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15 March 2022
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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The keynote speakers are Dr Khabele Motlosa (right), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at NUL, and leading Pan-Africanist scholar Prof Molefi Kete Asante(left).
The
Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS) at the University of the Free State (UFS), together with the
National University of Lesotho (NUL) and the Academic Forum for Development of Lesotho, is hosting an online think tank on the transnational communities of the Lesotho-South Africa border from 19 to 21 March 2021. The theme of the conference is
Lesotho and South Africa: a clarion call for a Pan-Africanist future.
Dr Munyaradzi Mushonga, Programme Director: Africa Studies Programme in CGAS, is the convenor of the conference and is also leading the UFS borderlands panel. The borderlands project is jointly funded by the Office of the Dean: Faculty of the Humanities at the UFS, and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS).
For more information and to register for the conference, click here
Qwaqwa staff member won an award in Ghana
2006-07-18
A staff member of the Department of Business Management at the Qwaqwa Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS), Ms Ekaete Samson-Akpan, won an award for the best paper with practical applications on Africa during the 7th International Academy of African Business and Development (IAABD) conference held in Accra, Ghana. The conference was hosted by the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). Ms Samson-Akpan also won the award for best session presenter in the session on ecological, environmental and agricultural issues.
Ms Samson-Akpan receives the award for Best Paper with Practical Applications on Africa from the president of the IAABD, Prof Gerry Muuka.