Projects and initiatives

Collective scientific work, carried out with our university partners in Africa, Europe and North America.

Membres d’Africa Strategia et participants dans une salle du Centre des colloques

Ongoing projects

Globe africain en perles tenu entre deux mains

Ongoing

Africa in the Geopolitics of International Trade

Collective book in two volumes: concepts, actors, recent upheavals and geoeconomic and managerial implications.

With the University of Douala, ESSEC Douala and the Africa Initiative of the University of Bern

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Session du colloque 409 en format hybride, avec des intervenants à distance affichés sur l’écran de la salle

Ongoing

African Sovereignties between Fractures and Power

Collaborative book: crises, strategic resources and realignments of power. Stemming from Colloquium 409 organised by Afstrat at the 93rd Acfas Congress (Trois-Rivières, May 2026).

With an inter-university committee from Africa, Europe and North America

Colloquium page →

Rayonnages d’une bibliothèque de recherche

Ongoing

Journal L’Afrique dans la géopolitique (RAGe)

Scientific journal published under the auspices of Africa Strategia and the Africa Initiative, on the Bern Open Publishing platform. First issue in the first half of 2027.

With the Africa Initiative of the University of Bern

Entrée du campus de l’Université de Douala

Ongoing

African readings of contemporary wars

Study day on the Israel–Palestine, Russia–Ukraine and Israel, United States and Iran wars, read from Africa. Call for papers open, study day on 11 November 2026.

Organised by the Department of Political Science of the University of Douala

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Séminaire d’Africa Strategia : trois intervenants autour d’une table, un participant debout

In preparation

Ten years after Ouagadougou: Africa–France relations

Inaugural conference of Afstrat’s Strategic Meetings: a critical assessment of the 2017–2027 decade and prospects. Planned for March 2027, in France.

With academic partners, to be confirmed

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Completed projects

Photo de groupe des membres et intervenants du colloque 409 à l’UQTR

Completed · May 2026

Colloquium 409 at Acfas

“African Sovereignty(ies) in Tension”: two days of proceedings at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, with nearly 50 participants from Africa, Europe and North America.

93rd Acfas Congress · Trois-Rivières, Canada

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Groupe de participants et de membres d’Afstrat réunis au Centre des colloques

Completed · 2025–2026

International panels and papers

Afstrat panels and papers at ECAS 2025 (Prague), the Meetings of African Studies in France 2026 (Aubervilliers) and SGAS-VAD 2026 (Basel).

Individual and collective participations

Read the article on REAF 2026 →