African studies

All you want to know about 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.

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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

Africanist Study Centers

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

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.)

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External links


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