Big Ideas,
Real Impact.
Our 2026 Program Alumni
“The best part [of this educational experience] for me was meeting both of you and going to Goree Island and seeing, feeling, and experiencing what I’ve known as history; but feeling history come to life”
Higher Education in Africa Faculty Program 2023
—Dr. Menah Pratt, J.D. PhD
Regional Chancellor, Pennsylvania State University
“Having the opportunity to go to Senegal was really transformative for me. It was amazing to meet with the people, understand their culture and their food, and learn how they’ve been impacted by colonization and what they’re doing to subvert that.”
Decolonizing Education & July Summer Research Lab Attendee 2024
-Sydnee-Marie Edusei Gettysburg College (Class of 2024)
“I don’t know if my ancestors passed these specific shores but I do feel like I’ve returned to a place I’ve already known. Dakar is gorgeous and fertile and every day I find myself in awe of the smallest adventures like buying mangos or watching kids play.”
RPA Summer Research Lab July 2024
-Nia Hampton University of Maryland Baltimore County MFA Intermedia and Digital Arts
What People Are Saying
I wrote 40 pages in 8 days with Rose Pan African Education. Needless to say I'm coming back!
— Jade Flower-Foster
Poet & Writer
What you've built here is something special.
—Dr. Lea Williams
Professor of History
As a fiction writer, a book I've been plotting slowly over years, finally started to come together in Saly and... as an academic, a research project on Black migration after the Civil Rights Movement...has me energized in ways I haven't felt since before COVID. I've been recommending Rose Pan African Education to everyone I can
— Dr. Nicole Jackson
Professor of History