African Mathematical Union

The African Mathematical Union or Union Mathematique Africaine is an African organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Africa. It was founded in 1976 in Rabat, Morocco, during the first Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians with Henri Hogbe Nlend as its first President.^[1] Another key figure in its early years was George Saitoti, later a prominent Kenyan politician.

Since 1978 the Union has published the journal Afrika Matematica (ISSN 1012-9405), has been edited by Daouda Sangare until 2009.^[2]

Currently^[3] the journal is edited by Professor Jacek Banasiak, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
The deputy editors of the journal are:

• Moussa Ouattara, University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Daniel Makinde, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.

And, the members of the advisory committee are:

• Aderemi Kuku, Grambling State University, Grambling, USA
• Laurent Lafforgue, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
• Ari Laptev, Imperial College, London, UK
• Claudio Procesi, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy
• Michel Waldschmidt, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France

References

1. Bishop, Alan J.; Ken Clements; Christine Keitel (1997). International handbook of mathematics education. Springer. p. 1245. ISBN 978-0-7923-3533-7.
2. "Afrika Matematica, The First Pan-African Mathematical Journal". African Mathematical Union. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
3. http://jamu.ukzn.za.org/

External links

• The official homepage since 2009
• Unofficial homepage
• link to submit papers