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. Early ideas and conversations dating from the turn of century have now led to a rather broad, unified and inclusive grouping, which forms a coherent home of its own and many other projects with the common vision for an Advanced Light Source in Africa. Please delve deeper into the documents below, as well as browse this site, to learn more about the AfLS.

Summary of History of AfLS

1. We have been advocating for a Pan-African light source https://africanlightsource.saip.org.za for the past 20 years, via EBASI in 2000 (ebasi.org, Edward Bouchet-Abdus Salam Institute), ALC in 2001 (africanlasercentre.net, African Laser Centre),  There was a SA-NRF Strategic Plan Study commissioned by Khotso Mokhele, and also Anthony Joel's papers at Necsa in SA.
2. There have been many years of efforts in South Africa via SRRIC and S@S http://www.synchrotron.org.za 
3. AfLS1 Conference generating the Grenoble Resolutions and Roadmap, which is continually updated.
4. Formation of the AfLS Foundation.
5. AfLS2 Conference, AfLS3 upcoming, etc.
6. Many papers in refereed journals by all of us starting in 2014 https://africanlightsource.saip.org.za/documents/ 
7. Many conference presentations/papers in proceedings/posters.
8. Many invited talks.
9. Invitation to other groups, such as the AAS, to collaborate.
10. Ghana's President offering in February 2019 to champion the project to the AU and ECOWAS.
11. Increasing the number of light source users by partnering with LAAAMP.
12. Establishing regional crystallography training programs, such as X-TechLab (xtechlab.co)
13. Building local feeder infrastructures via the ALC, etc.