Department of Africana Studies

Academic Department

Africana Studies at SFSU strive to advance academic excellence, social responsibility and cultural grounding surrounding the African culture to foster liberatory knowledge that can be used to improve and transform conditions in urban Black communities and global settings.

Welcome to Africana Studies

The Africana Studies Department at San Francisco State University provides students with the experiences of challenging traditional thoughts and practices, and also gives them an opportunity to explore new and alternative paradigms and theories. It not only prepares students to understand the world in which they live, but to see where the world is wanting and to have the ability and the desire to make it better.

In studying Africana Studies, students are able to learn about critique, and be inspired by the accomplishments of Africans and African Americans who shaped and are shaping the moral conscience, artistic genius, scientific and technical achievements, and political activism of their time.

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Our Programs

Africana Studies major, Olympia Pereira, posing with her scholarship.

Scholarships

Africana Studies, San Francisco State University, and our donors work together to make education affordable for our students by offering scholarship opportunities in order to aid the experience in pursuing a degree.

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