Over the past decade, the number of African migrant and refugee women in the Northern&nbsp;Territory of Australia has increased exponentially. This influx has generated a range of&nbsp;government and community responses to build these African women&rsquo;s capacity to&nbsp;integrate into their host society through various forms of education. In spite of these&nbsp;adult education and learning programs, there is a dearth of empirical study to understand&nbsp;how education is used to enhance capacity building during settlement.This study employs feminist qualitative case study to examine how African-Australian&nbsp;women utilise adult education opportunities to build their individual and community&nbsp;capacity during settlement in the Northern Territory. Purposive sampling was used to&nbsp;identify 24 participants whose accounts were collected utilising a semi-structured&nbsp;conversational style interview. The data was analysed using the theoretical and&nbsp;conceptual frameworks of transformative learning, feminist standpoint and women&rsquo;s&nbsp;empowerment.The study&rsquo;s findings show that for the African-Australian women participants, education&nbsp;was an adaptive strategy for social and economic integration as well as a means of&nbsp;survival, a critical phase in reconstructing their identities and rebuilding their lives.&nbsp;Participation in learning activities empowered them to engage productively in the social,&nbsp;cultural, economic and political activities of their new society. The study demonstrates&nbsp;that education is a potent force which has enabled the 24 African Australian women to&nbsp;find meaning in the challenges of their existence in the Australian multicultural mosaic. The study makes a number of significant contributions including the provision of&nbsp;empirical data of African migrant and refugee women&rsquo;s settlement and educational&nbsp;experiences in the Northern Territory. It also contributes to the debate and discourse on&nbsp;immigration, feminism and most importantly adult education and learning in crosscultural&nbsp;contexts. The participants&rsquo; stories attest to transformation, empowerment and&nbsp;hope through adult education which can inform opportunities and educational pathways&nbsp;offered to other migrant and refugee groups in Australia and elsewhere