Area Panel for Africa

The Nairobi Report
The British Academy is pleased to announce that an African launch of the Nairobi Report will take place at the British Institute in Eastern Africa on 18 March 2010.  For futher details please visit the launch event webpage

The Academy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, to promote research collaboration between the UK and Ghana.

The Area Panel for Africa has established a UK-Africa Academic Partnership scheme, which now forms part of the International Partnerships scheme, to support the development of ongoing links between UK and African research centres or institutions, within the humanities and social sciences. The link would be built around a specific research theme of mutual interest. This could be carried forward through visits in both directions; workshops; seminars and lecture programmes; collaborative research; and joint publications. The programme might form part of either institution's training programme and will ideally involve participation from more than one African institution, and might also involve more than one department, university, group or research center in the UK.

Membership

Professor William Beinart FBA, University of Oxford
Professor Graham Furniss FBA, School of Oriental and African Studies (Chair)
Professor Kenneth King, University of Edinburgh; Royal African Society
Dr John Law, The British Council
Professor Peter Mitchell, University of Oxford, British Institute in Eastern Africa
Professor Henrietta Moore FBA, University of Cambridge
Dr Mpalive Msiska, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Nici Nelson, Goldsmiths, University of London
Professor JDY Peel FBA, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Dr Richard Thomas, DFID
Professor Megan Vaughan FBA, University of Cambridge 
Professor Alfred Babatunde Zack-Williams, University of Central Lancashire

Secretary: Miss R Paniagua

Terms of reference

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