The African Studies Center at UCLA was established in 1959 to further stimulate the growing national interest in the region and to develop outreach, academic, and research programs on Africa. Increased national demand for new language and area skills soon led to its designation as a National Resource Center for African Studies.
In 1989, the Center was renamed to honor its founder James S. Coleman, whose pioneering scholarship marks him as one of the architects of African Area Studies in the United States. The Center is a broadly based academic support and research program.
African Studies Center
10244 Bunche Hall
P.O. Box 951310
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310
Tel: (310) 825-3686
Fax: (310) 206-2250
africa@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/africa
Leadership
- Andrew Apter
Staff
- Sheila Breeding, Center Administrator
- Mariela Haro Rodriguez, Editor
- Leslie Ellen Jones, Executive Editor, African Arts
- Azeb Tadesse, Deputy Director
- Rahel Sahle Woldegaber, Graduate Student Research Assistant
- Anthony Yuen, Editor, Marcus Garvey Papers