Institute for African Studies

The institute is part of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Cologne. Research and teaching areas are the languages and literature as well as the history and cultures of Africa south of the Sahara. The focus is set on the analysis and description of the approximately 2000 languages of Africa.

There is no capacity available to translate our pages into English. All links are leading to the german pages.

If you need information in english, don't hesitate to contact the institute by e-mail:

  • ulrike.claudi@uni-koeln.de (Student affairs)
  • afrikanistik@uni-koeln.de (General affairs)
  • ama22 [at] uni-koeln [dot] de (Technical website affairs)

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