The Africanist network exists since 2002. It was inaugurated on the initiative of Petr Skalnik at the EASA Conference in Copenhagen. Since, it was busy with organising panels at all the EASA conferences as well as an inter-conference meeting in Halle (2012).
The last panels were organized by board members Tilo Grätz, Dmitri Bondarenko and Petr Skalnik.

At the last network meeting in Tallinn, David O’Kane (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology), Halle/Saale, Germany was elected as the new convener. We thank David to take over the task from Tilo and ask everyone to support him as well as possible.