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African Studies Programs, Research Centers, & Universities

This document provides access to information available on the Internet. For a broader view of the study of Africa at institutions around the world and volunteer programs in Africa see below.

Institutions In Alphabetical Order

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 African Studies Programs by Geographical Region and Online Publications on Africa

Suggested Reference Tools

-- AEGIS: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (via Centre of African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK)

-- African Higher Education Resource Directory (Michigan State University, African Studies Center, East Lansing, Michigan)

-- Association of African Universities (AAU) = Association des Universités Africaines (Accra, Ghana)

-- Current Announcements on Grants and Fellowships in African Studies (Ali Dinar, African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania)

-- Grants and Fellowships: Web Sites (Karen Fung, Stanford University Libraries--"Africa South of the Sahara Selected Internet Resources")

-- International Network for Higher Education in Africa (Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts)

-- National African Language Resource Center (University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin)
Including: NALRC African Language Program Inventory List

-- National Consortium for Study in Africa (NCSA). A national directory of study abroad programs (via African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)

-- Volunteer, Research, and Work Opportunities in Africa (via NCSA, East Lansing, Michigan)

• Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria
  
  
• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
  
  
• Addis Ababa University--Faculty of Technology (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  
  
• Africa Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
  
  
• Africa Museum -- Research Institute (Tervuren, Belgium)
  
  
• Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe
  
  
• African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  
  
• African Population & Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
  
  
• Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, The Netherlands
  
  
• Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
  
  
• Alakhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
  
  
• American Institute for Maghrib Studies (via University of Texas, Austin)
  
  
• American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo
  
  
• American University in Cairo, Egypt
  
  
• Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (Five College African Studies Program)
  
  
• Amoud University, Awdal, Somaliland
  
  
• Ashesi University, Accra, Ghana
  
  
• Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York) African and African Diaspora Studies.
  
  
• Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria (via KanoOnline.Com)
  
  
• Bayreuth University, Germany (In German).
  
  
• Boston University
  
  
• Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, Gaborone
  
  
• Brussels Centre of African Studies, Belgium
  
  
• Cairo Demographic Center, Egypt
  
  
• California State University, Sacramento--Center for African Peace & Conflict Resolution
  
  
• Cambridge University, UK
  
  
• Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium -- Institute for Anthropological Research on Africa
  
  
• Center for Maghrib Studies in Tunis, Tunisia (via University of Texas, Austin)
  
  
• CASAS -- Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (Cape Town, South Africa)
  
  
• CEDEJ -- Centre d'études et de documentations économiques, juridiques et sociales (Caire, Egypte)
  
  
• Central Buganda University (Kanoni-Gomba, Mpigi, Uganda)
  
  
• Central Connecticut State University (New Britain, Connecticut)
  
  
• Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio: Center for International Studies
  
  
• Centre d'Estudis Africans, Barcelona, Spain
  
  
• Centre d'étude d'Afrique Noire, Université Montesqieu, Bordeaux, France
  
  
• Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle -- CRASC (Oran, Algeria)
  
  
• Centre de Recherches en Economie Appliquée pour le Développement -- CREAD (El Hamadia / Bouzareah, Algeria)
  
  
• Centre for Basic Research, Kampala, Uganda
  
  
• Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, UK
  
  
• Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway (African, Southeast Asian, and Latin American studies)
  
  
• Centro de Estudos Africanos, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisboa, Portugal
  
  
• Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  
  
• Centro de Estudos sobre Africa e do Desenvolvimento, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Ténica de Lisboa, Portugal
  
  
• Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, Milano, Italy
  
  
• Chatham House, London, UK (formerly The Royal Institute of International Affairs)
  
  
• Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway (African and South Asian Studies)
  
  
• Columbia University, Institute of African Studies, School of International & Public Affairs (New York)
  
  
• Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) = Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique, Dakar, Sénégal
  
  
• Cornell University - Africana Studies and Research Center (Ithaca, New York)
  
  
• Cornell University - Institute for African Development (Ithaca, New York)
  
  
• Cuttington University College, The Episcopal Church of Liberia, Monrovia
  
  
• Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) African and African-American Studies Program.
  
  
• Djillali Liabès University, Sidi Bel-Abbès, Algeria
  
  
• Duke University, African & African-American Studies (Durham, North Carolina)
  
  
• East African School of Library & Information Science, Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda)
  
  
• L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales -- Centre d'études africaines (Paris, France)
  
  
• Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ; via Kabissa, Washington, DC and London, UK)
  
  
• Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia)
  
  
• Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria
  
  
• Five College African Studies Certificate Program: Consortium of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts--Amherst.
  
  
• La Fondation du Roi Abdul Aziz Al Saoud pour les Etudes Islamiques et les Sciences Humaines (Casablanca, Morocco)
  
  
• German Institute of Global and Area Studies -- Institut für Afrika-Kunde (Hamburg, Germany)
  
  
• Ghent University, Belgium (African Languages & Cultures)
  
  
• Hampshire College, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Five College African Studies Program)
  
  
• Harvard University--Committee on African Studies and the Department of African and African-American Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  
  
• Howard University--African Studies Graduate Program -and- HU Home Page (Washington, DC)
  
  
• Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa
  
  
• Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
  
  
• L'Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (Tunis, Tunisia)
  
  
• L'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire à l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
  
  
• Institute for the African Child, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
  
  
• Institute for Public Policy Research, Windhoek, Namibia
  
  
• Institute for Security Studies, Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University
  
  
• Institute of Kiswahili Research = Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  
  
• Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• L'Institut Supérieur de Management, Dakar, Sénégal
  
  
• International African Institute, London, UK
  
  
• Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais -- Programa Africa, Lisboa, Portugal
  
  
• Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Milano e Roma, Italy
  
  
• Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli, Italy (Central, North, & Northeast Africa, Middle East, and Asian Studies)
  
  
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Afrikanische Sprachwissenschaften (Frankfurt, Germany)
  
  
• Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrika-Studien (Germany)
  
  
• Kampala International University, Uganda--Contact Information Only (via EnterUganda.Com, New Vision Printing and Publishing Corporation, Kampala, Uganda)
  
  
• Kenyatta University, Nairobi (Kenya)
  
  
• Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rwanda
  
  
• KIT: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen = Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Africa, Latin America, and Asia)
  
  
• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
  
  
• Kyoto University, Japan
  
  
• LASDEL--Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local, Niamey, Niger
  
  
• La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  
  
• Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria
  
  
• Leeds University, UK
  
  
• Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Kampala (via Uganda Home Pages Ltd.)
  
  
• Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
  
  
• Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Mbarara, Uganda)
  
  
• Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
  
  
• Misr University for Science & Technology (6th of October City, Egypt)
  
  
• Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
  
  
• Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (Five College African Studies Program)
  
  
• Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU), Windhoek, Namibia
  
  
• National University of Lesotho, Roma
  
  
• National University of Rwanda, Butare
  
  
• National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
  
  
• Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)
  
  
• New York University, Africa House (New York)
  
  
• Nordiska Afrikainstitutet = The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
  
  
• North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
  
  
• Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
  
  
• Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
  
  
• Ohio State University, Columbus
  
  
• Ohio University, Athens
  
  
• Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  
  
• Pennyslvania State University -- African and African American Studies (University Park, Pennsylvania)
  
  
• Princeton University: African Studies ; Princeton in Africa Program ; and, African-American Studies(Princeton, New Jersey)
  
  
• Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
  
  
• Rivers State University of Science & Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
  
  
• Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for African Studies, Moscow
  
  
• Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  
  
• St. Augustine University of Tanzania, Mwanza
  
  
• SAPES Trust: Southern Africa Political Economy Series (Harare, Zimbabwe)
  
  
• Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (Five College African Studies Program)
  
  
• SOAS: School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, UK (Centre of African Studies)
  
  
• Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
  
  
• South African Institute of International Affairs (Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  
  
• Stanford University (Stanford, California)
  
  
• Suffolk University -- Dakar Campus (Boston, Massachusetts)
  
  
• TUKI: Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam = Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  
  
• Temple University -- African American Studies (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  
  
• Tufts University -- Africa and the New World -and- Africa Forum (2004) (Medford, Massachusetts)
  
  
• Tulane University, African & African Diaspora Studies (New Orleans, Louisiana)
  
  
• Uganda Christian University, The Church of the Province of Uganda (Mukono, Uganda)
  
  
• Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala
  
  
• United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya
  
  
• Universidade do Porto, Portugal: Centro de Estudos Africanos
  
  
• Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Moçambique
  
  
• Universität Bayreuth, Germany
  
  
• Universität Bielefeld, Transnationalisation and Development Research Centre (Bielefeld, Germany) (African, Latin American, and Asian studies)
  
  
• Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Abteilung f"u¨r Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik (Germany)
  
  
• Universität zu Köln, Institut für Afrikanistik (Cologne, Germany)
  
  
• Universität Leipzig, Institut für Afrikanistik (Germany)
  
  
• Universität München, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikanistik (Munich, Germany)
  
  
• Universität Wien, Institut für Afrikanistik (Vienna, Austria)
  
  
• Université Abou Bekr Belkaid, Tlemcen, Algérie
  
  
• Université d'Alger, Algérie
  
  
• Université Amar Télidji Laghouat, Algérie
  
  
• Université d'Antananarivo, Madagascar (via Madagascar Contact, Refer)
  
  
• Université de Batna, Algérie
  
  
• Université de Béjaia, Algérie
  
  
• Université de Blida, Algérie
  
  
• Université Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Maroc
  
  
• Université Chouaib Doukkali, El Jadida, Maroc
  
  
• Université Catholique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (via Lycos, France)
  
  
• Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
  
  
• Université Cheikh Anta Diop -- Faculté des Sciences et Technologies de l'Education et de la Formation (FASTEF) Anciennement L'Ecole Normale Supérieure de l'UCAD. (Dakar, Sénégal)
  
  
• Université Djillali Liabès, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algérie
  
  
• Université de Fianarantsoa, Madagascar (via Madagascar Contact, Refer)
  
  
• Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal
  
  
• Université de Genève, Suisse, Département d'Anthropologie & d'Ecologie (The web site is also available in English.)
  
  
• Université Hassan I, Settat, Maroc
  
  
• Université Hassan II, Aïn-Chok, Casablanca, Maroc
  
  
• Université Hassan II, Mohammedia, Casablanca, Maroc
  
  
• Université de Lomé, Togo
  
  
• Université de Mahajanga, Madagascar (via Madagascar Contact, Refer)
  
  
• Université Mentouri Constantine, Algérie
  
  
• Université Mohammed V--Agdal, Rabat, Maroc: Faculté des Sciences de Rabat
  
  
• Université Mohammed V--Souissi, Rabat, Maroc -et- Institut des Etudes Africaines
  
  
• Université de Mostaganem, Algérie
  
  
• Université Montesquieu, Bordeaux, France
  
  
• Université Nord Madagascar (Antsiranana, Madagascar) -- via Madagascar Contact, Refer.
  
  
• Université de Nouakchott, Mauritania
  
  
• Université Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon
  
  
• Université d'Oran des Sciences et de la Technologie, Algérie
  
  
• Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  
  
• Université Paris I -- Mutations africaines dans la longue durée (France)
  
  
• Université Paris VII (France)
  
  
• Université de Provence, L'Institut d'Etudes Africaines (Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix-en-Provence, France)
  
  
• Université de la Réunion (Saint-Denis, Rénion; via France)
  
  
• Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene, Alger, Algérie
  
  
• Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc
  
  
• Université de Toamasina, Madagascar (via Madagascar Contact, Refer)
  
  
• Université ibn ToFail, Kénitra, Maroc
  
  
• Université de Toliara, Madagascar (via Madagascar Contact, Refer)
  
  
• Université de Yaoundé I (Yaoundé, Cameroun)
  
  
• Université ibn Zohr, Agadir, Maroc
  
  
• University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana (via Universities of Ghana Overseas Office, London, UK)
  
  
• University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
  
  
• University of Asmara, Eritrea
  
  
• University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
  
  
• University of Botswana, Gaborone
  
  
• University of Calgary, Canada
  
  
• University of California, Berkeley
  
  
• University of California, Los Angeles
  
  
• University of Cape Coast, Ghana
  
  
• University of Cape Town, South Africa
  
  
• University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  
  
• University of Edinburgh, UK
  
  
• University of Education, Winneba, Ghana (via Universities of Ghana Overseas Office, London, UK)
  
  
• University of Florida, Gainesville
  
  
• University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa
  
  
• University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
  
  
• University of The Gambia (Serrekunda, The Gambia)
  
  
• University of Georgia, Athens
  
  
• University of Ghana, Legon
  
  
• University of Hargeisa, Somaliland
  
  
• University of Ibadan, Nigeria
  
  
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  
  
• The University of Iowa, Iowa City
  
  
• University of Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• University of Jos, Nigeria
  
  
• University of Kansas, African Studies Center -- African and African-American Studies (Lawrence, Kansas)
  
  
• University of Khartoum, Sudan (via Sudan.Net)
  
  
• University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
  
  
• University of Lagos, Nigeria
  
  
• University of Leiden, The Netherlands
  
  
• University of Liberia, Monrovia
  
  
• University of Limpopo, Sovenga and Gauteng, South Africa
  
  
• University of London, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS)
  
  
• University of Maiduguri, Nigeria
  
  
• University of Malawi, Zomba
  
  
• University of Maryland, College Park (African Diaspora and African Studies)
  
  
• University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts (Five College African Studies Program)
  
  
• University of Mauritius, Réduit
  
  
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Center for Afroamerican and African studies)
  
  
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota (African American and African Studies)
  
  
• University of Nairobi, Kenya
  
  
• University of Namibia, Windhoek
  
  
• University of Nigeria, Nsukka
  
  
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill--African Studies Center -and- Department of African and Afro-American Studies
  
  
• University of Oslo, Norway (African, Southeast Asian, and Latin American studies)
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
  
  
• University of Pittsburgh
  
  
• University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa
  
  
• University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
  
  
• University of Pretoria, South Africa
  
  
• University of South Africa, Pretoria
  
  
• University of South Florida, Tampa (African diaspora and African studies)
  
  
• University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
  
  
• University of Swaziland, Mbabane
  
  
• University of Texas, Arlington
  
  
• University of Venda for Science and Technology, Limpopo Province, South Africa
  
  
• University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
  
  
• University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• University of Wisconsin, Madison (African Studies)
  
  
• University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Land Tenure Center Africa Program
  
  
• University of Zambia, Lusaka
  
  
• University of Zimbabwe, Harare
  
  
• Walter Sisulu University for Science and Technology (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
  
  
• West African Research Center/Centre de Recherche Ouest-Africaine, Dakar, Senegal
  
  
• Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
  
  
• York University, Toronto, Canada