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The Moi University African Cluster Centre, a partner in the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, is pleased
to announce its Second International Conference on African Studies, to be held at Moi University in
Eldoret, Kenya, from 20th to 21st November 2025.
This year’s conference comes at a pivotal moment as we mark the conclusion of the first research cycle
of the Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies (Africa Multiple) initiative. Over the past six and a half
years, this transcontinental collaboration—anchored by the University of Bayreuth and including as
partners, the University of Lagos, Nigeria, Rhodes University, South Africa, Université Joseph Ki–Zerbo,
Burkina Faso, and Moi University, Kenya—has worked to critically reframe the study of Africa through
fresh epistemologies and grounded, interconnected perspectives.
Rooted in the guiding vision of Africa Multiple, this conference foregrounds the idea that Africa is not a
singular narrative but a constellation of worlds forged through the interactions of peoples, objects, and
ideas—both within the continent and among its diasporas. We invite scholarly conversations that revisit,
interrogate, and reimagine intellectual, artistic, religious, cultural, social, and political movements that,
inspired by ideas of Africa, have emerged in Africa and its diasporic spaces, and which continue to
influence the way Africa is conceptualized, represented, and lived.
