African Studies
African studies is the study of Africa, especially the continent's cultures and societies (as opposed to its geology, geography, zoology, etc.). The field includes the study of Africa's history (Pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial), demography (ethnic groups), culture, politics, economy, languages, and religion (Islam, Christianity, traditional religions). A specialist in African studies is often referred to as an "africanist". A key focus of the discipline is to interrogate epistemological approaches, theories and methods in traditional disciplines using a critical lens that inserts African-centred ways of knowing and references. Africanists argue that there is a need to "deexoticize" Africa and banalise it, rather …
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University of Cambridge · 4 July 2023
The following lecture was given by Professor Toyin Falola, University of Austin, Texas, on Wednesday 7th June 2023 at Emmanuel College. Africa is grounded in diversity, people, and cultures, all …
University of Cambridge · 6 June 2022
“Tragedy, Disputatiousness, and Unruly Affective Economies: From the Greeks to Postcolonial Literature” - Prof Ato Quayson, Stanford University. This lecture was given at Trinity Hall on Tuesday 31 May 2022. …
30 April 2022 English
The repository aims to provide quick access to key literature about the many aspects of book culture, and publishing and book development in Sub-Saharan Africa generally, and at the same …
Perilous Business of Reference Publishing in African Studies” In: Africanist Librarianship in an Era of … 2005] of reference book publishing in the African studies field, including many reference resources on … the paper offers some insights into selling African studies reference works in the current very difficult … published. Copies can still be examined in major African studies libraries. African book professional … 2.145/html ¶ [29/05/21] Also published in African Studies Since 1945, edited by Christopher Fyfe, Harlow: …
Laws.Africa · 28 January 2022 English
efficiencies and flow factors derived from South African studies (Adu Poku, 2015; Christie and Scholes, 1995) …
University of Cambridge · 3 March 2021
This talk was given as part of the Centre of African Studies' Legacies of Enslavement Public Series Seminar Series during Lent Term 2021. As preparation for the seminar, please see the website, passadospresentes …
Boydell & Brewer · 1 January 2021
the cross-border Central African copperbelt; a key work in studies of labour, urbanisation and African studies. The Central African Copperbelt, encompassing the mining communities of Katanga (DR Congo) and …
Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2021 English
HALF the size of New York cemetery and twice as dead: this much-quoted, wry comment is generally attributed to the satirical writer Tom Sharpe who worked in Pietermarizburg in the …
Witwatersrand) SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) SoE State of Emergency …
The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 19 November 2020 English
of black characters in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, from Durham in 1962. [...] Her work in African studies culminated in the position of Assistant Editor of the Internationally renowned journal, African …
He won jointly (with his wife Marjorie) the African Studies Association of the UK Distinguished Africanist … and Marjorie Jones were recognised by the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom when they … recognized when, jointly with her husband, the African Studies Association of the UK gave her the Distinguished … the University of Birmingham. Her work in African studies culminated in the position of Assistant Editor …
University of Cambridge · 10 February 2020
This event was part of the Centre of African Studies Lent Term Public Seminar Series on the theme of 'Contestation and accountability in Africa: imaginary, ideas and practices'. Who is seen to be winning …
Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2020 English
This history of one of the earliest nineteenth-century mission stations in Natal traces the transformation in the lives of a community that settled first at Indaleni near Richmond and later …
Natal’ submitted to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in October 1988. The … Records Office and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London; the Houghton Library, Harvard University … and Restructuring in Natal, Department of african studies, University of Natal, Durban, 1988. 5 See …
