BISA 2025 Conference

Africa: politics and power

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 15:00

1h 30m

Amsterdam, Europa Hotel

Africa and International Studies Working Group

Description

This panel considers the question of power in relation to Somaliland, declining democracy and democratic discourses in Africa.

Subcontributions

• From exclusion to empowerment: unveiling the pathways to social mobility for Somaliland’s Gabooye
• Towards A Democratic Discourse in Francophone Africa
• The issue of de-facto states in Africa: cases of Puntland and Somaliland in Somalia conflict resolution
• Rethinking the declining state of democracy: A social constructionist thematic analysis of perceptions towards African and western international relations on the state of democracy in Nigeria