This is a list of Africanists.
Name | Occupation | Birth date | Death date | Image |
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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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