Dr Collins Brobbey Adu-Bempah
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. Collins Brobbey Adu-Bempah Dr. Collins Brobbey Adu-Bempah is a Senior Lecturer, Head of Department, Integrated Social Sciences and a Traditional Sub-Chief from the Asante Royal Oyokuo Clan, He has formerly served as the Acting Deputy Rector, Dean of School of Graduate Studies and Research, GIJ branch president of the University Teachers’ Association […]
Mdumiseni Nxumalo
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Mdumiseni Nxumalo Mdumiseni Nxumalo is the Coordinator of the IKS Documentation Centre (IKSDC) project of the Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation (DSTI), contracted under the University of Zululand. He coordinates the documentation of local traditional medicine and food security essential Indigenous knowledge from among rural communities of Northern KZN. He holds a Diploma in […]
Mduduzi Sylvester Dlamini
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Mduduzi Sylvester Dlamini Mduduzi Sylvester Dlamini is community member who is passionate in changing the social wellbeing of the community. For the past years, he has been serving as Ward Committee member, heading the portfolio of Education and Professionals. Also he is serving in the Mkhwanazi Traditional Council. This has given him […]
Prof Nisi Thusi
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Prof. Nisi Thusi Prof. Nisi Thusi. Associate Research Professor at Global Centre for Academic Research @ South Valley University (Zambia) and AMADI University College (Swaziland). Dr Nisi is also a full time academic in the Department of Accounting at the University of Johannesburg. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the […]
Lindokuhle Patiwe
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Lindokuhle Patiwe Lindokuhle Patiwe is a Cape Town based social justice activist and independent researcher. He holds a B.Soc.Sci Hon degree in African Studies from the University of Cape Town where he led the #RhodesMustFall movement. Patiwe’s research interests are in African Philosophy, Political Theory and Critical Race Theory. Patiwe is currently doing […]
Rogers Orock
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Rogers Orock Rogers Orock is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lafayette College. He is a political anthropologist with research interests in the elites, morality, leadership, rumors, sexuality, conspiracy theories, and political imagination in postcolonial West Africa. He is the co-author, with Peter Geschiere, of Conspiracy Narratives in Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and […]
Ntando Yola
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Ntando Yola Ntando Yola is the Stakeholder and Community Engagement Lead at the University of Cape Town Clinical Trials Unit and the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation in Cape Town. His vast experience of HIV, TB, and related clinical research demonstrated his dedication to mobilising and facilitating an enabling environment for diverse stakeholders to […]
Dr Josphine Hapazari
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr Josphine Hapazari Dr. Josphine Hapazari (Nee Bhiri) is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the National University of Lesotho. She holds a PhD in Sociology and she teaches Sociology courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is a member of the South African Sociological Association. Her […]