Africa Day 2025 at UMass Boston: Africa in Global Governance

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To respond to the rapid changes taking place in the world and their implications for the African continent, African countries have launched a high-level pan African dialogue on global governance to organize their continent’s growing contribution to global affairs. The African dialogue on global governance addresses the continent’s contribution to international decision-making processes, her perspectives on the reform of global institutions and governance in multilateral institutions, and her advocacy for African common [policy] positions on contemporary global issues. The annual 2025 Africa Scholars Forum (ASF) at the John W McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies, UMass Boston, will engage a full-day conference addressing these issues.

Info: Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool is the current South African Ambassador to the US. He is a former Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Georgetown University’s Edmund A Walsh School for Foreign Service where he worked in the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, advancing an alternative paradigm to the inertia of Orthodoxies in the face of Extremisms.

Info: Thomas Kwasi Tieku is a Professor of Politics and International Relations in King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario (UWO) and Vice President-Elect of the International Studies Association (ISA). Formerly the Director of African Studies at the University of Toronto (UofT), and the Carnegie-Diaspora Scholar in the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy at the University of Ghana, Legon, Tieku’s research focuses on international organizations. He is a co-author of African Perspectives in Global Governance and The Politics of Peacebuilding in Africa.

Info: Margaret Gatonye, “Global Governance and Kenyan Fisheries: Challenges and Opportunities”
Ellen Milimu “Political Economy of Sports Development in Africa”
Rebecca Yemo, “The UNs’ Universal Periodic Review &Women in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Women”
Weston Marume, “The Scramble for Critical Strategic Minerals and Their Impact on Human Security in Producing Communities of Africa”
Nkasiobi Wodu, “Community Engagement in Hybrid Political Orders: Lessons from Extractive Companies in Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa”
Hannah Nyingilianyeofori Brown, “Ethical Governance and CSR in Africa’s Top Oil producing Countries: Insights and Implications?”

Host or Publisher John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies