Year

Host City

Presidents

1°

1947

Nairobi, Kenya

Henri Breuil

2°

1952

Algiers, Algeria

Henri Breuil

3°

1955

Livingstone, Zambia

Louis Leakey

4°

1959

Kinshasa (then Leopoldville), DRC

Camille Arambourg

5°

1963

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands

Luis Pericot Garcia

6°

1967

Dakar, Senegal

Amadou Mahtar M'Bow

7°

1971

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Thurston Shaw

8°

1977

Nairobi, Kenya

Bethwell Ogot

9°

1983

Jos, Nigeria

Ekpo Eyo

10°

1995

Harare, Zimbabwe

David Kiyaga-Mulindwa

11°

2001

Bamako, Mali

Hamady Bocoum

12°

2005

Gaborone, Botswana

Alinah Segobye

13°

2010

Dakar, Senegal

Benjamin Smith

14°

2014

Johannesburg, South Africa