African, African American and Diaspora Studies (AAAD) is an interdisciplinary department dedicated to the study of the histories, cultures, and realities lived by people of African descent the world over.

• The AAAD Department is now accepting applications for our new Ph.D. program in Africana Studies! (deadline: 12/10/2024)

  Ph.D. Program in Africana Studies Department of African, African American & Diaspora Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   The Department of African, African American & Diaspora Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill is proud to announce the launch of … Read more

• Fall 2024 Course Registration now open!

  Please check out the AAAD courses that are being offered in Fall 2024. Our course catalog features information about over three dozen classes that cover a wide range of topics concerning African, African American, and Diaspora history, arts, politics, languages, … Read more

• New Faculty Publications (Spring 2024): S. Hudani’s Master Plans and Minor Acts; also, S. Camara & M. Mwamzandi (co-editors), African Languages, Literatures, and Postcolonial Modernity

  Congratulations to AAAD faculty member Shakirah Hudani regarding the recent publication of her monograph, Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda (University of Chicago Press). Also, congratulations to AAAD faculty members Samba Camara and Mohamed Mwamzandi …

  *NOW AVAILABLE*: Global Africana Review (8th edition)

    The Global Africana Review is the Department’s academic journal comprised of UNC undergraduate students’ research. The inaugural issue was launched in Spring 2017. An electronic version of the journal can be found in the Carolina Digital Repository, along with …