Comparative Politics Conference - "From Pan-Africanism to a Continental Free Trade Area

February 20, 2020 1:30 PM - February 20, 2020 3:00 PM

This year, theUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB) and the Faculty of Law are hosting the ninth cycle of "Conférences de Vie Politique Comparée", a series of lectures by researchers in the social sciences and humanities whose work sheds light on major contemporary socio-political issues.

The third conference of the cycle will take place on Thursday February 20, 2020 from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm, in amphitheater 3 on the Jacob-Bellecombette campus, with Julien Fils EKOTO EKOTO, PhD student at theInstitut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun. He will be speaking on the theme: "From Pan-Africanism to a continental free-trade zone: convergences and divergences".

The conference is part of a student initiative by Oumar-Dakou Mehedi and Koffi-Jean-Eudes Kouadio.

About Julien Fils EKOTO EKOTO

He has taught law at higher education institutes in Cameroon and at the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. He is currently completing a doctoral thesis in international relations, in which he analyzes the African process of regional integration, with particular emphasis on the participation of social actors and civil society organizations. A specialist in the history of "pan-Africanism", he will present the issues and main findings of his work, with a particular focus on the conditions and consequences of setting up a Continental African Free Trade Area (CAFTA), which is currently on the agenda.

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