African Studies Programs, Research Centers, & Universities
This document provides access to information available on the Internet, in alphabetical order by institution. For a broader view of the study of Africa at institutions around the world and volunteer programs in Africa see below.
Suggested Reference Tools
- AEGIS: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Africa Higher Education Centers of Excellence--Eastern and Southern Africa (Inter-University Council for East Africa, Kampala, Uganda ; The World Bank, Washington, DC)
- African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions (Nairobi, Kenya)
- ARUA: African Research Universities Alliance (Accra, Ghana; via South Africa)
- Association of African Planning Schools (Cape Town, South Africa)
- Association of African Universities (AAU) (Accra, Ghana)
- Association of Commonwealth Universities--Africa (London, UK)
- CAMES: Conseil Africain et Malgache pour l'Enseignement Supérieur (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
- Centre for Higher Education Trust (Wynberg, South Africa)
News about research, education trends, and online publications about higher education in South Africa and around the African continent. - Inter-University Council for East Africa (Kampala, Uganda)
- National African Language Resource Center (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)
-- See also: African Language Teachers' Association (New York)
- SARUA--Southern African Regional Universities Association (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Scholarly Associations on Africa (via Columbia University Libraries, New York)
- University world news--Africa edition. Weekly newspaper. -- London, UK; Durban, South Africa: Higher Education Web Publishing Ltd, 2008-
Institutions in Alphabetical Order
- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria
- Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Africa Governance Institute (Dakar, Senegal)
- Africa Institute of South Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
- Africa Museum -- Research Institute (Tervuren, Belgium)
- Africa Policy Institute (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Africa Research Institute (London, UK)
- Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe
- African Population & Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
- African School of Economics, Cotonou, Bénin
- Afrika-Studiecentrum = African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Aga Khan University--Graduate School of Media and Communications, Nairobi, Kenya
- Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan
- Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
- Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
- Alakhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
- Ambo University (Ambo, Ethiopia)
- American Institute for Maghrib Studies (via University of Arizona, Tucson)
- American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo
- American University in Cairo, Egypt
- American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria
- Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (Five College African Studies Program)
- Amoud University, Awdal, Somaliland
- Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Ashesi University College, Accra, Ghana
- Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
- Bahr Dar University, Bahr Dar, Ethiopia
- Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York) African and African Diaspora Studies.
- Barnard College, Department of Africana Studies Columbia University (New York)
- Bauchi State University, Gadau, Nigeria
- Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
- Bayreuth University--Institute of African Studies (Bayreuth, Germany)
- Bishop Stuart University, Mbarara, Uganda
- Bonn International Center for Conversion (Bonn, Germany)
- Boston University
- Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, Gaborone
- Brown University -- Africana Studies (Providence, Rhode Island)
- Busoga University, Iganga, Uganda
- Cairo Demographic Center, Egypt
- Cairo University (Giza, Egypt) See also: English
- California State University, Sacramento--Center for African Peace & Conflict Resolution
- Cambridge University, UK
- Carlton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Carnegie Mellon University-Africa, Kigali, Rwanda
- 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 Connecticut State University (New Britain, Connecticut)
- Central State University--Africana studies (Wilberforce, Ohio)
- Centre Africain des Hautes Etudes, Porto Novo, Bénin
- Centre des études sahariennes, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
- Centre d'Estudis Africans, Barcelona, Spain
- Centre d'études en science sociales sur les mondes africains, américains, et asiatiques -- CESSMA, Afrique et l'Océan Indien (Paris, France)
- Centre Ivoirien de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
- Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle -- CRASC (Oran, Algeria)
- CREAD: Centre de Recherches en Economie Appliquée pour le Développement, El Hamadia, Bouzareah, Algérie
- Centre for African Studies, Basel, Switzerland (Universität Basel)
- Centre for Basic Research, Kampala, Uganda
- Centre for Democracy and Development in West Africa (Abuja, Nigeria)
- Centre for Policy Studies, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 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 África, Ásia e América Latina, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, Milano, Italy
- Centro Studi Politica Internazionale (CeSPI), Roma, Italy
- Chatham House, London, UK (formerly The Royal Institute of International Affairs)
- Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway (African and South Asian Studies)
- Chuka University College, Chuka, Kenya
- Columbia University, Institute of African Studies -and- the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (New York)
--See also: Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies ; Institute for Research in African American Studies ; Barnard College, Department of Africana Studies ; plus, Global Centers--Nairobi, Kenya and Tunis, Tunisia - 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, The Episcopal Church of Liberia, Monrovia
- Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) African and African-American Studies Program.
- Dedan Kamithi University of Technology (Nyeri, Kenya)
- 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)
- East African University (Kitengela, Kenya)
- Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
- Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya
- Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
- 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.
- Florida Africana Studies Consortium (South Florida)
- La Fondation du Roi Abdul Aziz Al Saoud pour les Etudes Islamiques et les Sciences Humaines (Casablanca, Morocco)
- Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria
- Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
- George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs -- Institute for African Studies (Washington, DC)
- German Institute of Global and Area Studies -- Institut für Afrika-Kunde (Hamburg, Germany)
- Ghent University, Belgium (African Languages & Cultures) -and- Gents Afrika Platform
- Great Lakes University of Kisumu, Kisumu City, Kenya
- Hampshire College, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Five College African Studies Program)
- Haramaya University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia formerly Alemaya University of Agriculture.
- Harvard University--Center for African Studies, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and the Department of African and African-American Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria
- Howard University--Center for African Studies -and- HU Home Page (Washington, DC)
- Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa
- Humboldt Universität zu Berlin--Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Germany
- Hunter College, The City University of New York Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, & Latino Studies (New York)
- Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
- Indian Ocean University, Mogadishu, Somalia
- Institut des mondes africains (Paris, France)
- Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire à l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
- IFRA Nairobi: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (Nairobi, Kenya)
- IFRA Nigeria: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (Ibadan and Zaria, Nigeria)
- Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI) sur l'Afrique subsaharienne -et- sur le Maghreb (Paris, France)
- Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (Tunis, Tunisia)
- Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS) sur l'Afrique subsaharienne -et- sur le Maghreb (Paris, France)
- Institut Supérieur de Management, Dakar, Sénégal
- Institute for the African Child, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
- Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethioipa
- Institute for Public Policy Research, Windhoek, Namibia
- Institute for Security Studies, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Institute of Kiswahili Studies = Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- International African Institute, London, UK
- International University of Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire
- Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (Bondo, Siaya, Kenya)
- Jimma University (Jimma, Oromia State, Ethiopia)
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Afrikanistik (Frankfurt, Germany)
- Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrika-Studien (Germany)
- Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (Juja, Nairobi, Kenya)
- Kampala International University (Kampala, Uganda)
- Kampala University (Kampala, Uganda)
- Kenyatta University, Nairobi (Kenya)
- KIT: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen = Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Africa, Latin America, and Asia)
- Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung -- Namibia Office, Windhoek, Namibia
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
- Kwara State University, Ilorin, Nigeria
- Kyambogo University, Kyambogo, Uganda
- Kyoto University, Japan
- LASDEL--Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local, Niamey, Niger
- Lafayette College--Africana Studies (Easton, Pennsylvania)
- Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria
- Leeds University, UK
- Leiden University, The Netherlands
- London School of Economics and Political Science: Crisis States Research Network (London, UK)
--See also: Africa at LSE blog - Makerere Institute of Social Research (Kampala, Uganda)
- Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
- Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya
- Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (Kakamega, Kenya)
- Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Mbarara, Uganda)
- McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
- Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
- Misr University for Science & Technology (6th of October City, Egypt)
- Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
- Monash University of Australia -- South Africa Campus (Ruimsig, South Africa)
- Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (Five College African Studies Program)
- Mountains of the Moon University (Fort Portal, Uganda)
- Mwenge University College of Education, Moshi, Tanzania
- Mzuzu University, Mzuzu, Malawi
- Namibia Unviersity of Science and Technology, Windhoek
- 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 and Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (New York)
- Njala University (Bo and Njala, Sierra Leone)
- Nkumba University, Entebbe, Uganda
- 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
- Open University of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
- Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
- Oxford University -- African Studies Centre -and- Centre for the Study of African Economies (Oxford, UK)
- Pennyslvania State University-African Studies -and- African American Studies (University Park, Pennsylvania)
- Princeton University: African Studies ; Princeton in Africa Program ; and, African-American Studies (Princeton, New Jersey)
- Queen's University--Global Development Studies, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria
- Regent University College of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana
- Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Riara University, Nairobi, Kenya
- Rivers State University of Science & Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- Royal African Society (London, UK)
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for African Studies, Moscow
- Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
- St. Augustine University of Tanzania, Mwanza Affiliated with the Catholic Church.
- St. John's University of Tanzania, Dodoma Affiliated with The Anglican Church of Tanzania
- 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)
- State University of Zanzibar, Tanzania
- Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa
- Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya Affiliated with Opus Dei.
- Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam = Institute of Kiswahili Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Temple University -- Africology and African American Studies (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Thinking Africa -- Institut de recherche et d’enseignement sur la paix en Afrique (Dakar, Sénégal)
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
- Tufts University -- Africana Studies ; Feinstein International Center -and- The Fletcher School (Medford, Massachusetts)
- Tulane University, Africana Studies (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- Tangier American Legation Museum and Research Center in Morocco (TALM)
- Uganda Christian University, The Church of the Province of Uganda (Mukono, Uganda)
- Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala
- United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya
- Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola
- Universidade Católica de Angola (Luanda, Angola)
- Universidade Católica de Moçambique (Beira and Nampula, Mozambique)
- Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Moçambique
- Universidade Federal di Rio Grande do Sul--Centro Brasiliero de Estudos Africanos (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
- Universidade Independente de Angola (Luanda, Angola)
- Universidade Lusófona--Cabo Verde (Mindelo and Praia, Cape Verde)
- Universidade do Porto, Portugal: Centro de Estudos Africanos
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
- Universita degli studi di Napoli, Italy--"L'Orientale" (Central, North, & Northeast Africa, Middle East, and Asian Studies)
- Universität Basel, Centre for African Studies -and- Centre of Competence on Africa (Basel, Switzerland)
- Universität Bayreuth: Institut für Afrikastudien (Bayreuth, Germany)
- Universität Bielefeld, Transnationalisation and Development Research Centre (Bielefeld, Germany) (African, Latin American, and Asian studies)
- Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Abteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik -and- Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies (Hamburg, 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 Afrikawissenschaften (Vienna, Austria)
- Université Abdelhamid Ibn Badis de Mostaganem, Algérie
- Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niger
- Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Bénin
- Université Abou Bekr Belkaid, Tlemcen, Algérie
- Université Alassane Outtara, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire
- Université d'Alger I, Algérie
- Université Alioune Diop de Bambey, Sénégal
- Université Amadou Mahtar Mbow de Dakar (Diamniadio), Sénégal
- Université Amar Télidji Laghouat, Algérie
- Université d'Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor, Sénégal
- Université de Bamako, Mali : Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako ; Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université des Sciences, des Techniques, et des Technologies ; Université des Sciences Juridiques et Politiques
- Université de Batna, Algérie
- Université de Béjaia, Algérie
- Université de Blida, Algérie
- Université Bordeaux, Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM) Sciences Po (Bordeaux, France)
- Université du Burundi, Bujumbura
- 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 catholique de l'Afrique centrale, Yaoundé, Cameroun
- Université catholique de Bukavu, République démocratique du Congo
- Université catholique du Congo, Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo
- Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
- Université de Djibouti (Djibouti)
- Université de Dschang, Cameroun
- Université Djillali Liabès, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algérie
- Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Université de Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
- Université Frères Mentouri, Constantine, Algérie
- Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal
- Université Général Lansana Conté -- Sonfonia (Conakry, Guinea)
- Université de Genève, Suisse, Département d'Anthropologie & d'Ecologie (Geneva, Switzerland)
- Université Hassan I, Settat, Maroc
- Université Hassan II, Aïn-Chok, Casablanca, Maroc
- Université Hassan II, Mohammedia, Casablanca, Maroc
- Université Islamique au Niger, Say
- Université de Kisangani, République démocratique du Congo
- Université de Laval, Québec, Canada
- Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs, Goma, République démocratique du Congo
- Université de Lomé, Togo
- Université de Lubumbashi, République démocratique du Congo
- Université de Mahajanga, Madagascar
- Université de Mbujimayi, République démocratique du Congo
- Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda, Maroc
- Université Mohammed V--Agdal, Rabat, Maroc
- Université Mohammed V--Souissi, Rabat, Maroc -et- Institut des Etudes Africaines
- Université de Nouakchott Al-Aasriya, Mauritania
- Université Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon
- Université Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne: Centre d'études des mondes africains Paris I (France)
- Université Paris Dauphine: DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation) Paris 10 (France)
- Université Paris Diderot: Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains, et asiatiques--CESSMA Paris 7 (France)
- Université Protestante au Congo, Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo
- Université de Provence, Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains (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 des Sciences et de la Technologie d'Oran Mohamed Boudiaf, Algérie
- Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc
- Université du Sine Saloum El Hâdj Ibrahima Niasse (Kaolack, Senegal)
- Université de Thiès, Sénégal
- Université de Toamasina, Madagascar
- Université ibn ToFail, Kénitra, Maroc
- Université de Toliara, Madagascar
- Université de Yaoundé II (Yaoundé, Cameroun)
- Université ibn Zohr, Agadir, Maroc
- University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
- University of Abuja, Nigeria
- University of Benghazi, Libya
- University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
- University of Birmingham, UK
- University of Botswana, Gaborone
- University of Bristol, UK -- Centre for Black Humanities
- University of Buea, Cameroon
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Cape Coast, Ghana
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- University of Chicago, Illinois
- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- University of Delhi, India
- University of Dodoma, Tanzania
- University of Edinburgh, UK
- University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
- 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 Gondar, Ethiopia
- University of Hargeisa, Somaliland
- University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- University of Illinois, Chicago (African American & African Studies)
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- The University of Iowa, Iowa City
- University of Johannesburg, South Africa -and- Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation
- University of Jos, Nigeria
- University of Juba, South Sudan
- University of Kansas, African Studies Center -- African and African-American Studies (Lawrence, Kansas)
- University of Khartoum, The Sudan
- 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 Makeni, Sierra Leone
- 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 -- African Studies Center -and- Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota (African American and African Studies)
- University of Mumbai, India
- University of Nairobi, Kenya
- University of Namibia, Windhoek
- University of Nigeria, Nsukka -and- Institute of African Studies
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill--African Studies Center -and- Department of African and Afro-American Studies
- University of Notre Dame -- Africana Studies (Notre Dame, Indiana)
- University of Oslo, Norway (African, Southeast Asian, and Latin American studies)
- University of Ottawa, Canada
- University of Pennsylvania--Africana Studies (Philadelphia) As of July 2015, includes "African studies"
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa
- University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- University of Pretoria, South Africa
- University of Rwanda (Kigali, Rwanda)
- University of Sierra Leone (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
- University of Somalia, Mogadishu
- University of South Africa, Pretoria
- University of South Florida, Tampa (African diaspora and African studies)
- University of Swaziland, Mbabane
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville Africana studies
- University of Texas, Arlington
- University of Texas at Austin--African & African American Studies (Austin, Texas)
- University of Venda, Limpopo Province, South Africa
- University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (Africa Research Cluster)
- 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 -- The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Land Tenure Center
- 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
- Williams College -- International Studies-African -and- Africana Studies (Williamstown, Massachusetts)
- Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars--Africa Program (Washington, DC)
- Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
- Yobe State University, Damaturu, Nigeria
- York University, Toronto, Canada -and- The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas
- Zanzibar University, Tanzania
- Zhejiang Normal University, China (Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China) Institute of African Studies
- Zimbabwe Open University (Harare)