ANU Africa Network

Africa Rising! The role of African cities and city-regions in Africa’s new industrial revolution

A presentation by
The Hon David Makhura
Premier of Gauteng Province, South Africa

Wednesday 5 April, 12:30pm
Refreshments served from 12:00 noon
AIIA Conference Centre – Stephen House
32 Thesiger Court
Deakin ACT 2600

“What are the competing narratives about “Africa Rising”? What are the driving forces and factors behind Africa’s improving prospects for economic development and growth? What is the role of cities and city-regions in driving Africa’s new industrial revolution in order to realise the African Union’s Agenda 2063?

The Gauteng City Region is made up of three of South Africa’s top six metropolitan cities. With a population of around 13 million, it incorporates South Africa’s largest metropolis and commercial hub, Johannesburg, and the country’s capital, Pretoria. It is South Africa’s economic engine, contributing 35% to the country’s GDP, 42% to national industrial output, 40% to national employment and 63% to national exports. It contributes between 8% to 10% of Africa’s GDP and is the most diversified and advanced economy on the Continent, home to the largest and most sophisticated Stock Exchange in Africa. It thus plays an increasingly important role in Africa’s changing economic fortunes. It is a leading manufacturing hub of Sub-Saharan Africa and is positioned strategically to advance Africa’s industrialisation, infrastructure development and economic integration. It is the leading sub-national economy in attracting the largest FDI flows into Africa. What are the implications for other cities and city-regions in Africa?”

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The Hon David Makhura is the Premier of Gauteng Province and a leading member of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress.

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This is an AIIA ACT Branch event.

Registration is encouraged through the following link:

https://tdy.cl/e/Q1-LUV0

Registration is also available at the door.

For more information, see
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Africa Rising! The role of African cities and city-regions in Africa’s new industrial revolution

A presentation by

The Hon David Makhura
Premier of Gauteng Province, South Africa

Wednesday 5 April, 12:30pm
Refreshments served from 12:00 noon
AIIA Conference Centre – Stephen House
32 Thesiger Court
Deakin ACT 2600
The discourse on Africa has changed from a profoundly negative and pessimistic view during the first five decades of independence to an incredibly positive storyline in the past decade. Africa’s prospects in the 21st century have changed the narrative from “The Dark Continent” to “Africa Rising”. What are the competing narratives about “Africa Rising”? What are the driving forces and factors behind Africa’s improving prospects for economic development and growth? What is the role of cities and city-regions in driving Africa’s new industrial revolution in order to realise the African Union’s Agenda 2063?

The Gauteng City Region is made up of three of South Africa’s top six metropolitan cities. With a population of around 13 million, it incorporates South Africa’s largest metropolis and commercial hub, Johannesburg, and the country’s capital, Pretoria. It is South Africa’s economic engine, contributing 35% to the country’s GDP, 42% to national industrial output, 40% to national employment and 63% to national exports. It contributes between 8% to 10% of Africa’s GDP and is the most diversified and advanced economy on the Continent, home to the largest and most sophisticated Stock Exchange in Africa. It thus plays an increasingly important role in Africa’s changing economic fortunes. It is a leading manufacturing hub of Sub-Saharan Africa and is positioned strategically to advance Africa’s industrialisation, infrastructure development and economic integration. It is the leading sub-national economy in attracting the largest FDI flows into Africa. What are the implications for other cities and city-regions in Africa?

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This is an AIIA ACT Branch event.

Registration is encouraged through the following link:

https://tdy.cl/e/Q1-LUV0

Registration is also available at the door.

For more information, news, and future events, see the links below:

https://aiiaact.tidyhq.com/public/events/12364-africa-rising-the-role-of-african-cities-and-city-regions-in-africa-s-new-industrial-revolution

Kirk Zwangobani was awarded his PhD at the ANU’s December graduation ceremony, his topic being ‘Convivial Multiculture and the Perplication of Race: The Dynamics of Becoming African Australian’.

The Abstract is in the ANU library catalogue at

https://library.anu.edu.au/search~S4?/YZwangobani&searchscope=4&SORT=DZ/YZwangobani&searchscope=4&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=Zwangobani/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=YZwangobani&searchscope=4&SORT=DZ&1%2C1%2C

It reads as follows:

“This thesis explores the intertwined problems of belonging and becoming as seen through the lens of the African Australian experience. What is at stake is the question of what it would mean to think through and represent the specific and non-generalisable experiences of being ‘African Australian’, without preventing the becoming that, I will argue, is proper to all social experience. This problem is explored through a qualitative study of African Australian youth, involving in-depth interviews and participant observation. While I highlight some of the peculiarities of the Australian experience, my aim is to use the empirical material to productively reinflect the problems of belonging and becoming as they play out in an always emergent sociality. An analysis of the empirical material suggests that there are two clearly identifiable modes by which African Australian youth negotiate the sense of their difference, which I refer to as ascriptive and affiliative negotiations of difference. I suggest that such negotiations of difference play an important role in enabling those for whom racial difference has a negative status to actively and productively engage that difference. Yet such negotiations of difference risk remaining constrained by the epidermal reflex and the manner in which race folds back into – or, to use the term that I develop in the thesis, perplicates in – social experience. Yet the empirical material also points to the more open and indeterminate aspects of everyday encounters, which I theorise through the lens of affect theory. I argue for the significance of a Deleuzian reading of affect, which distinguishes itself from more subjective understandings of affect by insisting on a shift away from identity as the ground of social experience, towards an ontology of differentiation, process and becoming. I conclude that convivial multiculture is best understood in both its micropolitical and macropolitical aspects. Convivial multiculture, seen from the point of view of an ontology of difference and becoming, is an emergent social field that is always already in play; yet, it requires convivial practices to enable its expression in social reality. While I argue for the significance of this more indeterminate and excessive aspect of the African Australian experience, I also stress that experience cannot be understood without grasping the way that race perplicates within it. The novelty of my argument is to offer new ways of conceptualising the complex relationship between belonging and becoming within the context of the problem of race. For all the ways that race folds back into social experience, if we take the question ‘how do I belong?’ as a productive impetus rather than a problem to be solved, we may be able to better attune to the openness and unpredictability of what is to come.”

Professor Amr Hamzawy

Date & time
6–7pm 14 March 2017
Location
The Auditorium, 188 Fellows Lane, 2601 Acton

‘This talk examines the ways in which successive Egyptian governments have utilised lawmaking to eliminate opponents and silence voices of dissent since the coup of 3 July 2013.’

Professor Amr Hamzawy studied political science and developmental studies in Cairo, The Hague, and Berlin and is a former member of the People’s Assembly.

Professor Hamzawy’s visit to the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies is supported by the Council for Australian-Arab Relations’ (CAAR), through its International Speakers Program. The CAAR is a non-statutory, regional council in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

For more details see:

https://www.anu.edu.au/events/legalising-authoritarianism-in-egypt