The University of Georgia African Studies Institute presents the Ninth Biennial International Conference on Africa and its Diaspora, or BICAID 2025, Nov. 5 – 7, 2025 in the Tate Student Center. 

The theme of this year’s conference is, “Africa at the Crossroads of Global Politics: Indigenous Knowledge, Youth Agency, and Diaspora Partnerships.” The three-day international conference is being held in a hybrid format with registered participants for the conference expected from across the US, Europe, the Americas, and Africa (including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and Zimbabwe). 

Featured plenary speakers at the international conference will include Esther Lisanza, professor of African Studies at Howard University, Washington, DC; Bhekuyise Zungu, lecturer in the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Emmanuel Okoro, Professor of Medicine, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, Helene Banoun, Pharmacist and Biologist (Retired), French Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), Paris, France; and Nehemiah A. Ikoba, Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.