Africa

Sunset over Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa

Africa

Georgetown University has significant academic and outreach relationships in Africa.

Across schools and departments, Georgetown faculty are involved in multidisciplinary research and teaching on Africa's history, development, politics, and culture. The African Studies Program, the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, and the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation are hubs for much of this activity. The university’s Washington, DC, location facilitates academic and cultural exchanges with Georgetown’s African partners, as does the presence of the World Bank and other leading international organizations.

Georgetown in Africa Fact Sheet

Featured News

Book cover with "Co-winner APCG 2020 Best Book Award"

Professor Wins Africa Politics Conference Group's 2020 Best Book Award

School of Foreign Service professor Ken Opalo's book Legislative Development in Africa has received the Africa Politics Conference Group's 2020 Best Book Award. Read the introduction for free through the Cambridge University Press website.

Commonly Used Antibiotic Shows Promise for Combating Zika Infections

Georgetown Offers Diplomatic Workshop on Africa’s Place on the World Stage

Georgetown, Education Above All, and African Leadership Academy Increase Access to Education

Select Centers, Institutes,
and Research Programs

Office of Global Education

Office of Global Education Georgetown Unit

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.

Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa Fellowship Program

Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa Fellowship Program Activity

This fellowship program trains women's human rights lawyers from Africa who are committed to returning to their home countries in order to advance the status of women and girls. This fellowship program is sponsored by the Women’s Law and Public…

African Studies Program

African Studies Program Georgetown Unit

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…

Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation

Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation Georgetown Unit

Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (gui2de) is a collaboration between the Economics Department and the McCourt School of Public Policy. Gui2de promotes field-based research in developing countries to evaluate…

Past Event

February 26

The Fragmented Spectacle of Chinese Soft Power in Africa

Past Event

February 25

Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

Past Event

February 17

Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean

Explore the Region by Country

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Comoros

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Equatorial Guinea

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Gambia

Ghana

Ivory Coast

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Rwanda

Senegal

Somalia

South Africa

South Sudan

Sudan

Tanzania

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Certificate in African Studies

Department of Pediatrics Global Health Track Residency

Jesuit Worldwide Learning

Major in French

Major in Spanish

Minor in Spanish

Education and Social Justice Summer Research Fellowship

Global Health Practical Experience Abroad

GU Impacts Fellowship Program

International Health Interest Group

Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa Fellowship Program

M.S. in Foreign Service Internship Opportunity with UNICEF

M.S. in Global Health Program Field Research

MBA Global Business Experience

School of Medicine - Fourth Year Elective in Cameroon

School of Medicine - Fourth Year Elective in Lesotho

Study Abroad in Belville, South Africa - University of the Western Cape/Arcadia University

Study Abroad in Cape Town, South Africa: Multiculturalism and Human Rights - School for International Training

Study Abroad in Dakar, Senegal: Development Studies - Council on International Educational Exchange

Study Abroad in Dakar, Senegal: Global Security and Religious Pluralism - School for International Training

Study Abroad in Dakar, Senegal: Language and Culture - Council on International Educational Exchange

Study Abroad in Durban, South Africa: Community Health and Social Policy - School for International Training

Study Abroad in Durban, South Africa: Social and Political Transformation - School for International Training

Study Abroad in Gaborone, Botswana: Arts and Sciences - University of Botswana/Council on International Educational Exchange

Study Abroad in Gaborone, Botswana: Community Public Health - Council on International Educational Exchange

Study Abroad in Kampala, Uganda: Development Studies - School for International Training

Study Abroad in Kigali, Rwanda: Post-Genocide Restoration and Peacebuilding - School for International Training

Study Abroad in Legon, Ghana: Arts and Sciences - University of Ghana/Council on International Educational Exchange

Study Abroad in Stellenbosch, South Africa: Stellenbosch University

Study Abroad in Tolagnaro, Madagascar: Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management - School for International Training

Study Abroad in Yaounde, Cameroon - Universite Catholique d'Afrique Centrale/Middlebury College

Study Abroad in Yaounde, Cameroon: Development and Social Change - School for International Training

Study Abroad in Zanzibar, Tanzania: Coastal Ecology and Natural Resource Management - School for International Training

Summer in Basanga and Livingston, Zambia: The Africa Field School

Summer in Cape Town, South Africa: Social Transformation in South Africa

Summer in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Development Challenges in Tanzania Internship

Osama Abi-Mershed

Rogaia Abusharaf

Lucile Adams-Campbell

Akintunde Akinade

Richard America

Laia Balcells Ventura

Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano

Yulia Chentsova Dutton

Jacobus Cilliers

Soyica Diggs Colbert

Chester Crocker

Jeffrey Crowley

Kathryn de Luna

Susan Deller Ross

Sylvie Durmelat

Lawrence O. Gostin

Supriya Goswami

Charles Gustafson

James Habyarimana

Jonathan Halpern

Charles B. Holmes

Douglas A. Howard

Lise Morje Howard

Maurice Jackson

Noureddine Jebnoun

Victoria Jennings

Sarah Stewart Johnson

Matthew M. Kavanagh

Barbara Kotschwar

Rebecka Lundgren

Tarek Maassarani

Christina X. Marea

Katherine Marshall

Meredith McKittrick

Emily Mendenhall

Gwendolyn Mikell

Constance Newman

Felicitas Opwis

Coílín Parsons

Rebecca Patterson

George Psacharopoulos

Wolfgang Rennert

Andrew Schoenholtz

Dominick Shattuck

April Sizemore-Barber

Claire Standley

Geoffrey Traugh

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Eduardo Velez Bustillo

Charles Villa-Vicencio

Myriam Vuckovic

Anne Marie Whitesell

Elizabeth Zsiga

African Studies Program

Department of French and Francophone Studies

Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation

Office of Global Education

Office of International Programs - School of Medicine

Office of Transnational Programs

Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program

Global Connectivity in the Time of COVID-19

GU-Q Professor Reflects on Teaching Theology at a Jesuit University in Doha

Caring for Mothers and Babies: NHS Faculty Promote Maternal Health in Liberia

Linguistics Professor and Students Document Endangered Language in Ivory Coast

Students Travel to Zambia for First-Ever Field School

NHS Sends Seniors Overseas Through the Global Health Practical Experience Abroad

Education and Social Justice Project Addresses Poverty Through Education

Georgetown Professor Presents Research on Central Africa’s Undocumented Past

Khadija Khan Engages in a Movement Through Research

A Global Business Experience: Growing E-commerce in Kenya

Global Podcast: Georgetown's “Zusha!” Campaign Prevents Road Fatalities in Kenya

Documentation of an Endangered Language

The Global Business Experience: Business Without Borders

African Musical Fusion in a Globalized World

Workshop Examines African Environments and their Populations

The LAWA Program: Expanding Horizons for Women’s Rights

USAID Implementation of the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security

Georgetown Alumna, Author Shares Thoughts on Business, Potential, and Security in “The Next Africa”

Graduate School Partners with Ugandan Universities to Design Collaborative Virtual Classes

gui2de launches Road Safety Campaign Nationwide in Kenya

African Graduate Students Eligible for Full-Tuition Scholarship to Georgetown MSFS Program

Students Build Businesses in Panama, Rwanda through Social Entrepreneurship Program

Chief Benefits Officer Helps Bring Art to Kenyan Secondary School

Georgetown Jesuit Fellow to Help Set Up University in Ivory Coast

Georgetown Physician Spearheads Healthcare Volunteering Initiative in Cameroon