African and African-American Studies Minor

African and African-American Studies Committee

Chidiebere Nwanbani Director, African and African-American Studies Program

John Fobanjong Political Science

Lisa Maya Knauer Sociology

Ziddi Msangi Design

Morgan Peters English

Thomas K Ranuga Sociology

Selected Faculty in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Visual and Performing Arts also participate in offering courses.

African and African-American Studies is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the society, culture and history of Africans and people of African descent. Drawing on the expertise of scholars of the African and African-American experience in the fields of sociology, literature, the visual and performing arts, history, political science, education, economics and anthropology, the minor has the following goals:

• To emphasize the African and African-American contribution to world development
• To broaden and deepen students’ understanding of Africa, the African diaspora and the American identity
• To provide students of African descent with an opportunity to pursue a program of study directly relevant to their own lives and expose as many students as possible to African and African-American studies.