Africa World is a transdisciplinary space in Princeton established to harness and optimize University initiatives focused on Africa, and ensure a multiway exchange with stakeholders on the African continent. The center serves as a hub for public-facing research, policy and entrepreneurial work, robust engagement and collaboration with African institutions, scholarly networks, and knowledge industries that shape life and societies within the continent, as it negotiates its relationship with the world.

• Africa World enhances and complements the Program in African Studies, by mobilizing additional resources to enable programs and partnerships with Africa that do not yet exist in Princeton.  Africa World will provide PAS with greater capacity and resources to expand its curricular needs through support of fellowships and visiting scholars.
• Africa World is a new way of thinking about and engaging with Africa; a new space and platform for preparing for the widely-predicted future in which Africa is expected to play an increasingly important role in world affairs due to changing global demographic patterns, the strengthening of its democratic and economic profile, and shifting geo-political alignments.