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. Adisa A. Alkebulan writes that the Afrocentric idea has been a guiding paradigm in postcolonial African studies.[1]
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[edit] 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).
[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
[edit] Africanist Study Centers
- Bamum Scripts and Archives Project
- Timbuktu Manuscripts Project
- Nordic Africa Institute
- Centre of West African Studies
[edit] African Studies Academic Journals
- African Affairs: Previously know as the Journal of the African Society and the Journal of the Royal African Society.
[edit] References
- ^ Defending the Paradigm Adisa A. Alkebulan Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, 410-427 (2007)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- 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.
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