Research

Focus Areas

MIAS is a general pan-African research institute — these four areas anchor its current research agenda.

History & Decolonization

African societies from pre-colonial civilizations through colonialism, independence movements, and ongoing decolonization.

Governance, development, and the social and economic life of the continent, past and present.

Creative and cultural production — literature, oral tradition, visual and performing arts — across Africa.

Indigenous and world belief systems, philosophical traditions, and rigorous first-person research into lived and transcendent experience.