Events in Africa

Current Events

Conference: Indigenous Knowlegde and Global Changes in Africa: The Challenges in the 21st Century
Date: June 8-10, 2011
Nsukka, Enugu, Nigeria
Additional information available at: http://www.conferences.unn.edu.ng/
Source: http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1im3ii
Conference: The Third International Africa Peace and Conflict Resolution
Date: July 26-28, 2011
Accra, Ghana
Additional information available at: http://www.amdmc.org/page72ae.html?tag=call_for_papers
Source: http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca18hm0i
Conference: Best Practices in Educational Assessment for Regional Integration
Date: August 1-5, 2011
Nairobi, Kenya
Additional information available at: http://www.aeaafrica.org/Conference/tabid/55/Default.aspx
Source: http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1i3shs
Conference: Africa Media and Democracy Conference 2011
Date: August 17-19, 2011
Accra, Ghana
Additional information available at: http://ghacma.org/2011%20International%20ADR%20Conference%20in%20Accra.pdf
Source: http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1ihh0a
Conference: Pan African Youth Summit
Date: September 4-10, 2011
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Additional information available at: http://www.ru.ac.za/youthdevelopment/panafricanyouthsummit2011
Source: http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1iam8h

Past Events

Vol. 6, No. 1

Conference: International Summit on Cervical Cancer
21 to 22 April 2010
Accra, Ghana
Organized by: Africa Health Research Organization
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1mshma
Workshops: African pottery and house painting
11 to 23 July 2010
Accra, Nungua, Ghana
Organized by: Cultural Collaborative
SOURCE: http://www.culturalcollaborative.org
Summit: Green Business Africa Summit & Expo 2010
2 to 4 June 2010
Nairobi, Kenya
Organized by: SolarGren Media
SOURCE: http://www.greenbusinessafricaexpo.com/
Conference: GLOBAL LEARNING CONFERENCE 2010
12 to 14 May 2010
Johannesburg, South Africa
SOURCE: http://globallearningsummit.com/

Vol. 5, No. 1

Tourism Marketing For the 21st Century
14 to 16 May 2007
Nairobi, Kenya
Website: http://www.itmafrica.org
The seminar targets public and private sector and is geared towards enhancing knowledge of tourism marketing in the 21st century. It will equip participants with skills to design and implement marketing strategies for effective competition.
Organized by: Institute of Tourism Management Africa
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com
9th Africa Day Conference: New impulses from the South: China and Africa
1 June 2007
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Contact name: Jo-Ansie van Wyk
E-mail: vwykj@unisa.ac.za
Chinese relations with Africa have grown exponentially over the past decade. This 9th Africa Day conference will, inter alia, address the political and economic implications of these relations.
Organized by: Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa and the Centre for China Studies, University of Stellenbosch
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com/
Deepening democracy in a fragmented society
19 to 21 September 2007
Cape Town, South Africa
Website: http://www.ua.ac.be/deepeningdemocracy
Contact name: Shanaaz Van der Schyff
Post-conflict societies, such as South Africa, often have to undo inherited exclusion and staggering dualisation. The conference will be a platform where inclusive development measures can be discussed by scholars and development workers
Organized by: Dynamics of Building a Better Society - Flemish Interuniversity Council
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com
First Congress of the African Sociological Association
15 to 18 July 2007
Grahamstown-iRhini, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Website: http://www.afsanet.org
Contact name: Professor Jimi Adesina
This will be the single largest gathering of African sociologists and sociologists working on/in Africa.
Organized by: African Sociological Association
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com

Vol. 3, No. 1

International Conference on Global Understanding in the Age of Terrorism
10 to 12 October 2006
Lagos, Nigeria
Website: http://www.unilag.edu
Contact name: Dr. Muyiwa Falaiye, Department of Philosophy
The conference has as its major objective the need to identify common bonds of humanity which transcend cultural and religious differences, and the need for sympathy and understanding in a world beset by the evil of terrorism.
Organized by: Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 July 2006
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com
3rd Global Summit on Youth Employment
13 to 16 September 2006
Nairobi, Kenya
Website: http://www.yesweb.org
Contact name: Clayton Peters
Organized by: Youth Employment Summit (YES) Campaign and the Government of Kenya
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com
Southern Africa Tourism 2006
3 to 6 October 2006
Windhoek, Namibia
Website: http://www.tourism2006.com
Contact name: Monique de Greeve
Tourism 2006 is a unique new forum for the commercial development of the tourism, hospitality, and related sectors in the 14 SADC Countries. It is funded by the EU to encourage international, financial, technical, and commercial collaboration.
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com
International Symposium on Islamic Civilisation in Southern Africa
1 to 3 September 2006
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Website: http://www.awqafsa.org.za
Topics: Penetration of Islam in Southern Africa; Trade and Islam; Language and Islamic Literature; Islamic Education and Intellectual Development; History, Contribution, and Challenges; Colonialism, Apartheid, and Democracy; Coexistence.
Organized by: Awqaf SA, University of Johannesburg, and OIC Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com

Vol. 2, No. 1

Wole Soyinka International Conference
4 to 6 August 2005
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Website: http://www.wolesoyinkasociety.org
Contact name: Jamin Ohwovoriole
E-mail: sg@wolesoyinkasociety.org
An interdisciplinary study of the art and politics of Wole Soyinka, the 1986
winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Organized by: Wole Soyinka Society and Department of English Studies, UNISA
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com
Science of Man and Emerging Issues of the 21st Century
8 to 12 August 2005
Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa
Website: http://www.upe.ac.za/paaa/default.htm or www.ethnonet-africa.org/p95bull.php
Contact name: Prof. Paul N. Nkwi
E-mail: icassrt_paaa@yahoo.com
Organized by: Pan African Anthropological Association
SOURCE: CONFERENCE ALERTS (http://www.conferencealerts.com/)
Celebrating the Past: Anticipating the Future, Conference on Cartooning
18 to 21 August 2005
Nairobi, Kenya
Contact name: DR MIKE KURIA
E-mail: KURIAJMM@YAHOO.CO.UK
Organized by: DAYSTAR UNIVERSITY
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com
Second Globalization Studies Network Conference
Theme: Globalization: Overcoming Exclusion, Strengthening Inclusion
29-31 August 2005
Dakar, Senegal
Hosted by CODESRIA http://www.codesria.org
SOURCE: CODESRIA http://www.codesria.org
World Information Technology Forum 2005
Theme: ICT for Accelerated Development
31 August to 2 September 2005
Gaborone, Botswana
Organized by International Federation for Information Processing and hosted
by the Government of Botswana
SOURCE: http://www.witfor.org/bw
The Changing Politics of Land in Africa: Domestic Policies, Crisis
Management and Regional Norms
28 to 29 November 2005
pretoria, South Africa
Website: http://ifas.org.za
Contact name: Ward ANSEEUW
E-mail: land.conference@fas.co.za
The central aim of the conference, being comparative in nature, is to gain
insight into the nature of policy making concerning land, not only at
national level but at the broader African state system level.
Organized by: French Institute in South Africa
SOURCE: Conference Alerts http://www.conferencealerts.com
Second African Youth Summit on HIV/AIDS(SAYSOHA)
1 to 6 December 2005
ABUJA, Nigeria
Contact name: PRINCE F.A.IHONRE
E-mail: hwiorg@yahoo.com
Organized by: HIGH WORLD INT. ORG./NATIONAL YOUTH COUNCIL
SOURCE: Conference Alerts (http://www.conferencealerts.com )
CODESRIA 11th General Assembly
Theme: Rethinking African Development: Beyond Empasse, Towards Alternatives
6-10 December 2005
Maputo, Mozambique
SOURCE: CODESRIA http://www.codesria.org

Vol. 1, No. 1

Nairobi Poetry Festival
21 to 23 March 2005
NAIROBI, Kenya
Contact name: Lydia Kibachia
E-mail: cfg_cfg2000@yahoo.com
SOURCE: CONFERENCE ALERTS (http://www.conferencealerts.com/)
"Lusophonie" in Africa: History, Democracy and Integration (CODESRIA organized International Colloquium)
28 to 30 April 2005
Luanda, Angola
Contact e-mail: lusophnafrica@codesria.sn
SOURCE: www.codesria.org
Memories and History: Using Material Culture and Archaeological Sources as Alternative History (A training workshop organized by CODESRIA and SEPHIS)
20 to 26 June 2005
Morocco
Contact name: Mr. Ndeye Sokhana Gueye
E-mail: ndeye.gueve@codesria.sn
SOURCE : www.codesria.org, www.sephis.org
6th Pan African IFSW Regional Social Work Conference - Professional Social Work and its Contribution to Africa's Development
10 to 14 April 2005
Nairobi, Kenya
Organized by: IFSW Africa/Kenya National Association of Social Workers
Contact name: Mr. Charles Mbugua
E-mail: mbuguacharles@yahoo.com
SOURCE: CONFERENCE ALERTS (http://www.conferencealerts.com/)
Energy Efficiency World Africa 2005 Conference
19 to 21 April 2005
Johannesburg, South Africa
Website: http://www.powergenerationworld.com/2005/energy_za
Contact name: Candice Zietsman
E-mail: Candice.Zietsman@terrapinn.co.za
SOURCE: CONFERENCE ALERTS (http://www.conferencealerts.com/)
International Conference on Ethics, Politics and Criminality: Perspectives from Greek Philosophy & Africa
4 to 6 May 2005
Pretoria, South Africa
Website: http://www.up.ac.za/academic/humanities/eng/eng/sasgph/eng/new.htm
Contact name: Dr. A. Ladikos
E-mail: ladika@unisa.ac.za
SOURCE: CONFERENCE ALERTS (http://www.conferencealerts.com/)
International Conference on Language and Literature (hosted by the Department of English, University of Botswana)
Theme: English Studies in Africa: The Crisis of Relevance
13-17 JUNE 2005
Gaborone, Botswana
Contact name: Dr. Arua E. Arua
Email: aruaae@mopipi.ub.bw
SOURCE: http://www.thuto.org/english/conf2005/index.html
Africa in Literature
10 to 13 July 2005
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Website: http://www.englishacademy.co.za
Contact name: Prof Rosemary Gray
E-mail: rosemary.gray@up.ac.za
SOURCE: CONFERENCE ALERTS http://www.conferencealerts.com/
Science of Man and Emerging Issues of the 21st Century
8 to 12 August 2005
Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa
Website: http://www.upe.ac.za/paaa/default.htm or www.ethnonet-africa.org/p95bull.php
Contact name: Prof. Paul N. Nkwi
E-mail: icassrt_paaa@yahoo.com
Organized by: Pan African Anthropological Association
SOURCE: CONFERENCE ALERTS (http://www.conferencealerts.com/)