This article maps the authors’ artful inquiry at the interface of poetry, artmaking, academic work, and the higher education polycrisis, asking, “What does our artful knowing make visible about academic work in the higher education polycrisis context?” “How do we poetically come to acknowledge our response-ability as academics working with and beyond the polycrisis?” “What does our co-creative artmaking produce as positive resistance?” and “Why does this matter?” Our collaborative, arts-based self-study practice was inspired by the keynote speakers at a South African conference in 2023, who offered various perspectives on the higher education polycrisis. By working with layers of poetry—found tanka poems—we were able to visually enflesh our entanglement with the polycrisis as positive resistance and creative scholarship. We devised a visual method for co-creating an analogue collage. Our use of a co-created collage as a research method was an inclusive, endogenous method that made it possible to positively imagine our academic work context. Our co-created collage served as an artefact to assist us in answering our research questions and in exploring how our academic learning was enabled whilst remaining in step with the current higher education context. Our recognition of embodied knowledge, artful practices and a material, practice-based understanding of academic work and theories of knowledge production fostered different ways to keep abreast of the polycrisis in higher education.

The year 2025 holds great significance in the calendar of Pan-Africanism. It marks the 80th anniversary of the fifth Pan African Congress (PAC) held in Manchester, London, following four Pan African Congresses held under the leadership of the Pan-Africanist philosopher, W. E. B. Du Bois. The five PACs, themselves, followed the Pan African Conference convened by the Pan-Africanist lawyer, Henry Sylvester Williams, in 1900. In this study, I examine how Mangaliso Sobukwe’s ideas, as a Pan-Africanist philosopher, located in South Africa, contributed to calls for a decolonized and Afrocentric “African University.” In SA, the calls took dramatic turns in 1995, at Wits University, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Manchester PAC, and, in 2015, at the University of Cape Town (UCT), coinciding with the Manchester PAC’s 70th anniversary. In examining Sobukwe’s Pan-Africanist philosophical thinking on decolonized and Afrocentric education, I simultaneously, examine how Sobukwe’s ideas resonated with Pan-Africanist philosophers, continentally, on decolonized and Afrocentric higher education.

In the presentation of the 2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference, Kultursinema specifically discussed one of its projects made in 2018. An ambitious transnational political project that was made in Indonesia after the 1955 Asian-Africa Conference. Kultursinema: Gelora Purnaraga (Passion of The Perfect Body) raised issues about “games,” “friendship politics,” and “body solidarity” through the Games of New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) sports and cultural event. The exhibition presents GANEFO film archives stored in Indonesia. The GANEFO event is a progressive vision that continues and develops the vision of the Bandung Principles of the Asian African Conference 1955. The main goal of this sporting event was to build a third power to compete with the two great powers that emerged during the Cold War.

Abstracts from African Conference of Emergency Care 2024. Gaborone, Botswana November 2024

The statement “one undivided church” has always been at the centre of theology since New Testament times. Jesus in his greatest prayer in (John 17) appealed to God that his followers may be one, as he and God are one. For Jesus, oneness was proof that he was sent by God. In the history of Methodism, John Wesley, as late as a month before he died in 1791, wrote to Ezekiel Cooper in Philadelphia saying, “lose no opportunity of declaring to all people that the Methodists are one in all the world and that it is their full determination so to continue” (Wesley, 1997:260). Furthermore, the oneness theme was underscored by the World Methodist Council as their theme and logo for the 2016 Conference. The theme was used both to reflect the Council’s goal of being a body that unites the eighty member-churches and also to recall John Wesley’s quote. In 1958, the Methodist Church of Southern African (MCSA) Conference, added “and” to the statement and proposed the statement that the MCSA is a “one and undivided church”. Using the examples of Jesus, John Wesley and the World Methodist Council, this paper interrogates the MCSA’s 1958 statement to find out to what extent the MCSA is in fact one and undivided. The paper will conclude by proposing a novel theological approach that MCSA can consider, for it to be one truly undivided church. The article uses desktop methodology and reviewed credible and relevant academic literature available on the topic under study.

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, or CRISPR, is a powerful molecular biology tool that is enabling high-quality genetic research and engineering. However, for practical reasons, but more specifically because of the lack of training and the rapid development of gene-editing technology, the technique is still not well established in African laboratories. For this reason, a consortium formed by the Institut Pasteur of Tunis and Learn and Win decided to organise an international conference and workshop on CRISPR technology in particular and gene editing in general, focusing on the low-budget model more appropriate to the African context. From 12 to 17 June 2023, more than 200 interdisciplinary researchers and students from the life sciences and more than 20 international speakers and trainers gathered at the Institut Pasteur in Tunis, Tunisia, for the First African Conference and Workshop on CRISPR to discuss the latest gene editing technologies and discoveries. This Meeting Review describes the scientific event and highlights the main outcomes of both the conferences and the practical sessions. The symposium was a real success and thrives to educate, train and network international and young scientists in the field of gene editing and gene engineering.

This paper consists of summarizing the various scientific works of the esteemed team composed of Prof. Abdelaziz Choutri, Dr. Abdelwahab Boureghda and Dr. Hayat Rezgui (from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Kouba, Algiers, Algeria), during a decade of a condensed and continuous work. These various works were subjects of scientific articles published in prestigious journals, or were presented in oral communications/symposia in several international or North African conferences. All these works were carried out at the Laboratory of nonlinear partial differential equations (EDPNL Laboratory) and Department of Mathematics in Ecole Normale Supérieure de Kouba, Algiers, Algeria. This team has done great job which has earned the recognition of many experts in the different fields in which this team specializes.

The 8th African Conference on One Health and Biosecurity with the theme Strengthening Health Security and Mitigating Biological Threats in Africa was held Wednesday, 2nd November- Friday 4th November, 2022. The 8th edition of the annual conference was organized by the Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium (GET Africa) with the support of Lagos State Ministry of Health, and in partnership with major non-state institutions across the World. The conference focused on ways of improving health security in the African Continent and addressing emerging biological threats. The 3-day conference present a unique forum to raise National, Regional and Continental awareness and engage in deep introspection and robust interactions on existing health security measures and how to strengthen them, as the first urgent step toward mitigation of emerging biological threats in Africa. The conference, attended by professionals and stakeholders across the various strata of the health and allied sectors of the society, received presentations from resource persons in the healthcare sector and related fields. The following observations and recommendations emerged from exhaustive deliberations

As we know that museums store a lot of visual objects. So that blind people who do not have vision will have difficulty enjoying the visual objects of the museum. This study discusses the tourist attractions of the museum that can be enjoyed by blind tourists. To support this research, a qualitative research method with a case study approach was used. The results showed that blind tourists enjoyed museum attractions in two ways, hearing and touching. Information will be received by listening to museum educators explain stories about visual objects. Then to add information, blind tourists can touch the visual object. Accessibility that needs to be developed in Museum of the Asian African Conference is guiding block, braille, and audio media. Museum educators can be trained to be able to guide blind tourists properly.

The Rustenburg Conference of churches that took place in 1990 was a critical turning point for Christianity in South Africa. Besides the important declaration at the end of the conference, a statement was also made by the women at the conference. Although this statement is lesser known, it was and still is of utmost importance because it addresses the plight of women in South Africa. The focus of this article is the relevance of the statement made by the women more than 30 years later. The article is written from a church historical perspective. To achieve this objective, the research in this article is based on qualitative literature search. It focuses on relevant literature that includes books, scholarly articles, online articles and scientific data provided by Statistics South Africa. It starts with a brief overview of the conference and important events that took place; it then moves on to the statement by the women at the conference before arguing that the content of the statement still is an important voice from the past that reminds us of the plight of women in South Africa. The role of the church as an important agent of change is then discussed briefly before concluding with an example of a programme by the South African Council of Churches (SACC) that is aimed at change in society.Contribution: In the conclusion, the author proposes a South African conference for women where current programmes can be synchronised and planning for the future can be done.

Introduction Joseph Hellweg, Special Feature Editor Since the Mande Studies Association (MANSA) held its 2017 triennial meeting in Grand Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire, various members, including the authors of this special feature, have been reassessing the relationship between MANSA’s name and its mission. The contributors to this collection believe that the very notions of “Mande” and “Mandeness” risk restricting MANSA’s recent expansion. Whereas that growth seems to have occurred in response to an openness to research on topics beyond the realm of Mande, a nostalgia for Mandeness in our work may occlude a well-documented tendency toward adaptation and diversity within both the Mande world and the field of Mande Studies. We believe that our concerns mirror those of our colleagues in African Studies, anthropology, art history, the arts, education, history, literary studies, and other disciplines, who have, for some time, been critiquing notions of ethnicity as definitive of their research-related concerns. This special feature therefore aims to generate an association-wide, multidisciplinary, trans-Atlantic conversation about the fit between our field of study and how we conceptualize it. In this introduction, I want both to explain how the contributors came to feel the need for this discussion and to summarize the content of our contributions. How We Arrived Here Before the Grand Bassam conference, MANSA had held previous African conferences in Bamako, Mali in 1993 and 2011; Serrekunda, Gambia in 1998; Kankan and Conakry, Guinea in 2005; and Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso in 2014, all in majority Mande-speaking areas. Grand Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire was the exception, since Mande-speaking peoples constitute a minority population in that country. Barbara Hoffman, MANSA’s president at the time, had chosen Côte d’Ivoire as the conference site, and Jeanne Toungara, longtime friend and colleague of Sam Koffi, the chief operating officer of the International University of Grand Bassam, secured the university as our venue. As president-elect then, I asked my Ivorian colleague, Patrick Zadi Zadi, in the summer of 2016, about [End Page 155] how best to publicize plans for the conference. He kindly held a meeting at his home in Abidjan and invited colleagues of his from Ivorian research institutes and universities to meet and talk with Barbara and me. Yao Marcel Kouakou, now MANSA’s West Africa coordinator, then spread the word through his networks in Côte d’Ivoire. As a result, the Grand Bassam conference hosted a greater number, and more diverse group, of African-based researchers—and in particular Ivorian colleagues, many working beyond the bounds of “Mande”— than had any previous MANSA triennial conference. The number of European participants was also heartening. The conference signaled a potential sea change in the topical orientations and geographical focus of our members, calling us to reconsider the potential limits of our focus on Mande. Some four years later, on October 10, 2021, while Maria Grosz-Ngaté was visiting the United States, she, Rosa de Jorio, Renata Serra, Alioune Sow, and I met together in Lake City, Florida to discuss the roundtable that Rosa and I were preparing on the future of Mande Studies for the online meeting that fall of the African Studies Association (ASA). Alioune, Maria, Rosa, Baba Coulibaly, Sten Hagberg, and I then met virtually on October 30 and November 13 to discuss our presentations. We held our roundtable on Thursday, November 18, 2021, under the title, “Renewing Mande Studies: Resisting Stasis, Recentering Places,” to reflect the conference theme, “Re-Centering Africa: Resistance and Renewal in a World beyond COVID-19.” In the months following the conference, all of us, save Sten, who needed to attend to other obligations, revised and expanded our presentations for publication here, in the order in which I introduce each essay below. An Overview of the Contributions Maria Grosz-Ngaté (Indiana University and former ASA president) interrogates the risks of organizing our association so exclusively around Mande identity. She does so in light of scholarly critiques of ethnicity by Mande specialists, the trajectory of MANSA’s own historical development, Mali’s recent political history, and the geographical, rather than ethnic, orientations of contemporary West African intellectuals. She ends by asking if MANSA...

Capacity development of research ethics committees is generally limited to members, andseldom includes administrators. This study sought to map the capacity development effortsof research ethics administrators. A scoping review was conducted. The literature searchyielded 92 potentially relevant records, and further screening yielded 22 studies. The 22studies were extracted and synthesized; two studies spoke directly on administrators’capacity development, while the remaining 20 focused on the capacity development ofcommittees or of committee members. The two studies which spoke directly on administratorsreported about two capacity development efforts targeting administrators in Africa, namelythe African Conference for Administrators of Research Ethics Committees, and the WestAfrican Bioethics Training Program.

This article conveys the critical elements of the keynote address delivered by the author at the opening session of the Second African Conference on Debt and Development (Lilongwe, Malawi). It presents four propositions to analyze and tackle the political economy of African external debt in the context of the socio-economic transformation of the continent. It claims that confronting, dismantling and reframing such political economies offer a level of difficulty that perhaps exceeds the challenges faced with respect to the attainment of political independence. The significant role of a collective African leadership in championing the evolution of an African financial architecture is emphasized.

A changing climate will have demonstrable effects on health and healthcare systems, with specific and disproportionate effects on communities in Africa. Emergency care systems and providers have an opportunity to be at the forefront of efforts to combat the worst health effects from climate change. The 2020 African Conference on Emergency Medicine, under the auspices of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine, convened its first ever workshop on the topic of climate change and human health. Structured as a full day virtual course, the didactic sections were available for both live and asynchronous learning with more than 100 participants enrolled in the course. The workshop introduced the topic of the health effects of climate as they relate to emergency care in Africa and provided a forum to discuss ideas regarding the way forward. Lectures and focused discussions addressed three broad themes related to: health impacts, health care delivery, and advocacy. To our knowledge, this is the first workshop for health professionals to cover topics specific to emergency care, climate change, and health in Africa. The results of this workshop will help to guide future efforts aimed at advancing emergency care approaches in Africa with regard to medical education, research, and policy.African relevance•Climate-related extreme weather events are adversely affecting health and health care delivery in African countries.•African organisations, cities, and nations have taken positive steps to adapt and build climate resilience.•There are opportunities for emergency care professionals and scholars to continue to expand, and lead, climate and health education, research, and policy initiatives on the continent.

The Asian African Conference Museum owns a special library that has stored a variety of rare collections, especially collections on the holding of the 1955 Asian African Conference. This study aims to describe the preservation carried out by the library for those rare collections. The research used a descriptive qualitative method. The data were obtained through interviews with the staff of the Asian African Conference Museum Library, and literature studies. The result showed that the Asian African Conference Museum Library had preserved the collection by limiting visitors to the collection room, cleaning the dust using a vacuum cleaner, using shelves according to standards, cooperating with the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia in restoration, and implementing a ban on visitors carrying food/drink to the library. However, there were still many efforts that need to be implemented and optimized such as temperature and humidity control, lighting, pollution, prevention of insects and fungi, and anticipate natural disasters. The role of the librarian is needed to optimize the preservation of collection efforts in the Asian African Conference Museum Library.

From the Inside:The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End Tom Rice (bio) In January 1948 the British Film Institute organized a conference entitled "The Film in Colonial Development." While speakers at the conference trotted out, as the journal West Africa termed it, "the old rusty arguments about primitive, illiterate peoples … ad nauseam," they also acknowledged a shift in colonial film policy that was clearly closely aligned to broader political developments.1 "Throughout our Colonial Office policy we are working at one main thing," explained K. W. Blackburn, the Director of Information Services at the Colonial Office, "trying to teach the people of the Colonies to run the show themselves and doing precisely that thing in the film world as in every other field."2 Speaking at the conference, John Grierson further outlined the need to create "a genuine African Unit that can work with native units in other colonies," what he described as a "Colonial Film Unit with true regard for decentralization and the part which natives will play in it."3 The conference marks a public shift in colonial film policy, revealing at a moment when the British government was outlining concurrent changes in its political strategies toward Africa. It represents a moment of transition, one marked by uncertainty surrounding decentralization and the alacrity and extent to which power would be transferred. The discussions address the position, function, and structure of the Colonial Film Unit (CFU) and, as throughout the history of the CFU, these film policies were intricately connected to greater political changes. When the CFU began in 1939, under the aegis of the Ministry of Information (MOI), it sought to produce "propaganda" films encouraging African audiences, exemplified by its first production, Mr. English at Home (dir. Gordon Hales, 1940, Great Britain). After the war, the role of the CFU began to change in ways that often mirrored the broader processes of decolonization. At the start of 1946, the CFU sent units to East and West Africa. Now funded by the Colonial Development and Welfare Act and under the direction of the Films Division of the Central Office of Information (COI), the CFU made instructional films for African audiences, as practical [End Page 107] instruction replaced more general imperial propaganda. By 1948, the CFU was increasingly looking to take production (and with it expenditure) away from London and into the colonies. The Home Unit now accounted for no more than twenty percent of the CFU's output and was financed separately as an allied service from the vote of the COI. The increasing marginalization of the Home Unit is indicative then of this shift in film policy, which closely mirrored changes in political policy.4 The Home Unit serves to connect the traditional functions and structure of the CFU with its ultimate ambitions. Its role in filming Africans brought over to London may appear anachronistic within the context of an administrative and film policy that was increasingly looking away from London and towards the colonies. Yet, in filming a series of conferences, tours, and public exhibitions, these Home Unit productions reveal some of the ways in which the Colonial Office visualized Britain's changing relationship with Africa and, more significantly, sought to articulate these impending changes to an African audience. The films depict African sportsmen (Nigerian Footballers in England, 1949), musicians (Colonial Cinemagazine 9, 1947), and leaders (An African Conference in London, 1948). They celebrate British interest in the empire (Colonial Month, 1949) and show social and political events that sought to challenge popular perceptions of African political life. Yet, in their largely traditional formal structure, which defined London through its landmarks, institutions, and repeated references to the royal family, as the ideological center from which the empire could be controlled and contained, the films reveal the still tentative and reactionary nature of the British government's moves toward decolonization. The films of the Home Unit thus provide a starting point when examining these shifts within colonial film and political policy. In showing official events and tours, they reveal some of the ways in which the Colonial Office and the COI sought to promote and represent a reconfigured empire to the British public and...

On May 24-26, 2021, the 15th International African Studies Conference «Destinies of Africa in the Modern World» was held, organized by the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences together with the Roscongress Foundation and with the support of the Russian News Agency TASS. The event was held both in a face-to-face and distant format. The plenary session (opening of the conference) was held in the TASS press center. It was attended by leading Russian scholars in the field of African studies, representatives of the authorities of the Russian Federation and the African Union, and African ambassadors to Russia. During the event the participants discussed such issues as the current state of cooperation between Russia and African countries, the interaction of state institutions, business, and the academic community of the Russian Federation, priority areas for the development of partnership, including in the context of preparations for the second Russia-Africa Summit, which is scheduled to be held in 2022, as well as the role and significance of the conference itself. Russia's cooperation with African countries is complex and includes both trade and economic and humanitarian components. Within the frames of 48 sections, which were attended by more than 500 participants from 5 continents, the participants considered in detail within the entire spectrum of socio-humanitarian knowledge the current problems of Africa and the prospects for the development of Africa, the prospects of Russia-Africa cooperation. The recommendations following the results of the plenary session and sections of the conference can be used in developing the approaches to cooperation with African countries, and the very fact of holding such a large-scale event allows to speak of Russia as one of the world centers of African studies.

Based on the Round Table Conference between Indonesia and the Netherlands' representatives in 1949, West Papua will be delivered to Indonesia a year later. Nevertheless, the Dutch broke their promise to return West Papua to Indonesian sovereignty. The Dutch continued to insist on West Papua as their land and then increased their military presence in West Papua to prepare for defending the territory. Responding to this, initially, Indonesia made peaceful efforts, namely bilateral diplomacy within the Indonesian-Dutch Union ties, continued with trilateral diplomacy and diplomacy efforts using the Asian African Conference and United Nations organizations. However, Indonesian diplomatic efforts met with deadlock. Hence, another form of diplomacy, the military effort, has been displayed. This study's main aim is to review the 1962 military confrontation on salvaging West Papua in the analysis on war theory. Also, to prove that with sufficient military strength, the country will confidently step up to be the negotiating table winner. The Indonesian military strength at that time was playing a significant role as a deterrent effect. The research uses a qualitative descriptive phenomenology method, using data sources from several books and journals available. The result of the research shows that Indonesia absolutely needs a modern and more rigid military force to maintain its sovereignty, protect our Island and its natural resources. Without the deterrent effect of military power, Indonesia will be underestimated in international politics.

Abstract In the two decades following the 1955 Asian African Conference in Bandung, Asian and African jurists sought to reshape international law to better incorporate the aspirations of formerly colonised peoples. The Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee (AALCC), founded one year after the Bandung Conference, helped formulate a common Afro-Asian and Third World international legal agenda by bringing together jurists and ideologically diverse Asian and African governments while collaborating with UN institutions working to codify and develop international law. The AALCC’s work and the contemporaneous writings of African and Asian jurists reveal a shared ambition to weaken the international protection of foreign-owned property by pursuing a legal agenda anchored in the structure and principles of the post-World War II international legal system. The Afro-Asian international legal agenda combined efforts to eliminate pre-war rules incompatible with the foundational principles of the UN Charter while elaborating the content of these principles through UN institutions.

The Seventh Biennial South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association Conference 2019: Shaping M&E for a Sustainable Future – Editorial