ACAE

{{Short description|American institution for the benefit of African students}}

{{redirect|Acae|the ancient people of Scythia|Achaei|the Australian educational institution|Adelaide College of Advanced Education}}

{{use mdy dates|date=February 2024}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.usafricaonline.com/orizuprofile_momah.html|title=The Life and Times of Prince Nwafor Orizu|author=Chike Momah|work=USAfrica The Newspaper|accessdate=2010-02-28|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181604/http://www.usafricaonline.com/orizuprofile_momah.html|url-status=dead}}

Among its members are Alain LeRoy Locke, Oric Bates,{{cite book|author=Jerry Gershenhorn|title=Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BT45oWWISPwC&pg=PA173|accessdate=6 October 2012|date=1 April 2004|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-2187-1|page=173}} Mary McLeod Bethune,{{cite book|author=Joyce A. Hanson|title=Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KQKSE5QgePcC&pg=PA5|accessdate=6 October 2012|date=14 March 2003|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-1451-5|page=5}} Harry Emerson Fosdick{{cite book|author=Robert Moats Miller|title=Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Do5wWiDsoboC&pg=PA460|accessdate=6 October 2012|date=21 February 1985|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-503512-4|page=460}} and Constance Agatha Cummings.{{cite book|author=Toyin Falola|title=Nationalism and African Intellectuals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJ0H12tCCXUC&pg=PA64|accessdate=6 October 2012|year=2004|publisher=University Rochester Press|isbn=978-1-58046-149-8|page=64}} They were instrumental in offering scholarships to Nigerian students studying in the United States.{{cite book|author1=Judith Ann-Marie Byfield|author2=LaRay Denzer|author3=Anthea Morrison|title=Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6_aWWN5aoUC&pg=PA242|accessdate=6 October 2012|date=26 January 2010|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-35416-7|page=242}} Its membership consisted of both black and white academics, journalists and philanthropists.{{cite book|author=John Preston Davis|title=The American Negro reference book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Je11AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=6 October 2012|year=1966|publisher=Prentice-Hall|page=690}}