MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release 15 May 2017 Historic Slavery Site to Host Africans Rising Launch Dakar, Senegal – A site internationally renown as a symbol of enslavement will host the launch of an emerging Pan-African movement determined to build…
By Ibrahim Ceesay You don’t have to look very hard or far to see the promise and power of African youth to deliver solutions, positive change and prosperity. And yet, still, on a continent where people under the age of…
Africans Rising’s Taye Balogun speaks with Dr. James Pope, host of “Africa Now! on Pacifica Radio’s community-sponsored station, WPFW in Washington about Africans Rising and the movement’s launch on 25 May 2017. Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/user-343237657/africanow-apr-19-2017-africans-rising-wisdom-of-afa
Launch director Kumi Naidoo speaks about Africans Rising and the challenges to African unity and progress with Dr. James Pope, host of “Africa Now!” on Pacifica Radio WPFW in Washington, DC. Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/user-343237657/africanow-apr-26-2017-africans-rising-pt-2-celeb-poetry-month
Africans Rising Launch Director Kumi Naidoo talks about Africans Rising and the movement’s official launch on 25 May 2017 with Walter Turner, host of “Africa Today”, an hour-long, weekly African affairs talk show on community-sponsored KPFA radio in Berkeley, California…
MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 21 April 2017 World Bank and IMF, Help #StopTheBleeding Of Africa’s Wealth! As the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) hold their Spring meetings in Washington, DC, billions of dollars due to…
MEDIA STATEMENT For Immediate Release An activist recognized by the Obama White House as a “champion of change” and a celebrated children’s author and change-maker have become the latest standard-bearers of Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity. Africans Rising,…
Africa has the most youthful population in the world, with more than 20% of the continent’s 1.2 billion Africans aged between 15 and 24. Eight of the ten youngest populations in the world are in Africa – people under the…
MEDIA STATEMENT 6 March 2017 Africans Rising Releases Fact-Finding Mission Report Into Crisis In Cameroon In October 2016, associations representing teachers, educators and lawyers in two of Cameroon’s Anglophone South West and North West Regions embarked on a strike…
Security forces shooting dead unarmed protesters, arbitrary arrests, detentions, torture, disappearances, harassment and intimidation are some of the reported human rights abuses that have been continuing for more than four months now in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. “I…
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