Grahamstown-iRhini, South Africa

The 1st Congress of The African Sociological Association (AfSA) focuses on the challenges that sociology within the African context poses for global sociology. The congress is a scientific activity rooted in socially engaged scholarship. The organisers said the gathering will be used as a platform for reflection, mapping out research directions and activities that AfSA will pursue in the three-years following the Congress. It will also be used as means of connecting research with public policy. Organised under the theme, The African Challenge: Reflections on Sociological Practice in Africa, The congress will explore ways in which sociological scholarship has benefited from distinctly African perspective.

Each sub-theme will be driven by the conference theme of reflections of the sociological vocation. Here are the sub-themes for the conference:

• Sociology and the challenge of African ontological narratives
• Canons and Canonical Works in African Sociology
• African Gender Scholarship
• Regional and National Sociological Traditions
• African Universities, Reforms, and Intellectual Re-production
• Teaching Sociology in the African context
• Sociology and Development in the African context
• Social Policy in Africa’s Development
• Economic Sociology: urban and rural nexus
• Environmental Sociology
• Work, Leisure and Unemployment
• Labour Historiography in Africa
• Health, Well-being and Sociology
• Land and Agrarian Issues
• Environmental Sociology
• Urbanism and Urban Lives
• Race, Ethnicity, Xenophobia, and Genocide
• Indigenes, ‘Strangers’, and Citizenship: the prob-lem of Belonging
• Social Movements and Civil Society
• Politics, Power, and Democracy in Africa
• Globalisation and Transnational Networks
• Sociology, Faith and Belief-systems
• Youth and Youth Culture
• Sports, Leisure and Livelihood
• Sociology of Education and Schooling

According the organisers the congress will also be an occasion for the African sociological community to recognise and honour some of its leading practitioners.

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