Collaborations
Africa.com – the world’s leading online resource on Africa- has recently formed a partnership with the Committee on African Studies to serve as a platform for outreach efforts to K-12 students and teachers.
Africa.com’s mission is to change the way the world sees Africa and to be the online portal for the world’s engagement with Africa. It is the fastest growing Africa-related internet site where visitors have access to financial, political and cultural news, maps, information about world-wide events and non-profit organizations related to Africa as well as views from opinion-leaders. More on this collaboration coming soon!
African Leadership Academy (ALA) is a residential, secondary institution located in the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. ALA identifies the most promising 15-19 year-old leaders on the African continent and brings them together for a two-year program of Leadership, Entrepreneurship and African Studies. At the Academy, these students engage in hands-on leadership and entrepreneurial experiences, and each student must develop a culminating project — either an entrepreneurial business or an innovative social venture that serves as a platform for their future leadership development.
ALA continues to nurture these leaders throughout their lives by continually connecting them to powerful networks of people and capital that can facilitate large-scale change. Over the next 50 years, ALA will create a network of 6,000 leaders who will work together to address Africa’s greatest challenges and bring about lasting peace and prosperity to the continent.
Together with the African Studies department at ALA, CAS has been working to envision an African Studies curriculum for this groundbreaking school.
Aga Khan University (AKU) is a private, non-denominational international university with campuses and programs in eight countries throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. Driven by the core values of quality, access, impact and relevance, AKU creates knowledge and promotes human welfare through research, teaching and community service. AKU graduates are challenged to be competent, compassionate and ethical leaders.
AKU is also one of nine agencies in the Aga Khan Development Network, a group of private development agencies with mandates ranging from health and education to architecture, culture, microfinance, integrated rural development and disaster preparedness, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalizations of historic cities.
Aga Khan University and the Harvard Committee on African Studies have partnered to offer a unique summer study abroad program that will bring together top undergraduate students from around the world to explore, learn and create in a dynamic higher learning environment. The inaugural AKU-Harvard Summer School program will take place over six weeks in 2012 on the Aga Khan Academy campus in Mombasa, Kenya. The program will be collaboratively led by Harvard and Aga Khan University faculty and staff, who will provide twenty undergraduate students—ten from the United States and ten from East African universities—with the opportunity to explore the topic of Resilience and Transformation in East Africa through a highly interactive curriculum incorporating discussion, debate, experiential learning and field work.
