Dr. Akanimo Odon, Head of Africa Strategic Partnerships at Lancaster University, UK, specializes in cross-border education and innovations in research and is an expert in navigating, developing, and managing relationships between academia, government, and industry in Africa for economic viability, research impact, and student employability.

He is a contributing author to the influential book, "Race and Sociocultural Inclusion in Science Communication: Innovation, Decolonisation, and Transformation.”

Advancing the tripartite Industry-Government-Academia policy-making framework
for decolonized science communication in Africa

The pressing developmental challenges on the African continent determine that there needs to be a profound paradigm shift in order to deliver collective innovation and action for sustainable development. The genesis of this process needs to be initiated at the continent’s various policy-making levels (at regional, sub-regional and national levels) through a concerted triple-helix framework that should fully encapsulate the key drivers of development on the continent, namely, Industry, Governments and Academia. In addition, it is recommended that these approaches should be intentional in bringing to the fore, decolonized solutions and methodologies, to ensure that scientific advancement and its communication on the African continent, is fully reframed, refocused and reinvigorated to deliver inclusively on the imperatives determined by Africans themselves, and in line with their sociocultural contexts and realities.

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