Abstract
The birth of the Pan‐African Anthropological Association goes back to the Twelfth Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, which took place in August 1988 in Zagreb, in present‐day Croatia. This international congress, attended by over 1,200 anthropologists from across the world had a meager presence of just twelve Africans, coming from seven countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zambia. The president of the Wenner‐Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Sydel Silverman, provided both moral and financial assistance to this group of anthropologists to kick‐start a new era in the history of anthropology in Africa. Thanks to the initial funding of the Wenner‐Gren Foundation, a series of activities were initiated that has kept the association afloat.
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