Africans in the Diaspora (AiD) is a network of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora that pools financial resources, knowledge and skills to support the work of climate justice, food sovereignty, and alternative economics movements on the continent.
Africans in the Diaspora is building a global network of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora that pools knowledge, skills and financial resources. AiD builds solidarity with movements, ideas and initiatives in Africa working on alternative economics, food sovereignty, and climate justice.
Through events, gatherings, dialogues, thought and cultural production we raise funds for Thousand Currents' Africa program partners and share ideas, skills, knowledge and resources.
On Tuesday 31st August, Africans in the Diaspora will be releasing an article by Angolan feminst economist Âurea Mouzinho to explore the liberatory African, Afrodescendant, and Black economic practices that are making the necessary change, in real time.
The piece showcases African solutions to global problems, and demonstrates what a path toward a socially, ecologically and economically just future could look like.
Mumbi Nkonde is a community activist working at the intersections of anti-racism, migrants rights and climate justice struggles. They are Zambian born, now living in London, UK. Previously they worked for the participatory grant giver Edge Fund. They’ve recently taken on the role of Grants Officer at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
Here, they reflect on the last event in AiD’s Chop It Up series, Moving Money, Shifting Power.
On April 28th 2021, Africans in the Diaspora hosted the fourth installation of its Chop It Up dialogue series with the theme Pan-African Solidarity: Past and Present. Johnaé Strong writes about the three amazing panelists who yielded a beautiful blend of storytelling, history, and empirical grounding for achieving African liberation.
Johnaé Strong is a healing artist, storyteller, and mother based in Chicago, USA who has been working at the intersection of social movements, public education, for little over a decade.
In a capitalist system, amassed wealth creates access to power. Donors, funders and philanthropic institutions are often set-up as vehicles to spend parts of this amassed wealth, but they are rarely set up to relinquish the power that comes with that wealth.
Moving Money, Shifting Power is the fifth and final edition of Africans in the Diaspora’s Chop It Up series. This session will ask: what is the role of philanthropy in moving not just money, but power, to grassroots movements and leaders?
Guest blog by Yannia Sofía Garzón Valencia perfectly articulates the magic that was witnessed in our third edition of the Chop It Up series featuring Mariama Sonko, an agroecological farmer based in Senegal, Nonhle Mbuthuma from South Africa whose community has been resisting mining efforts for decades and Miriam Miranda, leader of the Honduran organisation OFRANEH.
Sofía is a Black Woman, Mother and Neighbor and Pan-Africanist. Member of the Process of Black Communities and the Mobilization of Black Women for the Care of Life and ancestral territories. Co-founder of the Colombian Association of Black Economists - Asomanocambiada.
Jawad Moustakbal and Omar Radi are two friends and comrades who are both members of ATTAC/CADTM Maroc. Jawad is an activist for social and climate justice, he is member of the national secretariat of ATTAC/CADTM Morocco, and a member of the shared secretariat of the international Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt. Omar is an investigative journalist and human rights activist who was detained by the police on 29 July 2020 and has been held in solitary confinement, without trial, at the Oukacha prison in Casablanca since his arrest.
Jawad wrote him this letter.
For AiD’s fourth instalment of our Chop It Up series, we take a moment to listen to the tales of how these paths were laid out for us and for and explore where pan-Africanism is at today. We’ll also hear from the pan-Africanist organisers and thinkers based in Brazil, Senegal and Guadeloupe who walk in the footsteps of these giants, grappling with the question of how as a peoples separated by oceans and colonial borders, we stay connected, supported and supportive?
Africans in the Diaspora projects are spaces for learning, reflection and connection, where we deep dive into the issue areas that our partners work on which are alternative economics, food sovereignty, and climate justice.