2023 HYBRID INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IDENTITY POLITICS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND POLICY OPTIONS IN AFRICA
More than 60 years after independence by several states in Africa, the narratives, facts, and figures regarding development crises in the continent have remained dissatisfying and in fact humiliating. In
many cases, policy options in majority of African states are determined by ethnic, religious, and other divisive identity options, rather than by planned efforts to improve human lives and wellbeing on the
continent. Despite these negative indices, several scholars of African origin are bent on spreading theories to the effect that persons and groups have been conspiring against Africa. By doing this, such
authors play down on the extremely negative impacts of misdirected identity politics on policy adoptions and implementation in Africa, and on human development. It has become urgent to improve
our self-reflexive understanding of the effects of identity politics on sustainable development and policy processes in Africa. We are therefore inviting researchers and practitioners from the arts,
humanities, social sciences, and indeed all disciplines of human enterprise around the globe, to participate in this reflection. Some of the questions we aim to address during the conference are: How
can identity politics in its widest form of conceptualization, enhance our understanding of justice, migration policies, and international relations in Africa and beyond? How is the same principle a key to
understanding and realizing each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Can reflections on identity politics provide new perspectives and frameworks for understanding recurrent issues
addressed by scholars in African studies in general, and philosophical engagements in Africa, in particular? To what extent is identity politics a weakening cloak attached to the nature and
sustainability of democracy in Africa and beyond? These and closely related questions are the reasons the department of Philosophy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, is organizing her 2023 academic
conference with the following details: Click on 2023 HYBRID INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE to download flier
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