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The African Light Source (AfLS) Foundation is mandated to drive the progress along the Roadmap towards the establishment of an Advanced Light Source on the African Continent.  Many on the continent and beyond had been advocating for a Pan-African light source since the 90's, where a first major milestone was via EBASI in 2000 (ebasi.org, Edward Bouchet-Abdus Salam Institute),  at the formation of the African Laser Centre in 2001 (africanlasercentre.net).  The AfLS was formed in 2015, at the AfLS-1 Conference, generating the Grenoble Resolutions and AfLS Roadmap. Please delve deeper into the documents below, as well as browse this site, to learn more about the AfLS.

The African Light Source: history, context and future

 

2024-01-02 J. Synchrotron Rad. (2024). 31, 1-9
The African Light Source: history, context and future

Recent progress towards an African light source

2023: Big Science in the 21st Century - Economic and societal impacts - Ch 54
Recent progress towards an African light source

Science diplomacy from the Global South

2023-06-14 Science and Public Policy 00 (2023) 1-12 “Science diplomacy from the Global South: the case of intergovernmental science organizations“

AfLS in Nature Reviews Physics


2022-10-19 Building a brighter future for Africa with the African Light Source . Nat Rev Phys (2022).

African Light Source aims for science with ubuntu


2022-05-12Research Professional News “African Light Source aims for science with ubuntu”

African Earth Sciences

2020-10-05 Synchrotron X-ray radiation and the African earth sciences: A critical review

Towards an African Light Source

2019-07-13
Towards an African Light Source in Biophysical Reviews (2019)

The AfLS Project


2018-10-20
The history and vision of the The African Light Source Project, published in The African Review of Physics 13 (2018) 0019.

SINCROTRÓN

2018-4-1
The decision making followed by the leaders of five synchrotrons – by Víctor del Río Bello – SINCROTRÓN

AfLS Two Pager

2020-10-1
Download the AfLS Two Pager

AfLS Launch

2015-11-27
The Roadmap to the African Light Source, the African Light Source Manifesto, the Grenoble Resolutions (Version of Grenoble November 2015) is available here

Quick Intro

Synchrotron light sources are giant multi-disciplinary super-microscopes. LAAAMP Brochure.  More

Synchrotron Science on the move

2012-Spring
Synchrotron Science on the move in South Africa. Sekazi Mtingwa.  APS Forum on Int Physics p 21-24.

A Synchrotron Radiation Research Facility for Africa

2014-7-1o
A Synchrotron Radiation Research Facility for Africa. S Mtingwa and H Winick.  Document here.

The AfLS Foundation

2018-6-1
The African Light Source Foundation has been registered as a legal entity. The Foundation Document is available here.