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Forum This century will see many changes in Africa. But more so, urban Africa will see many more radical changes as Africa wrestles with a global casino of inventive topics namely; astronomic population growth, food deficits, housing problems, infrastructure inadequacies, governance and funding problematicities, leap in technological advance that will push society forward leaving behind slow and lazy political inaction. Africa is already witnessing many political and as well as social adjustments toward concrete democracy, but broader as the actions might be, the threat of social explosion is real. Africans are dying on the Mediterranean Sea crossing over to greener pastures into Europe that has also turned some section of Libyans opening up old wounds of slavery. The digital media world has opened the world to the African, provoking a greater yearning that is also creating a silent discourse whether to keep the ordinary African in the same sub-cultural status quo or moving society forward as the rest of the world as global citizens. Whereas the global north can build on existing infrastructures, Africa basically has none in some regions. That offers a blind spot targeting a ”what” or “where”. Is it the 1700 industrial technology that will solve the glaring issues or a leap into new digital technologies as the vanguard? The debates are intriguing raging from post-capitalistic, post-colonial, neo-liberalism and appended financial institutions to the archaic revolutionary rhetoric discourses. The turn tables are for real. Now you, your department, college, research centre, faculty have the opportunity to review last year’s session topics, discussion points, format, and time at www.uidc-ea.org . You also have the opportunity to request additions or updates if there is need of such as session change, or suggestions for additional discussion points. Whether the above arrays of issues for Africa are; Political, Trade, Philosophical, Ethical, Structural, Cultural, Socioeconomic or Technological, the gene is out of the bottle. If you or your organisation wishes to participate in this year’s two days conference on; Innovative and Technological, Academic, Political, Scientific levels and willing to sponsor the conference perusal and fill in the attached PDF file and send back to me. Best Wishes Daniel Bwanika. -- _____________________________ Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero Daniel Bwanika Box 12413 Kampala Uganda t: +256-752-972-960 f: facebook.com/uidc.uganda www.uidc-ea.org e: [log in to unmask] t: @uidc_ug _______________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] An urban geography discussion and announcement forum List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/URB-GEOG-FORUM Maintained by: RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group UGRG Home Page: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk