Institute of African Studies

The Institute of African Studies on the Anne Jiagee road on campus of the University of Ghana at Legon is an interdisciplinary research institute in the humanities and social sciences. It was established by President Kwame Nkrumah in 1962 to encourage African studies.

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin served as the first Director, from 1962 to 1965. On 25 October 1963 President Kwame Nkrumah gave an inaugural address at the Institute, entitled "The African Genius", in which he called for the recovery of African traditions and an African-centered approach to knowledge.[1][2]

Location
  • The Institute of African Studies is located on the main Legon campus of the University of Ghana. The Institute has an old site and a new site. The New Site, 100 meters from the main entrance to the Legon campus, houses the Institute's administration and the offices of most of its faculty members.
  • The Old Site houses the Institute's Library, Printing Unit, Publications Unit and Store, Offices for the Ghana Dance Ensemble and the J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives,[3][4] as well as offices of a some international programmes.

The Institute issues a peer-reviewed journal, Research Review of the Institute of African Studies.[5] This journal is now known as the Contemporary Journal of African Studies.[6]

References
  1. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Policies: an African-centered paradigm for the second phase of the African revolutions, Routledge, 2005, ch. 7, "Nkrumah's cultural policy: the national theater movement and the academy".
  2. Daryl Zizwe Poe, Kwame Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-Africanism: an Afrocentric analysis, Routledge, 2003, pp. 143–145.
  3. "IAS Archives Named After Emeritus Prof. J.H. Kwabena Nketia", University of Ghana.
  4. "Digitization | The Archive 'Speaks' for Itself – Speeches from Convocation Week 1965", Audiovisual Preservation Exchange Ghana, 15 September 2015.
  5. "Professor Dzodzi Tsikata", University of Ghana Institute of African Studies.
  6. "Contemporary Journal of African Studies". AJOL. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  • Homepage of the Institute of African Studies



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