African Agency in a Changing World: Embracing Opportunities and Navigating Challenges
The 3-day conference will bring together scholars (students, faculty, and researchers), advocates, practitioners, policymakers, and community members within and outside Australia for a conversation around African Agency in a world that is currently undergoing geopolitical shifts
Honorary Fellow (University of Melbourne) Lamine Sonko will present a paper examining guewel practices as a means of embodying and transmitting metaphysical knowledge systems. The event will also feature an exclusive screening of 13.12's short documentary film DEUP.
The conference is hinged on Africa's historical portrayal as a passive participant in global progress and the ongoing narratives of the continent’s dependency. It, therefore, seeks to highlight the various ways in which Africans assert their agency in historical and contemporary terms within and outside the continent.