CONFERENCE THEME: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: ROLE OF RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING
CONFERENCE DATES: November 14-16, 2017
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 13th, 2017
Notification of Decision: October 20th, 2017
Submission of full papers with revised abstracts: October 27th, 2017
Conference Dates: November 14 – 16, 2017
CONFERENCE VENUE:
United States International University-Africa
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVE:
The dual goal of the conference for the next 15 years (2016 – 2030) is to document progress, achievements and provide guidance towards the achievement of Global Sustainable Development Goals and Kenya’s Vision 2030. The conference strives to link academia and practitioners from Government, Industry, Civil Society and Sponsors - donor Partners to exchange ideas of applied research and the practice.
The Focus of the Conference is on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals which are anchored on the three broad pillars of Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability
CONFERENCE CONVENER
Amos Njuguna
amnjuguna@usiu.ac.ke
The Eighth Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora (TOFAC)
In Collaboration With
The United States International University-Africa (USIU)
Nairobi, Kenya
CONFERENCE THEME:
Beyond History - African Agency
CONFERENCE DATES:
July 2, 2018 (Arrival)
July 3-5, 2018 (Conference)
July 6, 2018 (Departure)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: 15TH February 2018
Notification of Acceptance:
Final manuscript due:
CONFERENCE VENUE:
Kenya School of Monetary Studies/United States International University-Africa
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:
The future of African people is in Africa and beyond. This conference seeks to capture Africa’s process of innovating the future for itself based on a progressive embrace of what Africa is: young, productive, optimistic, and endowed in a state of transformation that is not only confident about itself but also unapologetic about its global outlook. Africa is moving beyond its historical tribulations and assertions of its greatness to a more conscious and dynamic agency for itself and its future. In this reconfiguration, it is creating an enabling setting for African innovations and sustainable development as well as the domestic, global and diaspora transformations that seek to capture this growing agency.
Africa is clearly redefining itself as the driver of its destiny by harnessing the productive energies of its ample youth, capitalizing on the synergies of its diaspora and making peace with the necessity of forging alliances within Africa and globally.
CONFERENCE HISTORY:
The Toyin Falola Annual Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora was inaugurated on July 4th-6th 2011 at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Anchored by the Ibadan Cultural Studies Group, the theme of the conference was “Creativity and Cultural Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora” and it attracted scholars from all over the world. At least fifty well-researched papers were presented on various topics during the three days the conference lasted
CONFERENCE CONVENER
Professor Cassandra Veney
cveney@usiu.ac.ke
