The Department of Child Sensitive Social Policies at the Women’s University in Africa in collaboration with UNICEF Zimbabwe hosted the inaugural Child Sensitive Social Policies Conference. The main conference theme ‘Towards a Child Sensitive Society on Africa’ sought to explore the centrality of children in African contexts. It offered a multiplicity of children’s rights stakeholders an opportunity to revisit the Universalist and Relativist debates on childhood, with a view to finding common ground between child’s rights principles and cultural norms still viewed at odds with each other.