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Mission
The Africa Business & Society Group's mission is to organize SOM students with African connections and interests to socialize their experiences, knowledge, networks, and passions for Africa-related business, career development, education, impact-creation, cultural outreach, and issue-advocacy – at SOM and at larger YALE.

Our 50-plus student clubs are an integral part of the Yale SOM community. Clubs provide forums for discussion and opportunities for action, and they foster students' leadership and business skills via consulting engagements, workshops, roundtables, conferences, and fundraisers. SOM clubs are inclusive networks open to all students to participate as identifying members or as active allies.

Membership Benefits
We execute on our mission through the following programs, events, and initiatives:

i) African career fairs and internship-organization sourcing through partnerships with Yale undergraduate African student-organizations like YASA and YAAPD;

ii) Africa Growth Stories, a Thought Leadership Speaker Series with leading African business, government, nonprofit, and civil-society actors;

iii) Africa Start-up Review, an annual SOM-hosted competition centered on start-up businesses in Africa;

iv) Africa Admissions Ambassadors events in Africa powered by student initiative;

v) Mentorship/Buddy program to ease acculturation transition of newly admitted African students;

vi) Joint hosting of cultural events like African cappellas and artisanal exhibitions with the Cross-Cultural Committee of Student Life;

vii) Educational trips to development institutions, museums, and national parks in flagship American cities;

viii) Advocacy to enrich SOM curriculum with salient African subject-matter;

ix) Engagement of SOM African alumni in a groundbreaking Africa-focused Lifetime Mentors program;

x) Outreach to and liaising of African GNAM schools;

xi) Joint Club events with the Japan, Greater China, South Asian Business Forum, and Korea clubs to explore World Connections across seas;

xii) Africa Enterprise Week, a week-long Club trip to Africa for hands-on immersion in social and business projects that actuate development impact;

xiii) Social and networking events like African Movie Nights for the whole of SOM;

xiv) Africa Conversations to create community awareness via narratives that echo success stories in Africa; and

xv) Partnered fundraising initiatives with African groups at other schools of Yale to support headline health, natural disaster, land-biodiversity, and human rights emergencies (the Africa Healthcare, Earth Conservation and Rights Abuse Fund).