The African Astronomical Society (AfAS)
is a Pan-African Professional Society of Astronomers.

Latest News
- Africa Day 2023
- National Festival in Popular Astronomy: 22-24 June – Constantine – Algeria
- EAS2023 Special Session (SS1): Africa-Europe Collaborations towards the impact of 2023 IAU GA on Astronomy Developments
- World Science Forum: AfAS-IAU-OAD Side event
- Astronomy community mourns the passing of Prof. Ödman
Astronomy
- Development of Astronomical Observing Facilities conference puts forward the case for UK supported Astronomical Observatory in Kenya
- MeerKAT radio telescope inaugurated in South Africa – reveals clearest view yet of centre of the Milky Way
- Inauguration of the MeerLICHT telescope
- Ghana telescope heralds first pan-African array
- SALT helps international team to discover major supercluster of galaxies hidden by Milky Way
Astronomy
- South African Student Constructed Indlebe Radio Telescope
- The African Data Intensive Research Cloud
- Broadening Participation in the Sciences within and from Africa: Purpose, Challenges, and Prospects
- National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme
- ‘The first philosophers were astronomers’: Curiosity and innovation in higher education policy
- ‘The first philosophers were astronomers’: Curiosity and innovation in higher education policy