Africa - Capturing the Future: The ROAPE Millennium Conference and Leeds ASU
Boddington Hall, University of Leeds, UK
April 28-30, 2000

The Review of African Political Economy holds its millennium conference "Africa: Capturing the Future" in association with the University of Leeds Centre for African Studies (LUCAS). The conference will cover a wide variety of themes concerned with Africa's contemporary and future politics including control and contestation, class and civil society, gender, participation, and regionalism.

How will Africa be managed in the future?
Will war be contained and processes of democratisation be more deeply embedded?
Will Africans win a better deal in terms of the fruits of the world economy?

The Conference will be organised around a number of streams:

1. Complex political emergencies , aid policy and reconstruction
2. Human rights, democratisation and governance; issues of sovereignty
3. Culture and identity - the African renaissance
4. Africa and Europe post-Lomé; international institutions and a new deal for Africa?
5. Empowerment and local struggles

Timetable: you can now read the conference programme (PDF file - requires Acrobat reader).

Fees are £150 residential, £90 non-residential and £30 per day (£110 unwaged residential, £50 unwaged non-residential and £17 unwaged per day). Some scholarships are available on application.

See the separate conference booking form which has additional information, including US$ rates and telephone/fax numbers.

To make a booking or to offer a paper please write to:

Further information on the panels can be found by contacting University of Leeds Centre for African Studies, Rm. 11.13, Institute for Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT; e-mail: African-Studies@leeds.ac.uk; or http://www.leeds.ac.uk/polis.

We would be grateful if you could help us publicise this conference - you could pin up a copy of this web page on your notice board, or better still download and print a copy of our advertising flyer (this is a PDF file and requires Adobe Acrobat to read).