Graduation Ceremony/Public Lecture: African Space Policy and Strategy Course

​Join us for a Public Lecture/Graduation Ceremony of the African Space Policy and Strategy 2025 course.

​The course is a thorough examination of Africa’s space sector and ecosystem, within the context of the global space economy and governance system.

​The public lecture will be delivered by Prof. Toni Haastrup.

​Prof. Haastrup is Chair in Global Politics at the University of Manchester since September 2023. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. She is a 2022 recipient of the Emma Goldman Award from the FLAX Foundation as well as the Emma Goldman Fellowship of the Vienna Institute for Human Sciences. She is also a recipient of the ISRF Mid-Career Fellowship 2023-2024. Her research interrogates the manifestation of power hierarchies in global politics, with research interests encompassing a wide range of topics within international studies, including peace and security in Africa, feminist, postcolonial and decolonial approaches to international relations, and regional and global governance.