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2023

Africa Summit Spring Symposium

April 20-21, 2023

About this Event

The Africa Summit at Princeton is a student-run association that hosts conferences and events bringing together global changemakers to discuss challenges and opportunities facing the African continent. By putting renowned scholars, visionary politicians, and cutting-edge entrepreneurs in conversation with passionate students at Princeton and neighboring institutions, the Summit offers a unique platform to translate ideas and relationships into meaningful action.

Spring 2023 Theme: “Growing Africa beyond the continent and into the diaspora”

Panels

Panel 1: Black Indigenous Realities

African cultural practices and epistemologies, religion after colonization and our shifted understanding, West African religious beliefs and their journey to the diaspora (Caribbean).

April 20, 2pm EST

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Panel 2: African Music in the Diaspora

Embracing African heritage and legacy beyond the continent is a very relevant topic for many young Africans as we recognise becoming global citizens and at the same time decolonising our identities and reconstructing a sense of self in the diaspora.

April 20, 5pm EST

Panel 3: African Policy Panel

As part of the 2023 Africa Summit at Princeton, the panel event, Beyond the Leaders Summit: Rethinking the Future of U.S.-Africa Relations for Shared Prosperity, will bring together U.S.-Africa policy experts to discuss the successes and missed opportunities of the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit, as well as what direction U.S. foreign policy should pursue to forge stronger, more prosperous partnerships with African nations.

April 21, 5pm EST

Panel and Event Announcements

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