The Centre of African Studies (CAS) is a subject area within the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Founded in 1962, CAS provides interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision on Africa and international development. It hosts a vibrant research community, committed to critical and cutting-edge theoretical and empirical approaches, placing African experiences at the centre of interdisciplinary scholarship.

The centre's research covers Africa and international development, with work extending to Latin America and Southeast Asia and a stated commitment to equitable research partnerships across the global South. CAS offers six taught master's programmes as well as doctoral programmes in African Studies and in International Development and hosts an annual conference and a regular seminar series. In 2009 it founded the journal Critical African Studies.