ABOUT US
We are a membership organisation that provides opportunities for people to connect, celebrate and engage critically with a wide range of topics and ideas about Africa today.
Through our events, publications and digital channels we share insight, instigate debate and facilitate mutual understanding between the UK and Africa.
We amplify African voices and interests in academia, business, politics, the arts and education, reaching a network of more than one million people globally.
Our Events
When - 01/12/2020
Ambassador Johnnie Carson delivers the Royal African Society’s 2020 Annual Lecture. Ambassador Carson is one of America’s most distinguished diplomats, devotin...
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Image: Voter in Tanzania, 2018. Author Madjika87. Source Wikimedia Commons How are African countries dealing with elections during Covid-19? Already there have been three elections in Mali, Burundi and last week in Guinea. Tomorrow Tanzania goes to the ...
27/10/2020
Photo Credit: Rodrigo Amorim Carmen Reinhart, the chief economist at the World Bank, feels that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) should step up their borrowing in the battle against the Covid-19 virus. “First you worry about fighting t...
19/10/2020
The pre-colonial African economy was not poor. Not in the terms we measure it now, in GDP per capita, or in health and wealth. It was much the same as most other parts of the world before the coming of the industrial revolution: most people farmed, a few peopl...
28/9/2020
Image Credit: African Market, Francisco Anzola In 2020 Africa faces its first recession in 25 years. Among the indicators pointing in this direction are remittances, which we touched upon last month although the early signs are better than widely feared...
19/8/2020