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Subject: Webinar Registration Link for the African Forum 2026
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2026 3:09 PM
To: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Webinar Registration Link for the African Forum 2026
You are invited to register for a Zoom webinar!
When: Mar 6, 2026 08:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Africa Forum 2026: China and United States in Africa: A New "Cold War?"
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://miami.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ttb7KTBFSSihVRHpC0tpVQ
Join from an H.323/SIP room system:
H.323:
144.195.19.161 (US West)
206.247.11.121 (US East)
159.124.15.191 (Amsterdam Netherlands)
159.124.47.249 (Germany)
159.124.104.213 (Australia Sydney)
159.124.74.212 (Australia Melbourne)
64.211.144.160 (Brazil)
159.124.168.213 (Canada Toronto)
159.124.196.25 (Canada Vancouver)
Meeting ID: 961 6483 3055
Passcode: 350719
SIP: 96164833055@zoomcrc.com
Passcode: 350719
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Webinar Speakers
Professor Toyin Falola (Historian | Keynote Speaker @University of Texas at Austin)
Toyin Falola, Ph.D., is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, Professor of History, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He had served as the Kluge Chair of the Countries and Culture of the South, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He is a celebrated author, editor, writer, poet, academic leader, organizer, teacher, Pan-Africanist, and a visionary of extraordinary grace, talent, and accomplishments. An author and editor of over 100 books on Africa and the African Diaspora, he has been invited to speak on all continents and in over 66 countries. He is today widely proclaimed as Africa's preeminent historian and one of the continent's most decorated scholars. He manages several distinguished scholarly monograph series and serves on the board of many journals.
A global icon in African Studies, Toyin Falola has received twenty-six honorary doctorates, most recently from the University of Pretoria. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria. He received the Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association (USA) and the Lifetime Career Award from the Canadian African Studies Association. Professor Falola has received various awards and honors in multiple parts of the world. At the University of Texas at Austin, he received the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, The Texas Exes Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award, the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, and the Career Research Excellence Award. He has also received African titles, including three Yoruba chieftaincy titles, most notably the Bobapitan of Ibadanland and the Bobapitan of Ondo Kingdom.
Professor David Owusu-Ansah (Professor | History @University of Texas at Austin)
David Owusu-Ansah teaches African History at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, VA. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University (USA), a master's degree in Islamic studies from McGill University (Canada), and a bachelor's degree with Honors in Comparative Religions and Education from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. A former fellow of the Harry S. Truman Institute for International Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), Dr. Owusu-Ansah has taught at the university level in full faculty position since 1985. In addition to developing and teaching a broad range of courses in African History, World Civilizations, and Historical Methods, he has also served in several important administrative roles—from being the founding director of Africana Studies Minor at his institution, to serving a five-year term as international president of the Ghana Studies Council, now the Ghana Studies Association.
At the JMU Department of History, Dr. Owusu-Ansah is a past director of the graduate program, and as a senior faculty member, he plays an essential role in mentoring emerging scholars and faculty. In the areas of research and scholarship, Dr. Owusu-Ansah is known for his work on Islam in Ghana. In addition to the many published articles, his Talismanic Traditions in Nineteenth Century Asante (Mellen Press, 1991), and the co-authored Islamic Learning, the State, and the Challenges of Education in Ghana (2013, with Mark Sey and Abdulai Iddrisu) are well-cited. In addition to these, Dr. David Owusu-Ansah is the author of the second, third, and fourth editions of the Historical Dictionary of Ghana (1995, 2005, and 2014). The 5th edition of the dictionary (2024) is co-authored with the University of Miami's Professor Edmund Abaka.
Dr. Edmund Abaka (Associate Professor | History @Center for Global Black Studies | University of Miami)
A graduate of the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, Dr. Abaka earned his Ph.D. in African History from York University and his Master of Arts in European History from the University of Guelph in Canada. He teaches African and African Diaspora History courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. These include HIS 201: History of Africa I (to 1800), HIS 202: History of Africa II (Since 1800), HIS 203: The African Diaspora in South Florida, HIS 309: A History of Southern Africa: From Pre-Settlement to Nelson Mandela and HIS 310: Africa in Cuba/Cuba in Africa. In addition, the graduate courses encompass HIS 602: Field Preparation Courses in Africa (both Pre-Colonial and Colonial); the African Diaspora; Slavery and Emancipation; and HIS 703: Colonial and Post-Colonial Ghana.
Dr. Abaka is a documentary-style photographer whose work has been exhibited in museums and libraries in South Florida. His eclectic research interests cover commodities and trade in pre-colonial West Africa (especially Kola and the Kola Nut Trade), Slavery and Emancipation, Sites of Historical Memory (Slave Forts, Castles, and Dungeons), The Hausa Diaspora in Ghana, The Ghana Young Pioneers, The Operation Feed Yourself Program, Students and Popular Political Protest in Ghana and the African Diaspora in South Florida: The Case of the Ghanaian Community.
Dr. Etana Dinka (Assistant Professor | History @University of Miami)
A Ph.D. graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (2018), Etana H. Dinka is a historian of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa region. His research focuses on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa's late nineteenth and twentieth-century political and environmental history. The themes include dynamics of state-making projects, histories of competing nationalisms, drought, instability, political violence, and Oromo-Ethiopia-historiographies. He is working on three projects of varying stages. The first, Empire, Revolution, and Embattled Statehood: The Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 and Its Legacies, 1974–2024, is an edited volume under contract with Zed Books/Bloomsbury, which brings together several specialist scholars to engage in a fifty-year examination of the Ethiopian revolution. His monograph in progress, Balagar, Balabbat, and Ba'id: A History of Local Conflicts, Bargains and State Construction in Imperial Ethiopia (ca. 1880s-1974), examines the Ethiopian empire more broadly in African history. Documentary History of Wallagga, Ethiopia, 1890s-1930s, is a collaborative work with two senior historians of Ethiopian history, Alessandro Triulzi and Tesema Ta'a. Etana Dinka frequently comments on issues in Ethiopia and the Horn on international media outlets, including CNN International and Aljazeera English.
Dr. Etana Dinka teaches undergraduate and graduate African history courses at the University of Miami. These include History of Africa to 1800, History of Africa, 1800 to the present, Africa and the World Military, and Militarism in African History.
Dean Leonidas Bachas (Dean of the UM College of Arts and Sciences @University of Miami)
Leonidas G. Bachas joined the University of Miami as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in July 2010. A distinguished analytical and biological chemist, Bachas was formerly the Frank J. Derbyshire Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky and chair of its Department of Chemistry. Bachas's tenure at Kentucky was marked by responsibilities and duties across several areas. From 2004 to 2009, he served as associate dean of research and academic programs of UK's College of Arts and Sciences, participating in collegiate planning, major policy decisions, faculty recruitment and retention, and budget allocation among the school's 16 departments and 15 interdisciplinary programs. As chair of UK's chemistry department, he made mentoring young instructors and researchers one of his top priorities. He also made diversity a key objective, spearheading efforts to include in the sciences more women, students of color, and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
At UK, he built a strong reputation for fostering interdisciplinary initiatives, heading a research group that brought together biological chemists, materials scientists, toxicologists, and electrochemists to address some of today's most pressing issues.
Bachas earned his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Athens, Greece, and he holds master's degrees in chemistry and oceanic sciences from the University of Michigan, from where he also earned his Ph.D. in chemistry. He was also a postdoctoral research fellow at the school.
Nomeh A. Kanayo (Decolonizing the Present: Africa-China Relations and the Limits of Postcolonial Critique @Florida International University)
Dr. Ding Fei (Chinese Migration in Africa: Motivations, Mobility Regimes, and Post Covid-19 Transformations @Cornell University)
Dr. Emmanuel Amo Ofori (Confucius Institutes and Their Role in China-Africa Relations @University of Cape Coast)
Dr. Cliff "Ubba" Kodero (Tanzania at a Crossroads: Politics, Identity, and Global Futures @Morgan State University)
Dr. Iqbal Akhtar (Tanzania at a Crossroads: Politics, Identity, and Global Futures @Florida International University)
Phillip Lwiza (Tanzania at a Crossroads: Politics, Identity, and Global Futures @Florida International University)
Joel H. Samuels (Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost @University of Miami)
Joel Hassman Samuels, a celebrated scholar, researcher, and an expert on the rule of law, is the University of Miami's executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, overseeing the academic programs, policies, and faculty affairs of the institution. Samuels, who has more than 20 years of experience in higher education, was previously the dean of the University of South Carolina McCausland College of Arts and Sciences, where he played an instrumental role in reshaping the teaching and research enterprise of what is the largest college at that state's flagship institution of higher learning.
Grace Naa Korkoi Okine (Beyond Accra and Beijing: Community Counter-Politics in the Fight Against Galamsey from 1998 to 2025 @Cornell University)
Emmanuel Ennin (From Go Out to Galamsey: Chinese Mining, Environment, and Diplomacy in Ghana, 2008–2025 @Princeton University)
Dr. Kwaku Obosu-Mensah (Environmental Impact of Chinese Activities in Ghana: Illegal Harvesting of Endangered Rosewood Tree @Lorain County Community College)
Joseph Omobolanle Akinniyi (Trade is Apolitical: Chinese Intervention in Biafra and the Roots of Nigeria's Labor Silence, 1967-1975 @Cornell University)
Dr. Brian Ikaika Klein (Domesticating the Belt & Road: Chinese Infrastructure, Tangible Benefits, and Imagined Futures in Madagascar @University of Michigan)
Dr. Darko Opoku (The Dragon's Embrace: Sino-Ghanaian Economic Engagement and Ghana's Industrialization Dream. @Oberlin College)
Dr. Yanyin Zi (Rethinking Chinese Business in Africa: Threat or Catalyst of Development? @Rikkyo University | Japan)
When: Mar 6, 2026 08:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Africa Forum 2026: China and United States in Africa: A New "Cold War?"
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://miami.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ttb7KTBFSSihVRHpC0tpVQ
Join from an H.323/SIP room system:
H.323:
144.195.19.161 (US West)
206.247.11.121 (US East)
159.124.15.191 (Amsterdam Netherlands)
159.124.47.249 (Germany)
159.124.104.213 (Australia Sydney)
159.124.74.212 (Australia Melbourne)
64.211.144.160 (Brazil)
159.124.168.213 (Canada Toronto)
159.124.196.25 (Canada Vancouver)
Meeting ID: 961 6483 3055
Passcode: 350719
SIP: 96164833055@zoomcrc.com
Passcode: 350719
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
----------
Webinar Speakers
Professor Toyin Falola (Historian | Keynote Speaker @University of Texas at Austin)
Toyin Falola, Ph.D., is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, Professor of History, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He had served as the Kluge Chair of the Countries and Culture of the South, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He is a celebrated author, editor, writer, poet, academic leader, organizer, teacher, Pan-Africanist, and a visionary of extraordinary grace, talent, and accomplishments. An author and editor of over 100 books on Africa and the African Diaspora, he has been invited to speak on all continents and in over 66 countries. He is today widely proclaimed as Africa's preeminent historian and one of the continent's most decorated scholars. He manages several distinguished scholarly monograph series and serves on the board of many journals.
A global icon in African Studies, Toyin Falola has received twenty-six honorary doctorates, most recently from the University of Pretoria. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria. He received the Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association (USA) and the Lifetime Career Award from the Canadian African Studies Association. Professor Falola has received various awards and honors in multiple parts of the world. At the University of Texas at Austin, he received the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, The Texas Exes Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award, the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, and the Career Research Excellence Award. He has also received African titles, including three Yoruba chieftaincy titles, most notably the Bobapitan of Ibadanland and the Bobapitan of Ondo Kingdom.
Professor David Owusu-Ansah (Professor | History @University of Texas at Austin)
David Owusu-Ansah teaches African History at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, VA. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University (USA), a master's degree in Islamic studies from McGill University (Canada), and a bachelor's degree with Honors in Comparative Religions and Education from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. A former fellow of the Harry S. Truman Institute for International Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), Dr. Owusu-Ansah has taught at the university level in full faculty position since 1985. In addition to developing and teaching a broad range of courses in African History, World Civilizations, and Historical Methods, he has also served in several important administrative roles—from being the founding director of Africana Studies Minor at his institution, to serving a five-year term as international president of the Ghana Studies Council, now the Ghana Studies Association.
At the JMU Department of History, Dr. Owusu-Ansah is a past director of the graduate program, and as a senior faculty member, he plays an essential role in mentoring emerging scholars and faculty. In the areas of research and scholarship, Dr. Owusu-Ansah is known for his work on Islam in Ghana. In addition to the many published articles, his Talismanic Traditions in Nineteenth Century Asante (Mellen Press, 1991), and the co-authored Islamic Learning, the State, and the Challenges of Education in Ghana (2013, with Mark Sey and Abdulai Iddrisu) are well-cited. In addition to these, Dr. David Owusu-Ansah is the author of the second, third, and fourth editions of the Historical Dictionary of Ghana (1995, 2005, and 2014). The 5th edition of the dictionary (2024) is co-authored with the University of Miami's Professor Edmund Abaka.
Dr. Edmund Abaka (Associate Professor | History @Center for Global Black Studies | University of Miami)
A graduate of the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, Dr. Abaka earned his Ph.D. in African History from York University and his Master of Arts in European History from the University of Guelph in Canada. He teaches African and African Diaspora History courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. These include HIS 201: History of Africa I (to 1800), HIS 202: History of Africa II (Since 1800), HIS 203: The African Diaspora in South Florida, HIS 309: A History of Southern Africa: From Pre-Settlement to Nelson Mandela and HIS 310: Africa in Cuba/Cuba in Africa. In addition, the graduate courses encompass HIS 602: Field Preparation Courses in Africa (both Pre-Colonial and Colonial); the African Diaspora; Slavery and Emancipation; and HIS 703: Colonial and Post-Colonial Ghana.
Dr. Abaka is a documentary-style photographer whose work has been exhibited in museums and libraries in South Florida. His eclectic research interests cover commodities and trade in pre-colonial West Africa (especially Kola and the Kola Nut Trade), Slavery and Emancipation, Sites of Historical Memory (Slave Forts, Castles, and Dungeons), The Hausa Diaspora in Ghana, The Ghana Young Pioneers, The Operation Feed Yourself Program, Students and Popular Political Protest in Ghana and the African Diaspora in South Florida: The Case of the Ghanaian Community.
Dr. Etana Dinka (Assistant Professor | History @University of Miami)
A Ph.D. graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (2018), Etana H. Dinka is a historian of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa region. His research focuses on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa's late nineteenth and twentieth-century political and environmental history. The themes include dynamics of state-making projects, histories of competing nationalisms, drought, instability, political violence, and Oromo-Ethiopia-historiographies. He is working on three projects of varying stages. The first, Empire, Revolution, and Embattled Statehood: The Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 and Its Legacies, 1974–2024, is an edited volume under contract with Zed Books/Bloomsbury, which brings together several specialist scholars to engage in a fifty-year examination of the Ethiopian revolution. His monograph in progress, Balagar, Balabbat, and Ba'id: A History of Local Conflicts, Bargains and State Construction in Imperial Ethiopia (ca. 1880s-1974), examines the Ethiopian empire more broadly in African history. Documentary History of Wallagga, Ethiopia, 1890s-1930s, is a collaborative work with two senior historians of Ethiopian history, Alessandro Triulzi and Tesema Ta'a. Etana Dinka frequently comments on issues in Ethiopia and the Horn on international media outlets, including CNN International and Aljazeera English.
Dr. Etana Dinka teaches undergraduate and graduate African history courses at the University of Miami. These include History of Africa to 1800, History of Africa, 1800 to the present, Africa and the World Military, and Militarism in African History.
Dean Leonidas Bachas (Dean of the UM College of Arts and Sciences @University of Miami)
Leonidas G. Bachas joined the University of Miami as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in July 2010. A distinguished analytical and biological chemist, Bachas was formerly the Frank J. Derbyshire Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky and chair of its Department of Chemistry. Bachas's tenure at Kentucky was marked by responsibilities and duties across several areas. From 2004 to 2009, he served as associate dean of research and academic programs of UK's College of Arts and Sciences, participating in collegiate planning, major policy decisions, faculty recruitment and retention, and budget allocation among the school's 16 departments and 15 interdisciplinary programs. As chair of UK's chemistry department, he made mentoring young instructors and researchers one of his top priorities. He also made diversity a key objective, spearheading efforts to include in the sciences more women, students of color, and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
At UK, he built a strong reputation for fostering interdisciplinary initiatives, heading a research group that brought together biological chemists, materials scientists, toxicologists, and electrochemists to address some of today's most pressing issues.
Bachas earned his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Athens, Greece, and he holds master's degrees in chemistry and oceanic sciences from the University of Michigan, from where he also earned his Ph.D. in chemistry. He was also a postdoctoral research fellow at the school.
Nomeh A. Kanayo (Decolonizing the Present: Africa-China Relations and the Limits of Postcolonial Critique @Florida International University)
Dr. Ding Fei (Chinese Migration in Africa: Motivations, Mobility Regimes, and Post Covid-19 Transformations @Cornell University)
Dr. Emmanuel Amo Ofori (Confucius Institutes and Their Role in China-Africa Relations @University of Cape Coast)
Dr. Cliff "Ubba" Kodero (Tanzania at a Crossroads: Politics, Identity, and Global Futures @Morgan State University)
Dr. Iqbal Akhtar (Tanzania at a Crossroads: Politics, Identity, and Global Futures @Florida International University)
Phillip Lwiza (Tanzania at a Crossroads: Politics, Identity, and Global Futures @Florida International University)
Joel H. Samuels (Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost @University of Miami)
Joel Hassman Samuels, a celebrated scholar, researcher, and an expert on the rule of law, is the University of Miami's executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, overseeing the academic programs, policies, and faculty affairs of the institution. Samuels, who has more than 20 years of experience in higher education, was previously the dean of the University of South Carolina McCausland College of Arts and Sciences, where he played an instrumental role in reshaping the teaching and research enterprise of what is the largest college at that state's flagship institution of higher learning.
Grace Naa Korkoi Okine (Beyond Accra and Beijing: Community Counter-Politics in the Fight Against Galamsey from 1998 to 2025 @Cornell University)
Emmanuel Ennin (From Go Out to Galamsey: Chinese Mining, Environment, and Diplomacy in Ghana, 2008–2025 @Princeton University)
Dr. Kwaku Obosu-Mensah (Environmental Impact of Chinese Activities in Ghana: Illegal Harvesting of Endangered Rosewood Tree @Lorain County Community College)
Joseph Omobolanle Akinniyi (Trade is Apolitical: Chinese Intervention in Biafra and the Roots of Nigeria's Labor Silence, 1967-1975 @Cornell University)
Dr. Brian Ikaika Klein (Domesticating the Belt & Road: Chinese Infrastructure, Tangible Benefits, and Imagined Futures in Madagascar @University of Michigan)
Dr. Darko Opoku (The Dragon's Embrace: Sino-Ghanaian Economic Engagement and Ghana's Industrialization Dream. @Oberlin College)
Dr. Yanyin Zi (Rethinking Chinese Business in Africa: Threat or Catalyst of Development? @Rikkyo University | Japan)
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25-26' UGROW Fellow | Center for Global Black Studies
2025 Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society Inductee | Yale University
24-25' McKnight Dissertation Fellow
23-24' Vice President, Black Graduate Students Association (BGSA)
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida
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