Program Overview

Our African Politics MSc explores ideology, power and relationships across the continent: from state-building to social protest, philosophies of liberation and race to gender and inter-generational dynamics.

These themes are not only central to the continent’s politics, but to understanding how the world works and how political ideas are shaped. From negotiations over the international economic system, to the politics of international justice, human rights, military intervention and the climate emergency, the politics of Africa cannot be seen as separate from or peripheral to the rest of the world but at its core. African dynamics are vital to any adequate understanding of the most important political ideas and forces that shape our world.

We are the only university in the UK to offer a masters degree in the Politics of Africa.

Why study MSc Politics of Africa at SOAS?

Global Partnerships

This programme can be offered as part of a dual masters degree with

Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Through the dual masters, students can spend the first year studying at SAIS and second year at SOAS or vice versa and gain a Masters award from each institution. For more information and eligible programmes included in the dual masters, please see the

SOAS-SAIS partnership

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