The SSR Chair mandate is to leverage the number 1 democracy in Africa status of Mauritius and to transform the University into a high profile beach head of innovative best practice policy ideas about and for
the continent of Africa and for global African Diasporas, through national and international partnerships around the continent and otherwise world, and through hosting publication generating virtual and face to face lectures, conferences, seminars, and workshops.
We will also be establishing a multi-thematic virtual global Ph.D. and Masters Program in African and African Diasporas Studies. It will be embedded in a consortium of faculty drawn from a number of national,
continent, and otherwise global universities, government agencies, corporations, faith communities, nonprofit organizations, and media houses.
This is all to say though Mauritians deservingly are proud of their phenomenal beaches renowned worldwide, it would be beneficial to the nation as well to become distinguished as an admired African democracy
through its foremost public university, in select areas innovative policy thinking, advocacy, and effective practice.