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The article presents a report from a November 6-7, 2014 conference in Vienna, Austria on neocolonialism and African history. Topics of presentations delivered included the role of missionaries in the history of education in British West Africa, Cameroonian intellectuals, and strikes in Durban, South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s.

The article offers information on the conference "Bridging Histories of East and Central Africa" held from June 6-8 2013, organized by the Institut für Afrikastudien of the University of Bayreuth and the Centre for Areas Studies of the University of Leipzig. Topics discussed include ritual practices under colonial rule, historiographical borders in East and Central Africa, and social change.

Information about several papers discussed at a workshop entitled "Developing Africa: Development Discourse(s) in Late Colonialism," held at the University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria from January 13-15, 2011, is presented. Topics include women development experts, indigenous resistance to development in British East Africa, and the Mourides, Senegalese adherents of an Islamic Sufi order. Speakers included David Simon, Odile Goerg, and Robert Shenton.