{"id":12343,"date":"2018-11-02T11:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=12343"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:23","slug":"is-africa-misunderstood-or-just-unknowable","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/event\/is-africa-misunderstood-or-just-unknowable\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Is Africa Misunderstood or just Unknowable?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>&nbsp; Dr. Alex Awiti, Interim Vice Provost, East Africa\u200b and Director, East African\u200b Institute\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aku.edu\/about\/officers\/Pages\/director-eai.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alex O. Awiti<\/strong><\/a> is the Founding Director of the East African Institute (EAI) of Aga Khan University. The EAI is a regional platform for policy research, performance and public engagement, which focuses on the consequential drivers of socio-economic, environmental and institutional change. The EAI is currently focusing on youth, urbanization, economic growth, food systems and the extractive resources. Mr. Awiti holds a PhD in Ecosystems Ecology from University of Nairobi and is an alumnus of the prestigious Earth Institute post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University in New York. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York and was also an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia\u2019s School of International and Public Affairs. He worked under the mentorship of Jeffery D. Sachs, world-renowned professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Public-Lecture-Poster-Alex-Awiti-revised.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See Poster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[189,190,191,192,193,195,196],"class_list":["post-12343","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_audience-alumni","cu_event_audience-anyone","cu_event_audience-carleton-community","cu_event_audience-current-students","cu_event_audience-faculty","cu_event_audience-prospective-students","cu_event_audience-staff"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2018-11-23T13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2018-11-23T15:00:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":"ML","cu_event_meeting_room":"Room 482 (Discovery Centre)","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/12343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/12343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12411,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/12343\/revisions\/12411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=12343"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=12343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}