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Centers for African studies

Helmet Mask (Hemba), Suku, Zaire.
University of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology Collection

The USA has plenty of centers to study African Art, find one near you, and contact them if you are looking for in depth informations.

African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania established its first ties to Africa with the founding of the University Museum in 1887. In 1942, the relationship was strengthened by the initiation of an African Studies Program, which introduced courses on Africa, compiled and published information on African languages, and developed a series of handbooks on African countries and regions.

African Studies Center at UCLA They did the Yoruba Ritual Archive a multimedia website created by Professor Andrew Apter that represents segments of three orisha festivals in Ayede-Ekiti in Ondo State, Nigeria. And they also publish in association with MIT the African Arts Magazine a quarterly journal devoted to the arts of Africa. African Studies Center 10244 Bunche Hall P.O. Box 951310 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310 Tel: (310) 825-3686 Fax: (310) 206-2250

Council on African Studies at Yale University The Council on African Studies bring together students and faculty members from a variety of disciplines. Discussions on interdisciplinary theory, research techniques, field methods, case studies, and comparative analysis. The Council provides a venue for scholars and students to present research as work-in-progress and to exchange research techniques and information.

African collections at Yale University The various components of the Yale University Libraries include some of the most extensive and accessible collections of Africana in North America, if not the world. The African Collection has a particularly strong focus on Anglophone southern, central, east, and west Africa; Francophone and Lusophone countries are also strongly represented and there are considerable resources on all other areas, including the Indian Ocean islands. Holdings on most southern African countries are close to exhaustive. Yale has one of the most impressive collections of indigenous-language material, particularly creative literature. The collection, while not a discrete entity, includes books, periodicals, and newspapers, as well as extensive holdings of maps, photographs, and archival materials. The Yale Divinity Library has perhaps, the largest and finest collection of Africa-related materials on the continent, and the Manuscripts and Archives center contains a singularly impressive Africana manuscript collection.

Sterling Memorial Library, Rm 317
Yale University
130 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone: (203) 432-1883 read also Yale

Center for African Studies at the University of Florida They publish the African studies Quarterly

Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan, they publish Gefame

Center for African Studies at Stanford University California.

Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture.

Center for African Studies at UC-Berkeley California

Center for African Studies at the Rutgers University the Center for African Studies (CAS) at Rutgers University. CAS is the major institution for African studies in the state of New Jersey and is committed to promoting scholarly research on Africa while increasing public understanding of the continent. The Center consists of faculty and staff throughout the three campuses of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, Camden and Newark. Faculty members conduct research in many African countries and in a variety of fields.

They also host the important ASA : Website: www.africanstudies.org

C. Martin, African Studies Association; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 132 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Email:Carol L. Martin clmasa*rci.rutgers.edu. Fax: 732-932-3394 T: 732-932-8173

African Studies Center at Michigan State Founded in 1960, the MSU African Studies Center is one of nine Title VI National Resource Centers on Africa designated by the U.S. Department of Education, based on the Center’s 150 research faculty providing broad research, teaching, and service on the continent. In addition to courses and seminars on Africa, the program offers instruction in 30 African languages.

African Studies Center at Boston University The African Studies Center at Boston University, established in 1953, offer a multidisciplinary African Studies curriculum. It is currently a National Resource Center for African Language Studies. The African Studies Center is a unit of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston University.

Program of African Studies at Northwestern University The Program of African Studies (PAS) at Northwestern has achieved international prominence for fostering the production of innovative scholarship, the training of hundreds of African specialists.

Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge
Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RQ United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334396

African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 205 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive. Madison, WI 53706
USA Phone: 608-262-2493

African Studies Program at Indiana University Woodburn Hall 221Bloomington, IN 47405 -- Fax: (812) 855-6734

Center for African Studies at the Ohio State University

African Studies Program at the University of Iowa

100 Museum of Art
150 North Riverside Drive
Iowa City, IA 52242-1789
phone (319) 335-1727
fax (319) 335-3677

Africa, Lega, Zaire, Equatorial Forest, Mask, wood and fiber

The UIMA has an extraordinary collection of African art, displayed in spacious new galleries that enable visitors to view nearly half of the 1500 works of art in the collection. Along with wooden sculpture and masks, the collection includes textiles, ceramics, metalwork, basketry, and countless other media. Most of these objects served religious, political, and social functions, and they reveal a great deal about traditional African lives and beliefs. Other works, including sculpture by contemporary African artists, provide insight into the globalization of African art.

The collection is centered on the more than 700 objects in the Stanley Collection, donated by C. Maxwell and Elizabeth Stanley of Muscatine, Iowa. The Stanley Collection includes classic examples of each major type of sub-Saharan African sculpture. The Stanleys believed that art could be a tool for understanding across cultures. They built their collection of African sculpture with the intention of donating it to the University, where it is now used to teach and inspire visitors from Iowa and beyond.

African Studies at Harvard University Harvard University Committee on African Studies 1033 Mass. Ave. Rm 216A, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA cafrica*fas.harvard.edu
An interfaculty research project on Africa. Known as the Africa Initiative, this multi-disciplinary project invite prominent academics to participate in their workshops, seminar presentations, lectures and performances. Many of these activities are open to interested members of the community. Africa Initiative working groups are currently researching the following topics: African Creativity: Popular Culture, Art, and Performance, Power, Authority and Governance, Health, Healing and Ritual Practice, Political Economy of Development, Realms of Knowledge, Memory, and Contestation, Human Capital and Economy

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