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INSTITUTE FOR PAN-AFRICAN THOUGHT AND CONVERSATION ANNUAL 2017 UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG REPORT 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 2018 A 2017 ANNUAL INSTITUTE FOR PAN-AFRICAN THOUGHT AND CONVERSATION 2018 REPORT UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG B INSTITUTE FOR PAN-AFRICAN THOUGHT AND CONVERSATION ANNUAL 2017 UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG REPORT 2018 CONTENTS 1. Director’s Report 02 2. Introduction 05 3. IPATC’s Strategic Plan Summary 06 4. Research 07 5. Strategic Engagements with Policymakers 10 6. Public Engagements 12 7. Teaching 14 8. Strategic Partnerships 15 9. Communications Strategy 17 10. Monitoring and Evaluation 18 11. IPATC’s Advisory Board Members 19 12. Financing and Fundraising 20 13. Capacity Building 21 14. Staff Profi le 22 15. Annexes 23 IPATC aspires to be a centre of excellence Compiled by: providing a forum for Dr Oluwaseun Tella, Senior Researcher, Institute For scholars, practitioners, Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University and civil society actors of Johannesburg (UJ) across Africa and its Editor: Diaspora to dialogue Professor Adekeye Adebajo, Director, UJ Institute For and contribute to the Pan-African Thought and Conversation rigorous production and The report was also proof-read by Professor Adebajo, dissemination of Pan- Dr. Tella, and Mr. Anthony Kaziboni, Research African knowledge. Coordinator, IPATC. 1 2017 ANNUAL INSTITUTE FOR PAN-AFRICAN THOUGHT AND CONVERSATION 2018 REPORT UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG 01 DIRECTOR’S REPORT The Institute For Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) was established at the University of Johannes- burg (UJ) in 2016 as one of four fl agship research centres of excellence to produce cutting-edge research and increase the global stature of the University. The fi ve key mandates of the Institute are: research; strategic engagement with policymakers; public engagement; IPATC continues to try teaching; and capacity-building. to rebuild the bridges of Pan-Africanism In January 2017, the Institute moved into a beautiful from Kinshasa to building on Molesey Avenue in Auckland Park which had previously been the private residence of the Rector of Kingston, from Bahia Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). to Benin, and from Amsterdam to Atlanta. IPATC started full-time operations that year. A three- day conference on “The Pan-African Pantheon” in June 2017 - at which world-class scholars assessed 40 key fi gures of Pan-Africanism from Edward Blyden to Miriam Makeba - attracted 527 people over three days and launched an ambitious project to help create a civil society movement to support eff orts at building bridges with the African Diaspora of 134 million in the also published by five staff members in media in South Caribbean, the Americas, and Europe. This project which Africa, Nigeria, and Britain; while six external articles further sought to contribute to eff orts at curriculum reported on the Institute’s work. transformation across “Global Africa” will produce an edited volume by 2020. In 2018, the Institute continued to establish itself as the leading centre for Pan-African thought and dialogue Other key outputs for 2017 included: a short biography in South Africa. This was attested to by the fact that of Thabo Mbeki published by Ohio University Press, its research output and dissemination have global and 14 public dialogues, including six documentaries reach; its public events attract diverse and high-profi le on major Pan-African figures such as Fela Anikulapo- representation; its media profi le is strong; its teaching Kuti, Bob Marley, Nelson Mandela, and Steve Biko. of two honours courses on “Pan-African Thought” and These events were attended by an average of 90 “Confl ict Resolution in Africa” has been well received; its people including students, academics, policymakers, two policy briefs on “South Africa’s Foreign and Trade and civil society activists. 33 newspaper articles were Policy,” and “Africa/European Union (EU) Migration” 2 INSTITUTE FOR PAN-AFRICAN THOUGHT AND CONVERSATION ANNUAL 2017 UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG REPORT 2018 York, and attracted about 220 participants from diverse sectors over two days, including about 20 speakers, among whom are some of the fi nest African and American scholars in the fi eld. In pursuit of the Institute’s goal of contributing to UJ’s global research strategy; in 2018, Institute staff published a single-authored book, The Eagle and the Springbok: Essays on Nigeria and South Africa (Adekeye Adebajo); and one co-edited book, Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Adekeye Adebajo); as well as fi ve book chapters. Dr. Seun Tella, the Institute’s Senior Researcher who joined in 2018, was prolifi c, publishing seven journal articles and a book chapter. Four reviews of IPATC-authored books were also published in reputable journals such as International Aff airs, and the South African Journal of International Aff airs. A one-day conference on migration challenges between Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacifi c (ACP) regions and the European Union was held in Brussels in October 2018, and helped to shape ACP negotiations with the EU, reached over 2,000 people and contributed to policy as well as contributing to building early support for the development; and its collaboration with the University implementation of the United Nations (UN) Global Compact of the West Indies (UWI) and establishment of an on Migration, agreed in Morocco, in December 2018. Institute for Global African Aff airs (IGAA) at UJ and UWI in November 2018, demonstrate its strong commitment As part of its second mandate of strategic engagement and outreach to the Diaspora. with policymakers, in order to promote more eff ective dialogue between policymakers and academics to achieve As part of further eff orts to contribute to UJ’s decoloni- a more eff ective South African foreign policy, in April 2018, sation project, IPATC’s research seminar on 17 and 18 August IPATC conducted a half-day policy engagement at the 2018 on “From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers: Lessons for South African Department of International Relations and South Africa’s Curriculum Transformation in the Humanities Cooperation (DIRCO) in Tshwane (Pretoria), attended by from Africa and African-American Studies” was successfully about 80 senior and middle-level policymakers. The IPATC- held, and the 24 papers have been published in 2020. This co-edited book, Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa, project was funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New was disseminated to 50 key policymakers and to DIRCO’s 3 2017 ANNUAL INSTITUTE FOR PAN-AFRICAN THOUGHT AND CONVERSATION 2018 REPORT UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG library at the meeting. A similar half-day policy engagement The Institute’s fourth mandate is teaching. As part of took place in June 2018 at South Africa’s Department eff orts to contribute to the University’s decolonisation of of Trade and Industry (DTI) at which the book was also the curriculum, IPATC continued to teach Honours courses disseminated to about 40 key DTI policymakers. The on “Pan-African Thought,” and “Confl ict Resolution in volume’s important ideas will thus directly infl uence the Africa”. As part of its fi fth capacity-building mandate, work of South Africa’s key foreign policy and trade off icials. the Institute hosted four Student Assistants who were doing PhD, Masters, and Honours courses in Development As part of its third mandate of public engagement; in Studies and working 20 hours a week at the Institute. 2018, IPATC hosted ten successful public dialogues on such diverse topics as “Politics in Zimbabwe”; “Nigeria IPATC also has a global external collaboration strategy and South Africa as African Leaders”; “Nkosazana Dlamini- through its books: the volume of Essays on Nigeria and South Zuma’s Political Legacy”; “South Africa’s Foreign Policy”; Africa was launched in Johannesburg (including at Wits “The Nelson Mandela Centenary Lecture”; “Remembering University and the South Africa Book Fair), Nigeria (Lagos Martin Luther King Jr.”; “The Legacy of Nigerian Scholar- and Ibadan), the US (Ohio and New York), Sweden (the Administrator, Adebayo Adedeji”; and “South Africa’s Nordic Africa Institute), and Belgium (the ACP Secretariat), Return to the UN Security Council.” These dialogues reaching 496 people. IPATC’s revamped website and attracted an average of 93 people. Institute DVD are also used eff ectively to promote its work; while client feedback from a diverse range of stakeholders, The Institute further hosted six documentaries in 2018 on based largely on questionnaires submitted at meetings, Amandla! (on the role of music in South Africa’s liberation have been overwhelmingly positive. struggle); Concerning Violence (on scenarios of violence based on Frantz Fanon’s ideas); The Burning Man (on Finally, in pursuit of the Institute’s sustainability strategy, the xenophobic attacks in South Africa in 2008); Martin about 2.5 million Rand ($175,000) was raised from the Luther King Jr.; Nelson Mandela; and Kofi Annan. These Carnegie Corporation of New York for the period 2018- events attracted an average of 51 people, and three were 2020 – the fi rst such grant to UJ from Carnegie – to support held in partnership with the UJ Film School, and the UJ a project on “Transforming South Africa’s Humanities School of Architecture. Curriculum.” The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) also awarded the Institute 40,000 Rand for two strategic engagements IPATC’s media profi le continues to grow, especially in on South Africa’s foreign policy in April and June 2018. South Africa and Nigeria. 36 newspaper articles were published in 2018 by three staff members (as well as one- The fi rst two years of the Institute’s work have thus been year Visiting Professor, David Moore), in Business Day, The extremely successful, and IPATC continues to try to rebuild Star, The Guardian (Nigeria), The Conversation, The Sunday the bridges of Pan-Africanism from Kinshasa to Kingston, Independent, and City Press. Three non-IPATC articles were from Bahia to Benin, and from Amsterdam to Atlanta.

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