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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)
  
  
• ADFF 2010: African Diaspora Film Festival, New York: January-February 2010: Jersey City, New Jersey -and- Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. (Co-sponsored by ArtMattan Productions, New York)
  
  
• 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 Studies Centre, Leiden University -- Events, Seminars, and Conferences (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  
  
• APAD--Association euro-africaine pour l'anthropologie du changement social et du développement: "Engager l'anthropologie pour le développement et le changement social: pratiques, discours et éthique," Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 20-23 janvier 2010 (via 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.
  
  
• United Nations Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-18 December 2009
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• O 7º Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos -- "50 anos das independências africanas: desafios para a modernidade," Lisboa, Portugal, 9-11 Setembro 2010 (Centro de Estudos Africanos/ISCTE/Instituto Universitário de Lisboa ; Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
  The web page is in Portuguese, Spanish or English. The panel proposal deadline is on January 20, 2010 and individual paper proposals due on March 30, 2010.
  
  
• DAK'ART 2010: La Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, du 7 mai au 7 juin 2010, Dakar, Sénégal
  Le 20ème anniversaire! L'exposition internationale d'Art Africain Contemporain de la Biennale de Dakar présentera le travaux de beaucoup d'artistes venus de plus que 20 pays d'Afrique et une Exposition Diaspora ...comprend un large éventail de stratégies d'expression allant de la peinture à l'installation, en passant par la performance, la sculpture, l'art vidéo et les média interactifs.
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• 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.'
  
  
• New York University, Africa House: Events (New York)
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations:
  XIX SCECSAL Conference, Gaborone, Botswana, 7-10 September 2010
  
  
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 7-18 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Non-Annex I Parties to the Convention: includes African countries
  • Parties and Observers: definitions
  • National Reports
  • National Focal Points: contact information of ministers, ambassadors, or directors
  • Greenhouse Gas Inventory Data
  • Kyoto Protocol (1997)
  • See also: Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Zanzibar International Film Festival: 10 June--18 July 2010 (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."