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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 ]
Attamah came to the United States to study Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Preservation at Syracuse University, New York. [ 18 ] [ 2 ] She performed chants in the university's events. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] In May 2023, she graduated with a master's degree and was the graduate closing speaker during the College of Visual and Performing Arts Masters ...
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 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]
In 2015, Mutua received the Distinguished Africanist Award from the New York African Studies Association at its 40th Annual Conference. [ 12 ] He was elected vice president of the American Society of International Law from 2011 to 2013 after serving on its executive council from 2007 to 2010.
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.
In a loft-like space five floors above New York’s Soho neighborhood, one of the greatest songwriters of the past century was giving a private performance of several of his best-known songs. Paul ...
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 ]