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African studies

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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). [1]

101 relations: Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, Addis Ababa University, AEGIS (research network), Africa, Africa Bibliography, Africa Research Institute, African Studies Association, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute, Africana studies, Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden, Albert Adu Boahen, Ali Mazrui, Amílcar Cabral, Andrzej Zajączkowski, Bamum Scripts and Archives Project, Basil Davidson, Beloit College, Cairo University, Carl Meinhof, Carleton University, Centre of West African Studies, Cheikh Anta Diop, Chinua Achebe, Christianity in Africa, Cinema of Africa, Colonisation of Africa, Culture of Africa, Dalarna University College, Decolonisation of Africa, Demographics of Africa, Diedrich Hermann Westermann, Economy of Africa, Epistemology, Ethiopia, Ethiopian historiography, Ethiopian Studies, Florida International University, François Bassolet, Frantz Fanon, Gwendolen M. Carter, History of Africa, Howard University, Humboldt University of Berlin, IlissAfrica, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Islam in Africa, Ivan Van Sertima, Ivor Wilks, J. F. Ade Ajayi, ..., Jan Vansina, Jean Price-Mars, Jean Suret-Canale, John Fage, John Henrik Clarke, Joseph Greenberg, Julius Nyerere, Justinian Rweyemamu, Kenneth Dike, Kwame Nkrumah, Languages of Africa, Leiden University, Leipzig University, List of African studies journals, List of ethnic groups of Africa, London School of Economics, Manuel Iradier, Marcel Griaule, Melville J. Herskovits, Michigan State University Libraries, Nordic Africa Institute, Ohio University, Orishatukeh Faduma, Pan-Africanism, Patrick Chabal, Porto, Religion in Africa, Robert Sutherland Rattray, Roland Oliver, Rutgers University, Rutgers University Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Shanghai International Studies University, SOAS, University of London, Stephen Ellis (historian), Sweden, Terence Ranger, Timbuktu Manuscripts, Traditional African religions, Tribe, University of Basel, University of Bayreuth, University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town, University of Florida Center for African Studies, University of Ghana, University of Ibadan, University of Michigan, University of Porto, University of Vienna, Walter Rodney, William Leo Hansberry. Expand index (51 more) »

Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu

Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu (1924–1996) was a Zanzibari revolutionary nationalist.

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Addis Ababa University

Addis Ababa University (አዲስ አበባ ዩኒቨርሲቲ) is a state university in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

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AEGIS (research network)

AEGIS is a research network of European centres in African studies, which aims to create synergies between experts and institutions.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Africa Bibliography

Africa Bibliography is an annual guide to works in African studies published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the International African Institute (IAI).

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Africa Research Institute

Africa Research Institute (ARI) is an independent not-for-profit think-tank that was founded in February 2007.

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African Studies Association

The African Studies Association (ASA) is an association of scholars and professionals in the United States and Canada with an interest in the continent of Africa.

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African Studies Center, Michigan State University

Founded in 1960,, Africa Today 18.1 (1971): 83–84.

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Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute

The Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute (ACPSI) is a professional policy studies organization that promotes an academic analysis of Africana cultures and policies under the rubric of various disciplines commonly referred to as Africana studies, Black studies, or Africology.

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Africana studies

Africana studies, black studies, African-American studies or Africology, in US education, is the multidisciplinary study of the histories, politics and cultures of peoples of African origin in both Africa and the African diaspora.

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Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden

The African Studies Centre (Afrika-Studiecentrum) is an independent scientific institute in the Netherlands that undertakes social-science research on Africa with the aim of promoting a better understanding of historical, current and future social developments in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Albert Adu Boahen

Albert Kwadwo Adu Boahen (May 24, 1932 – May 24, 2006) was a Ghanaian academic, historian, and politician.

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Ali Mazrui

Ali Al'amin Mazrui (24 February 1933 – 12 October 2014), was an academic professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations.

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Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (–) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, intellectual, poet, theoretician, revolutionary, political organizer, nationalist and diplomat.

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Andrzej Zajączkowski

Andrzej Zajączkowski (27 May 1922 in Lublin – 16 December 1994 in Warsaw) was a Polish sociologist, cultural anthropologist, and Africanist.

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Bamum Scripts and Archives Project

Bamum Scripts and Archives Project at the Bamum Palace is engaged in a variety of initiatives concerning the Bamum script, including collecting and photographing threatened documents, translating and in some cases hand-copying documents, creating a fully usable Bamum computer font for the inventory of documents, and creating a safe environment for the preservation and storage of documents.

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Basil Davidson

Basil Risbridger Davidson MC (9 November 1914 – 9 July 2010) was a British historian, writer and Africanist, particularly knowledgeable on the subject of Portuguese Africa prior to the 1974 Carnation Revolution.

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Beloit College

Beloit College is a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin.

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Cairo University

Cairo University (جامعة القاهرة, known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University from 1940 to 1952) is Egypt's premier public university.

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Carl Meinhof

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof (July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

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Carleton University

Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Centre of West African Studies

Centre of West African Studies (CWAS) is a division of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK).

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Cheikh Anta Diop

Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture.

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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

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Christianity in Africa

Christianity in Africa began in Egypt in the middle of the 1st century.

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Cinema of Africa

African cinema is film production in Africa.

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Colonisation of Africa

The history of external colonisation of Africa can be divided into two stages: Classical antiquity and European colonialism.

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Culture of Africa

The culture of Africa is varied and manifold, consisting of a mixture of countries with various tribes that each have their own unique characteristics from the continent of Africa.

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Dalarna University College

Dalarna University College (Högskolan Dalarna) is a public university (högskola) located in Falun and Borlänge, in Dalarna County, Sweden.

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Decolonisation of Africa

The decolonisation of Africa took place in the mid-to-late 1950s, very suddenly, with little preparation.

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Demographics of Africa

The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century, and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by a low life expectancy of below 50 years in some African countries.

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Diedrich Hermann Westermann

Diedrich Hermann Westermann (June 24, 1875–May 31, 1956) was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist.

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Economy of Africa

The economy of Africa consists of the trade, industry, agriculture, and human resources of the continent.

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Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Ethiopian historiography

Ethiopian historiography embodies the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern disciplines of recording the history of Ethiopia, including both native and foreign sources.

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Ethiopian Studies

Ethiopian Studies refers to a multi-disciplinary academic cluster dedicated to research on Ethiopia within the cultural and historical context of the Horn of Africa.

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Florida International University

Florida International University (FIU) is a metropolitan public research university in Greater Miami, Florida.

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François Bassolet

François Djobi Bassolet (1933- 2 July 2001) was a Burkinabé journalist, historian, and cultural leader.

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Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism.

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Gwendolen M. Carter

Gwendolen Margaret Carter (1906–1991) was a Canadian-American political scientist.

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History of Africa

The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and – around 5.6 to 7.5 million years ago.

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Howard University

Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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Humboldt University of Berlin

The Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin), is a university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.

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IlissAfrica

The Internet Library Sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica) is a German Internet portal that offers an integrated access to relevant scientific information resources (conventional and digital) in the field of African Studies and the region Africa South of the Sahara.

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ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon

ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, abbreviated ISCTE-IUL, is a Portuguese public university institute, located in the centre of Lisbon in the University City campus.

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Islam in Africa

Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from Southwest Asia, during the early 7th century CE.

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Ivan Van Sertima

Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a Guyanese-born associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States.

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Ivor Wilks

Professor Emeritus Ivor G. Wilks (19 July 1928 – 7 October 2014), Starr FM.

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J. F. Ade Ajayi

Jacob Festus Adeniyi Ajayi, commonly known as J. F. Ade Ajayi, (26 May 1929 – 9 August 2014) was a Nigerian historian and a member of the Ibadan school, a group of scholars interested in introducing African perspectives to African history and focusing on the internal historical forces that shaped African lives.

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Jan Vansina

Jan Vansina (14 September 1929 – 8 February 2017) was a Belgian historian and anthropologist regarded as an authority on the history of Central Africa.

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Jean Price-Mars

Jean Price-Mars (15 October 1876 – 1 March 1969), he was born in Grande Rivière du Nord, and died in Pètion-Ville.

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Jean Suret-Canale

Jean Suret-Canale (27 April 1921 – 23 June 2007) was a French historian of Africa, Marxist theoritican, political activist, and World War II French Resistance fighter.

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John Fage

John Donnelly Fage (3 June 1921 – 6 August 2002) was a British historian.

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John Henrik Clarke

John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark, January 1, 1915 – July 12, 1998), was an American historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies, and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.

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Joseph Greenberg

Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.

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Julius Nyerere

Julius Kambarage Nyerere (13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and political theorist.

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Justinian Rweyemamu

Justinian F. Rweyemamu (28 September 1942 – 30 March 1982) was Tanzania’s first major economics scholar.

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Kenneth Dike

Kenneth Onwuka Dike (17 December 1917 – 26 October 1983) was an Igbo Nigerian historian and the first Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of the nation's premier college, the University of Ibadan.

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Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary.

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Languages of Africa

The languages of Africa are divided into six major language families.

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Leiden University

Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Universiteit Leiden), founded in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands.

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Leipzig University

Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany.

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List of African studies journals

This is a list of articles about academic journals related to the field of African Studies.

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List of ethnic groups of Africa

The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each population generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics (officially The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as LSE) is a public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Manuel Iradier

Manuel Iradier (Vitoria, 1854–1911) was an exploratory Spanish Africanist.

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Marcel Griaule

Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 – 23 February 1956) was a French anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France.

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Melville J. Herskovits

Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 – February 25, 1963) was an American anthropologist who helped establish African and African-American studies in American academia.

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Michigan State University Libraries

Michigan State University Libraries (MSU Libraries) comprise the 29th largest academic library system in North America with over 4.9 million volumes and 6.7 million microforms.

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Nordic Africa Institute

Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) serves as a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the Nordic countries.

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Ohio University

Ohio University is a large, primarily residential public research university in Athens, Ohio, United States.

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Orishatukeh Faduma

Orishatukeh Faduma (born, September 15, 1855, Guyana - died January 25, 1946, High Point, North Carolina) was an African-American Christian missionary and educator who was also an advocate for African culture.

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Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent.

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Patrick Chabal

Patrick Chabal (29 April 1951 – 16 January 2014) was a leading Africanist of the late 20th and early 21st century.

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Porto

Porto (also known as Oporto in English) is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Religion in Africa

Religion in Africa is multifaceted and has been a major influence on art, culture and philosophy.

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Robert Sutherland Rattray

Robert Sutherland Rattray, CBE, known as Captain R. S. Rattray (1881, India – 1938) was an early Africanist and student of the Ashanti.

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Roland Oliver

Roland Anthony Oliver FBA (30 March 1923 – 9 February 2014) was an Indian-born English academic and Emeritus Professor of African history at the University of London.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.

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Rutgers University Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures

The Rutgers University Department of African, Middle Eastern, South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) is dedicated to the study of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.

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Shanghai International Studies University

The Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) is a Chinese university specialising in languages, literary studies, comparative culture and diplomatic studies.

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SOAS, University of London

SOAS University of London (the School of Oriental and African Studies), is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Stephen Ellis (historian)

Stephen Ellis (S.D.K. Ellis, born 13 June 1953 in Nottingham; died 29 July 2015 in Amsterdam) was a British historian, africanist and human rights activist.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Terence Ranger

Terence Osborn Ranger (29 November 1929 – 3 January 2015) was a prominent British Africanist, best known as a historian of Zimbabwe.

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Timbuktu Manuscripts

Timbuktu Manuscripts (or Tombouctou Manuscripts) is a blanket term for the large number of historically important manuscripts that have been preserved for centuries in private households in Timbuktu, Mali.

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Traditional African religions

The traditional African religions (or traditional beliefs and practices of African people) are a set of highly diverse beliefs that include various ethnic religions.

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Tribe

A tribe is viewed developmentally, economically and historically as a social group existing outside of or before the development of states.

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University of Basel

The University of Basel (German: Universität Basel) is located in Basel, Switzerland.

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University of Bayreuth

The University of Bayreuth is a public research university situated in Bayreuth, Germany.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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University of Florida Center for African Studies

University of Florida Center for African Studies (CAS) is a center within of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida.

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University of Ghana

The University of Ghana is the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian public universities.

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University of Ibadan

The University of Ibadan (UI) is the oldest Nigerian university, and is located five miles (8 kilometres) from the centre of the major city of Ibadan in Western Nigeria.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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University of Porto

The University of Porto (Universidade do Porto) is a Portuguese public university located in Porto, and founded on 22 March 1911.

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University of Vienna

The University of Vienna (Universität Wien) is a public university located in Vienna, Austria.

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Walter Rodney

Walter Anthony Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and academic.

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William Leo Hansberry

William Leo Hansberry (February 25, 1894 – November 3, 1965) was an American scholar and lecturer.

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References

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