Resources

Africa studies


Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies via Centre of African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
AEGIS is a research network of European studies centres which aims to create synergies between experts and institutions. With primary emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities, AEGIS' main goal is to improve understanding about contemporary African societies.

African Studies Association, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
The African Studies Association was founded in 1957. It is a non-profit organization bringing together institutions and individuals with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa.

African Studies Center, University of State, USA
The African Studies Center is recognized as a vital and forward-looking center where researchers, students and cultural and business entities come to gain knowledge of contemporary and historical Africa.

African Studies Centre, University of Leiden, Netherlands
The African Studies Centre in Leiden is the only academic research institute in the Netherlands devoted entirely to the study of Africa. It welcomes African scholars through its visiting fellowship programme, has a monthly seminar programme and an extensive library that is open to the general public.

African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK
The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Africa. In every Faculty and Division across the University there are active research programmes focused on the continent. The African Studies Centre, within the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, acts as a focal point for graduate level work and faculty research on Africa.

Center for African Studies, Stanford University, USA
The Center for African Studies is the primary resource and information center for Stanford University faculty and students interested in Africa. CAS offers an undergraduate minor, and master's and co-terminal degrees in African Studies. CAS also coordinates a wide range of courses on Africa throughout the University.

Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Berkeley's Center for African Studies was established in 1979 as an interdisciplinary research center to support basic research and training of scholars. The Center supports scholarly activities over a broad range of topics that address contemporary African issues and works closely with several teaching units including African American Studies and the International and Area Studies Teaching Program.

Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
The Centre of African Studies was established in 1965 and supports teaching on Africa at the University of Cambridge through its library and through its seminar series. It also acts as a platform for interdisciplinary research, bringing the University's Africanists together with scholars from African, American, and European universities.

Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK
The University of Edinburgh has an important and long historical connection with Africa and is one of the world’s leading centres for the study of Africa. The Centre of African Studies was founded in 1962. It was one of the original African Studies Centres in the UK founded on the recommendation of the Hayter Commission.

Centre of African Studies, University of London, UK
The University of London's Centre of African Studies is the largest centre of expertise on Africa outside Africa. Founded in 1965 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, where its administration is still based, since 1991 the Centre has assumed formal responsibility for co-ordinating, stimulating and promoting interdisciplinary study, research and discussion on Africa within the University; and promoting a wider awareness of African issues.

Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Teaching and research at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town focuses on interdisciplinary studies within an African and global context. The mission of CAS is to promote scholarship in the various fields concerned with people in Africa. This brief remains focused upon providing a critical comparative perspective between Southern Africa, Africa and the globalising world. This mission remains urgent, given the long-standing and continuing dominance of Western models and discourses.

Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
CWAS is the only university department in the world to concentrate specifically on West Africa. Despite its name CWAS is interested in the whole of Africa. Africa's long history of relations with Europe, the African diaspora in the Caribbean, and the continent's inextricable relationships with the Islamic world are also integral aspects of CWAS's course programme.

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
SOAS is a college of the University of London and the only Higher Education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. Uniquely combining language scholarship, disciplinary expertise and regional focus, SOAS has the largest concentration in Europe of academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East.