10 Other Places The African Civ Study Abroad Program Could Be Based

By Chase Harrison

April 25, 2016

On April 26, the Chicago Maroon reported that beginning in Winter 2018, the University will offer an African Civilizations program in Dakar, Senegal. At the April 15th College Council meeting, Dean Boyer announced that the University is seeking to offer an African Civilizations Study Abroad Program in Africa next year. Currently, the study abroad program is run out of offered only in Paris. While we, at the Shady Dealer, think having a the program on the continent being studied is nice and all, we have some other ideas of places the program could be run out ofoffered:

1. Ann Arbor, MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor was the sister city of Dakar, Senegal in 1997. That one year basically made makes it an African city.

2. The Africa section of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Celebration, Florida: You can’t get much more of an authentic cultural experiencee than you can at Disney World. A few rides on the Kilimanjaro Safaris is a great primer on Fanon.

3. Oaxaca, Mexico: Why not just just combine African Civ program with the Latin American Civ program? It’s all the developing world anyway, right?…

4. Sheridan, Wyoming: The Africa of Wyoming!

5. Yassa African Restaurant, Chicago: With this option, students will live and learn in the exotic Yassa Restaurant, coming face to face with authentic African culture regularly.

6. Lewiston, Maine: Lewiston has one of the largest populations of Somalian immigrantss in America, and the weather is African enough.

7. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Its connection to Africa is historically controversial, dubious. bBut so is Paris’!

8. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: If you can’t get the biggest desert in the world, settle for the second biggest!

9. Barranquilla, Colombia: Shakira’s hometown. She sang the anthem of the World Cup in Africa, so her connection to Africa must be powerful.

10. Paris, France: On second thought, students need to be safe. Better keep them in Paris.