School:African studies

Welcome to the Wikiversity School of African Studies.

The School of African Studies is a content development project where participants create, organize, and develop learning resources for African studies.

African studies is the study of Africa, and can encompass such fields as social and economic development, politics, history, culture, sociology, anthropology or linguistics. A specialist in African studies is referred to as an africanist.

A related discipline is Pan-African Studies.

A school is a large organizational structure which can contain various departments and divisions. The departments and divisions should be listed in the departments and divisions section. The school should not contain any learning resources. The school can contain projects for developing learning resources.

Divisions and departments

Divisions and Departments of the School exist on pages in "topic" namespace. Start the name of departments with the "Topic:" prefix; departments reside in the Topic: namespace. Departments and divisions link to learning materials and learning projects. Divisions can link subdivisions or to departments. For more information on schools, divisions and departments look at the Naming Conventions.

Active participants

The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better; for large schools it is not needed).

Since 25 June 2012‎ with Libyan history. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 23:46, 27 April 2018 (UTC).

Inactive participants

Nannus until 9 March 2007.

School news

December 25, 2006 - School founded!
25 June 2012‎ - lecture Libyan history started!
27 April 2017‎ - North west African continental shelves started!
10 May 2017 - lecture South east African continental shelves started!
4 October 2017 - South west African continental shelves started!

Things you can do!

Clean up Draft:Libyan history and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
Clean up Draft:Agriculture and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.

Resources