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The Centre of African Studies The Centre of African Studies was established in 1965 by the path-breaking anthropologist, Dr Audrey Richards. We act as a hub for graduate level and faculty research, we run weekly seminars and research workshops for graduate students and we organise international conferences both in Cambridge and in African institutions. In addition to fostering PhD level research, we run a one-year interdisciplinary MPhil in African Studies, with teaching contributions from faculty in History, Politics and International Relations, Social Anthropology, Geography and English.




The course also includes training in an African language. We are committed to active engagement with Africa-based scholarship and to this end we run the Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research programme which each year brings four or five African scholars to Cambridge for six-month periods to work with us and share their research. The Centre is part of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and its work is overseen by a Management Committee whose members re drawn from across the University.

The New Director for the Centre of African Studies Dr. Harri Englund, Reader in Social Anthropology and fellow of Churchill College succeeds Professor Megan Vaughan as Director of the Centre of African Studies who steps down from 2 October 2012 after more than three years at the helm.


Contact the Centre of African Studies, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge. CB3 9DT.
Email centre@african.cam.ac.uk
Tel. 01223 334396 Fax 01223 769329
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