Event Highlights: 14th Annual ANIE Conference 2024

On 10th October 2024, NORRAG’s Regional Coordinator Edem Ossai joined a panel of experts to discuss “Recent Developments in Internationalization of Higher Education in Africa: Insights from West Africa” at the 14th Annual Conference of the African Network for the Internationalization of Education (ANIE), which held in Accra, Ghana. The discussion encouraged panellists to share their experiences and reflect on opportunities and challenges for Africa-focused internationalization in African institutions of higher education, leveraging collaborative approaches in multi-stakeholder partnerships, capacity building and digitization trends.

The other panelists were Dr. Violet Makuku, Director, Global Quality Assurance Association in Ghana, Professor Goski Alabi, President of Laweh Open University, Ghana, and Chairperson ANIE Board and Professor Samuel Boadi-Kusi from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. The discussion was moderated by Apiyo Okwiri, from OBREAL Global.

Other aspects of the three-day conference, which ran from the 9th to 11th October, centered on the theme of “Repositioning the International Education AAgenda for Africa’s Future” and attracted scholars, students and education experts across Africa as well as various international partners. The Conference, which featured a keynote address from the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, also provided numerous capacity-building workshops for participants on a range of topics within the internationalization agenda. Major discussions of the conference revolved around issues of coloniality in knowledge exchange, language and structural dynamics of both international and intra-Africa academic collaboration, quality assurance and institution rankings, digitization and networks, as well as political economies and issues of budgeting and resourcing, amongst several other important themes.