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Pan-African Organisations
These are organisations that operate in the whole of Africa.
Panafricain Dance Festival- FESPAD
Dancers and musicians representing eleven countries come together for the same purpose—the Panafrican Dance Festival which more than lives up to its name. Traditional tribal festivals outlining and acting out royal prosperity rituals, like the Fête des Prémices and the Fête de la Moisson, are presented alongside dance performances fitting into a more purely performance mold. Even its theme, “Dense Culture,” is worthy of note; translated into English as “cultural diversity,” the phrase in French is a pun on the (English) words “dense” and “dance”—evoking both the depth and the art form at hand. Contacts Festival Panafricain de la Dance (FESPAD)
B.P: 1044 Kigali
Rwanda
Phone: +250 599573
Fax: +250 583531
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The Pan African Writers’ Association (PAWA)
The Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), a leading Pan African Cultural Institution accorded full Diplomatic Status by the Government of Ghana in 1992, is made up of the 52 National Writers Associations on the continent, and seeks to contribute its quota to moral, cultural and intellectual renaissance in Africa. Indeed, it is to play the role of being an important voice of the African, while seeking to restore to our people, confidence in themselves as African and reinforcing the vision for a Common African Home. Contacts
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The African Futures Institute(AFI)
The African Futures Institute(AFI) was established in early 2004 to sustain prospective thinking in Africa. The Institute grew out of the African Futures project at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). In 1992, African governments, together with the UNDP, decided to conduct National Long Term Perspective Studies (NLTPS) that would provide visionary leadership to guide the development process.
Between 1992 and 2003, the AFI provided technical support for the development and implementation of 25 studies which contributed to the mobilization of many organizations and individuals in African countries, and have them ponder over alternative visions and strategies within the time frame of a generation.
Vision
The AFI is a pan-African, non governmental organization registered in South Africa. With its headquarters in Tshwane (Pretoria), the AFI supports and develops prospective thinking in Africa, and facilitates the formulation by African countries of African development models in order to achieve social justice, safeguard the dignity of the people, and ensure that the 21st century will be the African century. Contacts
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African Publishers Network (APNET)
APNET - the African Publishers Network - was formed in 1992 to promote indigenous publishing in Africa. APNET brings together national publishers associations from 45 countries in Africa. APNET is a pan-African, non-profit making network with a Secretariat in Abidjan, Cote d'lvoire. Contacts 7e etage,Immeuble Roume Boulevard Roume 01 BP 3429 Abidjan 01 Cote d'lvoire Telephone:(225) 20211801, 20211802 Fax Number:(225) 20211803 E-mail: apnetes@yahoo.com
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Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa
OCPA, the Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa, is an independent pan-African non-governmental organisation aiming to enhance the development of national cultural policies in the region and their integration in human development strategies through advocacy and promoting information exchange, research, capacity building and cooperation at the regional and international level. 725, Avenida da Base N'Tchinga P. O. Box 1207 Maputo Mozambique Tel.: +258 21 418649 Fax: +258 21 418650 E-mail: director@ocpanet.org or secretariat@ocpanet.orgLink: www.ocpanet.org
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Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou
The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou or FESPACO) is the largest African film festival, held biennially in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The festival is the biggest regular cultural event on the African continent and it mostly focuses on the African film and African filmmakers. FESPACO starts two weeks after the last Saturday of February with the opening night in the Stade du 4-Août, which is the national stadium. It is hugely successful. Fespaco 01 BP 2505 Ouagadougou, 01 Burkina Faso Link: http://www.fespaco.bf/
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Regional Centre for Cultural Action (CRAC)
The Regional Center of Cultural Action (CRAC) is an intergovernmental African executive education and cultural development officers. Created in 1976, with its headquarters in Lome in Togo many African states are users of the services of CRAC, which to date has trained over 500 senior executives in African cultural development.
An Institution of higher education training and research, CRAC is designed to offer training, research and development in the fields of cultural policies:
Contacts
BP 3253 Lome -TOGO
Tél (228) 222-44-33
Fax (228) 221-43-80 / 220 72 45
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Panafrican Festival of Music
The Panafrican Festival of Music is a multidimensional event that takes place every two years in Brazzaville. It includes musical performances, the symposium, a permanent exhibition of musical instruments, training workshops, the MUSAF, the Miss Fespam and other related activities and tourism. Apart from its cultural, FESPAM is a scientific institution where one explores, analyzes and evaluates African music in its manifold aspects and dimensions. Link: http://www.fespam.org/accueil.php
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Pan African Historical Theatre Festival- Panafest
Panafest is a biennial festival of African dance, music and other performing arts that is held every two years in Ghana. A cultural event dedicated to the enhancement of the ideals of Pan-Africanism and the development of the African continent. It is organized for Africans and people of African descent as well as all persons committed to the well being of Africans on continent and in the diaspora. The essential thrust of Panafest is to enhance Development. Panafest P. O. Box 1048 Cape Coast, Central Region Ghana, West Africa Phone: (233) 42-33085 Fax: (233) 42-33086 Email: Kohainh@yahoo.com
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Pan African Booksellers Association
Its vision is of a self-sustaining bookselling trade that works with its book industry partners to promote, encourage and sustain a culture of reading throughout Africa. It works with its members, the national bookselling organisations of 25 African countries, for the recognition of booksellers within the book industry. Booksellers play a vital but often misunderstood role in the transmission of authors’ thoughts to the reading public. They are the vital final link in the book chain, providing access to a wide choice of books for the readers who are their customers. Pan African Booksellers Association University Bookshop, Makerere Ltd P.O. Box 488, Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 41 543442 / 3 Residence Tel: +256 41 222396 Fax: +256 41 534973 Email: ctugaineyo@muucsf.orgLink: http://www.panafricanbooksellersassociation.org/default.htm
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Gorée Institute
The Gorée institute is Pan African civil society organisation (and NGO) that works towards promoting peaceful, fair and self-sufficient African societies. Through research, facilitation and intervention the Gorée Institute aims to strengthen political dialogue, improve democratic processes and develop the continent’s human, artistic and economic activity.
Villa Malolo
1 rue du jardin Ile de Gorée
BP 05 - Goree, Senegal
Tel : +221 33 849 48 49
Fax : +221 33 822 54 76
Email: info@goreeinstitute.org
Link: http://www.goreeinstitute.org/
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African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation
ARIPO was mainly established to pool the resources of its member countries in industrial property matters together in order to avoid duplication of financial and human resources. Thus the preamble to the Lusaka Agreement clearly states that member states are "aware of the advantage to be derived by them from the effective and continuous exchange of information and harmonization and co-ordination of their laws and activities in industrial property matters". Member states also recognized that the "creation of an African regional industrial property organizationfor the study and promotion of and co-operation in industrial property matters would best serve" that purpose.
11 Natal Road
Belgravia
Harare
Zimbabwe
Telephone: 2634794065-70
Fax: 2634794072/3
Mobile Phone Number:26311220683
E-mail:aripo@ecoweb.co.zw
Link: http://www.aripo.org
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