PhD Scholarship in African Studies at the University of Birmingham

African Studies PhD Scholarship (Arabic Sources for West African History, West African Manuscripts in the British Library)

The Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham
(incorporating the Centre of West African Studies) and the British Library are pleased
to announce a three-year scholarship for students commencing their MPhil/PhD in
African Studies in September 2013. The scholarship is attached to an AHRC funded
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership awarded to the British Library for research and
cataloguing related to its collection of West African Arabic manuscripts and its
forthcoming exhibition: ‘West Africa: Cultures of the Word’.

Application deadline 21st June 2013

for further information see :

http://eap.bl.uk/downloads/studentship.pdf