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2026 AfricaNow! Call for Co-Panelists

Sound, Memory, and Decolonial Imaginaries in the Afro-Atlantic World (Deadline Extended)

This panel explores how artists, writers, and thinkers across the Afro-Atlantic world mobilize aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural practices to confront […]

Reframing Africa’s Digital Governance: Power, Partnerships, and Policy in a Fragmenting Global Order

As geopolitical rivalry intensifies and confidence in universal models of global governance declines, digital policy has emerged as a critical […]

African Films and Their Afterlives: Remakes, Reboots, and Re-Imaginings (Deadline Extended)

This panel explores issues bearing on screen-to-screen transfers in African cinema. What is the internal logic of remediation at play […]

From Return to Remake: Diasporic Belonging and African Futures in a Shifting World

This panel examines Ghana’s Year of Return (2019) and Beyond the Return initiatives as critical interventions in reconfiguring Africa–Diaspora relations […]

Rethinking Epistemological Rupture: The African Ways of Co-creating and Knowing in a Shifting World

The ways in which Africa as a continent is study is still tied to Western theory and carries the germs […]

Transnational Networks of Support: Senegal, Kenya, South Africa, and Beyond

This panel brings papers into conversation that examine African personal transnational networks of support and interrogate their ambivalent role as […]

Political Remaking in the Sahel: Alliances, Identity, and Sovereignty

This panel aims to revisit how identity and politics interact in the West African Sahel as states, societies, and regional […]

Case Studies on Human Development in the DRC: Blueprints for Social Transformation (Extended Deadline)

Social change initiatives abound in the Democratic Republic of the Congo despite the overarching narrative of a nation at war […]

Writing Otherwise In and Out of Africa (Closed)

(Closed for submissions) This panel explores autoethnography, ethnographic fiction, narrative ethnography and other forms of writing otherwise as productive ways […]

Political Institutions and Business Elites in Africa: Moving Beyond Natural Resources? (Extended Deadline)

Like African polities, African economies are in a moment of potentially profound rupture and reconfiguration: shifts in global trading regimes, […]
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