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2026 Call for Co-Panelists

Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: Sustainability, Spillovers, and Social Transformation

This panel examines foreign direct investment (FDI) and its social and economic effects across African countries. As Africa has increasingly […]

Gendering Social Order and Ordering Gender in Precolonial Africa (Closed for Submissions)

I am seeking co-panelists to participate in a capacious conversation about gender and social order in precolonial Africa. This panel […]

Court Records and African Lives: Adjudication, Proof, and the Making of Social Knowledge

Africanist scholars have long emphasized the richness of court archives. While adjudicators sought to isolate disputes, assign responsibility, and deliver […]

Personal Transnational Networks of Support: Empowerment or Trap? (Closed for Submissions)

This panel or series of panels seeks to bring papers into conversation that examine African personal transnational networks of support […]

China, Development, and Security in Africa: Practices, Paradoxes, and Local Political Orders (Closed for Submissions)

This panel invites papers that critically examine China’s expanding roles in African development and security—from finance, infrastructure, and extractive investments […]

Everyday Geographies of Safety: Space, Infrastructure, and the Politics of (In)Security in African Contexts (Closed for Submissions)

This panel invites papers that examine how safety and insecurity are produced through everyday spatial arrangements and material environments across […]

The urban and more-than-urban geographies of the African city (Closed for Submissions)

Much of the rich recent scholarship on urban Africa focuses primarily on the city scale, prioritizing questions of municipal administration, […]
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