{"id":1227,"date":"2019-03-29T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2019-03-29T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:41:09","slug":"kent-african-summit-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2019\/03\/29\/kent-african-summit-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent African Summit 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the Kent African Summit consisted of 3 panels discussing mental health, business &amp; entrepreneurship and diaspora. A mixture of academic, political and entrepreneurial speakers addressed a variety of issues that the African continent currently faces. Insightful conversations about how Africa can continue to move forward were enjoyed by over 100 attendees.<\/p>\n<p>The audience were given the opportunity to ask questions and raise any concerns regarding the issues surrounding the continent, thus promoting a purposeful debate. It was hugely rewarding for the organisers to educate and therefore empower the guests.<\/p>\n<p>If you or your society are interested in organising a multicultural event, you can read all about how to apply for funding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/global\/partnerships\/multicultural-fund.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the Kent African Summit consisted of 3 panels discussing mental health, business &amp; entrepreneurship and diaspora. A mixture of academic, political and entrepreneurial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2019\/03\/29\/kent-african-summit-2019\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52823,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}