Now in its sixth year, the Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) Festival will once again host a diverse range of speakers, student activists, prominent academics and civil society organisations from across the African continent and the globe!

The REFA Festival will serve as a platform for critical engagement with the economics discipline and with the economy in general, and will provide participants with opportunities to exchange ideas and tools on how to build a movement for rethinking economics in our universities and society more broadly. This year the organisers are putting a special emphasis on ensuring participants from across the region can attend.

The four streams for this year's Festival are:

STREAM 1 | From climate crisis to climate action
STREAM 2 | Intersectional feminism: The struggle for equality
STREAM 3 | Global financial architecture and heterodox macroeconomics
STREAM 4 | New, alternative, hidden, and emergent forms of work and knowledge

The event is hosted by the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung South Africa, Rethinking Economics for Africa, the School of Economics and Finance (SEF), the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development (SARChI), the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS), the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), the Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA), International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), and Wits University.