African Public Square Global Edition Africa Week 2026
Join us for the African Public Square (APS) Open Debate, 2026 Global Edition – that will ask the question - How should the Resourcing of African Agency be negotiated?
Date: 2nd March 2026
Time: 18.00 - 21.00 GMT
Venue: Bush House, Strand Campus, King’s College London
Keynote by: Honourable Thoko Didiza, Speaker of the South African Parliament
This King’s Africa Week 2026 opening event titled: “How should the resourcing of African agency be negotiated?” will feature a keynote address by Hon. Angela Thokozile Didiza, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, followed by an open debate by a distinguished panel of academics, diplomats and policy practitioners to critically discuss the options for resourcing African agency.
The questions at the core of this APS Open Debate are:
· What is the major structural challenge in resourcing African agency?
· What alliances must Africa build to resource and sustain its agency?
· Where are the emerging leaders of the strategic debate located?
This event is co-hosted by the African Leadership Centre and the High Commission of the Republic of Zambia, in collaboration with the Thabo Mbeki Foundation and the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
We look forward to welcoming participants and guests to an engaging, thought‑provoking, and impactful conversation.
For more on this event and to register, please go to https://www.kcl.ac.uk/africa-week
About the African Public Square:
As part of its mission to serve as a space for transformative discourses on peace, security and development in Africa, the ALC conceptualised the African Public Square (APS) in 2023 as a platform to harness Africa’s intellectual power and inter-generational agency to provide new perspectives and solutions to the most pressing issues impacting Africa and the world today.
The APS has a three-pronged agenda as follows:
· A convening platform: to convene new and established voices constituting an intergenerational community of African public intellectuals catalysing the repositioning of Africa in the global order.
· An annual high-level (continental) forum – an African/global public debate bringing together prominent African intellectuals along with a variety of interlocutors to frame and propose an alternative framework of engagement on the most critical issues of the day shaping Africa’s trajectory.
· An inter-generational community of African public intellectuals in co-leadership of special interventions that propose new ideas for managing Africa’s recalcitrant conflicts; and reshaping global engagement to raise Africa’s position in the world.
