AFRICAN FINANCE AND ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION

AFEA is a professional association for academicians and practitioners of finance and economics with scholarly or professional interests in the development of Africa

The purpose of AFEA is to:
a) promote the exchange of information and ideas among professionals in academic, business, government, and other organizations who are concerned with the development of Africa;
b) foster research that advances knowledge on contemporary African development issues through the publication of scholarly works and the sponsorship of conferences;
c) encourage the internationalization of business, economics, finance, and related social sciences curricula and augment the available body of research and teaching materials on African economies;
d) encourage freedom of exchange of ideas. The Association shall not take any partisan position and it will not commit its members to any particular position on development matters;
e) actively engage in improving the study of African Development via collaboration with institutions in Africa and others formed by Africans in the Diaspora; and
f) to conduct such other activities as may be deemed appropriate for the Association;