African Mathematical Union

It was founded in 1976 in Rabat, Morocco, during the first Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians with Henri Hogbe Nlend as its first President.

[1] Another key figure in its early years was George Saitoti, later a prominent Kenyan politician.

At the AMUCWMA's 2012 conference in Ouagadougou, a panel on the state on women in mathematics in Africa recommended the creation of an association for African female mathematicians.

The AWUCWMA held another conference soon after in July 2013 in Cape Town, where the African Women in Mathematics Association was formed.

[5] As of 2010, the journal is edited by Jacek Banasiak of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.