This three-day conference will explore why the ongoing debt emergency remains unresolved, how it can…
2021 Social Policy in Africa Conference Development, Democracy and Social Policy: Remembering Thandika Mkandawire, 22-24 November 2021 (Online)
The Conference Thematics
Papers and the conference will address a wide range of issues: from social policy for inclusive and democratic development, to social policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, non-formal social provisioning, poverty and inequality, and land and agrarian reform. Contributions need not be limited to the African context, and work covering contexts and experiences of the global South broadly is welcome. … More…
- Critical Reflections on the Oeuvre of Thandika Mkandawire: Development, democracy and social policy
- Social Policy for Inclusive and Democratic Development
- Critical Reflections on Social Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Poverty and Inequality in Africa
- Critical Perspectives on Social Protection
- Non-Formal Social Provisioning: The African Experiences
- Land and Agrarian Reform: The Social Policy Perspectives
Conference Partners
OUR SPEAKRS
PROFESSOR JAYATI GHOSH
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Professor Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA). A Development Economist, Professor Ghosh was until December 2020 the Chair of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), in India. Professor Ghosh received her undergraduate education at Delhi University… More…
PROFESSOR FANTU CHERU
INAUGURAL THANDIKA MKANDAWIRE MEMORIAL LECTURE
Fantu Cheru is Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy at American University (Washington, DC) and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University (The Netherlands). He served as Associate Senior Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and the North-South Institute in Ottawa, Canada. From 2007-12, he was the Research Director at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. More…
PROFESSOR ADEBAYO OLUKOSHI
CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Professor Adebayo Olukoshi is a Distinguished Professor at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He received his undergraduate education at the Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria), and his doctoral education at Leeds University (United Kingdom). More…
Please direct all enquiries to:
Ms Simangele Sithole
Administrator, 2021 Social Policy in Africa Conference
South African Research Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa
City of Tshwane-Pretoria. South Africa.
E-mail: sarchisp[at]unisa.ac.za
Tel: +27 12 337 6114
