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Success of APA’s Special Christmas Lecture Held 19th Dec 2012

Dec. 29 Event Reports, News

African Peoples Advocacy (APA) successfully hosted the special Christmas lecture, ‘Pitching Africa: The Untapped Market Potential of Afri

HRH Queen Naa (Centre), her entourage and the APA director

can History and Culture’ at the Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, on Wednesday, 19^th December 2012, 6.30pm -9pm

This special Christmas lecture was attended by dozens of members of the African Diaspora and people interested in African topics. The special guest of honour was HRH Queen Naa Tsotsoo Soyoo I of Accra West, Ghana, who was accompanied by her entourage, including her Sword Bearer (the Prince) and Lady in Waiting (the Princess).

Bala in the Mali Kingdom -A Review

Dec. 03 Articles

Bala in the Mali Kingdom is an entertaining and adventurous novel, which combines fiction and magic with real historical and cultural African heritage. Not only is this a historic novel but also one that introduces us to the need of love and trust in our lives through the unexpected adventures of Bala in a fictional world.

Plot Summary

Bala is the main character, an eleven-year old boy, who travels to Cameroon to visit his mum’s side of the family in a small village called Mindassi. There, he suffers as small accident that impedes him to live his trip as he wished to. However, his grandfather lends him a beautiful and magical green stone ring that allows Bala to live plenty of adventures.

My Experience as an Intern at APA by Silvana Stoicescu

Dec. 02 News

Hello everyone!

I’ve been asked to express my honest opinion about working at the African Peoples Advocacy. I’ll start by arguing that in a time when work experience is required to prove you can speak or read, as if all your years in the education system have been completed without any contact with the outside world, it’s nice to find someone who is willing to offer you support in making your first steps towards an actual career.

I’ve completed my MA at a very prestigious university, but soon realised my academic achievements do not count for much in the real world. Having quite a privileged life away from harsh or repetitive jobs, I’ve always got involved in activities I believed would make a difference and, to my surprise, some of them helped me cover my expenses. I’ve started my activity at APA with an open heart, hoping that my skills can be put to good use and wishing to find a workplace that rewards my efforts. So far, my colleagues and the executive director, Sylvie Aboa-Bradwell, have been more than helpful by providing guidance to constantly develop on personal levels and recommending appropriate resources that could further my professional horizons.

Pitching Africa Event Report

Nov. 12 Event Reports, Featured, News

The event, organised by African Peoples Advocacy in collaboration with the Association for African Owned Enterprises and the Centre of African Studies, proved extremely popular. The guests, who braved the disruptions and delays caused by the general strike, were so numerous that extra chairs had to be found to accommodate everybody. Mr Christian Udechukwu, Managing Director of BusinessinAfrica Events and Adviser to the African Peoples Advocacy (APA), welcomed the attendees.

Gordon Brown Congratulates APA

Nov. 12 Featured, News

The achievements of our organisation, African Peoples Advocacy (APA), so far have exceeded all our expectations: we received an invitation from the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, when he visited the Medway Towns in April 2010.

The APA Founder and Director, Ms Sylvie Aboa-Bradwell, was congratulated by Gordon Brown for her leadership. The British Prime Minister also congratulated APA for “promoting community cohesion in Medway” through the Afro-Beat Isolation project.

African Union and Battle for Africa’s Soul in 21st Century

Nov. 12 pdf

The African Union and the Battle for Africa’s Soul in the 21st Century is a paper written by the Director of African Peoples Advocacy, Sylvie Aboa-Bradwell, to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the African Union.

The-AU-and-the-Battle-for-Africas-Soul, pdf

Read The African Union and the Battle for Africa’s Soul in the 21st Century by Sylvie Aboa-Bradwell.

So Who or What Is African?

Nov. 12 Articles, Cultural Identity

You know these horrible stories you usually hear about people being mistakenly buried alive?
If you do not want that to happen to me, when my time comes, do not bother looking for a doctor to check whether I am really dead or not.

Just grab a few people and improvise a debate titled ‘The True Nature of African-ness’ or something along these lines. If, after some seconds, I do not leap up and start shouting and shaking my fist at some of the speakers, then you will know that I am truly finished, acabada, finie, bolè, kaput.

Evidence to House of Lords

Nov. 11 Articles, pdf, Policy

By Sylvie Aboa-Bradwell

We are delighted to announced that the House of Lords EU Committed acknowledged receipt of our evidence on 27th April 2011. Our evidence contains recommendations for a new Western policy towards Africa.

The Demophile Deal for Africa, pdf

You can now read our April-May 2011 policy paper, The Demophile Deal for Africa, which advocates a new Western policy towards Africa on which the evidence is based. It was written by the APA director Sylvie Aboa-Bradwell. We hope you enjoy it.

Galvanising Younger Africans into Action

Nov. 11 Articles

I believe a lot in being inspired and galvanised into action by somebody, as this happened to me. I was meant to be a boring, conventional academic, but I abandoned academia and became a campaigner/ educator for African communities after hearing the late Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem speak on a BBC Radio 4 programme –Any Questions?

I was electrified when I listened to him. I had the weird impression that he was expressing everything I had been craving to say about Africa, African communities and the relationships between Africa and African communities with the West and the world for years. But he was doing it with so much vivacity, confidence and directness that I realised that he was so powerful because he was free. He was working for a think tank –Justice Africa- that gave him the freedom to speak up his mind, instead of restricting him as most academic institutions do.