The central aim of the African Educational Research & Development Foundation (AERDF) is to provide the formal platform for academics across the Continent of Africa and beyond to engage with academic research and the dissemination of the product of such research endeavour in a more professional and coherent manner. By so doing, help generate empirical evidence that will impact and improve the provision of educational services at all levels of our education systems within the Continent. Membership to this association is open to all members of the higher education institutions (HEIs) on the Continent.

The specific objectives of AERDF include the following:

• hosting of an annual as well as periodic conferences;
• providing genuine platform for purposeful academic networking aimed at advancing meaningful educational development within the Continent;
• organising needs-informed research projects, the findings of which will aim to impact specific education policies in context;
• setting-up special interest groups to champion capacity development of special needs education groups;
• fostering co-operative research collaborations among scholars from different parts of the Continent; and,
• sourcing of research grants to help facilitate collaborative research endeavours among African academics with genuine research intentions;

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Founder and President

Professor OKEKE Chinedu Ifedi

University Professor & Head of School

School of Education Studies

Faculty of Education

University of the Free State

Bloemfontein 9301

South Africa

Email: chineduokeke55@gmail.com

Cell: +27730348602

Secretary

Mr. NWANKWO Christian Amara

16 Babapomile Street

Onipetesi, Mangoro

Ikeja, Lagos

Email: nwankwoca@gmail.com

Cell: +23408064167382

Member

Mrs. OKEKE Charity Chimankpa

School of Social Sciences, Language and Higher Education

Faculty of Education University of the Free State

Bloemfontein

South Africa

Email: okekecharityc@gmail.com

Cell: +27730976939

Member

Barrister IZUEGBU Christopher Sunday Okito

Plot 1854B

Off Mahathir Mohammed Street

Asokoro Extension

Abuja, Nigeria

Email: kristabelaw@gmail.com

Cell: +2348033830509

Click here to read the Constitution.

Click here to read the certificate of Incorporation.

Click here to read the certificate of Confirmation of Registration in South Africa.