Nordic Africa Institute ( sv, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) serves as a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the
Nordic countries. The Institute also encourages research and studies on Africa. The institute was founded in 1962.
The institute is financed jointly by the Nordic countries. Administratively, it functions as a
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. It is located in
Uppsala
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. The Nordic Africa Institute is part of
AEGIS
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, a network of African Studies Centres in Europe, and organized its 4th international conference (ECAS) in 2011. The institute is headed by a Director, and a Programme and Research Council has the task of monitoring and advising the Director. On 18 July 2019, the Swedish government appointed
Therése Sjömander Magnusson as new Director of NAI, a position which she took up on 1 October 2019.
Previous Directors of NAI
The list is partly based on a report to the Nordic Africa Institute's 50th Anniversary in 2012.
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Iina Soiri 2013-2019
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Lennart Wohlgemut
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1962-1984
Nordic Africa Days
''The Nordic Africa Days'' (NAD) is a biannual research conference arranged by the Nordic Africa Institute. The first NAD conference was held in 1999 in
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
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, Sweden, and after that, until and including 2012, the conference locations alternated between different cities in the Nordic regions, with Nordic universities as co-organisers. Since 2014, the NAD conference has taken place biannually in
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Located north of the c ...
, Sweden, with NAI as the sole organiser.
The Nordic Africa Days gathers researchers and writers from all over the world working on Africa-related knowledge production. It comprises panel discussions, workshops, poster exhibitions, seminars, and a whole range of other events. The conference also provides a venue for dialogue between Africa specialists within academic and policy arenas. In 2016, the Nordic Africa Days gathered 239 participants from 36 countries.
Previous NAD conferences and their themes
* 2018: "African mobilities – reshaping narratives and practices of circulation and exchange", Uppsala, Sweden, 19-21 September 2018.
* 2016: "Gender and change: global challenges for Africa", Uppsala, Sweden, 23-24 September 2016.
* 2014: "Governance in African states", Uppsala, Sweden, 26-27 September 2014
* 2012: "Africa unplugged", Reykjavík, Iceland, 18-19 October 2012
* 2010: "Time Space Africa: Reconnecting the Continent", Åbo, Finland, 30 September - 1 October 2010
* 2009: "Africa in Search of Alternatives", Trondheim, Norway, 1-3 October 2009
* 2008: "From ’Brand Aid’ to ’Youth and Hope’", Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-10 October 2008
* 2007: "Mobility, Citizenship and Belonging in Africa", Uppsala, Sweden, 5-7 October 2007
See also
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Government agencies in Sweden.
References
External links
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AEGIS, network of African studies centres in Europe* (publications fulltext)
Government agencies of Sweden
Uppsala
Foreign relations of Sweden
African studies
Ethnic studies organizations
Organizations established in 1962
1962 establishments in Sweden
Nordic organizations
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