title: Aging in Africa: a critical review.
abstract: My goal in this article is to analyze gerontological discourses in Africa using articles in this collection as a spring board. The broad intention is to explore the possible areas of intersection between research in African aging and other social science disciplines such as history, politics and linguistics as a way of demonstrating how gerontology may contribute to scholarship in other disciplines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Linguistics and African and African American Studies, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State University, 305 Sparks Building, State College, PA 16801, USA. sbm12@psu.edu
authors.forename: Sinfree
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Makoni
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D000375:Aging; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans