This article is about African studies. For the journal, see African Studies (journal).
African studies is the study of Africa, and can encompass such fields as social and economic development, politics, history, culture, sociology, anthropology or linguistics. A specialist in African studies is often referred to as an "Africanist".
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Subfields
Subfields include:
African American studies, a subfield of American studies is sometimes combined with African studies under the name of "Africana studies" (or Black studies).
Notable Africanists
- François Bassolet (19XX-2001)
- Albert Adu Boahen (1932-2006)
- John F. Clark (196X-)
- Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (1935-)
- David William Cohen (1943-)
- Basil Davidson (1914-)
- Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986)
- John Fage (1921-2002)
- Bill Freund (1944-)
- Peter Geschiere (1941-)
- Patrick Manning (1941-)
- Ali Mazrui (1933-)
- Nji Oumarou Nchare (1964-)
- Roland Oliver (1923-)
- Walter Rodney (1942-1980)
- Niara Sudarkasa (1938-)
- Jean Suret-Canale (1921-2007)
- Robert Sutherland Rattray (1881-1938)
- Konrad Tuchscherer (1970-)
- P.J. Vatikiotis (1928-1997)
- Andrzej Zajączkowski (1922-1994)
African studies centers, associations, and major projects
- University-based centers
- African Studies Center, Michigan State University
- Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden
- Centre of West African Studies
- IWALEWA House, the African studies center of the University of Bayreuth
- James S. Coleman African Studies Center at UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles
- University of Florida Center for African Studies
- National and transnational centers
- Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Nordic Africa Institute
- Associations
- African Studies Association (North America)
- AEGIS (Europe)
- Projects
African studies journals
- List of African studies journals on wikipedia
- African e-Journals Project, Michigan State University (Provides (1) a directory of more than 2,100 journals about Africa with their URLs, and where to find tables of contents, abstracts, and full text of articles online, and (2) a full-text archive of back issues of 11 African scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities.)
References
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External links
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- African School Of Policy,International Relations, Economics & Environment 'ASPIRE COLLEGE'
- Journal of Pan-African Studies
- Centre of African Studies, the University of Edinburgh
- Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University
- Boston University African Studies Center.
- H-net historians network list of African History Journals.
- UNESCO maintains a large number of African cultural and historical study projects, including
- Princeton University African Studies Resources.
- Connecting-Africa (webservice)
- Nederlandse Vereniging van Afrika Studies (African Studies Association of the Netherlands)
- 'Aspire College' (African School Of Policy, International Relations, Economics & Environment)
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