1980年的春季,一群有志于非洲史教学和研究工作的学子们,聚集在毛主席的故乡湘潭,在他题名的湘潭大学里成立了自己的学术团体——中国非洲史研究会。在旧中国,谈不上有非洲史这门学科。新中国成立之后直到70年代末,非洲史是一个基础十分薄弱的学科,要资料没资料,要教材没教材,教学师资短缺, In the spring of 1980, a group of students who were interested in teaching and researching African history gathered in Xiangtan, the hometown of Chairman Mao, and set up their own academic organization in the university named Xiangtan University - China African History Research Association. In old China, there is no such thing as African history. After the founding of New China until the late 1970s, the history of Africa is a very weak foundation of science and technology, there is no information to the material, the textbook is not teaching material, teaching shortage,