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African Studies, Africanistics or Africanology: The German Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

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The ambivalence of the term Afrikanistik is shown by its use in two works, one edited by Professor Bernd Heine (University of Cologne) Recent German research on Africa: language and culture, the other by Professors Hermann Jungraithmayr (now University of Frankfurt) and J.G. Moehlig (University of Cologne) entitled Lexikon der Afrikanistik; afrikanische Sprachen und ihre Erforschung. Whilst the former uses the term Afrikanistik to include languages and culture, as defined by Diedrich Westermann in the original title of the International Institute for African Languages & Cultures, the latter takes a more narrow interpretation of the discipline, as representing African linguistics stricto sensu.

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Copyright © International African Institute 1985

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1. Heine, Bernd (ed), Recent German research on Africa: language and culture/rapport sur la recherche africanistique (sic) allemande - langue et culture. Bonn & Tubingen, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft & Institut fur Wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (German Research Association and Institute for Scientific Collaboration), 1981. 212 pp.Google Scholar

2. Jungraithmayr, Hermann & Moehlig, Whihelm J.G. (eds.). Lexikon der Afrikanistik: Afrikanische Sprachen und ihre Erforschung (Lexikon of Africanistics: African language research). Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1983. 351 pp.Google Scholar