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Academic Conference on Africa 2023: 7 December
Location: Conference Room 2, UN Headquarters, New York
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. New York local time
Panel Discussion
- MODERATOR: Prof. Rita Edozie, Interim Dean and Professor of Global Governance and International Relations, University of Massachusetts
- Prof. Molefi Kete Asante, Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University
- Prof. Frieda Ekotto, Professor of Afro-American and African Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
- Prof. Toyin Falola, Professor of History and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas - Austin
- Dr. Mardia Stone, MD, MPH, Consultant; Senior Advisor, Department of Psychiatry/Global Psychiatry, Boston University Chobanian and Avedesian School of Medicine
Paper Presentation
- Pathways to Issue-Based Politics in Africa: A Qualitative Case Study of Ghana by Ms. Grace Akosua Dankwa, Chapter President, Net Impact Ghana
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Closing Remarks
- , Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations
- Cristina Duarte, Under-Secretary-General and United Nations Special Adviser on Africa
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