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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 ]
African research and documentation : the journal of the African Studies Association of the UK and the Standing Commission [Conference] on Library Materials on Africa, Birmingham: African Studies Association of the United Kingdom, 1973, ISSN 0305-862X From 1973 to 2021. From volume 66 (1994), it was published by SCOLMA (Standing Conference on ...
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 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]
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.
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 ...
The John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, located at the Center, focuses on the social, economic, and political dimensions of the history and cultures of peoples of African descent. It has more than 17,000 volumes. The ASRC occupies 310 Triphammer Rd in the Village of Cayuga Heights, New York. [2] Its founding director is James Turner. [3]
Cooper's contributions to the history of colonialism in Africa and to contemporary African history have been crucial in the fields of African studies and beyond. One of his best known conceptual contributions is the concept of the gatekeeper state that he developed in a number of article contributions in the late 1990s, and in his 2002 book ...