ACAE
The American Council on African Education (ACAE) is an American institution for the benefit of African students.
It was established in 1945 by Nigerian politician and prince Nwafor Orizu, who obtained numerous tuition scholarships from American sources for the benefit of African students.[1]
Among its members are Alain LeRoy Locke, Oric Bates,[2] Mary McLeod Bethune,[3] Harry Emerson Fosdick[4] and Constance Agatha Cummings.[5] They were instrumental in offering scholarships to Nigerian students studying in the United States.[6] Its membership consisted of both black and white academics, journalists and philanthropists.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Chike Momah. "The Life and Times of Prince Nwafor Orizu". USAfrica The Newspaper. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
- ^ Jerry Gershenhorn (April 1, 2004). Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge. U of Nebraska Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-8032-2187-1. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ Joyce A. Hanson (March 14, 2003). Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism. University of Missouri Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-8262-1451-5. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ Robert Moats Miller (February 21, 1985). Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet. Oxford University Press. p. 460. ISBN 978-0-19-503512-4. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ Toyin Falola (2004). Nationalism and African Intellectuals. University Rochester Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-58046-149-8. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ Judith Ann-Marie Byfield; LaRay Denzer; Anthea Morrison (January 26, 2010). Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland. Indiana University Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-253-35416-7. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ John Preston Davis (1966). The American Negro reference book. Prentice-Hall. p. 690. Retrieved October 6, 2012.