What changed
The University of Dar es Salaam’s College of Social Sciences will host VSS2026, a two-day international conference on November 5 and 6, 2026. The forum will bring together academics, researchers, young people and civil society representatives to examine Generation Z’s role in Africa’s social movements and development agenda.
Why it matters
This puts youth participation on the agenda as a subject for serious debate about leadership, governance and institutional accountability, not just as a question of online activism. Discussions will cover how digital technology and social media shape public debate and mobilise communities, alongside employment, inequality, gender, climate change, culture and education.
The conference’s likely value will depend on whether these conversations move beyond diagnosis. Its stated aim is to give greater weight to young people’s voices, ideas and needs in decisions about society’s future, but no policy commitments, attendance figures or follow-up programmes have been announced.
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