Pan-African Academic Research
African scholarship on History, Colonialism, Decolonization, Governance, Economics, Culture, Philosophy, Belief, Technology, Metaphysics..
The Mikaelson Institute for African Studies is a general academic research institute, publishing scholarship in history and decolonization, society and politics, arts and culture, and religion and philosophy.
Ubuntu is the Institute’s free, cohort-based learning program in African history: no tuition, no application fee. Our goal is to reach 10,000,000 students and researchers across the continent and its diaspora, building a shared, rigorous foundation in African history and thought.
About
Africa, studied as one connected field.
MIAS is the research body of the Mikaelson Community Development and Tech Initiative, built to stand on its own as a credible academic initiative. We study the continent across five areas, history and decolonization, society and politics, arts and culture, religion and philosophy, and the sciences and metaphysics, treated as one continuous record, not separate disciplines.
Our editorial board is forming now, and Ubuntu, our first cohort program, is underway. If you’re a scholar, researcher, or educator working in any of these areas, we want to hear from you.
Five focus areas
Research Focus Areas
Scroll through the four themes anchoring the Institute’s research agenda.
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Library
A growing library of African scholarship.
Every accepted paper becomes part of a permanent, citable archive, published in volumes and freely accessible. The first volume is forming now. Submissions are open.
African History of Africa
Method
History & Decolonization, understood chronologically.
Our History & Decolonization research follows a chronological throughline, from pre-colonial societies, through contact and colonial rule, to independence and the contemporary continent.
Call for Papers
Calls for papers coming soon.
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