Poetry Foundation Ghana announces its inaugural (2013) Ghana Poetry Prize: An award of $ 1,000.

We, intellectuals of the African continent and its diaspora and our colleagues from the Americas, Asia, and Europe, reunited in Dakar for the Symposium Afrika Nko, protest the destruction and vandalizing of ancient manuscripts kept in the Ahmed Baba Institute of Timbuktu.

The 20th Summit of the African Union unanimously adopted the candidature of Mr. Rachad Farah, Ambassador of Djibouti to France, to the post of Director General of UNESCO. Elections will take place in October 2013.

The IMANI Center for Policy & Education made Ghana proud as it emerged one of the top10 civil society groups in Africa in the latest Global Think Tanks Survey.

The Organization for the Development of the Senegal River Basin (OMVS), and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) have decided to join  efforts and collaborate in the search for solutions to the problems of development of African river basins.

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce its 2012 Child and Youth Institute that will be held for three (3) weeks, from 22nd october to 9th november 2012.

In line with its mandate to promote high-level scientific and academic debates on various aspects of socioeconomic development in Africa, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) hereby announces the 2012 edition of its Gender Symposium which will be held from 26th to 28th November, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. The Gender Symposium is an annual forum devoted to intellectual discussions on gender issues in Africa, and the theme of this year's edition is Gender and Climate Change in Africa.