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• Africa's 100 Best Books (Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare; via Columbia University)
  • General announcement, call for nominations, the final list of 100, and contact information. The 100 titles were announced on February 18, 2002.
  • See a copy of the list of 100.
  • H-Africa Discussion Forum, March 2002 (H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  • Africa Book Centre--Catalogue of 100 Best Book Award Winners (Brighton, UK)
  
  
• AEGIS--Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies: ECAS 2009--3rd European Conference on African Studies, University of Leipzig, 4-7 June 2009. Co-sponsored by The Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany.
  The deadline for proposals was August 1, 2008.
  
  
• 14th International African Association for Lexicography (AFRILEX) Conference, 6-9 July 2009, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa: Final Programme. PDF format (via University of Pretoria)
  
  
• African Digital Scholarship & Curation, 12-14 May 2009, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa
  The deadline for registration payments is March 31, 2009.
  
  
• African Film Festival/NY -- 2009 (AFF, Inc. New York)
  • General information on AFF programs at the Magic Johnson Theatre Complex--Harlem, USA, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and New York University. Information on films, musical performances, and panel discussions in North America; plus links to news and the AFF Archive of Screenings (since 1993).
    
    
  • 2009 African Film Festival in New York-"Africa in Transition," April 8--May 25, 2009: Film Society of Lincoln Center (Manhattan) -and- Brooklyn Academy of Music
  
  
• The African Guide (Nicole Smith & Albert Angel, USA)
  This searchable illustrated guide provides a listing of current and upcoming festivals and other major cultural events across Africa, with links to web sites. "The African Guide aims to promote cultural tourism in Africa as well as make Africa a priority travel destination."
  
  
• Upcoming Conferences on African Languages and Linguistics Web Resources on African Languages (Jouni F. Maho, Göteborg University, Södra Anneberg, Partille, Sweden)
  
  
• African Literature Association 35th Annual Conference--"Africa and Blackness in World Literature and Visual Arts," April 15-19, 2009, University of Vermont, Burlington
  The deadline for proposals and pre-registration is October 30th!
  
  
• African Studies Association of the United States: 52nd Annual ASA Meeting, "Africa at a Crossroads," New Orleans, Louisiana, November 19-22, 2009 (via Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  
  
• African Studies Centre, Leiden University -- Events, Seminars, and Conferences (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  
  
• ASWAD--Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora -- 5th Biennial Conference, August 2-5, 2009, Accra, Ghana: Call for Papers (via New York University, New York)
  The deadline for proposals is December 15, 2008!
  
  
• Canadian Association of African Studies: 2009 Annual Conference on "Communities and Transformations in Africa and African Studies," May 4-7, 2009, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (via University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
  French version
  
  
• Cape Town Book Fair, South Africa, 13-16 June 2009 Sponsored by PASA--Publishers' Association of South Africa, Goethe Institute, and Frankfurter Buchmesse.
  
  
• Columbia University: Institute of African Studies -- Events (New York)
  
  
• Conference Announcements on Africa (via University of Pennsylvania)
  A variety of up-to-date, calls for papers and announcements mostly compiled from e-mail messages.
  
  
• Durban Review Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 20-24 April 2009 Organized by The United Nations.
  "...will evaluate progress towards the goals set by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, in 2001."
  --See especially: Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2001)
  
  
• FESMAN: Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres, du 1er au 21 décembre 2009, Dakar, Sénégal
  = World Festival of Black Arts = Festival Mundial das Artes Negras (République du Sénégal, Ministère de la Culture, Dakar, Sénégal)
  Le nouveau site officiel pour un troisième Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres. Ce site offre les informations préliminaires sur les événements prévus. Le site comprend deux extraits de film: "First World Festival of Negro Arts" (Dakar 1966) par William Greaves -et - "FESTAC '77" (Lagos 1977) par Peter Gaunt.
  
  
• FESPACO: Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
  21st edition of FESPACO: February 28--March 7, 2009 -and- 2009 List of Films
  The official site is available in English or French: "Created in 1969 in Ouagadougou, on the initiative of a few film enthusiasts, it became an institution on January 7th 1972 by decree in Burkina Faso, because of the enthusiasm and the hope it created among the public and filmmakers in Africa. It is biennial; starting on the last Saturday in February every odd year." This site contains information about previous festivals, the African Film Library, electronic versions of some recent issues of "FESPACO News", and links to information about Burkina Faso.
  
  
• Harlem Book Fair 2009 -- "Reinventing 21st Century Culture," July 17-18, 2009 PDF format (via QBR.Com, New York)
  The 11th annual book fair held in the Harlem section of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. The program includes two days of outdoor exhibits, panel discussions, and other events.
  
  
• Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montréal, Canada -- Conferences
  • International Conference on Debt & Slavery: The History of a Process of Enslavement,
    7-9 May 2009------Call for Papers
  • 1st Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference on Africa, April 28, 2008
  • Workshop on Slave Legacy, Identity, and Development, 29-30 March 2008
  
  
• 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan-African Conference -- November 2-6, 2009, Nairobi, Kenya (AMANET, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; MIM, Stockholm, Sweden)
  
  
• 2nd Pan African Cultural Festival, 5-20 July 2009, Algiers, Algeria (See also: French version)
  
  
• Rutgers University: Center for African Studies -- Events (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  
  
• 2009 Africa Conference: "Science, Technology, and the Environment in Africa," March 27-28, 2009, University of Texas at Austin -- Call for Papers
  The deadline for proposals in November 1, 2008.
  
  
• SCOLMA Conference 2009 -- "Africa and the Moving Image: The Role of Libraries and Archives,
  June 17, 2009, Newnham College, Cambridge, UK
  --See also: Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa (via The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
  
  
• 4th South African AIDS Conference, March 31-April 3, 2009, Durban, South Africa
  
  
• West African Research Association Conferences: Summer Institutes & International Symposia (via African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts)
  
  
• 6th World Congress of African Linguistics: "African Linguistics for Understanding and Progress," August 17-21, 2009, Universität zu Köln, Germany
  The deadline for registration is December 20, 2008.
  
  
• Yale University: Council on African Studies -- Events (New Haven, Connecticut)
  
  
• Zanzibar International Film Festival: 27 June--4 July 2009 (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
  General information on a wide variety of events and links to related websites. "ZIFF is a non-profit organisation based in Zanzibar [founded in 1997] which aims to promote film, music and arts from the Dhow Countries (African Continent, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean). The organisation is working throughout the year and seeks to include people from all sectors of society, with special programmes for women, children and people in rural areas."