Association of African Universities

Conference at the AAU headquarters in Accra with the then AAU General Secretary Olugbemiro Jegede, 2011.

The Association of African Universities ( AAU for short , German Association of the Universities of Africa ) is an international umbrella organization on the African continent based in Accra , Ghana . It serves the cooperation, consultation and mutual information of all institutions for higher education in Africa. The organization was founded on November 12, 1967 in Rabat , the capital of Morocco , on the basis of a UNESCO recommendation from 1962.

As of October 2011, the AAU had a total of 268 member institutions from 46 African countries.

AAU President George Magoha stated in 2011 that only 242 of the approximately 600 universities in Africa are members of the AAU. The AAU is accused of having a strong Anglophone orientation and many francophone and lusophone universities prefer to cooperate with corresponding international university organizations.

Web links

www.aau.org (English, French) official website of the AAU
AAU members ( all members list )

Individual evidence

↑ ABOUT AAU . Retrieved December 16, 2014.
↑ Full List of Members ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 30, 2011 @1@ 2
↑ Maina Waruru: Association of African Universities loose new leader . In: University World News Issue No: 233 . August 5, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2014.

[Aau.org_about-1] ABOUT AAU . Retrieved December 16, 2014.

[2] Full List of Members ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 30, 2011 @1@ 2

[Universityworldnews.com_December_15_2014c-3] Maina Waruru: Association of African Universities loose new leader . In: University World News Issue No: 233 . August 5, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2014.