Africa: International conference on how Africans underdevelop Africa

African history is replete with tales and woes of underdevelopment and quest for development. The dominant theme emanating from the seminal works of Walter Rodney was the culpability or vicarious liability of the Europeans in the underdevelopment crisis that Africa has faced in the last 500 years or so. Several years after, the reality of Africa´s underdevelopment still persists. Why and how is it so?

The Conference aims at exploring the role of Africans in the current underdevelopment of the Continent and accompanying debates which have for some time drawn the attention of African Scholars, international Donors and Agencies on what makes Africa the nightmare of the World and the extent Africans have contributed and or are contributing to it. The bottom-line of this conference is not just to examine the challenges of development in Africa but to provide inter-face to evaluate and brainstorm on the efforts so far as well as provide possible pragmatic solution toward rescuing Africa from centuries of underdevelopment.
The conference is being organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The University is located in sprawling new Campus - 60 kilometres from Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu in Nigeria´s southeast. With over 25,000 student population UNIZIK as is popularly known has the largest Virtual Library in Nigeria, with all Courses accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC). It is also in academic collaboration with many Universities and Institutions across the world.
The Faculty of Social Sciences, a major arm of the University is made up of five Departments (Political Science, Psychology, Mass Communication, Economics and Sociology and Anthropology). This International Conference is part of the Contribution of the University towards addressing the beleaguering challenges of Africa´s development.

The sub-themes for the conference are:
1. Development and Underdevelopment Theories.
2. History, Development and Underdevelopment in Africa.
3. Governance, Leadership and African´s Development.
4. African Culture, Civilisation and Development.
5. Religion and Issues of Development and Underdevelopment.
6. Multiculturalism and African Integration.
7. Colonialism/Neo-colonialism and Africa´s Development.
8. Liberalism and Africa´s Development
9. Africa in the age of Globalization.
10. Education and Africans Development.
11. Legal issues in Africans Development.
12. Africa´s Traditional Issues in Development.
13. Economy/Geo-politics and Africans Development.
14. African Union, NEPAD and Africans Development.
15. War/Conflicts and Development in African.
16. The Police, Judiciary and Africans Development
17. Bureaucracy/Civil Service and Development.
18. Women and Africans Development
19. Slavery, Child Labour/Trafficking and Development.
20. African Personality and Psychology
21. African Attitude to Time, Work and Money.
22. HIV, AIDS and other Health Issues in African Development.

Well researched papers are invited for presentation from interested scholars across the globe.
Good papers presented during the Conference shall be published.
We have already received large number of paper proposals from across the continent and beyond but due to pleas from eminent Scholars, we are compelled to shift the date for abstract and full paper submission.

Important Dates
February 15: Extended Final date for submission of abstracts.
March 30, 2009: Last date for full paper submission
All correspondence including the abstract and full paper submission should be sent electronically to [email][email protected] and copy [email][email protected]