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Africa Week is back from 4 -8 March!
Organised by
@ALC_KCL
&
@AfricaKCL
on the theme 'Owning agency: Africa’s future and evolving path in the world'. Join in and hear from African scholars, leaders and thinkers.
Online + in-person
See more: .
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The first black woman Professor to give an inaugural lecture at Kings College London in its entire history.
#FunmiInaugural
@FunmiOlonisakin
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📢Exciting Opportunity Alert!
@ALC_KCL
announces the call for applications for Peace, Security & Development Fellowship for 2024/2025.
Learn more about our fellowship programs👇
#ALCFellowships
#AfricaLeadership
#Fellowships
#PeaceSecurityDevelopment
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We are pleased to announce Dr. Ife Sinachi a former PhD Student
@ALC_KCL
& Expert on Maritime Security has been appointed Lecturer in Sustainable Development at the University of St. Andrews .She will be joining the University from 1 May 2020
Read more:
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The African Leadership Centre and King's College London announces funding to support African students for full-time PhD studies at King's College. For more details visit: Deadline: 1st April 2020.
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We are glad to welcome our new Fellows for 2021 cohort: two Associate MSc Fellows based in London & four Early Career Women Fellows – we wish them all the best and an exciting journey ahead.
More:
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Congratulations Prof
@FunmiOlonisakin
founder
@ALC_KCL
who was conferred an Honorary doctorate from
@UPTuks
for her distinctive contributions to research on the issues underlining the changing nature of peace & security in Africa
We are proud of you!
More:
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"African academy will be left behind if it does not adapt to technology " ~ Prof. Funmi Olonisakin
#IDSUoNAgenda
#IDG2020
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Prof.
@FunmiOlonisakin
became the first black woman to deliver an Inaugural Lecture in the almost 190-year history of
@KingsCollegeLon
the fourth oldest university in England.
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“Eurocentric education is complicit in racism because it diminishes other valid ways of knowing and learning. There should be room for pluralism of ideas so that students feel a sense of belonging and expand their worldview.”
@funmiolonisakin
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Obituary Announcement: It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of African Leadership Centre's Deputy Chair of Board of Trustees, Dr Peter da Costa on the evening of Sunday, 18 August 2019.
Read more:
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We are pleased to announce Head of ALC Fellowship Programmes
@DrNayankaPP
, graduated with a PhD in Leadership Studies with reference to Security & Development, which she undertook at the ALC, King's College London.
Read more:
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Happening this afternoon at River Room, King's Building: Join
@ALC_KCL
and
@kizzabesigye1
for a keynote address discussing how
#Africa
can promote
#peace
in a complex global landscape, with a focus on
#Sudan
.
#KCLAfricaWeek
#AfricaDebate
Register 👉
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As 2022 King’s
#AfricaWeek
draws to a close,
@ALC_KCL
celebrates the appointment of Dr
@eka_ikpe
as Director at the African Leadership Centre, King's College London, earlier announced in Sept 2021. Eka follows on from Prof Alao.
Congratulations!
More 👉
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"The idea that Africa is a continent of disease & death has to be challenged, especially now that the West itself is suffering from major outbreaks & alarming death tolls"
@dsfactories
Read here: "The pandemic can be a catalyst for decolonization in Africa"
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Upcoming event: Africa Week at King’s College London.
#KingsAfricaWeek
📅 19-25 October 2020
For full schedule of Key Events and Registration
go to👉:
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“There is clarity in the minds of students of colour when they articulate their experiences and demand that universities address systemic racism and decolonise education.”
@funmiolonisakin
@timeshighered
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'Knowledge Production, Decoloniality & Higher Education in Africa & beyond' tune in to what promises to be a scintillating expose of this vital debate
@KingsCollege
#kingsAfricaweek
keynote lecture delivered by
@GodwinMurunga
Executive Secretary
@CODESRIA
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BOOK RELEASE:
@ALC_KCL
is pleased to announce the formal release of the book “Whose Peace Are We Building? Leadership for Peace in Africa” authored by Prof Youssef Mahmoud with Dr. Albert Mbiatem & published by IB Taurus, Bloomsbury Press.
Full text:
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ALC founder Prof. Funmi featured in a unique exhibition. Titled ‘Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors’ it exhibits 40 professors across disciplines & highlights their career experiences, strategies & achievements. Photo via
@BBCNews
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Congratulations to Professor Youssef Mahmoud, Visiting Professor at
@ALC_KCL
& Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute (IPI) & Dr. Albert Mbiatem , ALC Alumnus & member of ALC’s Central Africa Hub on the release of their Book.
Full text:
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Africa Week 2023 is back! Join
@ALC_KCL
&
@AfricaKCL
's celebration of Africa with its research, education and outreach activities. Hear from African scholars, leaders & thinkers from March 6-10 on "Changing Africa in a shifting global landscape"
#AfricaWeek2023
#ChangingAfrica
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Upcoming event: Inaugural Dr Peter Da Costa Memorial Lecture.
Keynote speaker: Prof. Funmi Olonisakin.
📆 August 18, 2020
⏲️ 15:00 BST /10:00 EST/ 17:00 EAT.
Check website for more details and how to register:
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We are pleased to announce one Alumnus of the African Leadership Centre's Peace & Security Fellowship Dr Nompilo Ndlovu 2010/2011 has graduated with a PhD in Historical Studies from the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa.
Read more:
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At this 10th anniversary, we note with pride that the over 100 thriving alumni– their ideas & values, the knowledge they produce & the work of their hands will project their voice & place them on the stage to influence Africa’s future direction"
@FunmiOlonisakin
.
#ALCat10
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“We need staff and leadership that is representative of the identities of the student community and larger society. This will only happen if resources are devoted to the training of under-represented groups and creating a pipeline within universities.”
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'Mkandawire was right when he passionately argued that public health systems can't be abandoned to the profit-seeking mercy of market forces'
@DennisJjuuko
Read: Africa in the Storm of COVID-19:Lessons from Thandika Mkandawire’s Critique of Neo-Liberalism.
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"A Pattern has emerged in which any actor any global actor that wants to occupy a place of importance in the world uses Africa to signal its importance..."
Full podcast on "A Conversation about Africa at King's & Security in the horn of Africa"
#Africaweek
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PhD Opportunity Alert!
🎓
@KingsCollegeLon
Applications for a fully funded 4-year PhD
#studentship
on "Afro beats and Afro bytes: exploring West African music's global impact in digital economies" are now open!
More information:
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My personal mission is to close the gap between my life and my living - I want to achieve vision of self and vision of society - Prof. Funmi
#KingsAfricaWeek
.
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Delivering the keynote address, Prof
@FunmiOlonisakin
argued: “Peter Da Costa led a knowledge revolution framed by a particular worldview and position in relation to the politics of knowledge”.
#RememberingPeterDaCosta
@ShuvaiBusuman
@hubertusking89
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As Africa confronts yet another defining moment with the ongoing security fragilities; threats of fragmentation; and governance crises, what hopes are there for constructive insights from the continents efforts at regional integration?
@ChidiOdinkalu
will speak on this and more
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We are proud to announce our Research Associate Dr Sarah Njeri has been Awarded the British Academy Writing workshop grant. The workshop will be held
@HekimaHIPSIR
in July, and they seek to support development of early career scholars.
Read more:
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@ALC_KCL
is celebrating its 10th year Anniversary.
#ALCat10
provides us the opportunity to reflect and celebrate achievements of the decade long collaboration and joint initiative of
@KingsCollegeLon
and
@UoN
since the Centre was established in Nairobi on 24 June 2010.
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Earlier today, our researchers met with a team from
@Neem_foundation
a non-profit organisation in Nigeria where they discussed various areas of engagement in research, training and fellowships.
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We are pleased to present the Africa Week 2024, an annual event dedicated to promoting research, education, and outreach activities centred on Africa.
The event will be held in-person and online from March 4-8.
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"The
@ALC_KCL
set me on a journey of self discovery which raised my consciousness on how to align my ideas & passion with Africa's aspiration for peace, security and development"
@psalmson112
#ALCat10
#alumnitestimony
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#KingsAfricaWeek
Join the conversation on "Security Transformation, Youth and Leadership in Nigeria"
🗓️ Friday 23 Oct
🕘16:00 to 17:30 BST
Register:
#EndSARS
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“It is vitally important for Universities to not only to acknowledge historical legacies of injustice and the power dynamics that make the university complicit in racism and other inequalities, but to commit to doing no further harm.”
@funmiolonisakin
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ALC bulletin: See latest publications from faculty & associates, as part of our ongoing research agenda ‘Peace, Society & the State in Africa’, that re-interrogates the state in Africa in relation to the challenges of peacebuilding, conflict & insecurity.
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"The Neo-colonial habit of looking outward to the Global North for ideas and solutions may prove to be more devastating for the African populace than the COVID-19 pandemic itself"
@MwemweFabiano
in
#Covid19ALCResearch
Read more:
@dsfactories
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📢ALC-King's Africa Debates!!
How can Africa assert its agency for
#Peace
in today's multipolar world? Join the
#ALCAfricaWeekDebate
@kizzabesigye1
will deliver a keynote on
#Sudan
's journey towards stability & the continent's role in shaping its future.
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Scholarship Announcement!
Interested in PhD Studies? Check out these
@KingsCollegeLon
fully funded scholarships for African students for 2022/2023 entry including
@ALC_KCL
Ph.D. Leadership with reference to Security & Development.
Deadline: 18 March 2022
🔗
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Today faculty and staff of both the African Leadership Centre and Institute for Development Studies - University of Nairobi met and discussed modalities to strengthen their existing partnership and how to ensure optimal performance for both institutions.
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We are glad to welcome our new Masters Students in our two masters programme: Leadership and Development; Leadership, Security and Society programmes for the academic year 2019-2020.
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Such vibrant conversation at the
@WiltonPark
Town Hall Discussion yesterday, held at
@IDS_UONBI
.
The panelists encouraged young Africans to get off the sidelines and get involved in shaping the agenda, as it is their future at stake!
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You can catch a recording of Africa Week Opening Radio Live Discussion on 'A conversation about Africa at King’s and security in the Horn of Africa' via our Facebook Page. A podcast will be posted in the coming days.
#KingsAfricaWeek
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ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!!
Read
@ALC_KCL
Founder at
@FunmiOlonisakin
ALC at 10 years: Celebrating the dream and the journey.
Full text available here:
#ALCat10
@ShuvaiBusuman
@dsfactories
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"The COVID-19 pandemic presents a rare opportunity for enhanced intra-African cooperation in the history of maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea, & coastal states throughout the African continent"
@DiplomaticIfe
Read more:
@dsfactories
@ShuvaiBusuman
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Prof. Funmi Olonisakin welcome note to Africa week
@KingsCollegeLon
#KingsAfricaWeek
#peace
#security
#AfricaWeek
#agency
#Leadership
#Africa
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“That there are only 40 black women out of 19,285 UK professors (of which 12,975 are white males, 4,560 white women and 90 black males) goes to the heart of the issue of systemic racism.”
@funmiolonisakin
@timeshighered
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Ambassador
@MEsipisu
says the only way to resolve
#conflict
is by common consent. As Africans, we must speak sparingly and decisively, speak & act when we have an advantage.
#KingsAfricaWeek
#Africa2024
#KCLAfrica2024
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"The ALC is the model scholarship that everyone providing Africans with scholarships should emulate..."
@Njokiwamai
#ALCat10
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How do you come in as an outsider to lead operations meant to bring 'peace' to unstable contexts? Author of 'Whose Peace are We Building', Youssef Mahmoud speaks to this in the latest interview for ALC Talking Africa with
@DaviesDesmond
More 👉
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There are many young Kenyans, and many more around the youthful continent of Africa, who without obligation to do so are emerging to offer leadership during this
#COVID19
crisis" notes
@dsfactories
in
#covid19ALCResearch
.
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'If we do not own technology and are mere users, it will become a vector or channel of new colonization. We need radical programs to own and use tech'
@TamukaKagoro77
#ALCAlumniConf2023
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"ALC Launches COVID-19 Op-ed Series - an online and African Focused series that tracks, analyses and reflects on Covid-19 in and for Africa"
Read more:
#Covid19ALCResearch
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#AfricaDay2021
EVENT - “Retrospecting to prospect: Que Vadis Africa?” The 11th Thabo Mbeki Africa Day Lecture delivered by Prof Fumni Olonisakin
🗓️: Tuesday 25 May 2021
⏲️: 15:30 - 17:30 (CAT)
Click here to register:
@MbekiSchool
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Who was Dr. Peter Da Costa? Until his passing on August 2019 Dr. Da Costa was Mentor, and Vice-Chair of ALC’s Board of Trustees.
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Celebrating 11years of training & mentoring young Africans to lead & enable innovative change in their communities; change that is grounded in African realities of peace, security & development for the African region and beyond
#ALCat11
#ALCAnniversary
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We are pleased to announce ALC Research Fellow
@WanjiruGichohi
, graduated with a PhD in Business, Project Management Option which she undertook at Kenyatta University, Nairobi.
Read more:
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King’s Engaged In Africa Conference: Closing Keynote Dr. Majak d’Agoot Former Minister of Defence South Sudan
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"Leadership is not a title; it is not contested in ballot box only and neither is it the preserve of those occupying certain positions in humanitarian aid nor those charged with specific institutional mandates"
@dsfactories
argues in
#Covid19ALCResearch
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Join us on March 27th, as we hear from H.E Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 'Africa’s Position in A (Dis)Ordered Multipolar World'
Register here:
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"Use of evidence to make decisions is a question of justice...'Is it working?' is a question of socio-economic justice."
@sarahtlucas
of
@Hewlett_Found
#AfricaEvidence
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Dr. Ife Sinachi
@DiplomaticIfe
a former PhD Student
@ALC_KCL
& Expert on Maritime Security was recently interviewed by the BBC where she shared her views on piracy attack off the coast of Togo
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How do we decolonize knowledge production in Africa? Get answers from
@FunmiOlonisakin
and
@AbiodunAlao
at
#ALCalumniConf
on 27/03/2021. Register here:
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Join
@ALC_KCL
- CSW VIRTUAL EVENT: Inter-generational Dialogue on WPS; Lessons from Beijing+25
⏲️4:00 PM - 5:30PM EAT
🗓️18th March 2021
The event will be live streamed👉:
#NGOCSW65VirtualForum
#NGOCSW65
#CSW65
#Beijing25
#GenerationEquality
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'There is an emerging global higher education market where only HEIs that are competitive,adaptable & with innovative curriculum will thrive' Dr.Olawale Ismail
on'Analogue Education, Digital Generation: Covid-19 & the Future of Higher Education in Africa'
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Social media has been the greatest source of inclusivity for young people
@FakhuusHashim
speaking on the future of Peace In Nigeria.
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"The Mentorship I received during my fellowship influenced my Afro-Centric way of thinking and refueled my resolve to re-imagine Africa as I would want it to be...".
@DiplomaticIfe
#ALCat10
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For
#Africaweek
Tomorrow Oct 15, Join
@OSISA
&
@ALC_KCL
for "The Ozias Tungwarara Lecture and Inter-generational Dialogue on Leadership" Moderated by Prof
@FunmiOlonisakin
Keynote Speaker: H.E Eileen Johnson-Sirleaf
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Yesterday we had the honour of hosting Dr
@kfayemi
at the
@ALC_KCL
in a roundtable discussion on ‘The Challenge of Leadership: Continuity & Change in Nigeria’ moderated by Prof
@FunmiOlonisakin
, where he shared his reflections on democratic leadership and democratic change
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Today: ' Knowledge Production, Decoloniality and higher Education in Africa ' Join Dr
@GodwinMurunga
Executive Secretary
@CODESRIA
online from 12:00 to 13:00 BST. Register now:
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We are pleased to announce the launch of a Joint PhD Programme on Leadership and Security Studies between
@KingsCollegeLon
and the
@UPTuks
This programme allows students to have either King's College London or the University of Pretoria as their ‘host institution’.
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Happening now!
Africa Week Keynote lecture 2020
@eka_ikpe
@GodwinMurunga
@FunmiOlonisakin
#KingsAfricaWeek
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Welcome to Prof.
@FunmiOlonisakin
Inaugural Lecture on Leadership and Conversation in Dialogue: Securing Peace in the Unromantic Context.
Monday 9 July, 2018, Bush House Auditorium. 18.30.
RSVP
#SSPPInaugural
#FunmiInaugural
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At the opening event of King’s Africa Week 2024, HE Amb
@MEsipisu
, Kenya High Commissioner to the UK, and Prof
@FunmiOlonisakin
, VP International, Engagement and Service at
@KingsCollegeLon
, will deliver opening keynotes. Dr
@eka_ikpe
will provide the welcome remarks.
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We are very pleased to announce this year’s winners of the
@KingsCollegeLon
African Community of Practice Outstanding Achievement Award, one of whom-
@wadeisor
- is currently undertaking the ALC Peace and Security Fellowship for African Scholars.
Read more:
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"We need a more nuanced understanding of peace that taps into the human potential for peace and not the propensity for violence"Prof Youssef Mahmoud
#WhosePeace
#Leadership4Peace
@ShuvaiBusuman
@ipinst
@dsfactories
@Mbiatem2
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📢BOOK LAUNCH!
Join us for the upcoming
@ALC_KCL
research seminar, taking place both in London and virtually, featuring Dr Barney Walsh discussing his book "Uganda's Role in China-Africa Relations"
🗓️ 4 Oct 2023
📷16:00 BST
Register👉
#ALCResearchSeminar
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Huge congratulations to Josephine Chandiru
@ALC_KCL
2013/14 Alumna & Director
@stewardwomen
for receiving the prestigious
#NormativeChangeAward
! Her relentless commitment to advocating for women's rights & driving positive change in
#SouthSudan
is truly remarkable. Well done!
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"COVID-19 underscores the desperate need to rethink the delivery of learning in Kenya, & Africa broadly with questions arising as to whether the current education system meets the needs & aspirations of citizens"
@Njoki_NgunyiM
@WKishara
@dsfactories
@ShuvaiBusuman
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Event: Leadership in Times of Mega Transition: Exploring the Role of Leadership in Political Stabilization and Peacebuilding in Africa.
With: Emma Sky,
@WorldFellows
@TamukaKagoro77
&
@HassanIdayat
🗓️June 11, 2018.
📌ALC, Nairobi, Kenya.
RSVP:
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ALC Alumna Sonja Theron awarded PhD from University of Pretoria
Congratulations 🎉
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New issue of our Leadership & Developing Societies Journal is out. The issue, revisits notions of governance & statehood in the developing world, exploring notions of extended statehood and multi-level governance in Africa and beyond
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Professor ‘Funmi Olonisakin discusses the importance of Africa Week and what to expect | Feature from King's College London
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''I am a living testimony of my forward-look paper at the ALC - I have grown personally and professionally since my fellowship'' Mpho Letima
#ALCat10
#alumnitestimony
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Upcoming event: Peter da Costa Memorial Lecture 2021- "Reclaiming kindness and compassion as leadership and institutional qualities in Post Pandemic Africa"
Keynote speaker: Prof
@aina_akin
📆 Wed, 29 Sept 2021
⏲️ 16:00 BST / 18:00 EAT
Register here:
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