Ƙungiyar Masu Binciken Tarihi ta PanAfrican

Ƙungiyar Archaeological Association ta PanAfrican ( PAA ) ƙungiya ce ta ƙwararrun ƙwararrun Afirka don masu binciken archaeologists, masu ilimin geologists da masu binciken burbushin halittu . 

 Tarihi 
Louis Leakey ne ya kafa ƙungiyar kuma an gudanar da taronta na farko a Nairobi a cikin Janairu 1947.  A taron, an zabi Abbé Henri Breuil a matsayin shugaban farko na kungiyar, kuma Robert Broom, a matsayin mataimakin shugaban kasa; an amince da tsarin mulki.  An kirkiro wasu ƙananan kwamitoci guda uku a wurin taron: ilmin ƙasa da yanayin yanayi, ilimin kimiya na tarihi kafin tarihi da kuma ɗan adam palaeontology.  Watakila matakin da ya fi daukar hankali a taron farko shi ne kin amincewa da lokacin nazarin yanayin kasa na Turai ga Afirka da kuma amincewa da sunayen nahiya da nahiya. 

A taron 1963 da aka yi a Tenerife, an yanke shawarar fara buga wani tsari na ƙididdiga na ƙididdiga masu bincike na archaeological taro daga Afirka, a ƙarƙashin taken Inventaria Archaeologica Africana, bin misalin Inventaria Archaeologica jerin buga ta International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences . 

A shekara ta 1977 aka amince da sabon kundin tsarin mulki, domin a kara nuna bukatar da masana ‘yan Afirka suka kafa hukumar ta PAA da kuma nuna bukatunsu.

A taron 1983 da aka yi a Jos a Najeriya, PAA ta zartar da wani kuduri na yin Allah wadai da mulkin wariyar launin fata a Afirka ta Kudu tare da yin kira da a daina alaka da hukumomin Afirka ta Kudu.  John Onyango-Abuje ne ya gabatar da kudurin, sannan P Sinclair da David Kiyaga-Mulindwa suka goyi bayan .  A cewar Caleb Folorunso, wasu masu halarta ba na Afirka sun yi adawa da kudurorin, suna yin la'akari da ra'ayinsu cewa ilimin archaeological ya shafi "kimiyya ba siyasa ba". 

An gudanar da tarurruka guda biyu tare da haɗin gwiwar Society of Africanist Archaeologists : a Jami'ar Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) a Dakar a 2010 da kuma Jami'ar Witwatersrand a 2014.   

 Shugabanni 

 Abbé Henri Breuil (1947-1955) 
 Louis Leakey (1955-1959) 
 Camille Arambourg (1959-1963)
 Luis Pericot Garcia (1963-1967)
 Amadou Mahtar M'Bow (1967-1971)
 Thurston Shaw (1971-1977)
 Betwell Ogot (1977-1983)
 Ekpo Eyo (1983-1995)
 David Kiyaga-Mulindwa (1995–2001)
 Hamady Bocoum (2001-2005)
 Alinah Segobye (2005-2010)
 Benjamin Smith (2010–2014)
 Ibrahima Thiaw (2014-2018)
 Freda Nkirote (2018-yanzu) 

 Magana