We are pleased to announce a three-day conference centered on African urban history and culture, from the earliest settlements to twenty-first century cities. The conference will revolve around specific aspects of African urban environments and encompass a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. The participants will be drawn from the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, including European and African countries. Graduate students are encouraged to attend and present papers. Africans continue to move to urban environments, in both Africa and abroad, in significant numbers, changing the political, economic, social, and cultural environments around them. Urban research, however, has rarely kept pace with these changes. Africans in cities have received more attention over the last decade, but there are still many voids in the research. We welcome papers that raise historical, cultural, methodological, and theoretical questions that address these voids by focusing on relevant issues in urban African and diaspora communities. The "African Urban Spaces" conference will provide a space for scholars of various disciplines to share their ideas on a variety of topics with others and receive feedback. As much as possible, papers will be assigned to particular panels based on similarities in theme, discipline, or location. Selected papers from the conference will be published in book form.