Africa Unification and Harmonization
A continental forum where IIAS Volunteer Country Representatives from across all 54+ African nations research opportunities, share them with the diaspora, and deliver them where the political elite has historically denied access.
Chairperson
Chairperson · ONE AFRICA Roundtable
Dr. Joyce Dadzie chairs the Institute's ONE AFRICA Program — the structural arm through which African scholars in the diaspora are paired with continental opportunity. Under her leadership, Volunteer Country Representatives have been seated for an expanding number of African nations.
Africa has 54+ countries. Africans should occupy the IIAS Volunteer Representative seats for those countries.
Country Representatives research the respective countries, identify opportunities, share those opportunities with the migrant peoples already in such countries, and deliver those opportunities to them. Through this work, the continent begins to benefit from the creativity and ingenuity of IIAS Fellows.
The Institute will continuously demonstrate charity and support with the opportunities out there that Africans are often denied in their respective countries by the political elite. The benefit is that a scholar is co-creating an avenue for self and fellow scholars to collaborate and operate Africa.
How the Roundtable Operates
People rarely respect what cost them nothing. Becoming a Fellow at IIAS involves a one-time registration fee. There are no monthly dues or any regular charges — but the commitment, once made, runs deep.
Everyone is a volunteer. Imagine yourself as the arrowhead for a country — the potential business and scholarly opportunities you can run into are real. The Roundtable structures that work, but the agency lives in the Representative.
It is better for individuals to bump into good opportunities by chance than to be sold them. The Roundtable creates the conditions for serendipitous engagement, not for door-to-door pitch.
There must be a reason the Chinese are flooding all African countries they can get their hands on. The people of those nations have made a choice to engage. We propose the same engagement, with one difference — ours is rooted in scholarship, in mentorship, and in the ancestral connection that ties the diaspora to the continent.
Country Representative Seats
The seat for your country may already be available. Inquire with the Roundtable, indicate your country of focus, and step forward.
Inquiries about Country Representative seats should be directed to the Roundtable Chairperson.
