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Access to Festival activities, materials and updates are available on the HiA Newtork! Click here to be a part of the Faustian Book Festival! About the Festival: The Faustian Book Festival is the Kenyan launch and serialized discussion of the latest book by Edwin Bikundo – “The Faustian Pact in International Law: Discussing Literature, Jurisprudence, and Giorgio Agamben’s Critical Theory” . The Fe...

Access to Festival activities, materials and updates are available on the HiA Newtork! Click here to be a part of the Faustian Book Festival! About the Festival: The Faustian Book Festival is the Kenyan launch and serialized discussion of the latest book by Edwin Bikundo – “The Faustian Pact in International Law: Discussing Literature, Jurisprudence, and Giorgio Agamben’s Critical Theory” . The Fe...

Access to Festival activities, materials and updates are available on the HiA Newtork! Click here to be a part of the Faustian Book Festival! About the Festival: The Faustian Book Festival is the Kenyan launch and serialized discussion of the latest book by Edwin Bikundo – “The Faustian Pact in International Law: Discussing Literature, Jurisprudence, and Giorgio Agamben’s Critical Theory” . The Fe...

Access to Festival activities, materials and updates are available on the HiA Newtork! Click here to be a part of the Faustian Book Festival! About the Festival: The Faustian Book Festival is the Kenyan launch and serialized discussion of the latest book by Edwin Bikundo – “The Faustian Pact in International Law: Discussing Literature, Jurisprudence, and Giorgio Agamben’s Critical Theory” . The Fe...

In this episode, Hosted in Africa (HiA) meets with the prolific Alfonso Brooks - founder and director of AfriKin. The AfriKin Foundation is a nonprofit that emphasizes cultural connection and kinship across ethnic lines; focusing on engagement and quality of care, championing Global Africa’s image to allow more strategic partnerships. This focus on connecting people across ethnic lines and creatin...

 In this episode, Hosted in Africa (HiA) meets with the prolific Alfonso Brooks - founder and director of AfriKin. The AfriKin Foundation is a nonprofit that emphasizes cultural connection and kinship across ethnic lines; focusing on engagement and quality of care, championing Global Africa’s image to allow more strategic partnerships. This focus on connecting people across ethnic lines and creati...

In this episode, Hosted in Africa (HiA) meets with the prolific Alfonso Brooks - founder and director of AfriKin. The AfriKin Foundation is a nonprofit that emphasizes cultural connection and kinship across ethnic lines; focusing on engagement and quality of care, championing Global Africa’s image to allow more strategic partnerships. This focus on connecting people across ethnic lines and creatin...

We often categorize historical ages in terms of technological advances; the stone age, the bronze age and the iron age all through until the industrial revolution.  Once again, through Big Data and AI, we are at the dawn of a new age. What does this new age mean for Global Africa? Join us on Sema Live for the first part of this discussion as we question, listen to, and explore the future with our...

We often categorize historical ages in terms of technological advances; the stone age, the bronze age and the iron age all through until the industrial revolution.  In the modern era we remember how the internet and its ability to transmit data revolutionized our ability to communicate and connect. Big Data and AI take another step by crunching of the decades of data we have - and continue to - tr...

We often categorize historical ages in terms of technological advances; the stone age, the bronze age and the iron age all through until the industrial revolution.  Once again, through Big Data and AI, we are at the dawn of a new age. What does this new age mean for Global Africa? Join us on Sema Live for the first part of this discussion as we question, listen to, and explore the future with our...

We often categorize historical ages in terms of technological advances; the stone age, the bronze age and the iron age all through until the industrial revolution.  In the modern era we remember how the internet and its ability to transmit data revolutionized our ability to communicate and connect. Big Data and AI take another step by crunching of the decades of data we have - and continue to - tr...

In the year of 2021 the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (the Permanent Forum) was established as both a consultative mechanism and an Advisory Body to the United Nations, regarding improving the safety and quality of life and livelihoods of people of African descent.  The Permanent Forum consists of 10 members, each of whom are expert in their respective fields and who collectively ar...

In the year of 2021 the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (the Permanent Forum) was established as both a consultative mechanism and an Advisory Body to the United Nations, regarding improving the safety and quality of life and livelihoods of people of African descent.  The Permanent Forum consists of 10 members, each of whom are expert in their respective fields and who collectively ar...

Matembezi, Swahili for "short journey", is our collection of updates from the HiA Network, our guests on Sema Live, some Global African highlights, all wrapped up in a few African minutes! In this episode we open the year with a recap on the stories from our most recent guests where we discussed: intergenerational  solidarity ; movement texts as anti colonial theory ;  a debut novelist b...

Matembezi, Swahili for "short journey", is our collection of updates from the HiA Network, our guests on Sema Live, some Global African highlights, all wrapped up in a few African minutes! In this episode we open the year with a recap on the stories from our most recent guests where we discussed: intergenerational  solidarity ; movement texts as anti colonial theory ;  a debut novelist b...

We welcome you to the recording of the first LIVE broadcast of our headline podcast series, Sema Live!    This episode coincided with the 10th October World Mental Health Day. To mark the occasion, the Sema Live team sat down with Titilayo Ameh-Hill and Obi Abuchi, two well known, experienced professionals who make it their business to address issues of mental health and well-being in their daily...

We welcome you to the recording of the first LIVE broadcast of our headline podcast series, Sema Live!    This episode coincided with the 10th October World Mental Health Day.  To mark the occasion, the Sema Live team sat down with Titilayo Ameh-Hill and Obi Abuchi, two well known, experienced professionals who make it their business to address issues of mental health and well-being in their daily...

In this episode we interview Kenyan  female author Achieng Opiyo on her debut novel The Color of the Sun . Much like her book, Achieng is not to be judged by her cover. A once soft spoken individual, she explains her journey of finding her voice in her writing, and persevering to bring her work to the world through a unique self-publishing journey. You can a purchase copy of Achieng's novel h...

In this episode we interview Kenyan  female author Achieng Opiyo on her debut novel The Color of the Sun . Much like her book, Achieng is not to be judged by her cover. A once soft spoken individual, she explains her journey of finding her voice in her writing, and persevering to bring her work to the world through a unique self-publishing journey. Her novel falls into the romance genre, but carri...

Join two upcoming legal scholars Melissa Mungai and guest Zwelithini Eugene Xaba as they interrogate the inclusion or exclusion of certain sources of knowledge in the academic space specifically, and other general knowledge sites. The question here is where do we draw our knowledge from, particularly on anti-colonial theories in the 21st Century? Do we only rely on the mainstream texts, which are...

This episode extends the Sema Session episode on Indigenising Sites of Knowledge in Africa. The question here is where do we draw our knowledge from, particularly on anti-colonial theories in the 21st Century? Do we only rely on the mainstream texts, which are often tainted with colonial undertones? Join two upcoming legal scholars* as they interrogate the inclusion or exclusion of certain sources...

In this episode Hosted in Africa (HiA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) come together to discuss the 2022 International Youth Day theme: "Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages". The HiA team was joined by Edward Kwakwa (Assistant Director General of WIPO and responsible for the organization's Global Challenges and Partnerships sections) a...

In this episode Hosted in Africa (HiA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) come together to discuss the 2022 International Youth Day theme: "Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages". The HiA team was joined by Edward Kwakwa (Assistant Director General of WIPO and responsible for the organization's Global Challenges and Partnerships sections) a...

In this episode Hosted in Africa (HiA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) come together to discuss the 2022 International Youth Day theme: "Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages". The HiA team was joined by Edward Kwakwa (Assistant Director General of WIPO and responsible for the organization's Global Challenges and Partnerships sections) a...

Matembezi, Swahili for "short journey", is our collection of updates from the HiA Network, our guests on Sema Live, some Global African highlights, all wrapped up in a few African minutes!   In this episode we recap on the humanizing stories from our previous guests, look into the emergence of Google's "sentient" AI, the gains of Afro-Colombian female Vice President Franci...