On 22 February 2020, UWA hosted a discussion on the 2019 Black Inc. Books' anthology Growing Up African In Australia as part of the Perth Festival 2020. The discussion was moderated by AfREC Postgraduate Fellow Tinashe Jakwa and featured two of the book’s editors in Ma...

On 12-14 March 2020, several AfREC Fellows participated in the exciting inaugural conference of the University of Melbourne’s African Studies Group entitled Borders, Identities and Belongings in a Cosmopolitan Society: Perspectives from African Migrants in the Diaspora...

The next iteration of the annual Indian Ocean regional education collaboration entitled International Relations in the Indian Ocean Region: Collaborative Study Experience will be held at UWA in Perth in November-December 2020 with funding provided by the Indian Ocean R...

On 14 March 2020 the inaugural participants in the WA African Women’s Leadership, Empowerment & Development (A-LEAD) Program graduated at the International Women’s Day 2020 Gala convened by the Organisation of African Communities in WA (OACWA). The gala evening, held a...

On 11 March 2020, AfREC Fellows participated in the ‘East-West African Australian Communities Forum’ at the University of Melbourne. The Forum represented the continuation of annual engagement between UWA AfREC, the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne-based Afric...

Congratulations to AfREC Research Fellow Dr Amin Mugera, a Senior Lecturer in the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment and the UWA Institute of Agriculture, who has just won a new Australia Africa Universities Network (AAUN) Partnership and Research Development Fu...

AfREC was very saddened to learn of the sudden passing of our friend and colleague Dr Ibrahim Bedi from the University of Ghana on 2 March 2020. The University of Ghana Registrar’s Office announced the passing of Dr Bedi on 3 March. Dr Bedi was the Director of the Univ...

On 28 February 2020, Prof. Mamokgethi Phakeng, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, visited Perth following her keynote address on ‘University leadership in a changing world’ at the Universities Australia Conference 2020 in Canberra.

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On 5 March 2020, AfREC co-convened the WA launch of new book Gibbous Moon Over Lagos: Pursuing a Dream on Africa’s Wild Side by Pamela Watson. For the launch at UWA, AfREC partnered with the Nigerian Association of Western Australia (NAWA), Organisation of African Comm...

On 28 February 2020, AfREC Postgraduate Fellow and PhD candidate in the School of Social Sciences, Tinashe Jakwa, participated in a conference at the People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), Moscow, on Africa and the Formation of the New System of International...