Call for Papers

Conference: Destination Africa. Contemporary Africa as a global meeting point

Leiden, 22-23 March 2018

The newly established AEGIS Collaborative Research Group (CRG) ‘Africa in the World – Rethinking Africa’s Global Connections’, will organize the ‘Destination Africa’ conference as its inaugural activity, during which this idea of contemporary Africa as a global meeting point will be explored.  Important questions include the ways in which people in Africa perceive this new influx and how they navigate, negotiate, engage, and possibly struggle to strike a balance between their own interests and those of the ‘newcomers’, including their evaluation of questions concerning integration, and the distribution of profits and resources.  The conference also aims to shed greater light on the motivations, interests, negotiation strategies and navigating practices of those who see Africa as a destination.  Finally, it will be important to put these current global encounters on African soil in a historical perspective.

For more information please see: http://imaf.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article2148 or contact the conference organizers

Mayke Kaag, ASC Leiden, [log in to unmask]

Stefan Schmid, ZIAF Goethe University Frankfurt, [log in to unmask]

Deadline: 1 October 2017