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Alcinda Manuel Honwana
Director of the Anti-Racism Team
United Nations Secretariat

Dr. Alcinda Manuel Honwana is the Director of the Anti-Racism Team, OUSG/DMSPC, United Nations Secretariat. She is a leading scholar on youth, protests and social change in Africa.

Her extensive research on youth and conflict, youth socio-economic transitions and youth political protest and social movements earned her a reputation as one of the most influential scholars in these fields. More specifically her widely cited work on youth in waithood has greatly contributed to shaping current youth studies in Africa and the global South.

She has served as Inter-Regional Advisor on social development policy at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) at the United Nations Secretariat in New York.

She has been a Centennial Professor and the Strategic Director of the Firoz Lal