2024 Nominees
Read the biographies of the final candidates below and then cast your vote for who you think should be named the 2024 Africans Rising
2024 – 0502 – AR Newsletter
Are you ready for the 2024 Borderless Africa Convening? The Borderless Africa Campaign is a decentralised, people-owned campaign with an aim to push for the free movement of African people and goods in Africa. The overall goal of this campaign…
Africans Rising Mission To Togo Experiences Extent of Clampdown
A pan-African delegation of activists on a fact-finding mission to Togo has found out the extent of the ongoing state clampdown on pro-democracy protests.
#NewGambia: Reflections On A Transition To Democracy
The transition from dictatorship to democratic freedom in The Gambia would not have been possible without the courage and determination of the Gambian people. And leading the Gambian people in that struggle to remove longtime dictator Yahya Jammeh, were young…
South Sudan | Artists making Peace in a War
In the midst of a civil war in South Sudan, young artists are learning the art of building a social movement, claiming civic space and empowering youth to seize their destiny. Social movements often arise out of profound, historic moments…
No Sustainable Solutions in Africa Without Empowered Youth
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…
Meet Our New Ambassadors!
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,…
Africans Rising Appoints New Coordinator
Muhammed Lamin Saidykhan, a 32-year- old activist from The Gambia with a background in youth development, was appointed Coordinator of Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity, taking over the reigns from global human rights and environmental justice activist and launch director, Kumi Naidoo, following an Africa-wide search.
Africa’s youth dividend – a promise deferred?
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…
Cameroon Fact-Finding Mission Report Statement
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…
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