SAfA 2018: 18-21 June, 2018
SAfA's organizing committee is delighted to announce that the 24th biennial SAfA conference will take place 18-21 June, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. Full information will be posted shortly.
Panafrican Association 2018: 10-14 September, 2018, Rabat, Morocco. Full information will be posted shortly.
PAA conference website
SAfA 2016 Toulouse information is now archived on the SAfA webpage - click
the tab "About SAfA" and scroll down to the list of biennial
meetings to find the link.
For the new Editorial Policy for Nyame
Akuma, see the link under the "Nyame Akuma
Bulletin" tab above.
For the new Sexual Harassment Policy, see the
amended SAfA Code of Ethics available as a Quicklink at the bottom right on this page.
2016 SAfA Book Prize
Alfredo González Ruibal, 2014,
An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an
African Borderland. Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers.
This work studies the tactics of
resistance deployed by a variety of indigenous communities in the
borderland between Sudan and Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa is an
early area of state formation and at the same time the home of many
egalitarian, small scale societies, which have lived in the buffer
zone between states for the last three thousand years. For this
reason, resistance is not something added to their sociopolitical
structures: it is an inherent part of those structures-a mode of
being. The main objective of the work is to understand the diverse
forms of resistance that characterizes the borderland groups, with
an emphasis on two essentially archaeological themes, materiality
and time, by combining archaeological, political and social theory,
ethnographic methods and historical data to examine different
processes of resistance in the long term (text from amazon.com).
2016 Prize for Outstanding
Student Presentation:
Mareike Brenner, Artifact
distributions and intra-site spatial analysis of the Sibudan layers
at the MSA site of Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa