MSU and Africa:
A half century of collaboration

Education and training

An MSU student works with children at Sitholinhlanhla Primary School in Richard's Bay, South Africa. Photo courtesy of MSU Office of Study Abroad.

MSU has been a major partner in the development of both higher education and elementary and secondary education in Africa since the early days of independence in the 1960s. During the past five decades, MSU has been able to develop a broader range of university partnerships in Africa than any other American university, building capacity in the professional fields of education, agriculture, human and veterinary medicine, business and engineering as well as in the core academic areas of the arts, humanities, and the physical and social sciences. The partnerships, which have encompassed most regions of Africa, include the University of Nigeria (the first land-grant, development-focused university in Africa) and universities in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. 

• Student and faculty researchers have been working to bring technology like the Internet to a rural town in northern Tanzania. Read more. Watch a video.
• MSU has a long history of collaborative work in Mali, including a partnership with the University of Mali in research, teaching and outreach. More.
• The African Studies Center has long supported the development of quality study abroad programs for U.S. students - undergraduate and graduate - in Africa. MSU has more than 25 study abroad programs in Africa. More.

• The African e-Journals Project makes journals published in Africa and about Africa more available to scholars worldwide.

• The MSU African Studies Center gives high priority to cooperation with African scholars and institutions. It acts as a coordinating body for research and teaching affiliations with academic institutions in Africa.

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