AFRICAN STRATEGY FOR FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED PHYSICS (ASFAP) Scientific and technological achievements have become commonplace. As remarkable as these achievements are for other regions of the world, enormous challenges and opportunities remain to be addressed in Africa. Although vital for development, Africa’s science, innovation, education and research infrastructure, particularly in fields such as Fundamental and Applied Physics, has been over the years under-valued and under-resourced. The vision is that Africa should take its equal place as a co-leader in the global scientific process, along with all the social-economic benefits thereto. The necessity of initiating ASFAP has become essential for Africa, hence our ambition and motivation to jump-start this process. The ASFAP website

Introduction

ASFAP ambition and challenges

Events

1. The Steering Committee of the African Strategy has launched ASFAP on November 18, 2020, during an online workshop organized jointly by AfPS and AfLS.
2. ASFAP was presented at the 107th meeting of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) on November 20th, 2020. Slides.
3. An introduction of the ASFAP strategy project was presented on December 8th, 2020 at the 12th General assembly of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS).
4. ASFAP is on page 25 of the ECFA Newsletter #6.