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After an impressive start, early December, the Africa Knows! conference about knowledge production in and on Africa has resumed on 18 January. With fascinating panels on decolonising knowledge, films screened every evening, a conference magazine and a special blog by Prof. Jonathan Jansen of Stellenbosch University. The conference will last until 24 February. Registration is still possible!

  Prof. Marleen Dekker has been appointed a member of the Development Cooperation Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs. The Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) is an independent body which advises the Dutch government and parliament on foreign policy. Marleen Dekker is Professor of Inclusive Development in Africa at Leiden University.

Youthful population age structures represent formidable constraints to the attainment of upper-middle levels of social, economic, and political development. Research suggests that unless their populations reach the demographic window, states in Sub-Saharan Africa will be unable to reach the World Bank’s upper-middle income class. Most countries in equatorial Africa and the Sahel are due for this development breakthrough sometime after 2055. Political demographer Prof. Richard Cincotta will shed his light on the timing of African development on 11 March.