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Why rely on African research? A look back at African Research Matters, a symposium held in March 2022, in Saint-Louis, Senegal for the launch of Global Africa: the first interdisciplinary and multilingual pan-African scientific journal.
Let’s meet for a week dedicated to pan-African research, from Senegal.
Today we offer you a short return to Saint-Louis on the banks of the Senegal River, on the campus of the Gaston Berger University where an inspiring symposium was held last March, so aptly titled African Research Matters : you have to reckon with African research on the occasion of the launch of Global Africa the 1st pan-African interdisciplinary scientific journal in French, English, Swahili. The most eminent researchers of the continent, the most committed too, had made the trip to Saint-Louis to exchange in all languages (or almost)
How to reckon with and on African research?
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With Mame Penda Ba (Senegal), Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Saint-Louis in Senegal, editor-in-chief of the first pan-African scientific journal Global Africa.
Et Mahamane Tidjani Alou (Niger), Associate Professor of Political Science at Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey. It provides training in scientific publication for young Pan-African researchers.
Mariam SidibeMalian researcher in political science, coordinator at the IRD, specialist in migration, crises and conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa
Estelle KuokamCameroonian teacher-researcher in Social Anthropology at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé
Felwine Sarr, economist, writer, Senegalese academic who teaches contemporary African philosophy at Duke University in North Carolina, after having taught at the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis in Senegal. Thinker of a new living economy.
Adebayo Olukoshi, professor at the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, who returns to the importance of decolonizing the minds of the North as well as the South.