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The African Studies Association (ASA) is a US-based association of scholars, students, practitioners, and institutions with an interest in the continent of Africa. Founded in 1957, the ASA is the leading organization of African Studies in North America , with a global membership of approximately 2000. [ 1 ]
The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) is an independent study group organization founded in 1984 by Drs. John Henrik Clarke, Asa Grant Hilliard, Leonard Jeffries, Jacob H. Carruthers, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and Maulana Karenga that is devoted to the rescue, reconstruction, and restoration of African history and culture. [1]
The conferences are usually dubbed; the n th AfLIA Conference and the n th African Library Summit and often held between May – July in member countries in an alternating fashion. The most recent conference was the 3rd AfLIA Conference and 5th African Library Summit, was held from 21–24 May 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya. [ 30 ]
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard ( Lenox Avenue ) between West 135th and 136th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City , it has ...
2017 : Urban Africa - urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban, Centre for African Studies Basel, Swiss Society for African Studies, Bâle (Switzerland) [9] 2019 : Africa: connections and disruptions, Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh (UK) [10] 2021 : no ECAS because of the COVID-19 pandemic
2012: Scholar of the Year at the 2nd Annual African Diaspora Awards for his immense contribution to African Scholarship [45] 2012: Ugandan Diaspora Award 2012 [ 6 ] In July 2017, Mamdani was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Gomez proceeded from his PhD to a position as assistant professor in the Department of History/African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis (1985–88). [1] In 1988 he moved to the Department of History at Spelman College , where he was Assistant Professor 1988–92 and Associate Professor 1992–97. [ 1 ]
The SSA emerged from the 1980 meeting of the African Studies Association, where three panels were independently organized on Sudan.The SSA's co-founders, Richard Lobban (the organization's first President) and Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, gathered the names of scholars interested in forming an Association for the study of Sudan.