ISS Seminar, Pretoria: Conflicting Pan-Africanisms? The Battle for the Control of the AU Commission: at the Launch of The African.org

Date: 2012-03-30

Venue: , ISS conference room, Block C, Brooklyn Court, 361 Veale Street, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria, Parking in Brooklyn mall and Absa Court for a fee

RSVP:
Helen Chanda
Tel: (012) 346 9500
Email: [email protected]

African countries are divided over the choice of a new chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission. While SADC believes that its candidate South African Minister of Home Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma should be able to stand for re-election again at the next AU summit, in June this year, there is still no widespread acceptance of South Africa’s bid to head the continental institution. Is it because Southern Africa has a different vision of where the AU should be going than others on the continent? Half a century later, does pan-Africanism mean the same thing to all Africans?

The seminar will discuss among others the diverging views about Pan-Africanism that preside over the current battle for the control of the AU Commission

Speakers:

• Dr. Paul-Simon Handy, director research, Institute for Security Studies

• Dr. Francis Kornegay, senior research fellow, Institute for Global Dialogue

Chair:

• Liesl Louw-Vaudran, editor The African.org