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Future Africa – A unique pan-African platform

Future Africa is the University of Pretoria’s collaborative platform for research that works across the sciences and with society to address Africa’s biggest and most urgent contemporary challenges. Our fundamental purpose is to develop and unleash the transformative potential of African sciences to inform and inspire a future of thriving African societies.

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By spearheading innovation when it comes to deploying transformative research, informing and supporting policy and public action for equitable and sustainable African societies.

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To develop Africa’s transformative research leadership capabilities.

By training, mentoring, and connecting a new generation of global research leaders who will lead the necessary transformations of science and society from within Africa.

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To build transformative global partnerships for African research.

By providing a gateway to Africa’s rich and diverse scientific community, building equitable global partnerships, and projecting the voice of African sciences on the global stage.

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To foster a culture of dialogue and action for change in African research.

By stimulating bold ideas and disruptive thinking on how research can make a meaningful difference to real world problems and facilitating learning on how best to enable this.

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By providing conferencing and accommodation facilities that host a community of scholars, leaders, and partners, enabling transformative research, capacity building, partnerships, and dialogue.

By spearheading innovation when it comes to deploying transformative research, informing and supporting policy and public action for equitable and sustainable African societies.

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By training, mentoring, and connecting a new generation of global research leaders who will lead the necessary transformations of science and society from within Africa.

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By providing a gateway to Africa’s rich and diverse scientific community, building equitable global partnerships, and projecting the voice of African sciences on the global stage.

By stimulating bold ideas and disruptive thinking on how research can make a meaningful difference to real world problems and facilitating learning on how best to enable this.

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By providing conferencing and accommodation facilities that host a community of scholars, leaders, and partners, enabling transformative research, capacity building, partnerships, and dialogue.

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Negotiating sustainable development: Six key reflections from the Future Africa roundtable

Six key reflections from a roundtable hosted by Future Africa at the University of Pretoria under the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) on the Politics of Sustainable Development, co-led with the University of Oslo.

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UNU REACH-AFRICA at Future Africa UP co-authors policy brief on climate finance in sub-Saharan Africa

The United Nations University Hub on Resilient Environment, Agriculture, Climate and Health for Africa (UNU REACH-AFRICA) based at Future Africa at the University of Pretoria has co-authored a policy brief on climate finance in sub-Saharan Africa. The brief examines how financing water, energy, food and ecosystems in an integrated way could improve the effectiveness of climate investments across the region.

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Future Africa UP researcher examines the African Court’s stance on capital punishment

A peer-reviewed article by Future Africa’s Dr Irene Nyakagere Thomas examines how the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has interpreted capital punishment cases over the past decade and what this means for human rights protection across the continent.

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UP’s Future Africa and IRD-CNRS-CIRAD spotlight Bolt’s Farm fossils in new seminar series

Future Africa, together with IRD, CNRS and CIRAD, inaugurates a science-sharing seminar series, with the first seminar highlighting palaeontological research at Bolt’s Farm in the Cradle of Humankind.

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June 11 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmFuture AfricaFuture Africa at the University of Pretoria, together with the IRD–CNRS–CIRAD Joint Office in Southern Africa, hosts a Science Sharing Series dialogue examining the lived realities of migrant youth in South Africa through the theme, The Architecture of ‘Stoppedness’.
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Negotiating sustainable development: Six key reflections from the Future Africa roundtable

Six key reflections from a roundtable hosted by Future Africa at the University of Pretoria under the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) on the Politics of Sustainable Development, co-led with the University of Oslo.

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UNU REACH-AFRICA at Future Africa UP co-authors policy brief on climate finance in sub-Saharan Africa

The United Nations University Hub on Resilient Environment, Agriculture, Climate and Health for Africa (UNU REACH-AFRICA) based at Future Africa at the University of Pretoria has co-authored a policy brief on climate finance in sub-Saharan Africa. The brief examines how financing water, energy, food and ecosystems in an integrated way could improve the effectiveness of climate investments across the region.

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Future Africa UP researcher examines the African Court’s stance on capital punishment

A peer-reviewed article by Future Africa’s Dr Irene Nyakagere Thomas examines how the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has interpreted capital punishment cases over the past decade and what this means for human rights protection across the continent.

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UP’s Future Africa and IRD-CNRS-CIRAD spotlight Bolt’s Farm fossils in new seminar series

Future Africa, together with IRD, CNRS and CIRAD, inaugurates a science-sharing seminar series, with the first seminar highlighting palaeontological research at Bolt’s Farm in the Cradle of Humankind.

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Lost in translation no more

Research focusing on zoonotic disease and computer science may help shape a future where life-saving health knowledge truly speaks everyone’s language.

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Environmental thought in Africa cannot be separated from power and lived realities, Future Africa webinar hears

Future Africa recently hosted a webinar that explored how environmental thought in Africa is shaped by power, colonial legacies and lived realities.

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Future Africa and UNU Hub at UP congratulate Professor Kaveh Madani on 2026 Stockholm Water Prize

Future Africa and the United Nations University Hub on Resilient Environment, Agriculture, Climate and Health for Africa ( REACH-AFRICA) at the University of Pretoria (UP), congratulates Professor Kaveh Madani, Director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), on being named the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate.

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Dialogue on Migrant Youth in South Africa: The Architecture of ‘Stoppedness’

June 11 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmFuture AfricaFuture Africa at the University of Pretoria, together with the IRD–CNRS–CIRAD Joint Office in Southern Africa, hosts a Science Sharing Series dialogue examining the lived realities of migrant youth in South Africa through the theme, The Architecture of ‘Stoppedness’.
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Understanding the dynamics of African science and technology policy in a global context and ensuring the development of innovative African science and technology systems is imperative for purposes of advancing the transformative impact of African research and scholarship.

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