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FUTURE AFRICA
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP
The Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF) is an early career research fellowship program focused on developing transdisciplinary research and leadership skills.
Celebrating Africa Day of seas and oceans
Community participation is not only about decision-making but also about creating a sense of ownership and responsibility. The African...
Jul 25, 2023
Research | Frontiers of belonging and politics of identity: The materiality of funeral rituals and festivals in Nigeria’s urban space
This study has suggested that rituals and festivals are deployed as movements that mobilize people politically and organize them to claim...
Jul 25, 2023
Desertification and drought: Herding and farming
There is a need for more strategic problem-solving and more vital community involvement to address the challenge in Africa. World Day to...
Jul 15, 2023
CAMEROON | Re-imagining Leadership for Sustaining Teachers’ Engagement: Perspectives of HODs in HEIs in Cameroon
Researching Education Decolonially: Towards Alternative Global South Epistemologies, 7th - 8th July 2023 | University of Buea, Cameroon...
Jul 8, 2023
UK | Prestigious BANGA-AFRICA Fellowship award
ADAPT aims to develop new conceptual and empirical understandings of how young people and the urban poor experience and adapt to extreme...
Jul 1, 2023
Policy | Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS): A New Public Service Approach for Leaving No One Behind
Policy Brief Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS): A New Public Service Approach for Leaving No One Behind July 2023 Policy Brief...
Jul 1, 2023
Panama | FAR-LeaF presents a session at SRI 2023
The challenges have taught the fellows about the critical importance of communication and consistent connection and the need for sound...
Jun 30, 2023
Mental well-being through transdisciplinary research
Using a research approach that involves breaking down traditional disciplinary boundaries and integrating diverse perspectives,...
Jun 28, 2023
South Africa | Health Cluster impress at SRI 2023 Africa satellite event
The Africa Hub hosted local-to-regional sessions with a regional to a global audience to explore action-forward approaches to...
Jun 21, 2023
Virtual | A netnographic study of the impact of misinformation/ disinformation on the sociodemographic group's behavioural patterns of the Northern Nigerians during the post-Covid-19 pandemic
ACSUS-UP African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Pretoria | Annual Virtual Conference, Farooq Kperogi, the...
Jun 18, 2023
Combating hate speech for the promotion of societal stability and peace-building
18th June 2023 International Day for Countering Hate Speech Hate speech is a contemporary existential threat bedeviling nearly all...
Jun 18, 2023
The rights of the child in the digital environment
Children must use the digital environment to afford crucial opportunities for their voices to be heard in matters that affect them. Since...
Jun 16, 2023
Research | Community Participation in Water and Sanitation Service Delivery
Despite the taunted benefits associated with public participation in the water and sanitation sector, challenges still hinder the...
Jun 14, 2023
Child labour in Africa: Call to action
Many African countries have signed a memorandum of understanding with the ILO to launch a programme under the International Programme for...
Jun 12, 2023
Research | Society 5.0-Inspired Digitalization Framework for Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture
Abstract This research paper proposes a digitalization framework based on Society 5.0 principles for promoting resilient and sustainable...
May 26, 2023
MALAWI | Food security and water in Sub-Saharan Africa
Food security is a fundamental human right. Despite this, there are still over 800 million people around the world who need more food....
May 23, 2023
KENYA | Fish barcoding and functional ecological workshop
During a two-day symposium, participants shared their exciting research findings with topics ranging from environmental DNA (eDNA) in...
May 23, 2023
Research | Agricultural Social Networks: An Agricultural Value Chain-Based Digitalization Framework for an Inclusive Digital Economy
Abstract Sustainable agriculture is the backbone of food security systems and a driver of human well-being in global economic development...
May 23, 2023
Families in Africa: Demographic trends and families
Families are the bedrock of cultural traditions, norms and values, and behaviour patterns transmitted from generation to generation....
May 15, 2023
Leader of the Lab | Material Science Physics Lab open at Egerton University, Kenya
Egerton University | Main campus Njoro launched a new Material Science Physics Laboratory equipped with tools and resources worth...
May 11, 2023
The programme seeks to build a network of emerging African scientists with the skills needed to apply transformative research methods and approaches in addressing complex sustainability challenges in Africa, including inter- and transdisciplinarity, systems thinking, and futures literacy.
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