International African Institute

The International African Institute (IAI) was founded (as the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures - IIALC) in 1926 in London for the study of African languages. Frederick Lugard was the first chairman (1926 to his death in 1945); Diedrich Hermann Westermann (1926 to 1939) and Maurice Delafosse (1926) were the initial co-directors.^[1]

Since 1928, the IAI has published a quarterly journal, Africa. For some years during the 1950s and 1960s, the assistant editor was the novelist Barbara Pym.^[2]

The IAI's mission is "to promote the education of the public in the study of Africa and its languages and cultures". Its operations includes seminars, journals, monographs, edited volumes and stimulating scholarship within Africa.

^ Ludwig, Frieder; Adogame, Afe; Ulrich Berner; Christoph Bochinger [in German] (2004). European traditions in the study of religion in Africa. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 9. ISBN 3447050020. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
^ Taylor, D. J. (23 May 2014). "Barbara Pym: a woman scorned". The Spectator. Retrieved 4 November 2019.

[1] Ludwig, Frieder; Adogame, Afe; Ulrich Berner; Christoph Bochinger [in German] (2004). European traditions in the study of religion in Africa. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 9. ISBN 3447050020. Retrieved 17 June 2013.

[2] Taylor, D. J. (23 May 2014). "Barbara Pym: a woman scorned". The Spectator. Retrieved 4 November 2019.

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