The fourth annual African Unity for Renaissance conference, themed “OAU/AU at 50 and beyond: The Quest for ‘African Solutions for African Problems (ASAP)'” will hold between May 22 and 24 in South Africa.
PREMIUM TIMES columnist and Carnegie Diaspora Visiting Scholar at the University of Ghana, Legon, Pius Adesanmi, would deliver the keynote address at the special opening session of the conference.
According to Human Sciences Research Council, the organizers of the event, the “specific” objectives of this year’s conference include celebrating African Liberation Day and the founding of the OAU in 1963; promoting African produced knowledge; hosting African scholars in a forum conducive to debating matters of significance to African governance; and implementing lessons from the 2013 conference.