media releases - Africa Speaks: The crisis of elections & the future of democracyThe Executive Dean of the College of Human Sciences at Unisa, Prof RHM Moeketsi, invites members of the public and the diplomatic community to our prestigious African Visiting Scholar of the Month Lecture Series. Click here for the invitation. Popularly known as "Africa Speaks", these lecture series are intended to provide a rigorous academic platform for some of the best intellectuals on the African continent and the Diaspora to critically engage with cultural, socio-political and economic issues that are of concern to, and affect Africans. The lecture series are also intended to provide young academics at Unisa with an opportunity to interact with Africa’s best organic intellectuals in the social sciences and humanities so that such invitees can act as role models to our emerging scholars. This month's Africa Speaks lecture will focus on "The crisis of elections and the future of democracy in Africa". The keynote speaker will be one of Africa’s well-known intellectuals, Prof Achille Mbembe, a Cameroonian national. He is a Professor at the Wiser Institute: Wits University. The lecture will explore the extent of various crises that underpin electoral politics and their threat to democracy in Africa, the role of foreign powers in the struggles for democracy in Africa and the best ways to uphold electoral results in conflict-ridden nations. According to Prof Mbembe, "The recent electoral crises in Zimbabwe, Kenya and the Ivory Coast are a cause for concern and should be interrogated by African scholars in particular. The lecture will thus focus on the relationship between elections, representative democracy and popular sovereignty in postcolonial Africa." All members of the media are invited to attend and requested to arrive at 10:30. Other media releases News | Latest | Archive |
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