Africa Knows! It is time to decolonise the minds

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Educational foundations [initiated by Hague University of Applied Sciences]

A02

4

History of education in Africa [initiated by URMIS - Nice]

A03

1

Africa’s current knowledge infrastructure and institutions creation’ [initiated by NUFFIC]

A04

2

Reflexivity and positionality in doing excellent research

B06

1

Strengthening postgraduate environments in African academia [initiated by ISS]

B07

1

Decolonising higher education in Africa: disciplinary and pedagogical Issues [initiated by the University of Ghana at Legon]

B08

4

Decolonizing the knowledge linkages between Africa and the rest of the world [initiated by the University of Cape Town]

B09

Decolonizing African heritage inside and outside the African continent [initiated by the University of Mainz, with Leiden University/Anthropology, University of Rwanda]

B10

3

International knowledge migration [initiated by NUFFIC, and ISS of Erasmus University on the role of diaspora transnationals]

B11

2

Asia-Africa, A New Axis of Knowledge [International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)]

B12

4

Knowledge networking within Africa [initiated by EMU Maputo; also involvement by PAL]

C13

1

The European Union and Africa’s knowledge infrastructure [initiated by ECDPM-Maastricht, with support from ISCTE-IULisbon]

C14

1

Sustainable diplomacy between Africa and Europe: what knowledge capabilities should be developed?

C15

1

Challenges of African Studies in Central and Eastern Europe [initiated by CAAS, Czech Republic]

D16

8

Country/region-specific knowledge development histories in Africa [initiated/coordinated by ASCL]

D16a

1

Innovations, new paradigms and knowledge development in North Africa

D17

Africa’s universities and think-tanks [initiated by the University of Bayreuth]

D18

2

Disciplinary trends in Africa: water science and technology

D19

2

Disciplinary trends in Africa: history (double panel)

D20

Health challenges in urbanizing Africa and win-win partnership

D21

3

Disciplinary trends in Africa: economics, finance studies, business studies [from ASCL, inputs from EUR-RSM, AERC, and Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ebonyi State Nigeria]

D22

2

Disciplinary trends in Africa: legal and socio-legal studies

D23

1

The order(ing) of knowledge: epistemology of studies of health, culture and education in Africa/ (In)discipline de la connaissance: epistémologie des recherches sur l’Afrique

D24

The Impact of the Ethiopian Health Extension Program and Health Development Army on Maternal Mortality: A Synthetic Control Approach

D25

Digital humanities in Africa [initiated by the Faculty of Humanities, Leiden and Voice4Thought]

D26

1

Multiplicity of learning events: the relationality of learning in Africa and beyond

D27a

3

Language issues: reconfiguring language use in African studies [initiated by the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos, with Africa Multiple Centre of Excellence, Bayreuth]

D27b

7

The language issue and knowledge communication in Africa [initiated by the University of Ilorin with the University of Chemnitz]

D28

Language history and its present relevance [initiated by the African Languages Department of Leiden University, in collaboration with the ASCL]

E29

1

Local knowledge and its (non-)integration in ‘formal’ education institutions [initiated by the Grup d'Estudi de les Societats Africanes/Barcelona, University of Ilorin, MITDS, Bolgatanga]

E30a

2

Future trends, grand challenges, and politics of anticipation in africa (and the role of interdisciplinary studies in Africa)

E31

Re-imagining the Sahel: the place of endogenous knowledge [initiated by CODESRIA with the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and ASCL/Lasdel]

E32

1

Slums as places of innovations, ingenuity and creativity [initiated by LAM Bordeaux]

E33

2

Decolonizing the academe in ‘red areas’, with a focus on the Great Lakes region [initiated by ISS]

E34

Other ways of knowing? Exploring religious knowing and development in Africa [initiated by the ASCL, University of Konstanz, with partners in Botswana and Zambia]

E35

1

Towards a multispecies approach in African Studies [initiated by the ASCL and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]

F36

Scaling bottom-up initiatives [initiated by Wageningen University, Science, Technology & Innovation studies, PrC Rotterdam, African and European partners in 2SCALE]

F37

1

Co-creation of Frugal innovations: whose knowledge counts? [initiated by the Frugal Innovations group of LDE with African partners, including the CFIA-Hub Kenya]

F38

Artificial intelligence and smart manufacturing in Africa [initiated by RWTH Aachen University, Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa, SA and the N. Mandela Institute of Technology, Tanzania]

F39

1

The privatization of knowledge production [initiated by NABC]

F40

Citizen science and environmental monitoring [initiated by Wageningen University and Science, Technology & Innovation studies, Ruforum, African Centre for Technology Studies]

G41

4

Youth employment, knowledge and the labour markets; knowledge and society [initiated by Edukans with INCLUDE, ISCTE-IU Lisbon and Advance Afrika (Kampala, Uganda]]

G42

3

Economically empowered young people in Africa: promoting creativity and inclusiveness [initiated by aflatoun international]

H44

1

Community-engaged learning and higher education [initiated by UDS Tamale, Ghana, and Leiden University LUC]

H45

Knowledge and action [initiated by UCT]

H46

1

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET): Bridging the Gap – Lessons from the Dutch and African Experience

H47

Integration of ATVET into broader systems of agricultural knowledge, skills and innovation

H48

2

Bridging the gap between research and policy [initiated by NAI Uppsala]

H49

Knowing impact? Reflections on policy processes in Africa [initiated by CODESRIA]

H50

3

How can curriculum decolonization operate in the third space in Global South-North collaborations?