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The aim of the Centre for Africana Studies at African University College of Communi-cations is to serve as the foundation of the University’s commitment to ensuring that its overall mission is African centered. Through course offerings, seminars, exchange programs, conferences, research, and publications, the Centre for African Studies is designed to provide its students in particular, and the African World community in ge-neral, with the requisite knowledge and training necessary to contribute to the rejuve-nation of African society.
COURSE
OFFERINGS
Below is a list of the courses,
interdisciplinary in subject and methodology, which will be offered at
the Centre for Africana Studies:
- Introduction to African Studies
- Survey of African History
- Introduction to Pan-Africanism
- African Cultural Institutions
- African Religions
- African Diasporan Studies
- African Women and Development
- Contemporary African Political Economy
- Issues in African Rural and Urban Development
- Special Topics in African Studies
- Advanced Seminar in African Studies
- Senior Thesis in African Studies
DEGREES
OFFERED
Certificates and Diplomas in
Africana Studies will be offered for those students who pass out on a
program of specially arranged courses. These courses will be designed
to provide the requisite knowledge and training needed in a wide variety
of work-re-lated fields in Africa and abroad.
Graduate Courses will be designed for university graduates who want to
pursue M.A., M.Phil and Doctorate degrees in African Studies.
EXCHANGE
PROGRAMS
The Centre for Africana Studies,
in cooperation with the Office of International Af-fairs, will provide
opportunities for students and faculty to benefit from a variety of exchange
programs centered around the development and promotion of African Studies.
In effect, the Centre for Africana Studies will invite students and faculty
from abroad to learn and teach at the Centre and, conversely, students
and faculty from AUCC will be sent from the Centre to learn and teach
abroad. The link between the University of the Bahamas and AUCC is one
example.
SEMINARS
AND CONFERENCES
The Centre for Africana Studies
will conduct a series of periodic seminars at AUCC on a wide variety of
critical issues related to Africa and World Affairs. These seminars will
make use of AUCC’S own experts along with other experts in the field
of African studies who are either living in Ghana or on visit. The seminars
will be designed to educate faculty and students at AUCC and the public-at
large. Furthermore, semi-annual conferences on a wide variety of critical
issues pertaining to African Studies will be organized at AUCC. These
conferences will be international in focus, with contributors and participants
invited from around the world.
RESEARCH
AND PUBLICATIONS
The Centre for Africana Studies
will serve as a major repository of research into African Studies and
African Media. Its staff will engage in its own research, and the Centre
itself will arrange for the university-wide promotion and development
of research into Africana Studies and African Media for the benefit of
the AUCC in particular and the world at-large. Furthermore, the Centre
will seek to publish a variety of research findings, including the proceedings
of some of its seminars and conferences held. It will undertake the publication
of the Nkrumaist Review, which will serve as a catalyst for the development
of research and writing, both literary and scholarly, on critical issues
effecting Africa and the African World.