Scaut Institue, Staroměstské nám. 4/1, 110 00 Staré Město, Czechia
5th - 6th November 2026
Reimagining Africa: Agency, Knowledge, and Power in Transition
How are African societies, institutions, and communities reshaping knowledge, power, and their own
futures? Join scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students from across Africa and beyond for
Viva Africa 2026, taking place in Prague on 5–6 November 2026.
Organized by the Czech Association for African Studies, the conference will provide a space for
fresh
perspectives, critical debate, and exchange across disciplines.
📍 Prague, Czech Republic
📅 5–6 November 2026
Be part of the conversation. We look forward to welcoming you to Viva Africa 2026!
Asnake A. Chanie, PhD is a Political Science and African Studies researcher based in Prague, Czech
Republic. He earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of Hradec Králové. His research
focuses on African political economy, democratization, geopolitics, and development, with particular
interest in questions of political legitimacy, state transformation, and Africa's engagement with global
political processes.
keynote lecture notes download
Thursday, 5 November 2026
| Time | Programme | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30–11:00 | Session 1: Agency in Global Relations and Socio-Economic Transformation | |
| Türkiye's Expanding Presence in Sub-Saharan Africa: Between Strategic Interests and Stabilization Practices | Murat Özay Taşkın | |
| Switzerland's Africa Strategy 2025–2028: Continuities, Breakthroughs, and Prospects | Idrisse Désiré Machia A Rim | |
| Technical Cooperation as a Peace Practice: TESCO, Hungarian–African Relations, and the Danubian Lessons of Scientific Diplomacy | Daniel Solymari | |
| Les réseaux de jeunes leaders comme architectes de l'agentivité africaine : Impactus Afrika et la recomposition du leadership continental à l'ère multipolaire | Samba Diallo & Abdraman Saleh Hassan | |
| Women's Gold and Global Value Chains: The Shea Economy, Rural Livelihoods, and Sustainable Development in West Africa | Anand Srinivas | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30–13:00 | Session 2: Local Knowledge and Cultural Production | |
| Negotiating Food Security through Homegrown Initiatives: Availability and Access from Rwanda's Tradition-Based Livestock Programme | Jean de Dieu Nkubito | |
| “Siempre esperamos del ministerio”: Distrust and Loyalty among Filmmakers in Equatorial Guinea, the Case of FEGUICINEMA | Adrien Canto-Aing | |
| Writing Knowledge in Twi: David Asante's Twi Correspondence with Johannes Gottlieb Christaller (1862–1890) | Erika Eichholzer | |
| “It's who you know and who knows you”: advancing life trajectories through practices of relationality | Ben Beck | |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:30–16:00 | Session 3: Peace and Conflict, Postcolonial Memories | |
| Weaving Peace After Violence: Agaseke k'Amahoro as a Material and Performative Practice of Healing in Rwanda | Rosette Nkundimfura | |
| Reclaiming the Tradition: Women's Roles in Formal and Non-Formal Arab-Islamic Education and Peacebuilding in the Sahel | Siham Tenkoul | |
| Power in Transition, Memory in Contestation: Hegemony and Local Agency in Post-Independence Mozambique | Giovanni Battista Martino | |
| Power and Grassroots Initiatives in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Community Agency, Memory, and the Everyday Politics of Memorialization | Valens Bimenyimana | |
| Divided Pasts, Fractured Nations: Alternative Memory Politics and Societal Polarisation in Postcolonial Namibia and South Africa | Hana Horáková | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30–18:00 | Keynote lecture Africa Beyond Dependency: Contesting Narratives, Redefining Authority, and Shaping Global Futures |
Asnake A. Chanie |
| Time | Programme | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30–11:00 | Session 4: Languages, Representations, Discourse | |
| Pan-Africanism under siege: Afrophobia, linguistic othering, and violence against African migrants in South Africa | Alexander Angsongna, Moges Teshome & Adams Bodomo | |
| The Geopolitics of Naming Genocide: Conception, Contradictions and Contestation of Nigeria's "Christian Genocide" Narrative | Emmanuel Zwanbin | |
| Czech Broadcast Commentary and the Racialisation of African Football at the 2026 FIFA World Cup | Jakub Vávrovský | |
| Constructing South Africa through discourses of ‘reverse racism’ in Czech media | Andrea Nýčová & Stephanie Rudwick | |
| European languages in post-colonial Africa: a comparative analysis of Nigeria and Senegal in historical perspectives (1950–1990) | Suleiman Yakubu | |
| Should Joking Relationships in West Africa Be Studied Today? | Elizaveta Volkova | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30–13:00 | Round table discussion Topic to be announced |
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| 13:00 | End of conference | |
We welcome papers addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:
This interdisciplinary conference welcomes submissions on current as well as historical topics.
The Academic Comittee and Local Organizing Committee are constituted by the Presidium of the CAAS Association