Africa

Accra, Ghana arch
Photo by Emily Hoerner

2025 Summer Programs in Africa

Education and Inclusion In Post-Apartheid South Africa

In Makhanda, an Eastern Cape Province town in South Africa, learn about the post-apartheid South African educational system, including its role in both maintaining socioeconomic and educational inequities and contesting these inequities in the first quarter-century of democracy. Gain hands-on experience working with teachers and students in middle schools, a school for socially marginalized youth, and an after school mentoring program run by Inkululeko, a non-governmental organization. (3 credits, EDU400/600)