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The 2024 global summits season begins in Kampala, Uganda in January 2024 with aglobal south agenda. President Yoweri Museveni will host the nineteenth Non-AlignedMovement (NAM) Heads of State summit from 15 to 20 January[i]. This will be followedby the Third

This talk was given by Dr. Larry Shore at the Luthuli Museum on August 20th, 2024, on the occasion of the museum's 20th anniversary. Top: Albert Luthuli Bottom Left: Martin Luther King Jr. Bottom Right: Robert Kennedy America has always had a

Source: https://www.konecentennialfoundation.org/westbury-youth-centre Approaching thirty years of the post-Apartheid era (2024), the predominantly Coloured community of Westbury continues to wrestle with the identity-formation of “not being Black enough and White enough.”[1] Geographically, Westbury is a township located within the Johannesburg metropolitan region.

IMAGE: Bookings Did the Summit advance Africa’s global voice? On assuming office in early 2021, the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris administration of the United States(US) identified Africa as a strategic region of focus. Within 18 months, the administration produced astrategy on

IMAGE: Bookings Introduction The US – Africa Leaders’ Summit was held in December 2022 for the first time since the inaugural eventin 2014. What are the peace and security plans to keep an eye on as implementation of action plans getsoff the

IMAGE: The Hilltop Introduction For Africa–United States (US) relations, 2022 was a defining year. August saw the launch of a new USStrategy Toward Africa1 followed by ‘second’ US–Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC in December.What are the implications for democracy, human rights

Earth globe under the extreme heat of the sun, North America burning into flame, destroyed by fire, conceptual illustration of global warming, temperature increase disaster, over heating of the world in climate change Between January and July of 2024, there were

IMAGE: Daily Maverick Introduction In May 2024, South Africa held national elections. The ruling African National Congress (ANC), for the firsttime since the end of Apartheid in 1994, failed to get a majority and was faced with the need to establisha governing

The African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) hosted the Africa-US Smart Cities Lab on 14 August 2024 in partnership with the Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Wits School of

IMAGE: UNOWAS The African Centre for the Study of the US, Wits University, held a meeting on Africa – US and PressFreedom of Expression. The meeting started with introductions before delving into the main issues,beginning with the observation that each country