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African Studies

Official University of Ghana programme record for African Studies (MPhil). Course evidence: Official rendered tables are preserved as a dated source snapshot. The repeated AFST 623 entry is collapsed to one catalogue row, and uncredited seminar prose outside the tables is not converted into inferred rows. Programme confirmation source: IPO and central catalogues. Course structure source: UG Institute of African Studies graduate programme overview (Current page checked 2026).

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University

University of Ghana

Exact award

Master of Philosophy

Duration

2 years

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Record GHAD-60048Source publisher: University of GhanaSource published: 2026Last checked: 2 Sept 2026

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Programme identity and exact award: Master of Philosophy
Partially published curriculum sequence: Graduate, Published course portfolio, First Semester, Second Semester, containing 30 course rows. 91 published credits across all listed course rows.
Duration: 2 years

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Status: Verified official information

Source publisher: University of Ghana

Source title: African Studies (MPhil) — UG International Programmes Office

Source published: 2026

Last checked: 2 Sept 2026

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Course structure

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Source publisher: University of Ghana

Source title: UG Institute of African Studies graduate programme overview

Source published: 2026

Last checked: 2 Sept 2026

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Source publisher: University of Ghana

Source title: African Studies (MPhil) — UG International Programmes Office

Source published: 2026

Last checked: 2 Sept 2026

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Partially published curriculum sequence

Partially published curriculum sequence: Graduate, Published course portfolio, First Semester, Second Semester, containing 30 course rows. 91 published credits across all listed course rows.

30 published course rows · 91 published credits across all listed course rows

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Status: Course structure confirmed

Source publisher: University of Ghana

Source title: UG Institute of African Studies graduate programme overview

Source published: 2026

Last checked: 2 Sept 2026

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Programme pathway

Core

Graduate · 2 courses+

Published course portfolio

AFST 601

Research Methods

4 credits

AFST 613

Social and Political Systems in Africa

3 credits

Programme pathway

Elective

Graduate · 28 courses+

First Semester

AFST 603

Theories of Development in Africa

3 credits

AFST 605

Government and Politics in Early Post Independent Africa

3 credits

AFST 607

Africa Oral Literature: An Introduction

3 credits

AFST 609

Drama in African Societies

3 credits

AFST 611

African Literary Traditions

3 credits

AFST 615

Traditional Religions in Africa

3 credits

AFST 617

Traditional African Music

3 credits

AFST 621

African Historiography and Methodology

3 credits

AFST 623

The Slave Trade and Africa

3 credits

AFST 625

Coastal States in Ghana in the Seventeenth Century

3 credits

AFST 631

Culture and Gender in African Studies

3 credits

AFST 633

Survey of African Art

3 credits

AFST 641

African Family Studies

3 credits

Second Semester

AFST 602

Advanced Research Methods

3 credits

AFST 604

Issues in African Development

3 credits

AFST 606

The Military in African Politics

3 credits

AFST 608

Topics in African Oral Literature

3 credits

AFST 610

African Theatre

3 credits

AFST 612

Trends in African Literature

3 credits

AFST 616

Islam and Christianity in Africa

3 credits

AFST 618

African Music in Contemporary Perspective

3 credits

AFST 622

Ghana since 1945

3 credits

AFST 624

History of Pan- Africanism

3 credits

AFST 626

Colonial Rule and African Responses

3 credits

AFST 628

Islam and Christianity in Africa

3 credits

AFST 632

Gender and Development in African Studies

3 credits

AFST 634

Methodologies for Constructing Art History in African Societies

3 credits

AFST 636

Rural Development, Environment and Modernity in Africa

3 credits

Official course classificationElectives (28)Shown only where the official course source explicitly labels the course elective, optional, selected, or choice-based.

AFST 603 · Graduate · First Semester