IASAS Global Summit - South Korea: What is the "Africa Cafe" research methodology?

Currently the Annual Global Summit of the International Association of Student Affairs and Services (IASAS) is underway in Daegu, South Korea. I am so proud that four of my close research colleagues and friends are there and present papers on which I am collaborating with them, even if I decided that I can't be in South Korea at this time.

Dr Lisa Bardill Moscaritolo, Dr Brett Perozzi and Prof Birgit Schreiber are presenting on our findings from the global survey on student affairs and sustainable development goals (SDGs). We have previously published on some of these findings. Here is the reference and access to the open access article:

Schreiber, B., Perozzi, B., Bardill Moscaritolo, L., and Luescher, T.M. (2024). Student Affairs and Services: The Global South Leading the Global North in the Adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of International Students, 14(2),91-104. Open Access.

Dr Keamo Morwe is presenting on the world cafe research methodology and the work we did together with student affairs practitioners and former student activists using this methodology. We are now starting to call our adaptation of this method "Africa Cafe" because we are using principles of African ethics and humanism like ubuntu and considerations of African ontology and epistemology in our adaptation of the methodology. We will spell this out in detail with examples based on our work on four university campuses in a forthcoming article.