Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM) is a French academic research institute in Pessac, France focusing on Africa and its diaspora.

LAM was founded in 2011 by merging the Centre d’étude d’Afrique noire (CEAN, University of Bordeaux) and the Centre d’étude et de recherche sur les pays de l’Afrique orientale (CREPAO, University of Pau and the Adour Region) with other researchers joining.

[2] Five research themes are addressed by LAM[2] : LAM is a member of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS), a European academic research network for African studies, of which LAM's precursor institute the Centre d’étude d’Afrique noire (CEAN, Bordeaux) was among the founders.

[3] LAM organised annual meetings of Africanists in France, such the 3e Journées du Réseau des études africaines (REAf) at Bordeaux in 2014,[4] the 6th European Conferences on African Studies (ECAS 2015)[5] in Paris and the 7e Rencontres des Études Africaines en France (7e REAf and 6e JCEA) at Toulouse in 2022 (JCEA : Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheur·e·s en Études Africaines).

[6] LAM supports the academic journals Afrilex, Cahiers d’Outre-Mer, Études littéraires africaines, Politique africaine in collaboration with the Paris Institut des mondes africains (IMAF) and Revue Sources.