Thursday 27th May 2021 – 5pm BST (UK time) Please note this webinar will be delivered in Portuguese. Moçambique e Cabo Verde são dois países unidos pela mesma língua, mas com trajectórias políticas diferentes. Enquanto o primeiro é visto como o espelho de uma democracia deficitária, Cabo Verde é por sua vez tido como um […]
GDAI Webinar #8 – The challenge of state-making in South Sudan: the shifting everyday realities and experience of violence and conflict
Wed 25 March 2021, 5-6pm (UK Time – GMT+0) Conventional interpretations of Civil Society often overlook the myriad ways in which civic actors constitute authority and negotiate for change in fragile states. This omission has significant implications on how civil society sectors evolve and receive external support. Drawing on South Sudan as a case study, […]
GDAI Webinar #7 – Sudan at the crossroads: hopes and fears for the future
Following the popular revolution and the end of military rule in Sudan in 2019, there were great hopes for change in the future, both within the country and across the Sudanese diaspora. Since then, in 2020 Sudan has been buffeted first by the COVID-19 pandemic and then by severe flooding in August 2020, and the […]
GDAI Webinar #6 – Between Afro-Pessimism and Naive Optimism-a Bias for Hope in Policy Making
Professor John Sender and Professor Christopher Cramer will discuss their new book, written with Arkebe Oqubay, on African Economic Development. The air that policy officials breathe is thick with conventional wisdoms that need to be questioned, and with reflexes of pessimism or over-optimistic fantasies about the prospects for economic development, improving welfare, and structural […]
GDAI Webinar #5 – Governing the Environment in Kenya: Confronting Contending Norms in a Plural Legal System
We are delighted to announce the 5th GDAI Webinar which will be featuring a fabulous speaker, Prof Patricia Kameri-Mbote from the University of Nairobi! Title: Governing the Environment in Kenya: Confronting Contending Norms in a Plural Legal System Date and Time: Wednesday 28th October 2020, 3pm UK time Speaker: Patricia Kameri-Mbote (University of Nairobi) Chair: […]
GDAI Webinar #4 – Climate Induced Migration In West Africa with Professor Joseph K. Teye
On Thursday 30th January 2020 – 5pm UK time – Professor Teye, Director of the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) of the University of Ghana, will discuss the impact of climate change on West Africa and will look a migration as a climate change adaptation strategy. Although West Africa’s contribution to global climate change is […]
GDAI Webinar#3 – The Angolan political transition: challenges to find the right path for sustainable development – with Fernandes Wanda
On Thursday 31st October 2019 – 5pm UK time -Fernandes Wanda, current PhD student(Final Year)in Development Studies (awarded the Mo Ibrahim GDAI Scholarship) will discuss the recent Angolan political transition from a sustainable development perspective. Although the recent political transition in Angola, from Dos Santos to João Lourenço, is regarded as exemplary by the MPLA […]
GDAI Webinar Collection
Watch all the past webinars on our youtube playlist: bit.ly/GDAI_Webinar_Playlist GDAI Webinar#1 – Reflections on the Genesis of a Contemporary Ethiopian Feminist Movement – with Dr Sehin Teferra GDAI Webinar#2 – ‘Twists and Turns: the unpredictable trajectory of decentralization in Sierra Leone’ – with Dr Marco Felix Conteh GDAI Webinar#3 – ‘The Angolan political transition: challenges […]
Professor Victor Murinde – Pan-African banks on the rise
Professor Victor Murinde’s (SOAS) lecture on Pan-African Banks at the 2019 Abidjan Residentail School. Full title: Pan-African banks on the rise: Do cross-border banks increase firms’ access to finance in WAEMU?
GDAI Webinar Series #2 – ‘Twists and Turns: the unpredictable trajectory of decentralization in Sierra Leone’
The second Webinar (online seminar) of our Governance for Development in Africa Webinar Series will take place on the 30th of April 2019 at 5pm GMT. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the Centre of African Studies at SOAS and SOAS Radio are delighted to announce that the speaker for our second webinar will be Dr Felix […]
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