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This panel will examine the African knowledge connections with Europe, but also with Asia, the Americas and Oceania; it will compare African and other experiences. There will be attention for African Studies in Africa and linkages with the rest of the world: the geopolitics of knowledge and innovation. And a key issue will be the attempts to achieve greater ‘strategic fairness’ in partnerships.

Accepted papers:

Rethinking trauma theory through African fiction  

Decolonization in a mobile world: resurgent social movements, radical traditions, and the space of decolonial ethics  

Decolonising African studies: debating a lost battle?  

African knowledge for environmental protection and climate change adapation in Africa: towards decolonizing climate science  

Language and educational policies and the "postcolonial" state in Africa  

"We have nothing to celebrate". At the interplay of de-politicizing and re-politicizing processes in the feminist civil society space in the fight against gender-based violence in Cape Town  

Adaptation of solutions from South Asia: experiences of improving learning outcomes in Africa  

Towards an African epistemology in African Studies  

Vanishing knowledge in water resources development and management in the arid and semiarid lands (ASALs) of Kenya