Past events

This event, in partnership with the UNDP, discusses how just, transparent and forward-looking minerals governance can form part of a comprehensive strategy to help Africa achieve sustainable development.

Join us and ask our Africa Programme senior research fellow Christopher Vandome anything about South Africa’s 2024 general election. Submit your questions in advance.

Members of the Common Futures Conversations community discuss policy proposals related to the just green transition with Fadhel Kaboub.

Paul Mashatile, Treasurer-General of the African National Congress (ANC), discusses the outcomes of the 6th ANC Policy Conference 2022.

Examining how regional trading blocs and national governments in Africa engage with their international partners, and how they seek to maximise domestic benefits through their regional and international partnerships.

This event examines how Japan and the UK plan to work together in their outlook on Africa, with the aim to encourage peace and stability in the continent. 

Speakers discuss the changing role of women in Zimbabwe’s economic structures and the priorities for promoting greater economic inclusion, agency and influence of women.

At this virtual event, which marks AFFORD’s African Diaspora and Development Day (AD3) 2021, speakers discuss the policy context for labour and skills mobility within and outside Africa.

Relations between African states and China have become increasingly varied over the years, reflecting the complexity of the countries, their societies and the multiplicity of actors involved in diplomatic, commercial and development engagements.