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Events Around the African Continent and the
Events Around the African Continent and the World
8th Angel Fair Africa
5 November 2020 SEnegal - Virtual www.virtualconferenceafrica.com
Africa Downunder
4-6 November 2020 Perth, Western Australia www.africadownunderconference.com
Africa's Big Seven
Africa Energy Indaba
2-3 March 2021 Capetown International Convention Centre Cape Town, South Africa www.africaenergyindaba.com
Aké Arts and Book Festival
22-25 October 2020 Alliance Francaise/ Mike Adenuga Centre Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria www.akefestival.org
Essence Festival 2020
Summer 2021 Mercedes-Benz Superdome New Orleans, Louisiana USA www.essencefestival2020.com
Hotel & Hospitality Show
IFAT Africa
13 - 15 July 2021 Gallagher Convention Centre Johannesburg, South Africa www.ifat.de/en/trade-fair/ifat-impact/
International Fair of Algiers
14 - 19 June 2021 Palais des Expositions des Pins Maritimes Algiers, Algeria http://safex.dz
Lagos International Trade Fair
6-15 November 2020 Tafawa Balewa Square Lagos, Nigeria https://lagosinternationaltradefair.com
Mombasa International Show
September 2020 ASK Jomo Kenyatta Showground Mombasa, Kenya www.eventseye.com/fairs/f-mombasainternational-show-(mis)-18868-1.html
South African International Trade Exhibition (SAITEX)
#ATLF2020 "Shaping a better future for intra-Africa travel together through a shared vision"
The Government of Rwanda, Rwanda Convention Bureau, Africa Tourism Partners and BDO Advisory Services confi rm that the Africa Tourism Leadership Forum & Awards (ATLF), 2020, Rwanda is still taking place from 19 to 21 October 2020 as planned. This has been necessitated by the fact that most countries have relaxed the travel restrictions.
Africa Tourism Leadership Forum (ATLF) is a Pan-African dialogue platform. It brings together key stakeholders of Africa’s travel, tourism, hospitality and aviation sectors to network, share insights, and devise strategies for intraAfrica travel and tourism growth across the continent, whilst enhancing the brand equity of “Destination Africa’’.
INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE
You are invited to register for stakeholders virtual exhibition and business-to-business sessions on Monday, 19 October, 2020 between 09H00 to 16h00 (Rwanda Time – GMT+2).
Participation details are follows: • Invitees - All African and non-African Tours
Operators, Travel Agents, PCOs and Incentive buyers interested in promoting Rwanda and the rest of Africa are requested to pre-book. In order to participate in the virtual exhibition and business-to-business session. Please note that space is limited. • Participation fees for buyers –
Complimentary (On fi rst-come, fi rst-serve basis) • Virtual Exhibitors - Fees will be provided on request (Only 20 exhibitor spaces left) • Registration - To register as a virtual buyer kindly contact: Ms. Nshuti Bunyenyezi, Events
Manager, Ikaze PCO at nshuti@ikazepco.com
T:+250 788 770 820, M: +250 788 254 476
W: +254725 777 751 or Ms. Brenda Nyakira, brenda@ikazepco.com W: + 44 77 604 766.
We wish to further advise that due to COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 ATFL & Awards will take place in a hybrid format under strict adherence to COVID 19 Protocols. Therefore, the Forum will host 150 physical delegates and over 250 virtual participants from Africa and the rest of the world. Please: visit:www.tourismleadershipforum. africa to register for the forum.
LUCY IS THE NAME of the nearly complete skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis. She was the fi rst nearly complete skeleton recovered for the species, found in 1974 at the Afar Locality (AL) 228, a site in the Hadar archaeological region on the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. Lucy is about 3.18 million years old and is called Denkenesh in Amharic, the language of the local people.
When pieced together, the small bits of brown bone painted a stunning picture of what Lucy would have looked like. She was surprisingly small—slightly less than 4 feet tall—and would have tipped the scales at roughly 60 pounds. Her larger pelvic opening suggested she was female. She would have appeared more apelike than human, with long arms and a protruding belly. However, the structure of her bones showed that she walked upright on two legs.
Equally remarkable was how old she was. While the scientists couldn’t date the fossils directly, the age of the geological strata in the Hadar Basin indicated the Lucy skeleton was likely more than three million years old—far more ancient than other hominids.
Starting in 1976, anthropologists studied Lucy’s skeleton even further in an eff ort to place her in humankind’s family tree. They compared Lucy to a so-called “First Family” of some 13 other skeletal remains found at Hadar as well as to a collection of hominid footprints excavated by famed anthropologist Mary Leakey in Laetoli, Tanzania. Finally, in 1978, they released a groundbreaking paper classifying Lucy, the other Hadar fossils and the Laetoli footprints as all belonging to a brand new species of early hominid human ancestors. They called them “Australopithecus afarensis,” after the Afar Triangle in which Lucy was found.
In the years since Lucy was lifted from her 3.2-million-year-old grave, anthropologists have gone on to fi nd older and even more complete fossil remains of early human ancestors. In 2000, scientists in Ethiopia unearthed the remains of a 3.3 million year old Australopithecus afarensis baby dubbed “Selam.” Perhaps even more spectacular was “Ardi,” a 4.4 million year old Ardipithecus ramidus that displaced Lucy as the earliest known skeleton of a human ancestor. News of “Ardi” fi rst came to light in 1994, but since then, scientists have found evidence of even older hominids dating back as far as 7 million years ago.
The National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa houses the nation’s artistic treasures as well as precious archaeological fi nds such as the fossilized remains of early hominids, the most famous of which is “Lucy,”. Recently added is a display on Selam, estimated to be 3.3 million years old, considered to be the earliest child. www.history.com/news/famed-lucy-fossils-discovered-in-ethiopia-40-years-ago www.thoughtco.com/lucy-australopithecus-afarensis-skeleton-171558 https://joyofmuseums.com/museums/africa-museums/ethiopia-museums/addis-ababa-museums/national-museumethiopia/
