List of Africanists

This is a list of Africanists.

Name Occupation Birth date Death date Image
Chinua Achebe Poet and professor 1930-11-16 2013-03-31
J. F. Ade Ajayi Historian 1929-05-26 2014-08-09
Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu Marxist and minister 1924 1996-08-05
Erdmute Alber German ethnologist, chair in Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth since 2010 1963-07-14
François Bassolet Journalist and historian 1933 2001-07-02
Thomas Bierschenk German ethnologist and sociologist, Prof.em.Dr., University of Mainz 1951-07-18
Helmut Bley German historian, Prof.em.Dr, Leibniz University Hannover 1935-02-26
Albert Adu Boahen Academic, politician and historian 1932-05-24 2006-05-24
Amílcar Cabral Revolutionary 1924-09-12 1973-01-20
Gwendolen M. Carter Political scientist 1906 1991-02-20
Patrick Chabal Africanist 1951-04-29 2014-01-16
J. Desmond Clark British archaeologist 1916-04-10 2002-02-14
John Henrik Clarke Historian 1915-01-01 1998-07-12
Basil Davidson Historian 1914-11-09 2010-07-09
Kenneth Dike Historian 1917-12-17 1983-10-26
Cheikh Anta Diop Historian 1923-12-29 1986-02-07
Stephen Ellis Historian 1953-06-13 2015-07-29
Georg Elwert German sociologist and anthropologist 1947-06-01 2005-03-31
Orishatukeh Faduma Missionary and educator 1855-09-15 1946-02-25
John Fage Historian 1921-06-03 2002-08-06
Frantz Fanon Psychiatrist and political philosopher 1925-07-20 1961-12-06
Joseph Greenberg Linguist 1915-05-28 2001-05-07
Marcel Griaule Author and anthropologist 1898-05-16 1956-02-23
Gerhard Grohs German sociologist and Africanist 1929-06-24 2015-02-18
Anatoly Gromyko Soviet scientist and diplomat 1932-04-15 2017-09-25
William Leo Hansberry Scholar and lecturer 1894-02-25 1965-11-03
Leonhard Harding German historian and scholar in African studies 1938-09-14
Hans Peter Hahn German ethnologist and scholar in African studies 1963
David Henige American historian, bibliographer, academic librarian and Africanist scholar 1938
Melville J. Herskovits Anthropologist 1895-09-10 1963-02-25
Rolf Hofmeier German economist (Prof.em.Dr.) director of the Institute for African Studies (IAK), GIGA, Hamburg (1976–2000) 1939
Anne Hugon French africanist 1965
Carola Lentz German social anthropologist 1954-04-21
Manuel Iradier Explorer 1854-07-06 1911-07-19
Anthony Kirk-Greene Scholar 1925-05-16 2018-07-08
Georg Klute German ethnologist, sociologist 1952
Ali Mazrui Professor 1933-02-04 2014-10-12
Henning Melber German political scientist, sociologist. Prof.em.Dr., Nordic Africa Institute Uppsala, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (2006–2012) (Sweden) 1950-08-22
Carl Meinhof Linguist 1857-07-23 1944-02-11
Rowland Percy Moss Economist 1928-05-08
Godfrey Mwakikagile Author, academic, historian, and theorist 1949-10-04
Gustav Nachtigal German explorer of Central and West Africa. 1834-02-23 1885-04-20
Kwame Nkrumah Politician and revolutionary 1909-09-21 1972-04-27
Julius Nyerere Activist, politician, and political theorist 1922-04-13 1999-10-14
Roland Oliver Academic and Emeritus Professor of African history 1923-03-30 2014-02-09
Hans-Joachim Preuss agricultural economist, Development expert, university teacher 1955-06-05
Jean Price-Mars Doctor, teacher, politician, diplomat, writer, and ethnographer 1876-10-15 1969-03-01
Theo Rauch German economist, consultant, professor 1945-07-17
Terence Ranger Africanist 1929-11-29 2015-01-03
Robert Sutherland Rattray Barrister 1881 1938
Walter Rodney Historian, political activist and academic 1943-03-23 1980-03-13
Justinian Rweyemamu Economics scholar 1942-09-28 1982-03-30
Galia Sabar Israeli professor of African studies 1963
Gerd Spittler German ethnologist and sociologist, Prof.em.Dr., University of Bayreuth 1939-04-04
Jean Suret-Canale Theoritican, political activist, and resistance fighter 1921-04-27 2007-06-23
Ivan Svanidze Soviet academic, nephew and son-in-law of Joseph Stalin 1927-10-15 1987-08-03
Bala Usman Academic, politician and historian 1945 2005-09-24
Ivan Van Sertima Associate professor of Africana Studies 1935-01-26 2009-05-25
Jan Vansina Historian and anthropologist 1929-10-14 2017-02-08
Katja Werthmann German ethnologist, African studies, area studies, Professor at the University of Leipzig 1964
Diedrich Hermann Westermann Missionary, Africanist, and linguist 1875-04-24 1956-05-31
Ivor Wilks Africanist and historian 1928-07-19 2014-10-07
Andrzej Zajączkowski Sociologist, cultural anthropologist, and Africanist 1922-05-27 1994-12-16

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