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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20121119T120000
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SUMMARY:Africa in the Emerging New World Order: Development\, Culture and the State
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LOCATION:Kampala\, Uganda
DESCRIPTION:<p>As globalization forces gather momentum in the first decades of the&nbsp\;21st century\, what is going to be the fate of the individual regional&nbsp\;or ethnic or tribal cultures of Africa? These societies\, it will be&nbsp\;recalled\, have invariably been referred to as the cradle of&nbsp\;civilisation\, home to the first Homo sapiens\, the spring point from&nbsp\;which the rest of the world diverged\; what is the fate of this region&nbsp\;now revered as the very first home of humankind? Here are at once&nbsp\;questions of identity and destiny. For millennia\, African societies&nbsp\;managed to adopt themselves to the vagaries of nature\, changing and&nbsp\;being changed by the environment. How is Africa going to reposition<br>itself in the changed situation? Where will these societies be when&nbsp\;the globalisation whirlwind finally settles down? Shall we still have&nbsp\;Africa\, home to a multiplicity of cultures\, languages and life&nbsp\;styles? Would that be desirable even if possible? If we grant that&nbsp\;African diversity is still desirable\, how is it going to be&nbsp\;preserved &nbsp\;in the face of the invincible globalisation processes?<br><br>The emerging new world order has various implications for developing&nbsp\;nations both negative and positive. The focus of this seminar will be&nbsp\;to have a discourse on some of the basic issues arising from these&nbsp\;developments. The issues of African development\, culture and the&nbsp\;nature of the &nbsp\;state as these are affected by new knowledge systems&nbsp\;and technology and how these in turn are going to reposition<br>themselves &nbsp\;in the emerging new world order will be at the top in&nbsp\;this discourse. The African states cannot remain isolated\, they too&nbsp\;need to be attuned to these new emerging issues.<br><br>1. African Development in the New World Order<br>1.1. Resources and the future<br>1.2. Development and the future<br>1.3. Knowledge Management and the future<br><br>2. African Culture in the New World Order<br>2.1. Culture and the future<br>2.2. Ethics and the future<br>2.3. Education and the future<br><br>3. African State in the New World Order<br>3.1. African Politics and the future<br>3.2. African State and the future<br>3.3. African Democracy and the future<br><br>Contact:<br><br>Prof. Edward Wamala<br>Department of Philosophy<br>Makerer University<br>Kampala\, Uganda<br>wamalaed@arts.mak.ac.ug<br><br>Conference website:</p>\n
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