eLearning Africa is delighted to announce that this year’s conference, the fourth in the highly successful series of pan-African gatherings, will take place in Senegal. In May 2009, the Continent’s largest annual assembly of eLearning and education professionals from Africa and beyond will convene in the capital, Dakar.

This is a call for materials for a contemporary Reader on African sexualities, which is being developed and edited by Prof. Sylvia Tamale-outgoing Dean of Law at Makerere University and Coordinator of the Law, Gender and Sexuality Research Project at the Faculty of Law. This seminal work will be a compilation of diverse populist and academic pieces that either engage with or inform sexualities enacted all over the African continent.

Over the next few weeks, Pambazuka News will be publishing a series of articles on the case for reparations for the Mau Mau (Kenya's liberation movement). This is a call for articles on this theme. Articles should be no longer than 3000 words, written in clear, jargon-free language, and should include a summary of no more than 200 words. Please send contributions to