Pan African Youth Conference

We must begin to reimagine our position within the gradual emergence of a global order that is not particularly different from what we have known but rather a new ordering/configuration of global coloniality. In the face of existing and emerging geopolitical contexts such as the consolidation of right-wing nationalism, neoliberal globalism, perennial austerity, wars-without-end and other “events”, there is an urgency/ need to rethink alternative modes of driving political development that simultaneously centers the domestic, transnational, inter-country and global.

Once previously received truths/existing narratives that serve certain ideological narratives have been interrogated and de-linked, we must ask ourselves; How does one reimagine Politics and Governance at this juncture?

The Politics and Governance Committee will study the political ways of life and modes of thinking, possible alternatives and imaginaries borrowing from various categories of thought as well as interrogating political ideas and concepts such as statehood, sovereignty, power, order and security which continue to (mis)inform current political aspirations.

Register today through the conference website.