Our membership form
is available online
postal contact Address
Boston Pan-African Forum
P.O. Box 381232
Cambridge, MA
02238-1232 USA
The Boston Pan African Forum
to go the BPAF opening webpage click
here: WWW.BPAF.ORG
scroll down this page for on-going and past activities,
the U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan interview
on AIDS, and
AFRICA ACTION's ALERTS
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The BPAF is a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) open-membership organization that was created in 1997 in order to promote a widespread appreciation of current social, economic, political and other issues affecting relations between Americans and peoples of African descent around the world. It seeks to mobilize all sectors of American society especially regarding U.S. foreign policy and international relations. The BPAF is based in Boston with a membership throughout New England. Our organization's mission emphasizes connecting African peoples with each other, and with their friends and allies.
Come
and participate in our programs to help build an understanding of why,
and how, and with whom we all can connect, for our common good.
PANEL:
"WHAT IS AFRICA TO ME?: THE RELEVANCE OF PAN-AFRICANISM TODAY"
Elizabeth A. Sarkodie-Mensah, Ghana Association of Greater Boston
Joyce Hope Scott, Professor, Wheelock College
Moderator: Willard R. Johnson, Professor Emeritus, M.I.T.
JULY 25, 2007 -- PIANO CRAFT GALLERY, 791 Tremont Ave.
For a summary of the discussion click
here
P lease give us your own views on this topic!
For information on the conference held in Ghana in August, 2007, about the history of various governmental efforts to end the Atlantic Slave Trade click here!
Action Links:
The Africa Action home website and current Action Alerts
ON-GOING EVENTS
THE AFRICAN DIASPORA PROJECT
CLICK HERE FOR DESCRIPTION
One small but significant thing we can do is help to save the next generation! And we can attempt to understand the challenge of AIDS within the context of understanding the challenges of globalization. That is why we have joined our project to the nation-wide "Campaign to End Global Apartheid and Secure Africa's Right to Health” that has been organized by Africa Action Inc.
Watch our website for future programs of this project. You may
continue to contribute to this on-going effort, by sending your contribution
to our postal box, earmarked for the "Adopt an Orphanage" project.
We call your attention to a moving BBC interview with U.N.
Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan,on the subject of HIV/AIDS, which
aired November 28, 2003 Click
here for plain text of Kofi Annan interview For a audio/visual clip of
the interview BBC News URL-
you must have Real Player on your computer (which you can download free from
the internet if you do not already have it.)
THE AFRICA CONNECTION SERIES
KWAME NKRUMAH SAID "AFRICA MUST UNITE!" In the context of an often pernicious and imbalanced GLOBALIZATION, the emeregence of a NEW IMPERIALISM from "uberpower" arrogance, the ravages of the AIDS pandemic, and the crushing burdens of an unfair financial DEBT, and ECONOMIC and POLITICAL ISOLATION, this is even more necessary today.
African peoples around the world confront many challenges often not of
their own making, and sometimes because of their own mistakes and isolation.
This must stop. The answer is not more isolation into a new apartheid. The answer
is for African peoples and their friends and allies to collect their wits, combine
their strengths, and defend their common interests.
HOW is this to be done? Africans around the world must meet the challenges
that confront them in the areas of: stopping the genocidal slaughter going on
in the Darfur region of Sudan; arresting the spread and combating the ravages
of the HIV/AIDS pandemic; in overcoming technological, economic and political
isolation; in ending the burden of debt; in achieving sustainable development;
in protecting the cultural strength of Africa's peoples around the world. Our
programs aim to further the achievement of these goals.
The Boston Pan-African Forum is a local program partner with AFRICA ACTION of Washington D.C. click here for their ACTION ALERT regarding (March 04) BUSH funding proposals for fighting AIDS in Africa. For other action alerts and information on their programs, click here
BPAF is also the delegate organization for Massachusetts activities to promote the implementation of the National Plan of Action adopted at the National Summit on Africa in Washington, DC, in February 2000. The plan emphasizes 5 themes: Economic Development; Education and Culture; Environment & Quality of Life; Democracy & Human Rights; and Peace & Security. Visit the website at Click here for the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa website
TransAfrica Forum: for information regarding current programs, click here
PAST EVENTS
(in addition to the 2007 and on-going programs)
In 2006 we co-sponsored with the Harvard Law School Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice a symposium on the challenges facing New Orleans inhabitants displaced by the Katrina disaster.
With the SOMPATT organization, and the MIT Department of Political Science, we co-sponsored the first grand, week long SOMPATT African Diaspora Cultural Festival performance and fair. This will be a recurrent program.
In 2005 we organized a meeting of Boston area African and Caribbean organizations to foster communication and collaboration.
We co-sponsored a Jamaica Hurricane Relief program and fund-raising concertWith the Cambridge Multicultural Center and the Boston Arts Academy we co--sponsored a major program featuring a gala dinner with Hugh Masekela and the South African Ambassador to the U.S., as well as master classes by Masekela at the Arts Academy..
With the Africana Studies Program at the Univ. of Mass. Boston, we co-sponsored a conference on "Haitian Development and Public Policy: The Next Decade."
With the Northeastern Univ. AAMARP Center, we co-sponsored a day-long sumposium "Immigration and the African Diaspora."
With the U.Mass. Boston, we co-sponsored the annual M.L.King/ Amilcar Cabral Conference held on M.L. King Jr.Day.
In 2004 we co-sponsored an exhibit of contemporary South African art, titled
"A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa" at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists 300 Walnut Street, Roxbury, MA (see the BPAF mainpage for more information)2003 Events in THE AFRICA CONNECTIONS SERIES --
The first program was held September 15, 2003, and was co-sponsored by The MIT AFRICAN STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION. It featured presentations by Dr. Pearl Robinson of Tufts University, Mr. Reggie Jackson of Simmons College, and Mr. Michael Ofori of the Ghanaian Association of Greater Boston.The second program in this series was held October 1st and featured three speakers brought directly from the African continent by Africa Action as part of its END GLOBAL APARTHEID CAMPAIGN. The speakers were Pholokgolo Ramothwalahabo from the South African Treatment Action Campaign; Limota Goroso Giwa from the Nigerian Baobab for Women's Human Rights organization, and Demba Dembele (Senegalese) from the continent-wide Forum for African Alternatives.
The 2003 program in the PROJECT ADOPT series was: :"ENDING GLOBAL APARTHEID" -- which featured the film "A CLOSER WALK," -- It was held on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1st, and was co-sponsored by The MIT AFRICAN STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION and AFRICA ACTION Inc.
A SPECIAL EVENT was held Oct 3, 2003 -- “Fighting for My Life” Paintings of Ndume (Erskine Johnson) Tennessee Death Row Inmate click here for more information on the Ndume program and ways to contributeWe co-sponsored the King-Cabral Conference at UMass Boston on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
2002 Events:
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The Boston Pan African FORUM 2002 benefit, "Project Adopt an |
The Boston Pan-African Forum and Roxbury Community College Student Government Association Presented:
Former President Kenneth Kaunda
of Zambia
Appeared November 19th, 2002
@ The Roxbury Community College Media Arts Building.
The Boston Pan African Forum Supported The August 17th Mobilization March On Washington In Support For Reparations.
the U.N. Secretary
General, Mr. Kofi Annan,
held at the
Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists.
in the heart of Boston's black community.
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