Masters Degrees in African History, United Kingdom

The MA History programme at Queen’s has been redesigned to offer all its existing strengths in an innovative package of modules that challenges students to develop their knowledge and skills. Read more

Research programmes are best suited to students who have a clear idea of a topic they would like to investigate in detail. There are two types of History programme. Read more

Research interests within History are extremely wide-ranging and include medieval culture, religion, gender, and law; historical theory; early modern witchcraft… Read more

The MRes in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora is a unique and exciting new programme, the first of its kind to be delivered completely online. Its aim is to enable students to explore the historical relationships between Africa and its diaspora in the modern period by conducting their own supervised research in this important field. Read more

The MPhil in World History at the University of Cambridge compares and connects the history of regions and empires into global histories that consider convergence, divergence and enduring historical dynamics, from c. Read more

The programme is designed for students with a keen interest in studying the remote as well as the more recent past of the countries, peoples, and cultures of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Read more

Taught by experts in African, Asian, Atlantic, European and Middle Eastern histories, societies and cultures, our MA Global History: Empires, States and Cultures will expand and deepen your understanding of world history through the exploration of global perspectives and interconnections across geographical and national boundaries. Read more

The Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham has an international reputation for excellence in research on Africa and its diaspora. Read more

The Social Research (African Studies) MA provides research training that will prepare you to undertake research in African Studies. Read more

This programme is a unique opportunity to study the History of Art and/or Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Students concentrate on architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts and have the option of pursuing topics and approaches more archaeological in focus. Read more

The programme would suit students with a keen interest in learning about the historical conditions of the contemporary world, and in particular those who are prepared to look at the world from the perspective of other people and cultures. Read more

This unique interdisciplinary course will allow you to study race and strategies of resistance from a variety of historical and theoretical approaches. Read more

This programme provides an unrivalled opportunity to explore methods and approaches taken to the curating of the arts of Asia and Africa. Read more

SOAS is one of the few universities in the world to offer a Masters degree in the politics of Africa. There are many ‘African Studies’ degrees, but politics typically makes up only a part of their programmes. Read more

Our World History & Cultures MA offers you the chance to study the global, political, economic, and cultural interactions, the history of empires and the transnational histories of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Read more