Immersion Writers
Afro-Feminist Seminar
Program Tuition Includes:
Private accommodations in boutique Dakar B&B
Daily breakfast + two group meals
4 morning seminar sessions with Dr. Nicole Richards Diop
Curated visits to: Goree Island, Museum of Black Civilizations, Soumbedioune Market, Loman Art Gallery, and the African Renaissance Monument
Tuition Fee: $2,350 (payment plans available)
When: June 27-July 2 2026
Where: Dakar, Senegal
Workshop Leader: Dr. Nicole Richards Diop
Embark on a literary journey: this six-day, five-night immersion in Dakar brings together morning seminar sessions grounded in African feminist thought with afternoons devoted to cultural exploration and place-based learning. Participants will engage the city daily through visits to Gorée Island, the African Renaissance Monument, Soumbédioune Market, and the Museum of Black Civilizations, while gathering in the mornings for four days of sustained seminar-based reading, dialogue, and reflection. Designed for writers, students, scholars, and cultural workers engaged in feminist inquiry across the African diaspora, this program offers a focused space for serious study shaped by place, history, and shared intellectual commitment.
Writing African Histories
Program Tuition Includes:
Private accommodations in boutique Accra hotel
Daily breakfast + two group meals
4 morning seminar sessions exploring theories of memory, history, & return
Curated visits to: Elmina Castle, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial, Art District, WEB DuBois Center, and Jamestown
Tuition Fee: $2,500 (payment plans available)
When: August 5-11, 2026
Where: Accra, Ghana
Workshop Leader: Dr. Nicole Richards Diop
Writing African Histories is a seven-day seminar in historiography and history writing on Africa, held in Ghana and grounded in the Pan-African vision of W.E.B. Du Bois. We bring together scholars, graduate students, and fiction writers to ask a shared question: What does it mean to write African histories as a decolonial practice?
The workshop is organized around the conviction that the writing of history—whether as critical scholarship or creative narrative—is never neutral. It is shaped by method, archive, memory, and the stories we inherit and tell. To write African histories from within is to engage in an ongoing project of intellectual liberation: unsettling colonial archives, recovering submerged voices, and refusing the frameworks that have long narrated Africa for others.
Oral Histories Workshop Rwanda
Program Tuition Includes:
Private accommodations in Kigali, Rwanda
4 oral history seminars with Dr. Nicole Richards Diop
Curated visits to: Kigali Genocide Memorial, Rwanda Art Museum, Inema Arts Center,Kimironko Market, andLake Kivu/Nkombo Island
Tuition Fee: $3,210 (payment plans available)
Optional extensions to: Rwanda Gorilla Trekking & Twin Lakes
When: December 10-December 17, 2026
Where: Kigali, Rwanda
Workshop Leader: Dr. Nicole Richards Diop
This seven day immersion in Kigali centers oral history as a method of listening, documentation, and ethical engagement. Mornings are devoted to guided workshops on oral history theory, interview practice, and narrative responsibility, while afternoons focus on place-based learning through visits to sites such as the Kigali Genocide Memorial and community spaces central to Rwanda’s contemporary cultural life. Designed for writers, artists, students, scholars, and NGO professionals, this program offers a focused environment for learning how stories are gathered, held, and shared—shaped by history, memory, and relational accountability.
African Narratology
Program Tuition Includes:
Private accommodations in boutique Dakar B&B
Daily breakfast + two group meals
2 seminar sessions on African narratology
Curated visits to: Goree Island, Museum of Black Civilizations, Soumbedioune Market, Loman Art Gallery, and the African Renaissance Monument
Tuition Fee: $2,650 (payment plans available)
When: January 3-8 2027
Where: Somone, Senegal
This workshop invites participants to engage African narratology as both a critical method and a living storytelling practice. Through shared readings and discussion, we will explore how African narratives structure time, memory, kinship, and political life across oral and written forms. The workshop is designed for writers and thinkers interested in narrative as a site of knowledge, relation, and world-making.