¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ Present at the AAPS Congress in SenegalÂ
Publication date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025
¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ President Yuko Kasuya and several Executive Committee (EC) members will be in Dakar, Senegal, from 7 to 10 December 2025 to participate in the 18th Biennial Conference of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS). This year’s conference will be held under the theme The State, Citizens, Sovereignty and Africa in Global Politics.
On 8 December, President Kasuya will address the delegates during the AAPS Congress opening ceremony, which will follow a special ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ panel titled Co-creating ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ–AAPS Africa Online Workshop Series: Aims, Partnership, and Sustainability. Chaired by President Kasuya, the panel will feature Kgothatso Shai (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ Vice-President, University of Limpopo); Serge Granger (Co-Chair, ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ Task Force on African Engagement, University of Sherbrooke); Nadine Machikou (AAPS Vice-President, 2025 AAPS Congress Chair, and former ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ EC member, University of Dschang); and Christopher Isike (AAPS President, former ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ Vice-President, University of Pretoria).
Later that day, President Kasuya also plans to meet representatives of national political science associations to discuss their activities and challenges in the post-pandemic era. The discussion will also include AAPS members’ participation in ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ’s 2026 regional conference in WrocÅ‚aw, Poland, as well as the 2027 ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ World Congress in Rome.
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