The Department of African Studies was established at the beginning of the 1994/95 academic year to succeed four hitherto separately co-ordinated programmes: African Studies; Liberal Studies; Communicative Skills and Information Retrieval. The department was then under the Faculty of Social Sciences. In the 2003/04 academic year the department introduced a course leading to the award of B. A. degree in African Studies to complement the existing disciplines in the Faculty of Arts. This programme aims at offering courses in all areas of African scholarship and equipping students with knowledge systems and skills for the solution of modern problems facing Ghana and Africa as a whole. Students who do this programme take courses in two other departments in either the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Social Sciences. Therefore, students who take B. A. degree in African Studies have the opportunity to take courses from both faculties. A total number of twenty students were admitted to do the degree in African Studies in the 2003/04 academic year but only nineteen registered to do the course. This might have been so because some of those who were offered admission for the programme did not really apply for it and also did not know the opportunities available. Students who registered went through orientation and now they are proud of being pioneers of the programme. In the 2004/5 academic year, 52 students were admitted to do B. A. (African Studies) and 48 out of this number registered. Apart from the B. A. degree in African Studies the department offers general courses in African Studies for all level 100 students of the university. This is in fulfilment of the requirement for the award of degrees in the UCC and all the other public Universities.