Science ouverte au Sud — 4ème édition | Rabat, 23–26 novembre 2026
Appel à communications ouvert jusqu’au 8 juin 2026 La quatrième édition de la conférence internationale « Science ouverte au Sud » se tiendra du 23 au 26 novembre 2026 à la Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM), à Rabat. Organisée conjointement par l’IRD, la BNRM, le CNRST Maroc et le Bureau UNESCO du Maghreb, cette édition s’articule autour d’un thème central ambitieux : « Le renforcement de capacités au service de la visibilité et de l’impact scientifiques » Pourquoi cette édition compte Depuis sa première édition, la conférence « Science ouverte au Sud » est devenue un espace de référence pour les communautés scientifiques africaines et méditerranéennes engagées dans la transformation des pratiques de production, de diffusion et d’accès au savoir. En 2026, à Rabat, l’accent est mis sur une question décisive : comment les institutions du Sud peuvent-elles renforcer leurs capacités pour accroître la visibilité internationale et l’impact réel de leurs recherches ? Les enjeux abordés couvriront notamment : Soumettre une communication L’appel à communications est ouvert jusqu’au 8 juin 2026. Informations pratiques Dates 23 – 26 novembre 2026 Lieu BNRM – Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc, Rabat Organisateurs IRD · BNRM · CNRST Maroc · Bureau UNESCO Maghreb Site officiel opensciencesud4.sciencesconf.org Date limite soumission 8 juin 2026 Global Africa suit avec attention les initiatives qui placent les chercheurs africains et méditerranéens au cœur des débats sur la science ouverte. Nous encourageons nos lecteurs et partenaires à soumettre leurs travaux et à participer à cet espace d’échange scientifique de haut niveau.
Call for Papers
🎓 YOUNG RESEARCHERS FROM SENEGAL, THIS CALL IS FOR YOU! 🇸🇳 To mark its 10th anniversary, LASPAD is launching a call for papers to offer you a first experience in academic publishing, editorial support, and the opportunity to join a dynamic research network! Are you a graduate in the Social Sciences and Humanities (Master’s or PhD) from a Senegalese institution?Do you want to turn your thesis or dissertation into a scholarly article?Would you like to share your work through Global Africa Junior or other innovative formats (podcasts, multilingual publications)? 👉 Apply before July 31, 2025📧 redaction@globalafricapress.org Selected articles will be presented during the LASPAD 10th Anniversary celebration (December 4–6, 2025 in Saint-Louis), then published in French, Wolof, and audio format. 🔗 Click here to learn more…
African Cities: Climate Change and the Search for Resilience
CONFERENCE African Cities: Climate Change and the Search for Resilience University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Whilst there is compelling evidence to prove that urbanization in Africa has significantly boosted development, the urbanization experience is largely a story of increasing urban poverty, poor land use planning, and inadequate socio-economic infrastructure. The urbanization pressure faced by African countries is exacerbated by the changing climate and also contributes to it. Call for papers It is a challenge that concerns the entire urban environment, including conflicting imaginations of how African cities of the future should look like. This conference thus seeks to open an interdisciplinary dialogue and solicit models, strategies, and prescriptions for dealing with Africa’s urbanization, development, and climate pressure. It also seeks to highlight local initiatives aimed at building climate resilient cities in Africa. Please send your application to scholze@em.uni-frankfurt.de by August 30, 2022. Applications from the social sciences and humanities, but also natural sciences, are welcome. If you have any questions about the content of the call, please contact the conveners Prof. Ines Macamo Raimundo (inesmacamo@gmail.com) from the University Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Prof. Charlotte Wrigley-Asante (CWrigley-Asante@ug.edu.gh) and Prof. Alex Barimah Owusu (abowusu@ug.edu.gh) from the University of Ghana in Legon/Accra.
Colonization, Christianity and Commerce
The Afterlives of Slavery in the Trans-Atlantic CALL FOR PAPER 2022 Colonization, Christianity, and Commerce: The Afterlives of Slavery in the Trans-Atlantic World An International Conference jointly organized by Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ.; Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington, D.C. USA; and The University of Liberia, Monrovia. Ministerial Complex, Monrovia, Liberia. October 17-19, 2022 The 400-years legacy of chattel slavery in the trans-Atlantic world, marked by the arrival of Africans in the Americas in the 16th century, and through its official abolition by the late 19th century, has produced reverberations, issues, problems, and consequences, which continue to require critical reflection and action. Former enslaved Africans in the Americas made the return voyage to West Africa from notably the late eighteenth century. The returnees settled mainly along the West Atlantic littoral, from present-day Freetown, Sierra Leone and Monrovia, Liberia to other parts of West Africa. In some cases, they settled among kinsmen. On the other hand, the returnees did likewise establish homes where they appear to have little kinship to the local people. In either case, however, they had to adjust to an environment that was socially, economically, culturally and geographically different. This “reversing sail’ by the erstwhile enslaved raises a number of questions. Under what circumstances, for instance, can one refer to them as “returnees,” and what strategies of adjustments did they adopt? Nineteenth-century western abolitionists, but also the American Colonization Society, called for the introduction of Christianity and commerce to Africa as a means of ending the notorious transatlantic slave trade. They envisioned the replacement of the commerce in human chattel with the Bible and the Plow, or “legitimate commerce and the blessings of civilization and Christianity” in the words of Thomas Powell Buxton, an early proponent. Essentially, Africans would continue to produce much needed raw materials for industries in the West. But this time the production of cotton and palm oil, for example, would take place in Africa, not in the Americas. In return, Africans were expected to accept the Western way of life, including Christianity, education, trade, together with marriage and familial arrangements. We seek papers that will explore colonization, Christianity, commerce, such as implementation and the local African responses.
International Symposium – Ecology, Health and Societies in Africa
This international symposium organized at Cheikh Anta Diop University aims to shed light on the complex relationships that occur on the African continent between the environment, health – human, animal, and biotope – and societies. This international symposium aims to shed light on the complex relationships that occur on the African continent between the environment, health – human, animal, and biotope – and societies.The focus will not be on specializations – which are necessary, nonetheless – but on the relationships between the elements of this triptych. Relationships of causality, correlation, conjugation, exclusion; biotic, chemical, power, cooperation, and dependency relationships. It will be important to keep in mind that interdisciplinarity should be at the center of the discussions held during this event. The intersection of approaches, methods, and findings should allow for a new perspective – enriched by cross-perspectives – on the objects of study in health ecology and environmental transition, by combining human-environment relationships in the past, present, and future. Call for papers: The deadline for submitting paper proposals is set for November 15, 2022. Each proposal should include the title of the paper, the name, position, and institutional address of the author(s), as well as a maximum one-page abstract. These proposals should be sent to the following address: colloqueESS2023@gmail.com, in the form of a Word file titled: Lastname Firstname – Dakar2023. Registration: all participants must complete a pre-registration form, which can be obtained from: participationESS2023@gmail.com
Trade Unionism and the Evolution of Labor Markets in Africa
Condorcet campus (Aubervilliers, France) Photo Credit – https://www.cap-voyage.com/ Contrary to popular belief, wage employment and trade unionism in Africa are not forms of work and organization on the verge of extinction. While they have been challenged by structural adjustment programs since the 1980s, wage earners continue to increase in numbers, and the unions that represent them are often very active. This is evident in the multitude of mobilizations (strikes, demonstrations, sit-ins, etc.) across the continent. Often engaged in political struggles, particularly against authoritarianism, and fighting against multinational corporations and local entrepreneurs or against macroeconomic reforms driven by donors, unions collaborate with NGOs and associations to address societal issues. They provide a privileged perspective on the socio-political and economic dynamics of African societies, both past and present, extending beyond the mere representation and defense of workers’ material and moral interests. Call for papers : Proposals can be submitted before November 1, 2022, to the email address: syndiquaf@gmail.com in either French or English (the conference will be bilingual with translation). Approximately 700 words, excluding the bibliography, the proposals should present a research problem and the materials on which they are based.
Call for papers: “Development and Security in Africa”
Prof. Michael Staack and his other colleagues editors of the Journal of International Peace and Organization (“Die Friedens-Warte”) are pleased to invite abstracts and contributions (in German or English) in the journal’ s second issue of volume 96 (3-4/2023). The main thematic focus of this issue will be “Developpment and Security in Africa”. Further informations about the call are in the appendix.
ASAA 2023: Call for proposals – Repatriating Africa: Old Challenges and Critical Insights
10th Anniversary Celebration 5th Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) in partenership with University New Horizons (UNH) and the Arrupe Center for Reasearch and Training (CARF) Lubumbashi, RCD October 25-28, 2023 The 5th Biennial conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (#ASAA2023) will be held in Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of Congo. It will commemorate 10 years since the association was launched on October 25, 2013, at the International Conference on African Studies organized by the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana (October 24-26, 2013). For the first time in the history of the ASAA, the Biennial will be held in a Francophone country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, a key part of the association’s strategy to spread its work across different parts of the continent and its diaspora; and to strategically strengthen knowledge institutions with the aim of centering Pan Africanism as intellectual lens for critical inquiry. This year’s conference theme is: “Repatriating Africa: Old Challenges and Critical Insights”. Africa’s encounter with other parts of the world is filled with contested histories. Slavery, the Transoceanic and Trans-Saharan trades, Colonization, and the continent’s current entrapment in global systems of accumulation continues to provoke critique amongst scholars, particularly with respect to loss, exploitation, and extraversion. Slavery, the slave trades and Colonization continue to be foregrounded, not just as hideous crimes against humanity, but also for its continuous impact on African knowledges and cultural heritage. Global crossroads with Africa continue and have always been accompanied by looting, destruction, and cultural obliteration. Recently, resuscitation of the old and recurrent question of repatriation has reoccupied center-stage as a crucial step for de-linking and restoring African dignity. This new push for repatriation is provoked by the activation of the decolonization movement across Africa and its diaspora, particularly in the economic, financial, cultural and knowledge spheres. Deepening calls for decentering colonial orthodoxies and centering Africa has given new impetus to the new quest for African cultural heritages, knowledges, traditions and what some see as a quest for authenticity. As, particularly art objects and archives, begin journeys of return, there is a need for deeper conversations about processes cultural loss, spiritual return, and restoration. Sixty years after the founding of the Organization of African Unity (currently African Union), what is the state of the Pan Africanist project to restore and restitute African-ness? How should Africa engage with the question of repatriation? What new challenges, critical insights and radical strategies should the continent deploy to restitute lost heritage? What new questions emerge as looted heritage begins journeys ‘home’? What is the place/role of research, cultural heritage, archives, knowledges, and knowledge production in the project of restoring African dignity? The conference will extend old reflections on the restitution of African cultural heritage, initiated by Africans in the aftermath of independence, along four lines each of which raises a host of burning questions. Participants are invited to propose contributions based on these four axes: restitution, reparation, restoration, and repatriation that do not just engage with the current focus on tangible, but also critically place the intangible at the heart of restitution debates. This latter focus should for example, provocatively engage with themes such as repatriating knowledges, spirituality, histories, archives, concepts, theories, methodologies, languages, and other ideas often coded as external. Also, the International Congress of African and African Diaspora Studies (ICAADS) will meet as a pre-conference event on October 24. The first ICAADS Congress was organized́ in 1962 by President Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana. There have been four other ICAADS meetings, in 1967 in Dakar under the patronage of President Leopold Sédar Senghor, in 1973 in Addis Ababa under the patronage of Emperor Haile Selassie, in 1978 in Kinshasa under the high authority of President Mobutu Sese Seko. Since the last session that took place in 1985 in Ibadan, ICAADS went dormant. The ICAADS revival will discuss and reinvigorate the extraordinary transformative momentum of African Studies on a global scale and will have policy implications, urging African leaders to heed the most pressing contemporary issues impacting on Black communities worldwide. These include the west’s environmental debt towards Africa, neo-colonialism and the resurgence of military coups, Pan-Africanism, African citizenship, and the status and treatment of African migrants within and outside the continent, the African Union attitudes towards dictatorships, its position on international politics (e.g. the Covid-19 pandemic, etc.), gender and sexuality, the state of African studies and its diasporas, etc. Submit panel, paper, and other cultural presentation proposals in the following thematic areas: Restitution Axis Reparation Axis Restoration Axis Repatriation Axis Abstracts: Abstracts (Papers, Panels, Roundtables, and cultural presentations) should be a minimum of 200-250 words with the authors affiliation, bio and contact information. The organizers encourage authors to identify which axis they are aligning their abstract with and if desired to construct panels of 4 presentations. 1. Submit your Proposal in English here. 2. Submit your Proposal in French here. Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2023 (Extended) Responses to abstracts: May 31, 2023 For all questions, email: conference@as-aa.org Click on the link to access the Call in French Download the PDF version of the Call in English and French.
Call for Contributions to Issue 3 of the Global Africa Journal
Pan-Africanism, Agenda of African Research and Planetary Futures Guest Editors: Cheikh Thiam, Amherst College: cthiam@amherst.edu Mjiba Frehiwot, University of Ghana: mfrehiwot@ug.edu.gh Pan-Africanism is fundamentally an epistemic project, born out of ontologies centered on Africa and rooted in a history that challenges and resists the pervasive influence of coloniality and the dehumanization of people of African descent. From the Haitian Revolution to decolonization, through Negritude, hip-hop, Afro-chic, and Afrobeat, Pan-African cultural, intellectual, and political movements have always sought to acknowledge the continuities and discontinuities in the lives of people of African origin while engaging in a common process of integration and liberation for Africa. Politically, Pan-Africanism is a condemnation of colonialism and its corollary, the partitioning of the continent. Culturally, it re-centers African modes of creation and voices in the complex task of envisioning and conceiving a Pan-African presence in world history. Epistemically, Pan-Africanism provides a theoretical foundation from which it is possible to question the foundations of coloniality. As such, it constitutes an epistemological alternative to the reductionist universalism of Western modernity. The 20th anniversary of the African Union, one of the most recent institutional forms of the Pan-African project, provides an opportunity to reexamine the epistemic relevance of Pan-Africanism in the context of unfinished decolonization. Despite two centuries of discourse on the meaning, relevance, perspectives, and challenges of the movement, a special issue on Pan-Africanism is particularly timely as it allows for a rethinking of Africa’s presence in contemporary knowledge creation processes. It is essential to read recent African intellectual propositions such as Afropolitanism, Afrofuturism, Afro-chic, as well as postcolonial and decolonial theories in light of the Pan-African tradition. A dossier on Pan-Africanism is even more relevant as it has the potential to create the conditions for radical engagement with the major issues confronting our world, such as the planetary boundaries posed by the Anthropocene. Its most detrimental effects include the destruction of natural habitats, climate change, and biodiversity decline, which threaten the future of our planet. Pan-Africanism also allows us to reconsider the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by the data economy, the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the extraordinary projections of transhumanism, and the digitization of societies that are reshaping the limits of our existence.How can Pan-Africanism contribute to identifying and constructing research agendas, intellectual priorities, and heuristic postures from Africa and the African diaspora? How can the Pan-African tradition help us question, support, nuance, and advance our engagement with the pluriverse and confront exclusion as well as the limitations of modern teleologies of progress? Under what conditions can it be a source of innovation and disruption when it comes to global governance, racism, heteronormativity, patriarchy, social inequalities, religious extremism, and armed conflicts? In other words, how can Pan-Africanism contribute to redefining the possibilities of a convivial and just world when it is increasingly shaped by populist, nativist, isolationist, and hostile discourses towards multiculturalism? The editors of this special issue invite researchers, activists, and artists to propose innovative contributions based on these inquiries. The proposed abstracts must be submitted to: https://globalafricapress.org/index.php/globalafrica/about/submissions For any inquiries regarding the special issue, please contact the editors at: redaction@globalafricapress.org See the call in French. See the call in English
Call for Papers: (Re)designing Quality Indicators for Higher Education
Call for Papers Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play a pivotal role in promoting economic growth, social progress, and personal development. Ensuring the quality of these institutions is essential to maintaining their credibility and enhancing their societal impact. Quality indicators serve to measure and evaluate the main processes of higher education, namely teaching and learning outcomes, research and scholarship engagement with society, and institutional management and governance. These indicators can provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of higher education policies and practices and help institutions identify areas for improvement. In recent years, the development and use of quality indicators have become increasingly important, as HEIs face growing pressure to demonstrate their value and adapt to a rapidly changing global landscape. Indicators can be developed and used at different levels: the system level (macro indicators), the institutional level (meso indicators) and the classroom level (micro indicators); which is also relates to individuals, be they students, workers (academics and others), and may be even about other individual stakeholders, such as external representatives in governance bodies. Moreover, and within each level, they can be used to measure and evaluate structure, processes, outputs outcomes (Braun, Weiß & Seidel (2014). Despite their usefulness, some attention should be paid to the limitations and risks of using indicators. As such, it is important that research in this area helps to define the applicability of indicators and the expectations of what can be achieved by using them.We are delighted to announce the (Re)designing Quality Indicators for Higher Education Conference, and we invite researchers, educators, policymakers, and professionals to submit their paper proposals. This multidisciplinary conference aims to bring together experts from around the world to discuss and exchange insights on the challenges and opportunities of (re)designing quality indicators in higher education. A special emphasis will be put on the development of indicators able to capture the dimensions of digitalisation, equity and sustainability, since these are significant challenges higher education systems and institutions face nowadays. The conference will be organized around four main tracks: We encourage the submission of original research papers, case studies, and innovative proposals that address the following topics within each subtheme: Quality indicators in higher education: overall trends and future challenges: Quality indicators in higher education: how to capture and address sustainability?: Quality indicators in higher education: how to capture and address digitalisation: Quality indicators in higher education: how to capture and address equity?: Submission Guidelines: Abstracts: should not exceed 1000 words and should provide a clear overview of the purpose of the study; theoretical background; design/methodology, findings; research limitations/ implications; practical/ social implications; originality/ value of papers; keywords [1-4 keywords]. All submissions must be in English and follow the specified formatting guidelines. Please submit your abstract through our online submission system by 31. August 2023. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15. September 2023. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 31. August 2023 Notification of Acceptance: 15. September 2023 Registration deadline: 01. December 2023 Conference Date: 5 – 6 December 2023. Submit your papers HERE We look forward to your contributions and to fostering a dynamic discussion on the future of quality indicators in higher education. For more information about the conference and submission guidelines, please visit our website or contact the organizing committee at ESSENCE@hespriproject.eu. Website of conference:
LASPAD Is Hiring Two interns in French Linguistics
LASPAD is a research laboratory at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal. It is affiliated with the Faculty of Arts, Culture, and Communication (UFR CRAC) and the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences (UFR SJP). The laboratory conducts several research programs across various thematic axes corresponding to interdisciplinary areas of research, teaching, and engineering. Notably, it publishes a multilingual international scientific journal, Global Africa. To this end, the laboratory is recruiting 2 interns in French linguistics . The interns will be part of the LASPAD editorial team and will contribute to the ortho-typographic revision of our various scientific publications.
LASPAD Is Hiring Four Interns in English Translation (2) and Arabic Translation (2).
LASPAD is a research laboratory at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal. It is affiliated with the Faculty of Arts, Culture, and Communication (UFR CRAC) and the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences (UFR SJP). The laboratory conducts several research programs across various thematic axes corresponding to interdisciplinary areas of research, teaching, and engineering. Notably, it publishes a multilingual international scientific journal, Global Africa. In this regard, the laboratory is recruiting 4 interns in English translation (2) and Arabic translation (2). The interns will strengthen the LASPAD translation team and participate in the dissemination of scientific articles in English and Arabic.