Immersion Writers
Afro-Feminist Seminar
When: January 10-17 2027
Where: Dakar, Senegal
Workshop Leader: Dr. Nicole Richards Diop
6 Spaces Available
This seven-day, six-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 study shaped by place, history, and shared intellectual commitment.
Program Tuition Includes:
Private accommodations in boutique Dakar B&B
Daily breakfast + two group meals
4 morning seminar sessions with workshop leader & guest lecturers
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)
Writers Workshop
Program Tuition Includes:
Private accommodations in boutique St. Louis B&B
Daily breakfast + two group meals
4 seminar sessions
Curated visits to: Djoudj Bird Sanctuary, Musées de Saint-Louis,Goree Island, Museum of Black Civilizations, Soumbedioune Market, Somone Mangroves, and the African Renaissance Monument
Tuition Fee: $2,650 (payment plans available)
When: March 22-27 2027
Where: St. Louis & Dakar Senegal
This workshop invites writers of all levels to explore water as a source of creative inspiration, a carrier of memory, and a witness to history. Set in Saint-Louis, Senegal, an island city where the Senegal River meets the Atlantic Ocean, we gather on ground that holds centuries of departure and return. This was a key port of the transatlantic slave trade, a place from which countless souls were forced onto water, never to return. Today, the same water that once carried away the stolen now carries stories, songs, and spirits back home. Through guided writing exercises, group sharing, and reflective time along the river and the sea, we will consider how water holds diasporic memory across generations, how it connects what empire tried to sever, and how we might write from that place of fracture and flow. Whether working in fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry, participants will leave with new writing, fresh creative tools, and a deeper engagement with water as a living archive of Black experience.
Oral Histories Workshop Rwanda
Program Tuition Includes:
Accommodations in Kigali, Rwanda with private bedroom
4 oral history seminars with Dr. Nicole Richards Diop
Curated visits to: Kigali Genocide Memorial, Rwanda Art Museum, Inema Arts Center, Kimironko Market, and Lake Kivu/Nkombo Island
Organizational Sponsor Tuition Fee: $3,210 (payment plans available)
Student Tuition Fee: $2,270 (payment plans available)
Optional extensions for additional fee: Rwanda Gorilla Trekking & Twin Lakes
Application Deadline: April 1, 2027
June 2027 Kigali, Rwanda
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.
History, Memory, Diaspora
Program Tuition Includes:
Private bedroom accommodations in Accra
Four seminars in African history, memory, and diaspora
Curated visits to Cape Coast Castle, the W.E.B. Du Bois Centre, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, historic Jamestown, and other significant cultural and historical sites
Standard Tuition Fee: $2,200 (payment plans available)
Application Deadline: May 7, 2027
Accra, Ghana
August 8-14, 2027
Experience Ghana through history, memory, and diaspora: eight days of intellectual and cultural immersion in Accra and Cape Coast, anchored by a seminar exploring African historical consciousness, the transatlantic slave trade, Pan-Africanism, colonialism, diasporic belonging, and the politics of place—alongside guided visits to Ghana's historic sites, museums, and cultural institutions.
Designed for writers, scholars, educators, students, and cultural practitioners interested in African history, historical memory, Pan-African thought, and the African diaspora.