African studies

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.

ubfields

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).

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

Africanist Study Centers

[http://www.aspirecollege.net 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

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 [http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/neas/]
* African e-Journals Database and 11 Journals Online, Michigan State University [http://africa.msu.edu/AEJP/] (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

See also

*Pan-Africanism
*Afrocentrism

External links

* [http://www.aspirecollege.net African School Of Policy,International Relations, Economics & Environment 'ASPIRE COLLEGE']
* [http://www.africanstudies.org/ African Studies Association (USA)]
* [http://www.aegis-eu.org AEGIS (Centres of African Studies in Europe)]
* [http://www.jpanafrican.com/ Journal of Pan-African Studies]
* [http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/ Centre of African Studies, the University of Edinburgh]
* [http://www.iaas.msu.ru/index_en.html Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University]
* [http://africa.msu.edu/ African Studies Center, Michigan State University] .
* [http://www.bu.edu/africa/index.html Boston University African Studies Center] .
* [http://www.h-net.org/~africa/toc/ H-net historians network list of African History Journals] .
* UNESCO maintains a large number of [http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=20183&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html African cultural and historical study projects] , including
** [http://databases.unesco.org/afr/afrintro.shtml Africa South of the Sahara Database] of literature and periodicals.
** [http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18310&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html The UNESCO General History of Africa, in eight volumes] .
** [http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19128&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html 2004, International Year to commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition] .
* [http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/africa.html Princeton University African Studies Resources] .
* [http://www.ascleiden.nl Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, The Netherlands]
* [http://www.connecting-africa.net Connecting-Africa (webservice)]
* [http://www.afrikastudies.nl Nederlandse Vereniging van Afrika Studies] (African Studies Association of the Netherlands)