India and Africa have historically shared strong educational linkages. These were once again brought to the fore by the inauguration of the offshore campuses of two premier Indian universities in Africa. The National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) set up a campus in Jinja (Uganda) in April 2023 and then came the iconic Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) that set up its campus in Zanzibar (Tanzania) in October 2023. Facilitated by the New Education Policy enunciated by the Government in 2020, both the campuses are ‘Firsts’. The NFSU became the first public university to go out of India while IIT (Zanzibar) became the first IIT that left the shores of India. Africa thus holds the distinction of being the host to two pioneering educational institutions setting up their campuses abroad for the first time in the history of India. The setting up of these campuses in Africa is a true testament to the importance that Africa gets in the Foreign Policy of India.