African studies

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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 referred to as an Africanist.

Contents 1 Subfields 2 Notable Africanists 3 Africanist Study Centers 4 African Studies Academic Journals 5 References 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Subfields

Subfields include:

• Linguistics
• History
  • Egyptology
  • Ethiopia
  • Bantu (South Africa)
  • West Africa
  • Congo
  • Great Zimbabwe
  • Colonisation of Africa
  • African slave trade
  • Decolonisation of Africa
  • Military history
• Archaeology
• Philosophy
• Literature
• Politology
  • Human rights
  • Demographics
  • Urbanization
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Economy
  • Poverty
  • Development aid
  • Education
• Ecology
• Religion

African American studies, a subfield of American studies is sometimes combined with African studies under the name of "Africana studies" (or Black studies).

[edit] Notable Africanists

• Robert Sutherland Rattray
• Basil Davidson
• François Bassolet
• Ali Mazrui
• Bill Freund
• Jean Suret-Canale
• David William Cohen
• Roland Oliver
• John Fage
• Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
• Albert Adu Boahen
• Cheikh Anta Diop
• Patrick Manning
• Walter Rodney
• Andrzej Zajączkowski
• Konrad Tuchscherer
• Nji Oumarou Nchare
• Niara Sudarkasa
• Peter Geschiere
• P.J. Vatikiotis

[edit] Africanist Study Centers

African School Of Policy, International Relations, Economics & Environment 'Aspire College'

• Bamum Scripts and Archives Project
• Timbuktu Manuscripts Project
• Nordic Africa Institute
• Centre of West African Studies
• Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden
• African Studies Center, Michigan State University
• Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham

[edit] African Studies Academic Journals

• African Affairs: Previously know as the Journal of the African Society and the Journal of the Royal African Society.
• Northeast African Studies [1]
• African e-Journals Database and 11 Journals Online, Michigan State University [2] (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.)

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Pan-Africanism
• Afrocentrism

[edit] External links

African School Of Policy,International Relations, Economics & Environment 'ASPIRE COLLEGE'

• African Studies Association (USA)
• AEGIS (Centres of African Studies in Europe)
• Journal of Pan-African Studies
• Centre of African Studies, the University of Edinburgh
• Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University
• African Studies Center, Michigan 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
  • Africa South of the Sahara Database of literature and periodicals.
  • The UNESCO General History of Africa, in eight volumes.
  • 2004, International Year to commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition.
• Princeton University African Studies Resources.
• Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Connecting-Africa (webservice)
• Nederlandse Vereniging van Afrika Studies (African Studies Association of the Netherlands)