Travel with ease and expertise.
Whether you’re a flight attendant on a brief stay, a sea captain, planning a family vacation, or organizing a study trip, our single- and multi-day tours make every experience seamless. Your 24/7 host and multilingual guides—fluent in English and at least two local dialects—handle everything from translation to money exchange. Backed by years of experience, Cultural Links guides ensure personalized service for individuals, groups, and local travelers alike.
Cultural Links offers global education management services backed by 15 years of experience- setting gold-star standards for 21st century intercultural competency development. We help schools and colleges build global education programs of distinction by working with small and large teams to cultivate and grow transformative experiences for students and educators.
Dance all day, eat, relax, drum all night rest, repeat! This cultural immersion tour is our flagship program for those who wish to delve into the rhythms, meanings, stories, and spiritual connections to what is truly the heartbeat of African culture.
A leisure and vacation travel experience featuring a mix of cultural and historical site seeing, eco-tourism, music, dance, folk arts, and entertainment. Includes African Diaspora history tours and meet-ups with repatriated communities who are living and doing business abroad. (Voted most popular by previous tour participants!)
A blended leisure and cultural travel experience featuring lessons in African music, dance, drumming / drum-making, language, and African folk arts, i.e., Clay-making, textiles/ fashion design, Kente weaving, basket weaving, studio recording, beading, woodcarving, culinary arts, and mores. The ultimate hands-on experience for people of all ages!
The ultimate R&R Oceanview holistic healing getaway featuring massage, reflexology, dance, yoga, nature walks, herbology, and optimal nutrition through organic catered food service.
This tour is designed as a spiritual and cultural heritage retreat for African Diaspora students to encourage a sense of self-awareness, self-belonging, and discovery of talent by re-connecting a distant past to the resilience of healing through African drumming and music.
Travel coordination, logistical support, Bride & Groom/wedding party custom-designed African attire/tailoring, photo-shoot/video service, catering, sight-seeing tours. post wedding honeymoon get-a-ways, etc.
Safaris (Rwanda, South Africa)
Eco Village Tour (Cuba, Belize, Puerto Rico, Ghana)
Nature Hikes(All regions)
Plant Medicine (South Africa, Ghana)
Discover legend, tradition, mystery, and fact, from a powerful and spiritual ancient civilization. Explore Ethiopia’s legendary Blue Nile, ancient monasteries, rock-hewn churches, and pastoral villages. From the safari lands to the seaboards, the diversity of your travel locations will leave your imaginations fulfilled! Sprinkled with cultural treats, each destination highlights the country’s beautiful iconic landscapes and archeological gems. Top off this exhilarating spotlight on Ethiopian history and culture with traditional dance, music, and a traditional Buna coffee ceremony!
A blended entrepreneurial and leisure travel experience featuring African Diaspora investment projects, real estate/land acquisitions, small and corporate business networking opportunities.
Just relax and let us plan your journey for a hassle-free, effortless trip. Whether you join one of our pre-packaged tours or prefer a customized travel experience, our expert travel planners can handle all logistics for your short or long-term stay including flights, ground transportation, meals, accommodations, excursions, and hands-on activities so that you or your group can enjoy your time and travel with ease. Our hosts will meet you at the airport and even help you pack those last-minute items for your departure!
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Undergraduate and postgraduate admission support
American Language Programs
International Extension Programs
Open University Programs
J-1 Visa advisement
ASE African Student Exchange Project
Community College Partnerships
4-Year University Partnerships
” The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated…” James Baldwin, 1963
Cultural Links is committed to moving the needle on equity in study abroad for underserved student populations. Options to study abroad in African countries are rare. In comparison to European destinations (more than 70%), study abroad in African countries account for only 3.9% of all international program offerings through U.S. public and private higher education institutions (IIE, 2018).
Give me the RAW DATAAS !
Workshops for Educators and Students
Being reflective is the key to DATAAS.
Students need space, time, and energy to understand why and how transformation occurs.
This workshop presents data on student transformation and activism with a focus on strategies for cultivating deepened critical self-reflection.
In service to uplifting AA student voice, this workshop is led by Cultural Links Global Education Student Ambassadors who present a 1-hour interactive session highlighting heritage-based study abroad for self-transformation including spiritual, personal, and academic growth. Workshop participants will better understand how heritage-based study abroad…
Expands a sense of belonging in a global community.
Generates happy spirits, fosters 21st-century intercultural competency skills that employers seek.
Develops resiliency in leadership.
Helps to dismantle White privilege in study abroad.
The use of African ontology in education centers learning around what is most important to AA students beyond the confines of Western paradigms- from curriculum design to instructional methodology and can apply to any student group. These student-centered workshops channel what’s important through the lens of the student audience
What do immigrant students wish to gain from their educational experiences? How do disabled or unsheltered students perceive their leadership and activism as being cultivated on college campuses?
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