Online Conversation / Pan-African Forum: Defining Pan-Africanism, Oct. 27 2020

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Date: Tuesday, 27th October 2020
Medium: Zoom
Time: 7.30 pm

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_09L2OFjATwmixbvhgOZ2jg

About
Welcome to the inaugural Pan-African Forum. These series of online conversations will amplify African perspectives on a range of social, economic, and political issues. Featuring intellectuals from the African continent and diaspora, these forums will enrich ongoing conversations within and among the range of conceptual, geographical, ideological and linguistic regions of Africa and the diaspora, envisioning the potential and possibility of working together beyond the narrow confines of Nation States.

This first forum will be anchored by Mr. Brian Kagoro and will give us an overview of the history and conceptual underpinnings of Pan-Africanism. Brian Kagoro, a Zimbabwean citizen, is a Pan-Africanist constitutional and economic relations lawyer and a development governance enthusiast.

The Forums will be moderated by Dr. Mshai Mwangola, Performance Scholar.

Online Conversation / Pan-African Forum: Defining Pan-Africanism, Oct. 27 2020

by with No Comment debateevents


Date: Tuesday, 27th October 2020
Medium: Zoom
Time: 7.30 pm

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_09L2OFjATwmixbvhgOZ2jg

About
Welcome to the inaugural Pan-African Forum. These series of online conversations will amplify African perspectives on a range of social, economic, and political issues. Featuring intellectuals from the African continent and diaspora, these forums will enrich ongoing conversations within and among the range of conceptual, geographical, ideological and linguistic regions of Africa and the diaspora, envisioning the potential and possibility of working together beyond the narrow confines of Nation States.

This first forum will be anchored by Mr. Brian Kagoro and will give us an overview of the history and conceptual underpinnings of Pan-Africanism. Brian Kagoro, a Zimbabwean citizen, is a Pan-Africanist constitutional and economic relations lawyer and a development governance enthusiast.

The Forums will be moderated by Dr. Mshai Mwangola, Performance Scholar.

Panel Discussion: ‘Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly,’ Jan. 31 2019 @ Alliance Française Auditorium

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Date: January 31, 2019
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: from 6.30 pm
Entry: Free

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International Cooperation, to share ideas and knowledge.

This year’s theme being Facing the Present, the Alliance Française, in partnership with The Elephant (an online platform engaging citizen to reflect, re-member and re-envision their society), will organize a panel discussion on the impact of social media on our society today.

This is what the stellar panel, moderated by Patrick Gathara @gathara, cartoonist, writer, columnist and commentator on Kenya and international affairs, will tackle:

Churchill Otieno @otienoc
Digital Editor, Nation Media Group
Is social media breaking the news and the business of news?

Sam Kamau @thesamkamau
Communications trainer and consultant specializing in social media and political communication
Is social media being weaponized for political gains?

Kennedy Kachwanya @kachwanya
Technology blogger and Chairman, Bloggers Association of Kenya
Did social media kill the blog?

Wandia Njoya @wmnjoya
Commentator on political, social, cultural and gender issues
Social Media: A force for good?

Christine Mungai @chris_mungai
Reflections Curator, The Elephant
Social media: Power or just the illusion of power?

Don’t be left out. Join the conversation. #nightofideas