The African Leadership Centre, King's College London:Peace, Security and development/Pursuit of excellence/African-led ideas/Independent thinking/Youth Agency
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@ALC_KCL is pleased to announce King’s Africa Week 2026, happening from the 2nd to the 6th of March.
This year, we’re exploring how Africa can resource its agency in a multipolar world, through innovation, preparedness, and collective action.
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/africa-week
#AfricaWeek2026
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Join us on 15 June 2026 for the @ALC_KCL seminar: "New Narratives for Peacebuilding: Indigenous Knowledge, Plant Medicines, and Leadership Lessons for a Changing World."
Featuring Chief Phillip (Šúnkawakhán Sápa/Black Horse), Founder of Ancestral Voice – Institute for Indigenous Lifeways and exploring indigenous approaches to peacebuilding, plant medicines, leadership, and social transformation in the Global South.
#Peacebuilding #IndigenousKnowledge #Leadership #GlobalSouth #AfricanLeadershipCentre #KingsCollegeLondon
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Join @ALC_KCL and @IPSS_Addis for a seminar exploring Africa’s growing military space ambitions, key strategic developments, and their implications for national, regional, and human security.
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NEW PODCAST: Today, we launched our African Public Square Podcast.
Please watch, like and subscribe: youtu.be/mGz9C5PjRho
🎙️ New Episode Out Now!
The African Public Square Podcast (Episode 1) is live—recorded at the #ECOWASat50 debate in Abuja.
Are regional organisations key to Africa’s integration?
▶️ Watch & subscribe: youtu.be/mGz9C5PjRho
#AfricanPublicSquare #APS2026 #ECOWAS #AfricaPolicy
@ShuvaiBusuman @eka_ikpe @FunmiOlonisakin @OtisKafui @Omoba_modee @maggie_lowilla @spearmunya @WesongaSeb
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As Semester 2 ends, we conclude this year’s Leadership Exchange & Insights Seminar Series (LEISS), connecting MSc students with global leaders in #peacebuilding, #FinTech, #AI and #development
Sessions included peacebuilding with El Ghassim Wane & General Agwai, FinTech with Ruth Goodwin-Groen & Aishah Ahmad, AI and entrepreneurship with Dimy Doresca, future tech with Randolph Kent, and development with Olufunso Somorin, each encouraging critical thinking.
Interested in transformative leadership? Applications for @ALC_KCL Fellowships 2026/27 open soon 👉 kcl.ac.uk/alc/study-with-us
#Leadership #GlobalSouth #Peacebuilding #Development #Fellowship #ALC
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📢 New Publication Alert
What does Kizza Besigye’s political journey tell us about resistance and opposition politics in Uganda today?
Dr Barney Walsh and @DennisJjuuko unpack this in a timely piece, reflecting on his political legacy and influence in shaping Uganda’s opposition landscape.
🔗 theconversation.com/kizza-be…
#Uganda #AfricanPolitics
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PORT TALK: RECLAIMING DIGITAL POWER
What does it mean for African & Afro-Caribbean communities to shape AI on their own terms?
📅 Fri 27 March, 6PM 📍 Churchill Room, Goodenough College, London
#DataSovereignty #EthicalAI #DigitalColonialism #Africa #AfroCaribbean @ALC_KCL
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Hydropower isn’t just about energy, it’s about people, choices, and uncertain futures.
In this upcoming seminar, Dr Udisha Saklani explores how communities in Nepal and Sikkim engage with large dam projects, not simply as supporters or resisters, but as people navigating hope, opportunity, and risk in their everyday lives.
🗓 21 April 2026 | ⏰ 6–8 pm
📍 Bush House (NE) 1.02, King’s College London (Hybrid)
Register here👉 l1nq.com/hiDSu
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Those who own the infrastructure control their destiny and direction. Africa must build its own infrastructure, based on our cultures, languages and priorities.
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In conversation with Kenyan Ambassador Manoah Esipisu, Governor Sanwo-Olu envisions Lagos adopting these four criteria in twenty years.
✅An infrastructurally sufficient city ready to face global challenges.
✅Human-centric city with the ability to fund the future of work.
✅Provision of employment across numerous fields
✅A safe, secure and globally competitive city-state
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Lagos is utilising its creative industries to project African agency internationally. The city is not just the entertainment capital of Africa; it has taken over the world.
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When we speak of agency beyond the nation-state, let us not imagine something abstract or distant. Let us rethink, instead, the building of cities that carry the weight of the future. Let us think of transportation systems that restore time to walking places.
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In his keynote address, Lagos State Governor, Olusola Sanwo-Olu, inspires the audience with the potential of Nigeria's commercial capital. He adds that Lagos matters because the future of the global community is hinged on such cities, though they are plagued by issues of technology, climate change, commerce, migration, innovation, and identity.
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The city has become the most economically consequential city, not just in Nigeria or in Africa, but in the world. The hustle in Lagos is real, the competition is unparalleled!
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Despite its contextual issues, Lagos must be governed, not as a problem to be managed, but as a platform to unlock.
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HAPPENING TODAY!
MAKEMATION is Africa’s first feature film on artificial intelligence and frontier technologies at the heart of a coming-of-age story delivered with cinematic brilliance and broad emotional appeal for different generations especially young people. It is produced & owned by Rise Networks & Rise Interactive Studios
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#KingsAfricaWeek #Africa2026
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The @ALC_KCL Fellows engage in a simulation debate titled "Extractive Mediation, Great Power Peacemaking, and African Agency."
#AfricaWeek
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This year's ALC-King's debate examines the implications of extractive mediation for peace, sovereignty, and African agency, focusing on who shapes contemporary peacemaking, at what cost, and with what long-term consequences.
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