Africology, Black studies, African American studies, Africana studies, or African world studies? What’s so important about a given name?
@article{Okafor2014AfricologyBS, title={Africology, Black studies, African American studies, Africana studies, or African world studies? What’s so important about a given name?}, author={Victor Oguejiofor Okafor}, journal={The Journal of Pan-African Studies}, year={2014}, volume={6}, pages={209} }
Methodology As a methodology, this paper is based on a critical discussion and synthesis of materials drawn from both secondary and primary research sources. Using materials from both sources, the paper discusses and evaluates documented approaches to the naming of institutional and intellectual studies of peoples and cultures of the African world. "Secondary sources" include existing journal, online and book publications, whereas, "primary sources," in the context of this paper, refer to…
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