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"ABORNE is an interdisciplinary network of researchers interested in all aspects of international borders and trans-boundary phenomena in Africa."
See especially: Conferences -and- Bibliography of publications relevant to ABORNE members
Plus: FrontAfrique below.

Formerly West Africa Rice Development Association...Africa Rice Center is an intergovernmental research association with a membership of 25 countries. Its mandate is to conduct rice research, training, and communications activities for the benefit of West, Central, and Eastern Africa.

'The African Academy of Sciences was conceived on the 6th day of July 1985 when 22 prominent scientists met in Trieste, Italy, at the inauguration of the Third World Academy of Sciences TWAS) and devised the concept of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). Under the leadership of Prof. Thomas R. Odhiambo as the first elected President of the AAS, membership has grown rapidly from the initial 33 members in 1985 to 107 in 1995, representing 24 African countries and 5 countries overseas.'

The site includes information about conferences and members' activities. "The AASR was founded at an International Association for the History of Religions Regional Conference at the University of Zimbabwe at Harare, Zimbabwe, in September 1992. And since it was formally admitted as an IAHR affiliate in the XVIIth IAHR World Con­gress in Mexico City in 1995..."
-- AASR Bulletin, 1963 to present online

--9th AASR Conference in Africa--"Creativity, Innovation, and Imagination in African Religions," August 2-4, 2023, University of Nairobi, Kenya

-- 8th AASR Conference in Africa--"Revisiting Religion, Politics, and the State in Africa and the African Diaspora," August 1-4, 2018, The University of Zambia and Justo Mwale University, Lusaka, Zambia
-- Final programme of 2007 AASR Conference, July 8-13, 2007, University of Botswana, Gaborone

"Founded in 2011, the network is an initiative intended to foster communication, collaboration and research as well as teaching amongst scholars studying the economic history of sub-Saharan Africa, from the pre-colonial to the post-colonial era. Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden."
--See especially: AEHN Blog ; AEHN Working Papers ; AEHN Data & Research ; and, AEHN Workshops

--2023 Conference: 16th Annual Meeting of the AEHN, October 5-6, 2023, University of Pretoria, South Africa

--See also: African Commodity Trade Database, 1737-1939.

--Past conferences: 14th Annual Conference of the AEHN, October 18-19, 2019, Barcelona, Spain ;  13th Annual Conference, October 13-15, 2018, Bologna, Italy

"The African Finance and Economics Association is a non-profit professional organization for academicians and practitioners with scholarly or professional interest in the development and application of finance and economics in African countries."

"[Founded in 1969] As an organization, AHSA is creating a unique African centered leadership development process for youth, community organizers and scholar-activists committed to the liberation of African people everywhere."
--53rd Annual AHSA Conference--Online, "Afrofuturism: Building on Our Heritage for a Better Tomorrow," October 22, 2022

--See also: Past annual conference programs

General information on the organization, its annual conferences, and its other activities. See also, National African Language Resource Center below.

--See especially: ALTA 2023 Conference--Call for Abstracts "African Languages and Changing Social Realities", Washington, DC, April 14-15, 2023. Co-sponsored by Howard University.

--See also: ALTA 2021 Conference program. Co-sponsored by Columbia University.

The site includes general information about ALA conferences and issues. Note: The "ALA Bulletin" is available online ONLY for ALA members.
-- 49th Annual Meeting of the ALA: "Filiations and Affiliations: Bonds, Entanglements, and Social Networks in African Literatures and Cultures," University of Louisville, Kentucky, May 23-25, 2024.
***The deadline for proposals is December 31, 2023.

"The ANCL is an association of judges, lawyers, academics, activists, NGOs, research/academic institutes and bar associations with an interest in constitutional law and constitutionalism in Africa."
--See especially: Resources

The site includes information about conferences, research projects, teaching resources, and related links. "[Since 2004] The APCG promotes recognition within professional associations of the theoretical and methodological contributions to the discipline of political scientists whose research and professional interests center largely or in part upon sub-Saharan Africa."

This website offers links to science-related programs, conferences, institutions, and fora among African scientists in and outside of Africa.

"The African Speculative Fiction Society is an informal organization of African writers, editors, comic and graphic artists, and filmmakers in the fields of speculative fiction such as fantasy, science fiction, stories that draw on traditions, horror and philosophical fiction."
--See especially: List of Published African SFF -and- Nommo Awards

"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."

--ASAA 2023, 5th Biennial Conference: "Repatriating Africa: Old Challenges and Critical Insights." October 25-28, 2023, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo

--"ASAA 2022, 4th Biennial Conference: Africa and the Human: Old Questions, New Imaginaries," April 11-16, 2022---Online and at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
--3rd ASAA Biennial Conference--"Reclaiming African Studies for Africa," October 24-26, 2019, Nairobi, Kenya

"[Founded in 1963] ASAUK is a non-profit organisation which has over 900 members drawn from Africanist scholars, students and other experts. Through conferences, workshops, a newsletter and a number of prizes and awards, the African Studies Association supports and provides information to the Africanist community. ASAUK works in close cooperation with the Royal African Society..."
---2024 Annual Conference of ASAUK--60th Anniversary: "Generation and Regeneration", 29 to 31 August 2024, Oxford Brookes University, UK
***The deadline for abstracts is April 20, 2024.
-- Africanist Theses Recently Accepted at UK Universities (2005-2014)

"The Africana Librarians Council (ALC), founded in 1957 as the Archives-Libraries Committee of the African Studies Association (ASA). Members of ASA whether they are librarians, archivists or documentalists working with materials from and about Africa or scholars interested in the preservation of or access to Africana may join the ALC. The ALC meets twice yearly, during the fall annual meeting of the African Studies Association and in the spring at the home institution of a member. These meetings coincide with those of the Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP), a consortium whose member institutions purchase or film research materials in cooperation. The ALC and its activities (up to 2014) were reported in the Africana Libraries Newsletter, a publication of Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, Indiana. On behalf of the ALC Cataloging Committee, Charles Riley of Yale University writes and publishes a blog, "Cataloging Africana" since 2011.

--See also: Older ALC website (via University of Pennsylvania)

The web site features announcements on lectures and other events, a newsletter, and occasional publications. "[Formed in 1948] The object of the Society is to foster knowledge of Ethiopian culture, history and way of life and to encourage friendship between the British and Ethiopian peoples. The Society is a non political organisation."

-- Publications: articles, book reviews, occasional papers, etc.

"...fondée en septembre 1983 par un groupe de chercheurs français. Son but est de créer un lieu de rencontres et d’échanges scientifiques ...et qui permette de faire connaître et de mettre en relation toutes les productions littéraires du continent africain."
--A propos de la revue "Études Littéraires Africaines"
--Rencontres, 1985-2017

"The ADEA was established at the initiative of the World Bank in 1988. Its objective was to foster collaboration and coordination between development agencies in support of education in Africa. ADEA now focuses on developing partnerships between Ministers of Education and funding agencies..."

"AROCSA was founded in September 2015 [originally] in Accra, Ghana, under the auspices of the Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), with the support of the Ford Foundation, to promote and advance a community of excellence in research and practice on civil society in the service of African development."

"To promote the highest standards of academic research and teaching in the fields of Middle Eastern and African studies and related disciplines..."
--See especially: 10th Annual ASMEA Conference, October 19-21, 2017, Washington, DC -and- Past conferences

"[Founded in 2000] ASWAD is a not-for-profit, tax deductible organization of international scholars seeking to further our understanding of the African Diaspora, that is, the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the world. Through the examination of history, dance, anthropology, literature, women's studies, education, geology, political science, sociology, language, art, music, film, theater, biology, photography, etc., we seek to share the most recent research both within and across disciplinary and other conventional boundaries."
-- ASWAD Conferences, 2001 to present

"... a voluntary, peer-to-peer network of African institutions that educate and train urban/city and/or regional/rural planners. Our members are drawn from all regions of Africa, including the countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe."

--See especially: Directory of Member Institutions

"The AASP is an organization made up of the Deans, Directors, Chairpersons, Committee Heads, or individuals who have the responsibility for organizing or leading the African Studies program at their college or university. Members range from Directors of the large Title VI centers to colleagues who keep the flame of African Studies alive in quite isolated settings."

"AAU was formed by 34 universities which adopted its constitution and formally inaugurated its association at a founding conference in Rabat, Morocco. It now has 140 members from 42 African countries. The secretariat in Accra is the permanent executive organ of the Association and operates under the direction of the Secretary-General. There is also an executive board consisting of a president, three vice-presidents and nine other members, all of whom are chosen at the quadrennial general conference."

"The ABA was founded in 1970...to bring together Black Anthropologists and other scholars...by ensuring that people studied by anthropologists are not only objects of study but active makers and/or participants in their own history. We intend to highlight situations of exploitation, oppression and discrimination....to analyze and critique social science theories that misrepresent the reality of exploited groups while at the same time construct more adequate theories to interpret the dynamics of oppression."

--Call for Papers--"Anthropology and the Black Experience" Dakar, Senegal, May 15-18, 2024
***The deadline for proposals is December 31, 2023.
--See also: "ABA: a brief history," by Ira E. Harrison. (1987) Anthropology today Vol 31, no. 1 (Feb. 1987).

"Founded in 1977, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) is a group of scholars and students of Africa dedicated to: formulating alternative analyses of Africa and U.S. government policy, developing communication and action networks between the peoples and scholars of Africa and the United States, and mobilizing support in the United States on critical, current issues related to Africa."

"The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was first convened in 1970 and has since been held every year at various sites throughout North America. The affiliated Association of Contemporary African Linguistics...was founded in 2013."
--ACAL 47: 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, March 23-26, 2016, University of California--Berkeley

This site offers general information about ANPA, its annual conferences, and related events and activities.

The official web site --in Italian-- of the association, founded in Rome, Italy, March 2011. The site includes publication news and event infomation since 2012.
Call for Papers -- VI Biennial Conference, "Third Millennium, Africas in the Global World. Challenges, Reconfigurations and Opportunities, June 29-July 1, 2022 at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo.
--The deadline for proposals is March 3, 2022.
--Riflessioni sullo stato degli studi africani in Italia a seguito della Conferenza ASAI di Pavia (settembre 2012) ASAI occasional paper ; no. 1. (33 paginas in formato Acrobat PDF)

'An organization of Africanists ... officially came into being in 1970 when the Canadian Committee on African Studies became the new CAAS.' The CAAS publishes its own journal, a newsletter, and holds an annual conference.
--CAAS Conference 2024: "Sustainability and Sustainable Development in Africa: Past, Present, And Future," June 12-16, 2024, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

***The deadline for proposals is December 4, 2023.

"...a service that provides access to African research information produced in the Netherlands and elsewhere: details of Africa experts affiliated to Dutch and Belgian organizations; details of Dutch and Belgian development-related organizations, universities and research institutes; titles of published research on Africa in the Netherlands and elswhere; digital resources on Africa (full-text of publications, images and sound) in about 55 institutional repositories.

"...formed in July 1980 ‘to promote the study of, and interest in economic and social history of southern Africa’." The site includes tables of contents of the current EHSA journal Economic History of Developing Nations, formerly known as the "South African Journal of Economic History."

The Society was established in 1925 and is a discussion forum for economists in academic life, government and business. The website features selected papers from annual conferences, economic indicator graphs, information about the South African Journal of Economics--with sample articles, and related links.

"Since 1991...EEA has been actively engaged in economic research, training, organization of international and national conferences and round table discussions on the Ethiopian economy and the dissemination of the results of these activities through its professional journals and various publications...and most particularly since the establishment of its research wing the Ethiopian Economic Policy Research Institute (EEPRI) in 2000."
--See also: Recent EEA publications  --via Africa Portal, Johannesburg, South Africa

"It provides its members with various channels, including newsletters, annual meetings, a web site, and French Colonial History, a refereed journal published by Michigan State University Press."
--48th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society--"The Intimacies of Empire," Charlottesville, VA, May 23-25, 2024

Le site officiel d'un équipe de chercheurs qui s'intéressent à la question des frontières africaines. C'est le représentant institutionnel français du réseau Aborne (African Borderlands Research Network), initié par Paul Nugent en 2007.
Veuillez voir surtout: Contributions

"Founded by Professor Edouard Bustin in 1993, GRAF is based at the African Studies Center, but its membership includes scholars based in 20 countries in Africa, Europe and North America. GRAF acts as an interdisciplinary forum, or clearinghouse to keep members informed of their respective research interests or projects; to explore research needs and funding opportunities for specific individual or cooperative projects, and to organize regular meetings of African, European and North American scholars. GRAF also publishes a bilingual Newsletter and a Directory."

"The William Leo Hansberry Society is an organization of Black scholars from Africa and the African Diaspora committed to promoting and diversifying the study, research, and scholarship of the ancient African past...We are archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, bioarchaeologists, Nubiologists, Egyptologists, Ethiopianists, and Africana Studies scholars whose academic specialties focus on the ancient history, language, and culture of northeast Africa."

General information about members, conferences, jobs and fellowships, related links.
-- See especially: International Directory of Egyptology

"...established in 1991 in London and it draws its international membership from experts and students involved in the exploration of the oral traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora...organizes regular scholarly conferences: London, UK (1991); Legon, Ghana (1995); Cape Town, South Africa (1998); Chambery, France (2002); Banjul, Gambia (2004); and, Trinidad and Tobago (2006); and Lecce, Italy (July 2008)."

"The association that brings together scholars and researchers with interest in Kenya." The first inaugural conference was held in August 1-2, 2008 at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

"Established in 2017, the Lagos Studies Association is an international, interdisciplinary organization of academic and non-academic practitioners whose interest focus on Lagos and its peoples."
--The 8th Annual International Conference of the Lagos Studies Association--"African Identities: Peoples, Cultures, and Institutions in Motion," In-person/Online, June 25-29, 2024, University of Lagos, Nigeria

***The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2023.

"... scholarly society of linguists whose research foci are the languages of the Southern African region. The languages within the Society's purview are: Afrikaans, Bemba, ChiShona, Chichewa, Ciluba, Damara, English, French, German, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Nama, Nyanja, Portuguese, San, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, Sindebele,Siswati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga."
See: 2015 LSSA/SAALA/SAALT Conference, June 24-26, 2015, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

A discussion forum sponsored by the LASA, an associate organization of the African Studies Association of the United States.

"Founded in 1981, the MSA is an independent international Association open to those interested in any aspect of the Maghreb, Islamic culture and Mediterranean studies..The Maghreb Studies Association has organised various conferences in the past and papers from the conferences were published in The Maghreb Review."

This directory includes African mathematicians from the African continent.

Founded in 1992: The most recent NAAAS national conference was held on February 12-17, 2018, Dallas, Texas. The next international event in Africa is: "NAAAS Research Forum and Symposium," August 12-17, 2018, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. --The deadline for proposals is May 30, 2018.

Brief profile of the organization, founded in 1997, contact information, conference information, and newsletters. Plus, links to the African Studies Centre at Leiden University, other organizations, etc.

"NASAC’s main objective is to bring together science academies and facilitate discussions on the scientific aspects of challenges of common concern, so as to make common statements on major issues relevant to Africa and to provide mutual support to member Academies."
--See especially: Resources

"...founded in 1967 as the State University of New York African Studies Faculty Association, is a non profit membership association, incorporated as NYASA in 1975, dedicated to advancing the discipline of Africana Studies."

The web site features organizational information, news, and conference proceedings from the OSA. "[Founded in 1996, the OSA] is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary, nonprofit organization, established by Oromo and non-Oromo scholars to promote studies on and relevant to the Oromo people."

"To bring together prehistorians, palaeontologists and geologists from one end of the continent to the other." The 14th Congress of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies will take place at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in July 2014.
--See also: past congress proceedings

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 web site features information about events and publications, as well as online commentaries and seminar reports, and links to other Africa-related sites."[For over 100 years and...] Through its journal, African Affairs, and by organising meetings, discussions and other activities, the Society strengthens links between Africa and Britain and encourages understanding of Africa and its relations with the rest of the world."

"...launched in 2011, [the program] responds to an emerging dilemma within higher education in the global South caused by the extraordinary emphasis on increasing undergraduate enrollment without proportionate investment in faculty development, limiting the ability of universities to produce the next generation of researchers, faculty, technocrats, and leaders."

Ce site est en français ou en anglais. "S.E.A. est une société entomologique axée sur les Coléoptères et Lépidoptères. La société a été crée en 1994. Depuis 1996, on publiait la revue, Entomologia Africana.

"La SFHOM est une association qui réunit des universitaires, des érudits et des professionnels du monde de l'entreprise et de l'administration pour valoriser les recherches sur l'histoire des monde des outre-mers, depuis les découvertes et les explorations jusqu'aux mouvements de colonisation, puis jusqu'aux indépendances et à l'émergence des économies et sociétés nouvelles. Elle publie des études récentes mais aussi des textes anciens qui sont révélateurs des civilisations d'outre-mer de leur temps. Elle publie notamment deux fois par an Outre-Mers. Revue d’histoire." Télécharger les tables bibliographiques (1913-2003) en format PDF -et- voir le catalogue des publications en format HTML.

[Founded in 2011] "The Society centers the histories and material cultures of global Black and African communities in archaeological research. By providing a strong network, mentorship, and educational access, the SBA works to resolve the ongoing systemic exclusion of Black and African scholars and communities from the field of archaeology."

"The Society of South African Geographers was founded in 1994 when the (then) Society for Geography and South African Geographical Society joined together..."

General information about SOMA-Net, conferences and other activities since 1995, and contact information on council members in different African countries. "To establish long-term holistic and sustainable solutions to health in Africa; by encouraging, facilitating and supporting research..."

"Founded in Cape Town as the Cape Archaeological Society in August 1944...Today there are more than 800 individual and institutional members of ArchSoc in more than 20 countries."

"[SAAPS] ...came into life in May 2001, as the result of the merger of the South African Political Studies Association (SAPSA) and the South African Chapter of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS-SA)."

The Committee was established in 1971 and holds annual Spring conferences in African studies.

General information on the organization, member contact information, resolutions, call for conference papers, and links to conference proceedings.
All country reports, 2000-2018
--LIASA-CECSAL 2022 Conference--"Against All Odds: Resilience of Libraries in a Post-Truth World," October 4-7, 2022, Gauteng, South Africa

UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa: "SCOLMA provides a forum for librarians and others concerned with the provision of materials for African studies in libraries in the United Kingdom; it monitors, co-ordinates and improves the acquisition of library materials on Africa, especially through its co-operative Area Specialisation Scheme for the acquisition of materials from Africa; it sponsors bibliographical projects, publishes bibliographical works and a journal; and, it organises conferences and seminars on African bibliographical topics."
-- SCOLMA 2023 Conference--Online, "Africa and the Environment: Archives and Data in the Climate Emergency," June 23, 2023, London

"The Sudan Studies Association (SSA) is an independent professional society founded in the United States in 1981. Membership is open to scholars, teachers, students, and others with interest in the Sudan. The Association exists primarily to promote Sudanese studies and scholarship. It maintains a cooperative relationship with the Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum. SSA works to foster closer ties among scholars in the Sudan, North America, Europe, the Middle East and other places."
-- SSA Bulletin and Newsletter Archive, 1981-2017
-- See also: Past SSA Annual Meetings

"WALS is a non-profitable association of academics, research workers, field workers and teachers drawn from the West African sub-region. These countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mali Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo...Currently we have members resident in North America (Canada and USA), European Union (France, Netherlands, Spain, UK etc)."
--See also: Journal of West African languages. (Online): 1964 to present

"Since 1982, help has been at hand through The West African Museums Programme (WAMP), a non-governmental organisation dedicated to helping West African museums become relevant and accessible and to raising the awareness of local people. WAMP is the only Africa-based programme focussed specifically on museum development to act as an intellectual partner in the sharing of information and experiences, and as an intermediary in the securing of financial support. WAMP organises seminars and workshops, provides technical assistance, encourages the development of training programmes, and fosters cooperation between museums in Africa as well as links with the international professional network."

"The West African Research Association (WARA) was founded in 1989, for the purpose of promoting scholarly exchange and collaboration between American and West African researchers."
--See also: West African Research Center, Dakar, Senegal

Officially launched in 2003, this international organization promotes scholarly exchange and offers an online directory of scholars actively pursuing research and publishing academic work on all aspects of Zambian society.

"This website should help MBChB and B.Pharm (Hons) graduates of the University of Zimbabwe's Godfrey Huggins School of Medicine keep in touch with each other. A standard entry contains name, E-mail address, year of qualification, city of residence, and a non-residential phone or fax number. There are links to sites in Zimbabwe and to Medical & Other sites, and a Photo Library of Zimbabwean Wildlife and Scenery."