The 4th ASRIC Congress was held from the 22nd to 25th November, 2021 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Congress was held in a hybrid mode with both physical and online presence of the participants in attendance. The Congress was preceeded by a Pre-Congress Session with the following sub-sessions: Scientific Session where presentations of Scientific Technical Papers that focused on the congress theme “Strategic Investment/Utilization of STI for Africa’s Economic Emergence”; ASRIC Flagship Project on Water for All; National Academies Dialogue; and the ASRIC Scientific Journals Management sessions. Also at this Congress a new ASRIC Bureau was elected and inaugurated.