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Recap: Carter Conference Keynote with Isaac Sesi

Recap: Carter Conference Keynote with Isaac Sesi

Monday December 14, 2020

The 2020 Carter Conference on “Shifting Momentum in African Agriculture through Research and Technologies: Smart Agriculture, Smart Growth, Smart Kids” took place December 10th to 11th. This year’s conference featured two keynote speakers, the second of which was Isaac Sesi. He is the co-founder and team lead of Sesi Technologies. Mr. Sesi began his lecture […]
Recap: Carter Conference Keynote with Dr. Ayoola Oduntan

Recap: Carter Conference Keynote with Dr. Ayoola Oduntan

Monday December 14, 2020

The 2020 Carter Conference on “Shifting Momentum in African Agriculture through Research and Technologies: Smart Agriculture, Smart Growth, Smart Kids” took place December 10th to 11th. This year’s conference featured two keynote speakers, the first of which was Dr. Ayoola Oduntan. He is the Group Managing Director of natnudO Foods. Dr. Oduntan’s lecture was titled, […]

SEAN/SERSAS Visions 2020

Monday February 10, 2020

On February 7 and 8 the UF Center for African Studies hosted the South East Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS) and Southeast Africanist Network (SEAN) 2020 Annual Meeting, The meeting, Visions 2020: The Past and Present of Afrofutures was co-sponsored by the African Studies Center at UNC-Chapel-Hill and the Center for African Studies at University […]

Recap: Workshop on Media and Public Islam in Africa and Elsewhere

Wednesday January 29, 2020

Keynote Lecture with Dr. Asonzeh Ukah On Thursday, the “Media and ‘Public’ Islam in Africa” Workshop began with a presentation by Asonzeh Ukah (University of Cape Town). His presentation, “From the Excess to the Apocalyptic: Media and the Production of Religious Surplus in Africa,” pointed to the last three decades following the liberalization and deregulation […]