Georgetown University has had a significant history of academic and outreach relationships in Africa since the 1980s, when the African Studies Program was established within the School of Foreign Service.

Within the U.S. higher education sector, Georgetown was an early and outspoken opponent of the apartheid in South Africa. The university divested from South Africa in 1986 and invited Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress to give a major lecture on campus the following year. To honor that occasion, Georgetown instituted the Oliver Tambo Lecture Series in 2000, which has annually hosted African leaders including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymeh Gbowee from Liberia.

Today, the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact at the Medical Center, the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation, jointly convened by the Economics Department and the McCourt School of Public Policy, and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law are among the leading Georgetown initiatives in Africa. The Center for Global Health Practice and Impact manages offices and medical clinics in Cameroon, Eswatini, Kenya, and Nigeria, and the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation has a presence in Nairobi, Kenya.

Office of Global Education
The Office of Global Education provides advising, agreement management, emergency response, and other services related to undergraduate study-abroad programs. It is co-located and closely collaborates with the Office of Global Services.
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Sponsored by the Walsh School of Foreign Service, the African Studies Program offers a graduate certificate and an undergraduate certificate or minor focusing on historical and contemporary aspects of political and cultural life on the African…