USA Africa Dialogue Series - African Studies and Columbia: A Strained 60 Year Relationship

"Across the Ivy League, there are three main methods of studying African history and culture: Harvard and Dartmouth offer African and African American studies as a singular unit, Brown and Cornell have Africana studies, and Yale and Princeton offer purely African studies. 

African and African American studies, when presented as a joint course of study, tend to focus specifically on the history of the transatlantic slave trade and the history of colonization. Africana studies does not have geographic limitations and is interested in both Africa and the African diaspora, including relationships between African people and the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. In instances where African studies is taught separate, it is distinguished as a form of regional studies and focuses directly on the geographical continent of Africa. Barnard Africana professor Abosede George says that each model expresses different commitments. Each one of these give the student a vastly different understanding of Africa. Faculty members, she attests, have a loyalty to the subfield in which they were taught" - https://www.columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2018/09/26/african-studies-and-columbia-a-strained-60-year-relationship/#.W7BNaOSFHAc.twitter

Cf. https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2018/09/28/with-unanimous-vote-university-senate-approves-new-african-american-and-african-diaspora-studies-department/

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