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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)
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• "African Identities in the Age of Obama" Conference, October 8-10, 2009, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Sponsored by the African and African American Studies Program.
  
  
• African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific: 32nd AFSAAP Conference -- "Africa in a Restructuring World," September 30-October 2, 2009, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Cape Town Book Fair, South Africa, 30 July--2 August 2010--plus June 2009 Book Fair Releases & News. 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.
  
  
• XVII International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University--Institute of Ethiopian Studies, First Week of November 2009 (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  --Announcements and other conference information, including list of proposed participants.
  
  
• FESMAN: Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres, prévu en 2010, 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.
  
  
• Festival International du Film Panafricain, du 21 au 25 avril 2010, Cannes, France
  Veuillez voir aussi, les informations sur le festival de 2009 et celui de 2008.
  
  
• IST-Africa 2010 Conference & Exhibition, 19-21 May 2010, Durban, South Africa Hosted by the Government of South Africa through the Department of Science and Technology.
  The deadline for proposals in November 6, 2009!
  "IST-Africa 2010 focuses on the Role of ICT for Africa's Development and specifically on Applied ICT research topics addressing major societal and economic challenges, which is part of the European Commission's Information Communications Technologies (ICT) Theme of FP7."
  
  
• 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan-African Conference -- November 2-6, 2009, Nairobi, Kenya (AMANET, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; MIM, Stockholm, Sweden)
  
  
• XIVème Colloque MEGA-TCHAD: "L'Homme et la Santé dans le bassin du lac Tchad," Universität Bayreuth, Germany, 15–17 April 2010 (Méga-Tchad, Nanterre, France; via Universit¨t Bayreuth, Germany)
  'Depuis 1984, Méga-Tchad était un réseau international de recherches pluridisciplinaires sur l'histoire et l'évolution des sociétés dans le bassin du lac Tchad.'
  
  
• Rutgers University: Center for African Studies -- Events (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  
  
• Sports in Africa: Politics and Globalization, March 5-6, 2010, Ohio University "Call for Papers"
  (Athens, Ohio)
  The deadline for abstracts is January 3, 2010.
  
  
• University of Texas at Austin: Africa Conference 2010 -- "Women, Gender and Sexualities in Africa," March 26-28, 2010 -- Call for Papers. Sponsored by The Center for African and African American Studies.
  The deadline for proposals is November 1, 2009.
  --See also: Information and abstracts from past conferences, 2002-2009
  
  
• West African Research Association Conferences: Summer Institutes & International Symposia (via African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts)
  
  
• Yale University: Council on African Studies -- Events (New Haven, Connecticut)