Looking back over a decade with the African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Nine years ago, I wrote an editorial for the very first issue of the African Journal of Emergency Medicine (AfJEM) [1]. In this editorial I highlighted the need for Africans to take responsibility for emergency care in Africa. Since then, emergency care has seen substantial growth on the continent. The founding of the African federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) a year prior to the launch of the AfJEM, spurred the formation of a handful of societies in all four corners of the continent. This led to new specialist training programmes, a decade of intercontinental and international cooperation in academia and training, and more regional societies, conferences and symposia than you can shake a stick at. It was the right time for an African emergency care journal to be founded....