📣 Attention Future Leaders — Big Opportunity for the Global South! The ALC Associate Fellowship at King’s College London is now OPEN! 🎓 Secure your place by 18th May 2025 🌎 Open to aspiring leaders from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America & the Caribbean. 🔗 Apply

🚨CFP Deadline Extended: 5 May 2025! Don't miss your chance to join us at King's College London & online (July 9-11, 2025) for our PhD & ECR Annual Conference: “Researching African Creative Economies: Local & Global Perspectives” #AfricaEuropeCoRE Details: creative-economies-africa.org/core-phd-and-e…

🎉 Huge congratulations to Sarah Njeri (Dr. Sarah Njeri) and Eka Ikpe (Eka Ikpe) on the publication of their outstanding work, which was recognised with an award at the King's Engaged Researcher Awards! In this piece, Sarah and Eka analyse the relationship between anti-vehicle mine

How do Indigenous communities in Nigeria & Bolivia conceptualize peace beyond colonial frameworks? Join us for our third NCIRI Seminar Series on 20 May 2025 at 11:00 AM (UK) to explore decolonial peace ontologies rooted in Yoruba, Aymara, and Ubang cultures. 🔗 Register:

🚨 Don’t miss out! The African Leadership Centre Fellowships for 2025/26 are closing soon: 🎓 Fully funded + Bursary options available for MSc in Global Leadership and Peacebuilding ✅ Mentorship ✅ Research + internships ✅ African & Global South applicants welcome 📅 Apply by 18 May 🔗

Happening Today! What does peace mean beyond Western frameworks? Join today’s #NCIRI Seminar as we explore Indigenous peace epistemes among the Yoruba, Aymara, Ubang, and Ukwu-Nzu, uncovering spiritual, communal, and gendered understandings of peace erased by colonial narratives.

Join us for our inaugural SOAS ALD Annual Lecture, 19 June, 3-5pm as Prof. Eka Ikpe Eka Ikpe presents insights on 'Beyond Aid: Rethinking Power, Sovereignty, Law and Development in Africa'. SOAS Law SOAS Development Studies Afronomicslaw Ohio Omiunu ANCL-RADC African Leadership Centre Dr. Olivia Kokushubila Lwabukuna

📢 Mark the opening of #LDF25 with an exhibition exploring the hidden costs of visa rejections, co-hosted by African Leadership Centre & King's CMCI. Featuring powerful data visualisations & sonifications 🗓 13 Sept 2025 | 11:00–12:30 📍 Bush House, Strand Campus, Lon 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/all-oth…

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Prof. Maxi Schoeman, a core member of our ALC family, visiting Professor, mentor, partner and friend to many. Her wisdom and generosity shaped generations. An immense loss to African Leadership Centre, University of Pretoria and the Political Science & IR community.

Congratulations on receiving the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship!! African Leadership Centre's Dr Sefa-Nyarko Clement, PhD's work centres critical minerals governance and energy transitions’ justice to challenge hierarchical notions of leadership by projecting the voices of those in affected communities.

REMINDER📢📢 Few hours to go! Join us for: Global Priorities vs Local Realities: Net Zero, Youth & the Political Economy of ETMs in Africa. 📅 25 Sept | 5–7 pm 📍 Bush House (SE) 1.02 & Online 🎤 Dr Olawale Ismail #ClimateJustice #Africa #JustTransitions

How does Nigerian art challenge Eurocentric ideas of modernity? Join African Leadership Centre, together with King's Arts & Humanities, for a seminar with Dr Bea Gassmann de Sousa, exploring Nigerian creativity, nationalism & and global modernity. 📅 21 Oct | 5:30–7 pm 📍 King’s College London

The African Public Square (APS) invites you to the 2nd Continental Debate, to be held during the ECOWAS at 50 Conference on 31 Oct 2025, in Abuja, Nigeria. Theme: Are regional organisations a necessity for regional integration in Africa? #AfricanPublicSquare #ECOWASat50 #PeoplesECOWAS

🎭 Join us Wed 12 Nov for a seminar with Dr Kathrin Schmidt on contemporary theatre in #SierraLeone, examining how cultural production is shaped by globalisation, international development and cultural policy. Sign up: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Dr Godwin Murunga of CODESRIA, in his remarks, note that State-led initiatives of regional integration are lagging behind people-led initiatives on regional integration. States are led by a very Westphalian ethos. Imposing legalistic interpretations. #ECOWASat5O

Amb. Abdel Fatau Musah Ecowas - Cedeao notes ECOWAS evolution has been in 3 phases: 1. Cold War. Era - end in 1989 2. Era of New Liberalism, 1990 up until 2020 3.2020-present.

Prof. Abdoulaye Bathily opens up the debate by noting that Regional integration forms necessary enablers for change. Regional integration is deeply rooted in the history of West Africa and Africa as a whole. #ECOWASat50 #PeoplesEcowas #AfricanPublicSquare

Dr Titilope Ajayi, the roof cannot uphold the house. Are regional organisations necessary? My argument is simple: they are not. #PeoplesEcowas #ECOWASat50

The African Leadership Centre proudly celebrates two outstanding members of our alumni community whose achievements embody the Centre’s vision of African-led scholarship and leadership. Prof. Kialee Nyiayaana, newly promoted to Professor of International Relations and Conflict Studies at the

Reimagining West African Integration (Session II): The Future of Regional Economic Integration and Sustainable Development Moderator: Prof Ekaette IKPE Eka Ikpe Panellists: - Dr Faisal Garba MUHAMMED Faisal Garba - Ms Fatou Senghore JAGNE - Dr Fatima AKILU Dr. Fatima Akilu #APS