WARA has 52 member institutions, including our first and current homes, Howard University and Boston University; University of Chicago; Rutgers; Indiana University; UC Berkeley; UCLA; Yale, and many
- Africa Network
- Allegheny College
- American University
- Boston University
- Bridgewater State University
- Colorado College
- College of Wooster
- Columbia University Institute for African Studies
- Dakar Institute of African Studies
- Emory University
- Florida International University
- George Washington University
- Georgia State University
- Garden City University College
- Harvard University
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Howard University
- Indiana University
- Iowa State University
- Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
- Kalamazoo College
- Kent State University
- Lafayette College
- Lesley University
- Michigan State University
- Morgan State University
- New Jersey City University
- Northern Illinois University
- Northwestern University Library
- Ohio University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Pomona College
- Rutgers University
- Saginaw Valley State University
- Santa Clara University
- Smithsonian Institution
- South Dakota State University
- Tufts University
- Union Theological Seminary
- University of California at Los Angeles
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of California at Riverside
- University of California at Santa Barbara
- University of Chicago
- University of Cincinnati
- University of Florida
- University of Georgia
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Kansas
- University of Minnesota
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Pittsburgh Center for African Studies
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Virginia State University
- Wells College
- Western Michigan University
- Willamette University
- Yale University