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[Music] [Applause] [Music] the six year Journey has been very protective we feel we have fulfilled all the objectives of the the initial objectives of the of the of the Africa mple in reconfiguring Africa studies and we can show that from the work that we have we have we have published so we really feel that we have been a worthy partner in this in this journey towards fulfilling the objectives of the of the project IRS affiliations um was one is one of those research sections which give Mo University a good image in the region and internationally because we were able to visit physically during that Corona period we were able to visit uh Kigali daram Rwanda we have visited University of Lagos you know we have visited South Africa so you can see that affiliations is the backbone to the reconfiguration of African studies to one thing that um we must appreciate about the the cluster multiple cluster coming up with the idea of reconfiguring African studies is that it has opened a huge possibilities for us to engage uh with this thing and that we are moving beyond the way that it had initially been configured uh in the initial proposal of the of the of the cluster uh but we are now beginning to reimagine uh new areas of studies that uh were initially ignored as part of um knowledge um in in in in in [Music] Africa what we liked about this um proposal is that it was giving us um even opportunities to actually move out of the of the of the of of Mo University and do your research somewhere else like among the four centers it had a component of what they are calling early career researchers early career resers are uh people have just finished their phds so we had we had a lot of our colleagues who had just finish their phds but they had no opportunities to actually like um develop their their academic careers so foro University so far we have nine of them we have nine early career Scholars we have six doctoral and uh three post dos all of them come from different… Read the full text about 3,040 words