AEGIS’s flagship biennial event – the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) – is soon taking place in Prague (25-28 June), organized by the Czech Association of African Studies (CAAS). The programme provides a richness of possibilities for engaging with a diversity of innovative academic and creative people and ideas related to some of the most important Africa/n-centred questions and visions of our day. Meanwhile AEGIS continues to grow with several new members recently joining and new thematic Collaborative Research Groups being established. An additional meaningful achievement is our signing of The Africa Charter for Transformative Research Collaboration. This and so much more makes me proud to have led AEGIS as President for the past six years, but which I will confidently hand over during ECAS.
Amanda Hammar
Copenhagen, 20 June 2025