Name: Agenda 2063: Challenges and Prospects for Africa’s Sustainable Development
Start: 2026-05-19T18:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-05-19T19:30:00+03:00
Location: Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

$Agenda 2063: Challenges and Prospects for Africa\u2019s Sustainable Development$

📢 The Department of African and Indo-Pacific Studies at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” invites you to the academic seminar:
🌍 AGENDA 2063: Challenges and Prospects for Africa’s Sustainable Development
The event is part of the initiatives marking Africa Day 2026 and will bring together scholars, researchers, and students in a discussion dedicated to the future of sustainable development in Africa through the framework of the African Union’s strategic vision — Agenda 2063: “The Africa We Want.”

A special guest of the seminar will be:
🇿🇦 Dr. ANTHONY KAZIBONI (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) - political sociologist and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA), University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on hydropolitics, social and environmental justice, migration, and energy governance. His analyses and commentary have been featured in international media outlets including BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera.
More information: https://www.uj.ac.za/members/dr-5/

The seminar will explore themes related to:
• water governance and sustainability
• social justice and resource management
• youth and community empowerment
• economic development and resilience
• historical and contemporary relations between Bulgaria and Africa

👥 PROGRAM

🕕 18:00 – 18:10
Opening remarks by Assoc. Prof. Galina Ruseva-Sokolova
Head of the Department of African and Indo-Pacific Studies

🕕 18:10 – 18:25
🇿🇦 Dr. ANTHONY KAZIBONI
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
🎤 “From Scarcity to Justice: Rethinking Water Governance for Agenda 2063”

🕡 18:25 – 18:40
🇧🇬 Assoc. Prof. MILENA ANGELOVA
Economic Research Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; President of the EU–ACP Follow-up Committee, EESC
🎤 “Empowering youth, women, and indigenous and local communities to tackle global water bankruptcy and deliver on Agenda 2063”

🕖 18:40 – 18:55
🇧🇬 Assoc. Prof. EDUARD MARINOV
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
🎤 “From Scarcity to Justice: Rethinking Resource Governance Under Agenda 2063 (Is Circularity the Missing Link in Africa’s Development Model?)”

🕖 18:55 – 19:10
🎓 STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECT
“Bulgaria and Africa: historical and contemporary relations”
Presented by Dimitra Hristova, Samuil Pechev, and Vasil Dimitrov
Supervised by Researcher Deyan Petrov

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📅 May 19, 2026
📍 Aula Magna, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
🗣 Language: English
🎟 Free admission
We look forward to welcoming you to an evening of dialogue, academic exchange, and new perspectives on Africa’s sustainable future.