Abstract
Africana, according to a recent American definition, consists of “trade publications, scholarly books, government publications all of which are designed to facilitate the working of governments both directly and indirectly”. Here, Africana is given a more specific meaning and refers to collections of material concerned with African studies designed to be consulted mainly for educational purposes. British universities and institutes with such collections tend to place emphasis on the behavioural sciences: politics, economics and sociology. Options in African history in single-subject undergraduate history courses are widely offered in this country, although only the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and the University of Birmingham offer African studies as a specialist undergraduate subject. Recent years have seen some imaginative developments: Sussex University students can study a subject against a background of African society, culture and history, whilst Kent offers a course in English with African and Caribbean studies.
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