AAI's mission is to promote enlightened engagement between Africa and America through education training and dialogue. The Institute pursues its mission in two program areas: African Higher Education and Training (AHET) and Educational Outreach and Policy (EOP) which aim to educate Africans and educate Americans about Africa.

The Africa-America Institute (AAI) was founded in 1953 to help Africans build human capacity through education and training programs. Today, AAI continues to pursue this vision through a portfolio of programs aimed at both educating Africans and educating Americans about Africa.
For over fifty years, AAI's African Higher Education and Training programs have provided university, graduate-level, and professional training scholarship programs for Africans in fundamental capacity-building fields, including agriculture, business and finance, education, government, health care, science and technology.

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