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[Music] we're very pleased to have collaborated with the Africa cluster center that is housed in our Institute of African diaspora studies um and the work great work they have been doing in the last six years the university management recognizes the impact that they have had not only on uh on building capacity but also in the internationalization agenda of the University of Lagos they have had numerous workshops capacity building conferences and so on and we are very happy to have been a part of this they are an invaluable organization within our University we hope that when the cluster 2.0 Vision becomes a reality that University of Lagos will be a part of it and we look forward to working even more with them to achieve their reality about 6 years ago we started the Journey of reconfiguring African studies along with our partner in barro Moy Joseph kbo and Road University in South Africa it's been five years 6 years of hard work and Cutting Edge research over the last 6 years or so we have found that it's important to have not out engagement and collaboration we have engaged in numerous Cutting Edge research that many people have thought that was impossible collaboration with our colleagues all over the world through the instrumentalities of the DFG funding and working together in Synergy with our colleagues on the continent of Africa as showed clearly that African research can also be as important as any other research we have since discovered in the last 5 six years that working with Partners working with colleagues and collaborating with them in terms of research Fellowship schemes and a whole lot of other things that we have been able to do in the last 5 six years indicate the fact that the configuring of African studies is essential to scholarship we are going to have to see in the last in the next few years where this takes us what do we do after the last 5 years of intense research how do we engage further how do we allow the ideas of Multiplicity… Read the full text about 1,419 words