#SaveTheDate: "Advancing African and Diaspora Academic Relations’"

The Association of African Universities (AAU), in collaboration with the African Union and the Government of Ghana, is inviting all educational stakeholders to the first Virtual AAU-Academic Diaspora Homecoming.

The overall objective of the Homecoming is to strengthen collaboration and partnership among research and educational institutions of higher learning in Africa and the African Diaspora to advance quality of education and general wellbeing of all persons of African descent.

Main Theme:

'Advancing African and Diaspora Academic Relations'

Date: September 28 – 30, 2020

Time: 15:00 (GMT), 8:00AM (EST). Kindly convert the time to your local time.

Venue: Virtual, Association of African Universities' E-Forum

Registration: https://cutt.ly/Bo9XWFz

Sub-themes

Role of the Diaspora in Higher Education and Innovation in Africa

Strengthening relationships between US Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and African universities

Women of African Descent in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges.

Higher Education: A Panacea to Racism and Promoting Social Justice

Contact Details

Email: namo@aau.org; secgen@aau.org

Tel/Whatsapp +1312-5398473/+14102927449/+12022907841

+233 243 298 464/+233 208 152 735/+233 502 699 914/+233 246 425 147

Instagram TV clip of 24 July Edition on Drug Policy Network-Ghana & #AfricanHealthWeWant

In this 9-minute IG TV clip, I ask Juana why it is not just a lot easier leaving drug users to exercise their free will and take drugs but deal with consequences. 

To which she explained it is a problem and that drug users are not criminals: they need to be shown love and care -- rather than leave them to the vagaries of the criminal justice system.

She stressed we must go after the trafficker and support the users who patronise what is made available to them.

You reduce the rate of crime when you help drug users out of their quagmire and help integrate them into society.

"Drugs have harmed many, but bad policies have harmed many more" was how the late Kofi Annan put it with respect to drug policy reform.

View IG TV link here: 

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CDGUJDxJF4I/?igshid=m1fi649ze7vt

View the YouTube here: 

https://www.facebook.com/AAU67/videos/758128458354706/?d=null&vh=e

What You Missed: 24 July discussion -- "Drug Policy Network-Ghana & The African Health We Want"

In the last edition of #Agenda2063TV Show, I interviewed Juana Boateng, member of the Drug Policy Network-Ghana, for a discussion on whether with the new reforms on drug policy in Ghana, we can talk about the #AfricanHealthWeWant?

Find below some snapshots from the video

Juana elaborates on a point about drug users and harm-reduction, which Ghana needs to work harder on.

Juana Boateng has, since 2015, been at the forefront of mobilising youth around drug policies. I re-call the passion with which she talked about drug policy back in 2015 when I first met her at a CSO meeting. 

My name is E K Bensah Jr, regular host of #Agenda2063TV Show. I am happy and privileged to be hosting the only Show of its kind on the Continent offering regular updates on all aspects of Agenda2063.

The Association of African Universities TV platform could not have been a less appropriate platform on education on all areas of Agenda2063, including the African Continental Free Trade Area (Afcfta), the Secretariat of which is in Accra, Ghana as an AU institution making Accra the newest diplomatic capital on the Continent.

Coming up on 31 July: "The African Story of Democracy-promotion & Election-Monitoring"

In this latest episode, we speak to Executive Director of Penplusbytes Juliet Amoah about nineteen years of the organisation.

In consonance with aspiration 3 of Agenda2063, Penplusbytes has been on a mission to use ICT tools to deepen democracy and monitor elections. 

We talk to Juliet to help unpack how a Ghanaian organisation braved the odds for almost twenty years to tell the story of how African can proffer its own democracy-promotion solutions.

Follow us on #Agenda2063TV and @ekbensah