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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)
  
  
• 2008 African Film Festival in New York, April-May 2008: April 9-15 (Film Society of Lincoln Center, Alliance Française, & Columbia University) and May 2008 (Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinema)
  -- Includes "Cinema and History: Africa and the Future", Panel discussion to be held at Columbia University, 511 Dodge Hall, on Monday, April 14, 2008, 6:30pm.
  
  
• Upcoming Conferences on African Languages and Linguistics Web Resources on African Languages (Jouni F. Maho, Göteborg University, Södra Anneberg, Partille, Sweden)
  
  
• African Studies Association of the United States: 51st Annual Meeting, November 13-16, 2008, Chicago, Illinois 50th Anniversary of the 1st Annual Meeting, Evanston, Illinois, September 1958 (via Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  
  
• African Studies Centre, Leiden University -- Events, Seminars, and Conferences (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Canadian Association of African Studies: Conference on "Reflecting on Africa's Riches: Resources, Conflict and Exploitation," May 1-4, 2008, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  
  
• Cape Town Book Fair, South Africa, 14-17 June 2008 Sponsored by PASA--Publishers' Association of South Africa and Frankfurter Buchmesse.
  
  
• Columbia University, Institute of African Studies: Events--Spring 2008 (New York)
  Including: Conference on "Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal," March 7-9, 2008. Co-sponsored with The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.
  Plus: "A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal" Exhibition, March 10--May 31, 2008, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
  
  
• CODESRIA/SOS African History Initiative: "Re-Reading the History and Historiography of Domination and Resistance in Africa"--Call for Papers, 13-15 August 2008, Nairobi, Kenya (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal) PDF format
  The deadline for proposals is May 16, 2008.
  
  
• DAK'ART 2008: La Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, du 9 mai au 9 juin 2008, Dakar, Sénégal
  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 (les oeuvres de 7 artistes afro-américains)...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.
  
  
• e-Learning Africa: 3rd International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, Accra International Conference Centre, Accra, Ghana, May 28-30, 2008
  See especially: Call for Papers: The deadline for proposals is December 7, 2007.
  
  
• Festival de Jazz de Saint-Louis du Sénégal: du 11 au 18 mai 2008 (via France)
  Sur ce site officiel du festival, on peut trouver les informations les plus utiles à propos de cet événement annuel. De plus, on peut lire des petites lectures générales sur quelques artistes qui ont donné des représentations au festival dans le passé.
  
  
• Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montréal, Canada -- Conferences
  • Workshop on Slave Legacy, Identity, and Development, 29-30 March 2008
  • International Conference on Debt & Slavery: The History of a Process of Enslavement, 7-9 May 2008
  • 1st Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference on Africa, April 28, 2008
  
  
• Rutgers University: Center for African Studies -- Events (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  
  
• SCALI--Summer Cooperative African Language Institute, June 8--August 1, 2008, Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  "...the national SCALI during the summer session 2008...offers performance-based instruction in a variety of African languages by experienced and trained instructors who are native speakers of the languages they teach."
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 3rd Annual International Tsehai Conference July 2008, "Ethiopia's Youth, Ethiopia's Future," Washington, DC Co-sponsored by the Ethiopian Heritage Foundation
  The deadline for proposals is April 1, 2008. This site also features highlights from conferences held in previous years.
  
  
• West African Research Association Conferences: Summer Institutes & International Symposia (via Center for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville)
  
  
• Yale University: Council on African Studies -- Events (New Haven, Connecticut)
  
  
• Zanzibar International Film Festival: 11-20 July 2008 (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."