecture: The Nomadic Mbororo-Fulani Conundrum in Cameroon’s North West Region: From Fry Pan to Fire; Speaker: Nicodemus Fru Awasom
MIASA Conference Room, 13th February 2024 Abstract: This paper examines the intractable perennial problem of the nomadic Mbororo-Fulani in Cameroon’s Northwest region. The problem that has not been sufficiently historicized and comprehensively studied by scholars to shed light on its changing scenarios, and to connect it to its African parallels in order to better articulate ... Read more
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