Theme: Making African Worlds in the 21st Century: Reimagining Communities, Cultures, and Futures
The Moi University Africa Multiple Research Centre invites scholars, researchers, artists, policy practitioners, graduate students, and public intellectuals to submit abstracts for the 3rd Moi University International Conference on African Studies to be held in 19-20 November 2026 in Eldoret, Kenya.
The conference seeks to interrogate the multiple ways African worlds are imagined, assembled, contested, remembered, translated, digitized, secured, and ecologically sustained in the twenty-first century. Across disciplines and methodologies, the conference foregrounds Africa as a dynamic site of intellectual production, world-making, and epistemic innovation.
At a time marked by ecological crises, digital transformations, political insecurities, intensified migrations, and renewed debates on memory and belonging, the conference aims to create a platform for critical conversations on African futures, indigenous knowledges, and emergent forms of social imagination.
We welcome papers, panels, performances, artistic interventions, and interdisciplinary engagements addressing the following thematic areas, though submissions beyond these themes are also encouraged.
Conference Themes and Suggested Topics
• Accumulation by dispossession in Africa
• Indigenous knowledge systems and sustainable economies
• Food security, agriculture, and climate adaptation
• Land, labor, and resource politics
• Informal economies and survival strategies
• Extraction, inequality, and ecological futures
• Colonial trauma and the making of ethnic identities in postcolonial Africa
• Museums, monuments, and memorial cultures in African nations
• Archives, silences, and public memory
• Literature, film, and postcolonial remembrance
• Gender and youth involvement in political violence
• Religion, conflict, and gendered forms of insecurity
• World-making, religious ideologies, and the politics of insecurity in Africa
• Translating education: multilingual pedagogies, terminologies, and world-making
• Translating beyond language: oral literature, performance, and digital landscapes
• Translation and decolonial methodologies
• Politics of world-making and global ecological debates
• Indigenous ecological knowledge and environmental justice
• Harnessing AI for ecocritical futures and climate justice
• Digital humanities and African knowledge production
• Social media, activism, and political participation
• AI, ethics, and African epistemologies
• Cybercultures, digital storytelling, and world-making
Submission Guidelines
Participants are invited to submit abstracts for:
• Individual papers
• Panel proposals
• Roundtable discussions
• Artistic and creative performances
• Digital humanities demonstrations
Important Dates
• Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 July 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: 31 August 2026
• Conference Dates: 19-20 November 2026
Conference Format
The conference will be an in-person event.
Publication Opportunity
Selected papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume or special journal issue following peer review.