Centre of African Studies
External Links
AEGIS
Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies is a research network of European studies centres which aims to create synergies between experts and institutions. With primary emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities, AEGIS' main goal is to improve understanding about contemporary African societies.
http://www.aegis-eu.org
African Archaeology Group
http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/events/aag/
A new exhibition space at the University of Cambridge
http://arbpublicart.wordpress.com/
ASA UK
The African Studies Association of the United Kingdom was founded in 1963 and is the national subject association for Africanists within the academic community. ASAUK is a non-profit organisation which has over 900 members drawn from Africanist scholars, students and other experts. Through conferences, workshops, a newsletter and a number of prizes and awards, the African Studies Association supports and provides information to the Africanist community.
ASAUK works in close cooperation with the Royal African Society (RAS), and members receive the influential quarterly journal African Affairs. In 2006 ASAUK was recognised as a Learned Society by the British Academy.
http://www.asauk.net
Cambridge and Africa
http://www.cambridge-africa.org
Lucas Keen's muscal trio Folignouma
performed their rhythms and sounds from the Sahel at the Arc Cafe on Thursday 21 February.
www.moussandlucas.blogspot.co.uk
THRiVE
Africa bears a disproportional amount of the world's disease burden and this in turn has a significant negative impact on its people and the continent's economic development. Scientific infrastructure and research training are weak and under-resourced in many parts of Africa, contributing to a failure to apply modern technologies and medical advances to the health challenges still facing much of the continent. The strengthening of Africa's indigenous scientific research base is crucial to the identification of its disease control and public health priorities, and to the discovery and successful application of appropriate solutions. The "Training Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa" (THRiVE) partnership, led by Makerere University in Uganda, aims to strengthen institutional research capacity in East Africa, and to support the next generation of East African researchers to become internationally competitive and self-sustaining scientific leaders, seeding a regional research community with the critical mass to address African health priorities.
http://www.thrive.cam.ac.uk
Contact the Centre of African Studies,
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge. CB3 9DT.
Email centre@african.cam.ac.uk
Tel. 01223 334396 Fax 01223 769329
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Email centre@african.cam.ac.uk
Tel. 01223 334396 Fax 01223 769329
Information provided by webmaster@african.cam.ac.uk © 2012
