ECAS7 The Centre for African Studies Basel and the Swiss Society for African Studies welcome you to the 7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2017 with the theme: Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban, which they organise on behalf of the Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS. The scholarly community in response to our call published in June 2016 submitted 347 panel proposals out of which the Scientific Committee with the supp...