It is our pleasure to invite you to a series of events commemorating the annual Global Africa Month (GAM) in the second half of May at the University of Vienna.
These activities include a panel discussion on 23rd May. Professor Adams Bodomo will chair this panel on "Africa and Its Global Relations". We will have three scholars of the African Diaspora Communities in Vienna or elsewhere as our panellists.
Panel Description:
Panellists will present various aspects of their current research, be they on issues of migration, constitution making, or female diplomats, and will then be asked to address how these topics affect Africa in a fast-changing world. There would be an opportunity for the audience to interrogate issues about Africa and its global relations. How do current sociocultural, socioeconomic, and sociopolitical events around the world affect Africa, and how should Africa respond to them? This is a panel, first and foremost, for celebrating the African Union-designated Africa Day on May 25 each year, but it also serves as part of a month-long reflection about the future of the continent in a month that some pan-Africanists have designated as Global Africa Month (GAM).
Panellists:
Dr Jocelyne Kenne, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Migration and Linguistic Integration: The Case of Chinese Immigrants in Africa.
Mr Moges Teshome, University of Vienna, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
Constitutional Design Matters! Management of Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria
Dr Fatma Abdullatif Abdallah, Kenya Embassy/Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Vienna
From Margins to Mainstream: The emerging Role of African Women in Regional and Global Diplomacy