Africa@2050 Climate Fiction

As part of her research on energy infrastructures, climate change and postcolonial politics in Ghana Dr Pauline Destrée has launched the Africa@2050 Climate Fiction writing competition and workshop project.

Africa@2050 is a climate fiction writing competition and workshop project. It brings together writers and researchers to collaboratively devise future-looking and innovative solutions to the challenges posed by climate change to the African continent and to the world at large. Africa@2050 is a collaborative project between the Centre for Energy Ethics (CEE) at the University of St Andrews and the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies (C3SS) at the University of Ghana, funded by the Scottish Funding Council.

At Africa@2050, we position Africa at the centre of global conversations and innovation and as a catalyst for climate action. In foregrounding the importance of imagining futures, we want to emphasize possibilities for positive change, hope, and determination in facing the climate emergency.