Dear All,
The African Leadership Centre invites you to save the date for the upcoming King’s Africa Week, happening from
3-7 March 2025
King’s Africa Week showcases recent cutting-edge research, educational programmes, and engagement activities on Africa. It is convened by the African Leadership Centre and Africa research group, Department of War Studies. Africa Week brings together academics, researchers, and students from across King's and offers the opportunity to hear from African scholars, leaders, and thinkers.
Events for this year's Africa Week will occur in person and online.
This year’s theme is "Disrupting Distances: Nations, Systems, and Leadership"
The growing dissonance between global institutions designed to tackle global challenges and the realities on the ground are more pronounced than ever. The UN system is arguably the most fundamental embodiment of this attempt to intervene and redress the balance. Yet, its most recent scorecard in a year of disastrous violence, abuse of power, breakup of regimes and fragmentation of erstwhile respected institutions shows reinforced hegemony and distances evident in some regions of the world: distance between systems and societal realities, and between leaders and the people they govern. This outcome is compounding distances, creating distrust and apathy within nations and between nations, institutions, and communities.
Against this background, this year’s Africa week critically interrogates:
- What forms of leadership will disrupt the growing distances between nations, and between institutions and the people they are supposed to serve?
- How can Africa exercise greater agency in disrupting these distances created by global power hierarchies?
Find the full concept note here: Africa-week-2025-concept-note
For more on the events and to register, please go to https://www.kcl.ac.uk/africa-week
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