It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Third International Conference on PEN-Plus in Africa (ICPPA 2026). This third convening returns us to the birthplace of this conference series—Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, where the highly successful inaugural conference was held in April 2024. This year’s conference also follows the well-attended, insightful, and technically focused ICPPA 2025, held in Abuja, Nigeria, last July.
