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The African Astronomical Society (AfAS)

is a Pan-African Professional Society of Astronomers.

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Astronomy

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  Development of Astronomical Observing Facilities conference puts forward the case for UK supported Astronomical Observatory in Kenya
  
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  MeerKAT radio telescope inaugurated in South Africa – reveals clearest view yet of centre of the Milky Way
  
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  Inauguration of the MeerLICHT telescope
  
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  Ghana telescope heralds first pan-African array
  
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  SALT helps international team to discover major supercluster of galaxies hidden by Milky Way
  

Astronomy

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  South African Student Constructed Indlebe Radio Telescope
  
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  The African Data Intensive Research Cloud
  
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  Broadening Participation in the Sciences within and from Africa: Purpose, Challenges, and Prospects
  
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  National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme
  
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  ‘The first philosophers were astronomers’: Curiosity and innovation in higher education policy
  
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  ‘The first philosophers were astronomers’: Curiosity and innovation in higher education policy
  

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