Rhodes African Studies Centre (RASC)

Rhodes University was awarded a University of Bayreuth (UBT) African Cluster Centre (ACC), as part of UBT’s Africa Multiple Centre of Excellence in October 2019. It is one of the four such African Cluster Centres. The other institutions that are in the Cluster are Université Ouaga I, aka Joseph Ki-Zerbo University (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), Moi University (Eldoret, Kenya), and the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies at the University of Lagos (Lagos, Nigeria). This global strategic collaboration as well as our institutional strategic considerations necessitated the need for a formal African Studies Centre (RASC) at Rhodes university. Our collaboration with the University of Bayreuth (UBT) is a key flagship project under the RASC. https://www.ru.ac.za/africanstudiescentre/