Center for African Studies
The Center for African Studies was established at Ohio University in order to provide scholarly resources for a comprehensive understanding of the African continent, its peoples and its languages. With designation as a National Resource Center for Africa, we more fully develop our resource base, course offerings and outreach to the community. Our interests range from Africa's development challenges to its joyful contributions to global civilization. We use the methods and disciplines of the social sciences, fine arts, and humanities to promote the investigation of Africa, and additionally, through our Institute for the African Child, we offer perspectives from the applied fields of communication, education, and the health sciences. The Center for African Studies seeks partnerships for study, research, service and artistic performance everywhere in the world where Africa has found a home.

Facilities for research and language instruction, as well as formal degree studies are available through the program. Graduate students may earn a Master of Arts degree with a major in African Studies through the Center for International Studies.

Additional graduate work with emphases on African can be pursued in a number of disciplines where African Studies faculty can be found. Specific Africa centered tracks have been established in the following:

School of Interdisciplinary Arts (Ph.D.): Emphasis on African Arts and Literature
School of Health Sciences (MPH): Graduate Certificate in African Community Health