#safa2018 outgoing president Eric Huysecom passes the presidential umbrella to the newly elected president Elisabeth Hildebrand!

#safa2018 #safa2020 will be held in Oxford UK from 20-24 September 2020. #brexit will make it harder for European colleagues to attend

#safa2018 business meeting - 251 registrants at conference, 188 from global north, 63 from global south

#safa2018 Limited job markets for UDS heritage / archaeology graduates - but they are recognised as having good transferable skills by other employers

#safa2018 Peter Schmidt "Africa will make its own direction in historical archaeology"

#safa2018 Mehari. Good data showing how much University of Dar Es-Salaam has become a regional centre - 50 MA archaeology graduates from 2002-13, 18 are from countries other than Tanzania

#safa2018 Ehret interesting thoughts about linguistic markers for the start of pastoralism in Ethiopia - terms for goats and sheep are imported words

#safa2018 Fonseca #onlaah online learning on African archaeology and heritage online learning platform

#safa2018 inspirational paper from Judy Sterner about community heritage in Nigeria-Cameroon Highlands - and what has happened since 2014 with the coming of Boko Haram

bokoharamvictimsrelief.org

#safa2018 good audience for discovering the archaeologists of Africa paper @landward_rsrch @Heritage_Nation

#safa2018 up soon in #pa10 - Aitchison & Walz Discovering the Archaeologists of Africa @landward_rsrch @Heritage_Nation full presentation at

bit.ly/2I8zcHL

#safa2018 #pa10 oral traditions and community archaeology session about to start

#safa2018 Sinclair Great #Zimbabwe - your (colonists) monument, our (indigenous) shrine

#safa2018 plenary session under way with ban on Twitter

#safa2018 Dela Kuma talks #gastropolitics in daily life in Ghana

#safa2018 speakers from second half of #hornofafrica #diaspora session

#safa2018 Yusuf. At end of civil war in Somalia, there were only 4 archaeologists in the country and little has changed

#safa2018 Usman Yusuf. Somalia's first national museum

#safa2018 Mehari. Lack of in-country heritage expertise means lack of representation to the outside world - few #worldheritagesites in Africa - half of them in Egypt

#safa2018 great paper Asmeret Mehari Archaeology and African communities. Critique of practices. Eritrea.

#safa2018 what you are, we once were. What we are, you will become. Abiyot Debebe Seifu

#safa2018 a mountain of delegate bags ready for harvesting

#safa2018 delegate packs under assembly