Bernadine Jones, former Next Gen fellow, recently published a book titled Election and TV News in South Africa (Palgrave Macmillan). Next Gen’s…
Viewpoint
Viewpoint provides readers with unique perspectives of African peacebuilding from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners working in the field. Inspired by attendance at various workshops, conferences, and events involving African Peacebuilding Network staff, these candid conversations offer alternative views and opinions to some of the most pressing issues facing Africa today. Meant to encourage further dialogue, these entries also seek to stimulate future research and necessary collaboration between all actors who continue to shape the continent’s ever-evolving peacebuilding agenda.
Graduate Studies, the Makerere Factor, and the Future of Social Sciences in Uganda: A Conversation with Prof. Kasaija Phillip Apuuli
Social sciences and humanities are as important as sciences. Understanding how society functions is as important as scientific inventions. Thus,…
An Interview with Asher Gamedze, Theresia Philemon, and Godfrey Maringira at the First Ever Virtually Held APN and Next Gen Joint Workshop
2020 Next Gen fellow Asher Gamedze and 2020 APN fellow Theresia Philemon were interviewed during the APN and Next Gen’s…
African Agency and a Biden Administration: Lessons from Trump’s Presidency
The choice of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as President-elect and Vice-President-elect, respectively, has rekindled hope for a renewed impetus…
An Interview with Next Gen Alumnus Marion Atieno Ouma
The African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programs had the chance to attend the 3rd Biennial…
Ebola in the Congo: a forgotten conflict became a danger to world health
The original article can be found at The Conversation here. Ayamar Nyenyezi Bisoka is an APN IRG alumnus (2017). Aymar Nyenyezi…
An Interview with Next Gen Fellow Titilope Ajayi
The APN and Next Gen had the chance to attend the 3rd Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of…
An Interview with 2019 APN Grantee Onyinyechukwu Onyido Durueke
Dr. Onyinyechukwu Onyido Durueke was interviewed during the APN-WANEP Policy Dialogue on “Mediating Natural Resource Conflict in Africa: Connecting Practice…
A Researcher’s Dilemma: Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork in the Volatile Terrain of North Central Nigeria
As a member of a collaborative research team awarded a research grant by the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the…
An Interview with APN Alumnus Dr. Admire Mare
The APN held a Media Experts Consultative Meeting on “Model Curriculum for Conflict-Sensitive Journalism in Africa,” in Accra, Ghana in…