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How do higher education institutions mediate distances between states and society?

As part of Africa Week 2025, this high-level panel discussed the role of higher education institutions in Africa and drew on the expertise and experience of several leading African educators and practitioners to examine how education systems can be pillars in disrupting distances. The panelists responded to the following questions among others: How do continental knowledge institutions shape the dialogue between people and states as well as, the conversation between Africa and its global partners? What innovations in higher education can enable the next generation transform their engagement with discriminatory and exclusionary systems and structures? How are African university engagements with international higher education institutions shifting partnership dynamics with the Global North and across the Global South? Keynote speaker: Dr Godwin Murunga Panelists: Professor Christopher Isike, Professor Dzodzi Tsikata, Professor Ihron Rensburg Moderator: Professor Eka Ikpe