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International humanities conference 2023

oau humanities conf 11024 1From the 16th to the 20th of July 2023 the international humanities conference, partly sponsored by IFRA-Nigeria, took place at the faculty of Arts of Obafemi Awolowo University on the following theme: "new theories of Africa: diversities, divergences and dreams". The conference featured Professor Karin Barber from the university of Birmingham, Professor Carole Boyce Davies from Cornell University and Professor Tunde Bewaji from the University of West Indies.

The conference was the occasion to discuss various topics such as demographic change, youth population, and the future of Africa, the resurgence of theories of decolonization conflict and African humanism, epidemiology and global narratives of Africa amongst other things.

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