About
A pan-African research institute, built to last.
On Scope
The Institute’s research spans four areas: history and decolonization, society and politics and economics, arts and literature and culture, and religion and philosophy and lived experience. History is one lane among these, not the whole of the Institute’s work.
On Method
Placeholder — the Institute’s methodological commitments (source standards, review criteria, editorial independence) go here once drafted — not invented for this build.
On Name
Placeholder — the naming rationale for “Mikaelson Institute for African Studies” goes here once drafted.
Relationship to the Mikaelson Initiative
MIAS is a new initiative of the Mikaelson Community Development and Tech Initiative. The Institute shares the parent organization’s brand system but operates with its own editorial and academic independence — the credibility a research institute needs is separate from, though connected to, the Initiative that founded it.