The Center’s strength is based on the more than 160 MSU faculty who provide research, teaching, and service on Africa.
[4] The Center is home to the national e-LCTL Initiative,[5] with a website that a) catalogs the 220+ "Less Commonly Taught Languages" (LCTLs) offered in the more than 120 Title VI National Resource Centers of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and Canada, b) offers essays on priorities among LCTL languages for instruction in the U.S., and c) provides a database of "web objects" for teaching some LCTLs.
The MSU Africana Library collection is served by two PhD Africanist librarians, more than 237,000 items, and a large annual budget.
The online African Activist Archive includes a directory of other archives and more than 7,000 historical materials, including pamphlets, documents, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, T-shirts, photographs, audio and video recordings, and personal remembrances and interviews with activists.
For more than 25 years, MSU's African Studies Outreach Program has provided professional assistance on Africa to K-12 schools, colleges and universities, communities, state and federal government, businesses, and journalists.