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Prof Enyinna Sodienye Nwauche: Innovation Indigenous Knowledge and Africa’s Creative Economies

First Seminar: Innovation Indigenous Knowledge and Africa’s Creative Economies Prof. Enyinna Sodienye Nwauche, Faculty of Law University of Fort Hare, Eastern Cape, South Africa 15th May 2025 In this presentation, Prof. Nwauche reflects on the practice and potential of a sustainable partnership between indigenous knowledge and Africa’s creative economies in addressing Africa’s innovation emergency. In particular, he addresses issues of regulatory incoherence and convergence as a principal factor in addressing Africa’s dismal innovation performance. Enyinna Sodienye Nwauche is a law professor at the Faculty of Law University of Fort Hare, East London. He previously taught at Rhodes University Grahamstown, the University of Botswana, and the Rivers State University of Nigeria. He is a rated NRF scholar and has held fellowship and visiting positions in the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Austria. He was Chair of the Coordinating Committee of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL), a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), and former Director General of the Nigerian Copyright Commission. He has to his credit many international peer-reviewed books, including The Protection of Indigenous Knowledge in Africa (Springer 2025).