List of Africanists

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This is a list of Africanists.

Name	Occupation	Birth date	Death date	Image
Leo Reinisch	Linguist and professor	1832-10-26	1919-12-24
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

See also

• African studies
• Lists of people by occupation