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Organized by the Association of Asian Studies in Africa (A-Asia) in cooperation with the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS).
--See: Conference Program

Founded by Lesley Lokko: "The ambition of the African Futures Institute (AFI) is to be a world-class teaching and research institute, located in Accra, Ghana. Its mission is to transform contemporary architectural education by uniting teaching, research and practice in an innovative, critical and globally relevant way."
--Folio: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, 2017-- (Published by the University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

This archived site offers information (with image, sound, and video files) on the musical traditions of the Ewe of Ghana, and of other West African societies. There are also descriptions of programs at UC--Berkeley.

"Inaugurated in Dakar, Senegal, in March 2015, bringing together 16 of the region's leading universities...ARUA aims to enhance research and graduate training in member universities through a number of channels, including the setting up of Centres of Excellence (CoEs) to be hosted by member universities."
--ARUA Publications
--ARUA Conferences

"The ASAA resulted from extensive discussions among directors of various centres and institutes of African Studies in Africa as well as other scholars...[then] launched on October 25, 2013."
--3rd ASAA Biennial Conference--"African and Africana Knowledges: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities," October 24-26, 2019, Nairobi, Kenya

"The African Publishers Network, established in 1992 [in Harare, Zimbabwe], brings together national publishers associations and publishing communities to strengthen indigenous publishing throughout Africa.."
--See also: APNET on Facebook (2018)

"...a design-based ‘community’ based in- and inspired by- Africa! We are architects, artists, musicians, writers, film makers and creative people who through their work, chronicle the ‘African condition.’"

With support from the South Planet Portal (an international partnership begun by the Paris-based Africultures), this Ghanaian national arts portal offers news and reviews of the arts in Ghana...since 2017.
--See also: Sud Planète=South Planet

"...a community-based project. Since 2014 a team of Ghanaian researchers, including Osu community members, professors and students, has worked together to learn more about the history of the castle, particularly the people who lived and worked there."
--See especially: News

Beginning in 2020, the journal began publishing from Ghana. This site offers the current issue and the archive. "Feminist Africa is a continental gender studies journal produced by the community of feminist scholars. It provides a platform for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy...It provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent. By prioritising intellectual rigor, the journal seeks to challenge the technocratic fragmentation resulting from donor-driven and narrowly developmentalist work on gender in Africa."

[Launched in 2016] "...a contemporary art gallery with spaces across Accra, Ghana and London, UK...It dedicates its programme to spearheading international exchanges between art practices from these communities and the rest of the world, presenting artists who interrogate concepts of belonging and identity, cultural exchange, and social history beyond Western narratives... Originally set up to promote Ghana and West Africa's presence in the arts scene, it now encompasses the Global South and its diaspora."

The website offers general and contact information about the center's research programme; plus abstracts and order information on CDD working papers and briefs. "The Center is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit organization ... dedicated to the promotion of society and government based on the rule of law, appropriate checks on the power of the state, and integrity in public administration." 
--See especially: Publications

Created in 1990, the Commission promotes education and cultural awareness of Ghana's cultural and historical heritage. The website features brief summaries of major aspects of Ghana's history and cultures--with small color photos, current news about major cultural events around the country and internationally, and the activities of organizations and contact information, etc.

Promotional news about the current music scene in Ghana and an online catalog of contemporary Ghanaian musical artists.

This site offers summaries on Northern Ghana history, languages, & music.

Formally established in Ghana in 1992, with the support of UNESCO and the African Union. PAWA "...is made up of the 52 national writers associations on the continent, and seeks to contribute its quota to moral, cultural and intellectual renaissance in Africa." PAWA sponsors annual symposia in celebration of "International African Writers' Day" (November 7th), various workshops, special publications, etc.
--See also: "Okediran appointed Secretary General, Pan African Writers Association," The News. July 21, 2020 (Nigeria)

The website features information about WAPI 2013 & 2014 and news about the programs since 2002. "In 1997, the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), the Nairobi Peace Initiative (NPI) and the Institute for Justice and Peacebuilding in Virginia, USA, collaborated to conduct five sub-regional capacity building workshops in peacebuilding for Western, Central and Eastern African regions. [Subsequently] We have chosen a sub-regional focus..."

"Asante strip-woven cloth, or kente, is the most popular and best known of all African textiles. This exhibition is a collaboration between the National Museum of African Art (NMAFA) and the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture. The National Museum of African Art will focus on the history and use of kente in Africa while Anacostia will explore contemporary kente and its manifestations in a display in the Arts and Industries Building." See also, the NMAFA Home Page.