Africa Week 2025

Africa Week is the University of Pretoria’s (UP) biennial science leadership summit hosted by the Future Africa platform. The 2025 event, organised with the support of the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF) and the Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation (DSTI), will be held from 25 to 30 May 2025 and will convene prominent African and global science leaders and stakeholders for a series of high-level discussions under the theme ‘Global Security, Global Africa’.

Main Summit: 25 -27 May | Side Events: 28 – 30 May

The purpose of Africa Week 2025 is to reframe and broaden global security beyond its militarist confines, to uncover its multiple – hidden and overt – meanings at present and how they manifest at all levels of society. The summit aims to reimagine global security frameworks, and to place Africa’s position and role within global security complexes.

Attendance at the event is by invitation and primarily in person, with limited sessions accessible via livestream for those joining remotely.

Click here for more information about the programme and speakers.

Catch the livestreamed sessions from 26 to 28 May 2025. Register here to join online.