Time Activity Speaker
11.00 – 12.00 Plenary Session V: Sustainable Development Goals & Financing Higher Education in Africa (10 minutes for each presenter)

Topic 1: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: Issues and Perspectives
Topic 2: Contributions of West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goals.
Topic 3: Financing Higher Education in Francophone Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Topic 4 on Subtheme 3: Contributions of African Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goals.
Topic 5: Subtheme 4: Funding of African Higher Education Institutions in the face of unpredictable Economy.

 Chairs:
– Prof. Olusola Oyewole (Former AAU President and Former Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria)

– Prof. Margaret King, Executive Director, Global Institute for Sustainable Development, USA

Rapporteur: Dr. Violet Makuku

Prof. Emmanuel Nnadozie, Executive Director, African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), Zimbabwe

Prof. Moumini Savadogo, Executive Director, WASCAL, Ghana

Prof. Juma Shabani, Former UNESCO Director / Directeur de l’école doctorale Université du Burundi

Presenter: Dr. Beatrice Njenga, Former Head of Education Division, African Union Commission / International Consultant
Presenter: Prof. Peter Okebukola, Former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission of Nigeria / International Higher Education Consultant/Council Chair, National Open University of Nigeria)
12.00 – 13.00 Plenary Session VI: Open and Distance Learning in Higher Education in Africa (10 minutes for each presenter)
Topic 1: Open and Distancing Learning in Africa: The Case of Open University of Tanzania
Topic 2: Open and Distancing Learning in Africa: The Case of Cameroon
Topic 3: Open and Distancing Learning in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe Open University
Topic 4: Open and Distancing Learning in Africa: The Case of National Open University of Nigeria
Topic 5: Open and Distancing Learning in Africa: The Case of Arab Open University in Egypt
Topic 6 on Subtheme 5: Mainstreaming e-learning and the digital divide. 		Chairs:
– Prof. Edward Ako (AAU Vice President and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Buea, Cameroon
– Prof. Nadia Badrawi, President of ANQAHE, Advisor Board member of CIQG, Chair of the Reform of the Medical Education Committee, SCU.
Rapporteur: Mrs. Adeline Addy
Presenter: Prof. Elifas Bisanda, AAU Board Member / Vice Chancellor, Open University of Tanzania
Presenter: Prof. Nkuo Theresa Akenji, AAU Board Member / Vice Chancellor, University of Bamenda, Cameroon
Presenter: Prof. Paul Gundani, Vice Chancellor, Zimbabwe Open University
Presenter: Prof. Olufemi Peters, Vice Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria
Presenter: Prof. Abdelhai Ebaid, President, Arab Open University in Egypt
Presenter: Prof. Karen Ferreira-Meyers, Professor, Eswatini (Swaziland) University
13.00 – 13.30 Health Break
13.30 – 14.30 Meeting of ‘Friends of AAU’ (by Invitation) Chair: Prof. Orlando Quilambo
(AAU President & Vice Chancellor Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique)
Rapporteur: Dr. Sylvia Mkandawire
14.30 – 15.30 Plenary VII: Contributions of the Diaspora to African Higher Education (5 mins for each speaker)

Speech by:
(i) Prof. Margaret King, President/CEO, Global Institute of Planning and Sustainable Development, USA
(ii) Prof. Nkem Khumbah, University of Michigan, USA
(iii) Dr. Norman Fortenberry, Executive Director, American Society for Engineering Education, USA
(iv) Prof. Paul Zeleza, Vice Chancellor, United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
(v) Prof. Damtew Teferra, Founding Director, International Network for Higher Education in Africa
(vi) Prof. Chux Daniels, Research Fellow in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Discussion

 Chair: HE Ambassador Arikana Chihombori Quao, MD Former Permanent Representative of African Union Mission to the USA
Rapporteur: Mr. Schenineda Ankomah