The African Leadership Centre (ALC) is delighted to announce our next (online) research seminar happening on Tuesday 18^th January 2022 at 08:00 NY/ 13:00 UK/ 15:00 SA/ 16:00 EAT

The session will host a seminar presentation titled: Ethics and Qualitative Research Methods in African Contexts: Researchers must be attentive to the different dynamics of their research locations and be sensitive to the risks faced by all involved in their research. Because every conflict-affected environment has its own specific set of dynamics, and may therefore raise its own unique ethical questions, researchers must be reflexive, adaptive, and creative in dealing with such questions. They need to scrutinize the efficacy of their methods and make necessary recalibrations.  What works best will vary from one context to the other.

Speaker:

Prof. Ismail Rashid, Professor of History at Vassar College, USA, and Research Mentor at the ALC

Discussant

Nompilo Ndlovu, Post-Doctoral Fellow and adjunct lecturer at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and ALC Alumna

 Chair:

Dr Eka Ikpe, ALC

Other seminars under the ALC Research Seminar series we have done this year include:

• Examining Knowledge production on Peace and Security in Francophone and Lusophone African countries (Internal) by Dr. David Mwambari and Cluster 2&3 members.
• Shrinking Civic Space and the Role of Civil Society in Resolution of Conflict in Anglophone Cameroon (External)    

Speaker: Prof. James Kiven Kewir, ALC and University of Buea

Discussant: Dr Sonja Theron, ALC and University of Pretoria

You can access the full recording here

• Youth-led Protest and the Renegotiation of the 'State' in Africa: initial mapping assessment (Internal)

Speaker: Dr. Olawale Ismail, ALC and King’s College London

Discussant: Rachel Sittoni, Ph.D. candidate in Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge and ALC Alumnus

• Evolving Asymmetric Threats in Africa: Implications for governance, social cohesion, and sovereignty (External)

Speaker: Dr. Abdel-Fatau Musah, Director, Western Africa Division, Departments of Political & Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA-DPO), United Nations Secretariat, New York, and Former Chair of the ALC Board of Trustees

Discussant: Leonide Azah, Project Manager, CODESRIA and ALC Alumna

You can access the full recording here

• Decolonisation of Research Methodologies (Internal)          

Speaker: Damilola Adegoke, Doctoral Fellow, ALC, KCL and Lorina Johnson-Prince, Doctoral Student, ALC, KCL"

Discussant: Clement Sefa-Nyarko, Doctoral Student, La Trobe University, and ALC Alumnus