Eka Ikpe

Lectures and researches on a range of issues in development economics, security and development in Africa. African Leadership Centre, King's College London

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

Professor John Kayode Fayemi's keynote focuses on critical minerals, energy transition, and the future of resource governance in Africa, with one main question in mind: Who benefits? Who bears the costs? and Who decides?
#Africa #EnergyTransition #CriticalMinerals #ClimateAction

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

A lesson from Dr Fatima Akilu (Executive Director of @Neemfoundation):

"Psychosocial support is not charity, but a critical pillar in peacebuilding" 👏

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

Happening Now: Book launch - Peacekeeping in Darfur: The Dilemmas of an African Union‑UN Force Commander by General Martin Luther Agwai and Dr Akinbode Fasakin #KingsAfricaweek @Princefash442 @ShuvaiBusuman

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

At the Launch of the Justice in Critical Minerals Governance and Energy Transitions Project (UKRI FLF Project), Dr Clement Sefa-Nyarko says his fellowship focuses on a very specific aspect of energy transitions: the critical minerals dimension.
#AfricaWeek2026
#AfricaatKings

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

The African continent is one of ABUNDANCE. Abundance of resources, culture and history! Assets we can hone to heal our societies and unleash our agency!

But true agency comes with structures, born of Africans for Africa.

#africanagency #creativeeconomies #artheals

[African Public Square (APS) @APS_ALC]

Zambian High Commissioner Che Che Mazoka in her introductory statement notes that Africa Week has been an important space for reflection, for African agency, in a changing, multipolar world. She notes that we are not passive watchers but norm setters.

#APS2026

[African Public Square (APS) @APS_ALC]

Bargaining power increases when Africa negotiates as a collective, a single bloc we have seen in some of our states such as Zimbabwe, Zambia, a joint initiative that helped bring agency in practice.
#APSDebate

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

Resourcing African Agency through Continental Domestic Private Capital Keynote address by Samaila Zubairu, ONL President and CEO, Africa Finance Corporation.

This morning’s keynote connects directly to our Africa Week theme: Resourcing African Agency in a multipolar world.

How do we mobilize domestic private capital to drive Africa’s collective agendas?
#AfricaWeek

Join the conversation online:
https://t.co/rukLwjg15p

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

HAPPENING TODAY | Africa–US relations at a critical juncture. Can Africa move from being a “partner of choice” to a shaper of global rules through collective leadership?

Join the conversation: https://t.co/yzxSNUJ35S
@PARInstitute

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

🔴 We are live!
Our Research Seminar on U.S.–Africa Relations is now underway—examining shifting partnerships, power, and policy.

Join us: https://t.co/yzxSNUJ35S
@PARInstitute #USAfrica

[African Public Square (APS) @APS_ALC]

Hon. Thoko Didiza takes the stage at the @APS_ALC Open Debate to deliver the keynote address on one of the continent’s most urgent questions: How do we resource African agency?
Join the conversation.

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

Have you registered for Africa Week 2026 yet?

Check out all the exciting events happening this year and register before they fill up.
🔗 https://t.co/15qUf3b1w6

#AfricaWeek2026 #KingsAfricaWeek

[African Public Square (APS) @APS_ALC]

We are honoured to welcome H.E. Ms. Macenje “Che Che” Mazoka, High Commissioner of Zambia to the United Kingdom, as co-host for the 2nd Global African Public Square Open Debate. #APS

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

What does healing look like when it goes beyond therapy and includes creativity, community, and livelihoods?

Join us for Weaving Lives Together in Nigeria, a discussion on locally led solutions that connect healing, livelihoods, and creativity.

📅4 March, 2026
⏲️15:30–17:00 GMT
Hybrid event – register to attend online or in person.

🔗 https://t.co/l2TlVneFmB
#AfricaWeek2026 #MentalHealth #Peacebuilding #CreativeEconomies

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

Join us at #AfricaWeek2026 for an In Conversation session

"Exercising Agency Beyond the Nation-State: Debating Change and Transformation in the Global City of Lagos"

📅 6 March 2026
🕠 17:30 GMT | Hybrid

Featuring H.E. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State. As we explore how cities like Lagos are driving innovation, influence, and African agency.

Register now — limited spaces:
🔗 https://t.co/4eM3zQNpDy
@jidesanwoolu @followlasg
#KingsAfricaWeek #AfricaWeek2026

[African Public Square (APS) @APS_ALC]

Africa Week 2026 kicks off with the 2nd Global African Public Square Open Debate, convening a timely and urgent conversation on how the resourcing of African agency should be negotiated.
Register: https://t.co/jb5EqWq2rh.
#APSDebate #APS2026 #KingsAfricaWeek #Africa2026

[Africa-Europe CoRE Creative Economies @CE_Africa]

📚 Just published! African Urban Creativity: Exploring Creative Economies Within a Beyond the Cities is now out in @routledgebooks, highlighting global hubs of creativity in the African Continent!

#Africanurbancreativity #creativity #creativeeconomies

https://t.co/y8g3qGUsKi

[Africa-Europe CoRE Creative Economies @CE_Africa]

Fully-funded PhD at KCL: African cinemas within the city – Archives, Exhibition & Circulation

Explore how African cinema travels and is experienced in the UK through archives, festivals and community spaces. Work with @JG_PACA.

Apply by 13 Feb 2026: https://t.co/9DWy5QJIip

[Africa-Europe CoRE Creative Economies @CE_Africa]

Fully-funded PhD at KCL: Upskilling in the informal creative economy

Explore educational pathways for young creatives in West Africa and how digital platforms can support professionalisation. Work with Afe Babalola Centre, @ALC_KCL

Apply by 13 Feb 2026: https://t.co/4wqd7ETqoZ

[Africa-Europe CoRE Creative Economies @CE_Africa]

🎭 Join us Wed 12 Nov for a seminar with Dr Kathrin Schmidt on contemporary theatre in #SierraLeone, examining how cultural production is shaped by globalisation, international development and cultural policy.

Sign up:
https://t.co/N2ATvTSUEE