الدراسات الإفريقية في العلوم الاجتماعية : نظرة نقدية في طرق البحث و التدريس

Abstract EN

This article deals with the subject of African studies in the social sciences, as it seeks to reveal the research and teaching methods adopted by the academic community in the face of the specialization of African studies in all disciplines, indicating the reasons and circumstances that prevent the acquisition of African knowledge compatible with the African environment, highlighting the need for research on Africa in such a way as to contribute to solving its multidimensional problems.

this article also devotes a part to talking about the phenomenon of community participation and of the need to develop it as such.

a new mechanism to produce knowledge related to the African reality and of great importance for society as a whole, in addition to the need to prepare higher education institutions to serve the community that finds itself and is strengthened in through new mechanisms that are primarily characterized by a critical view of incoming knowledge in order to engage in building social capital characterized by awareness of knowledge and positive contribution to local, national and global communities, which reinforces meaning of social responsibility among students and thus distributes the benefits in an atmosphere characterized by privacy in the so-called the Africanization of social knowledge.