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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 the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) was founded on October 24, 2007 by Bernard Lewis of Princeton University and Fouad Ajami of the Hoover Institution as a counter to the learned society Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), which they regarded to have become "dominated by academics who have been critical of Israel and of America's role in the ...
The African Studies Association Italy (Italian: Associazione per gli Studi Africani in Italia, ASAI) is an Italian learned society of about 100 Africanists and is based both at the University of Urbino and Roma Tre University. [1] ASAI was founded in 2010 [2] and is an associated member of the AEGIS network of African studies centres in Europe. [3]
The ASA Best Book Prize, formerly known as the Herskovits Prize (Melville J. Herskovits Prize), is an annual prize given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the United States.
The current major problem in African studies that Mohamed (2010/2012) [4] [5] identified is the inherited religious, Orientalist, colonial paradigm that European Africanists have preserved in present-day secularist, post-colonial, Anglophone African historiography. [4]
Saheed Aderinto (born January 22, 1979) is a Nigerian American Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University, an award-winning author, and a filmmaker. He is the Founding President of the Lagos Studies Association. [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 first conference on Critical Issues in Afro-American and African Studies was held at Syracuse University in 1976. [12] During the 1980s, Syracuse students again advocated the administration to widen the pool of African American faculty applicants, hire a department chairperson and in order to increase the staff in the AAS department. [13]