Pensée 2: The "African" in Africana/Black/African and African American Studies
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 193-195
ISSN: 1471-6380
In Pensée 1, "Africa on My Mind," Mervat Hatem questions the perceived wisdom of creating the African Studies Association (focused on sub-Saharan Africa) and the Middle East Studies Association a decade later, which "institutionalized the political bifurcation of the African continent into two academic fields." The cleaving of Africa into separate and distinct parts—a North Africa/Middle East and a sub-Saharan Africa—rendered a great disservice to all Africans: it has fractured dialogue, research, and policy while preventing students and scholars of Africa from articulating a coherent understanding of the continent.