About Us

African Views is an interdisciplinary cultural research and development institute. The organization engages in solution based activities on Africans' past, present, and future challenges and opportunities. The organization was formed to seek new ways to solve the problems of intersectionality and existentialism, which it does by combining cutting-edge modern ideas with ancient knowledge and ageless wisdom that have been passed down for generations. The African Views website, or the AV Framework, is a place where people can learn more about our work, share knowledge, and contribute ideas and resources that will aid in the recovery and advancement of African societies all over the world.  

African Views encourages understanding, responsibility, creative ideas, and new ways of doing things in order to find long-term solutions for the betterment of humanity.  The organization operates within a framework for multimedia, research, and development. The AV organization works within a framework for multimedia, research, and promoting health, education, the environment, and economic growth. It conducts conferences and programs that advance the interests of women, benefit children, and promote youth and student initiatives. It also encourages the creation of student chapters in universities and registered office branches around the world. 

African Views has special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) and the Economic, Social, and Cultural Council of the African Union (ECOSOCC). This means that it can work with academics from different multidisciplinary faculties, multi-sectoral professionals, and student chapters from different countries to reach its goals. With this status, the organization can take part in the AU and UN's policymaking processes for projects related to women, girls, youth, health, the environment, the economy, social, and cultural programs.

African Views is non-political, no-religious affiliation, and fully independent international non-profit organization. African Views Organization (AVO) works to explore how gender, culture, race, and other social categories are interconnected with pre-existing disparities in opportunities for development, especially for women. The slogan of "AV" "connotes" African nature, African diversity, African virtues, African civilizations, African noble causes, African worlds, authenticity of African indigenous knowledge and wisdom, African intelligence, cultural sustainability, cultures and gender in harmony, global intelligence on African causes, and sustained humanity. 

African Views is an  international organization with a comprehensive global African outreach. The organization works on various programs and  projects in partnership with civil society organizations (CSO), women's rights organizations (WRO), public and private institutions, individuals, academia, traditional leaders, and customary authorities to find new and lasting ways to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. AV works with recognized partners to achieve these objectives using a holistic approach that addresses issues like poverty, inequality, economic and other social problems, health, nutrition, and peace.

The African views of the universe have been carefully studied and systematized, and much more remains to be fully documented. Many of these views are expressed orally in myths, legends, proverbs, wise saying, and practical ways like rituals, dances, art, and symbols. When these materials are put together, a tapestry of African cosmology emerges. 

This picture shows, among other things, the beauty of cultural diversity, an underlying unity or similarity of views, traits, traditions, inclinations, and behaviors across Africa and diaspora, reflecting local variations. African views of the universe are curated as people continue to reflect upon their life experiences in their respective societies and the perception of their roles and responsibilities in the world at large. No human society can exist without some form of view of the world in which it lives. It is also true that no human society has even developed without some form of foreign intervention. 

African Views provide awareness of Africa's diversity and complexity, African existence, and existentialism's duality consciousness. So, as African peoples worldwide go through life experiences, changes in the environment, including historical, current, and future challenges, we continue to generate more ideas in understanding the world and gender relations. These ideas were by no means static, which, though in the due process of change, have come down to the contemporary in various ways and through various means. Ideas from one generation to another continue to persist despite the challenges of time.  The sustainability of Africans lies in their nature of resilience. While much has been lost, many more has been gained as well. New lands inherited, new languages and new traditions developed, new nations founded, new cultures developed, and layers of resistance seemingly unstoppable despite all the odds. It is essential to put all these in perspective and look deeper within to find strength for overcoming any challenge.

It is in this spirit that some of us have chosen to come together and endeavor to capture with too few exceptions -- the evolution of ideas in the African World without compromising the integrity of existential dichotomy of the secular and sacred or the physical and spiritual, or the practical and the hypothetical. In our vision, there is harmony, rationale, logic, and a sense of the universe. In our assessment, however imperfect, our observance of relative ideologies is not only of those with African heritage alone but also includes inclusive and encompassing views, principles, and ideologies about Africa from the world. The process makes our work permanent and cumulative from the transfer of one generation's African ideologies to another. The more diverse they are, the better they become. 

Would it be something of value if those ideas can be captured, not only for a documentary purpose but also for their utilitarian value, especially in understanding and interpreting historical challenges, engaging current challenges, and preparing for future challenges? 

As Leopold Senghor puts it, our culture is recourse to sanity. When we are lost, we turn to our cultural compass. It is on this premises that we have formed the African Views Organization. The organization maintains an open and inclusive principle to develop a fully integrated global intelligence initiative framework. The duality of positions and the multiplicity of perspectives gathered are all considered in developing new narratives from the ageless wisdom of the universe.  

African Views Organization was formed in 2009 to promote education on empathy, harmony, and cultural sustainability. The Organization operates on four specific areas considered to be the main pillars of development. Economy, Health, Education, and the Environment. It engages primarily in research, reviews, and analysis, and organizing conferences, forums, publications, and project development pertinent to the advancement of humanities, sustainable development, and world cultural harmony. 

Economy

• Resource Data mapping and Economic Analysis

• Socially Responsible Trade and Investment Corporate Actions /Corporate Social Responsibility

• Database development and Data Analysis

• Social and Economic opportunity Services

• Stronger Sustainable Development Institutes

• Globalization of Cultural Trades

Health

• Community Health Advocacy

• Immigrant Health Services

• Medical Equipment Facilitation

• Mental Health and Contributive Public Hazards Advocacy

• Gender Equity and Gender Harmony, as well as eradication of all forms of violence and abuses against the female and sexual orientation

• Intergenerational Racial and Ethnic conflict healing and conflict resolution

• Human Right Abuses Advocacy and service coordination

Education

• Cultural Diversity Education for Children and adults

• Youth  Cultural Exchange

• Adult Education

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Heritage  and Cultural Sustainability 

• Anti Violence Against Women Act

• Publications

Environment (Natural & Cultural Heritages)

• Green Economy Advocacy

• Heritage and Cultural Tourism

• Sustainable Agriculture

• Research and Media Support for fair and balance commodity exchanges

African Views organization engages the communities it serves with its work to ensure that cultural evolution is in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, and with the African Union AGENDA 2063, which is Africa's blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future.

African Views' zeal includes decolonization by strengthening cultural institutions for sustainable development, economic advancement, improving traditions and customs, such as ending harmful gender-based practices. African Views maintains an open door and outreach policy required to achieve its goals and objectives. The organization facilitates global intelligence partnerships through which multidisciplinary faculties and diverse-resource specialists can collaborate to accomplish cultural harmony within the context of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  

All African Views' works are guided by the principles and requirements to embrace, create, and utilize various technologies to manage new development and accomplish Africa and its Diaspora's necessary advancement. The organization conducts the Annual Spirit of Peace & Prosperity Summit to bring high-level policymakers and traditional rulers together to maintain the balance between global and local precedence and ensure harmony, progress, and peace in society.

Please find more information on the Spirit of Peace & Prosperity Summit under the Cultural Heritage Resources menu. 

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PURPOSE OF ORGANIZATION

Africa has a vast cultural asset that spans beyond the continent. In 2011, the United Nations declared a Year of the African Descendants. The African Union (AU) also announced the African Diaspora as its sixth region on May 30th at the United Nations' Africa Day celebration. Before that, the New York State Assembly proclaimed in recognition of Africa Day on May 24th, 2011, at Albany's State building.

This means encouragement of action worldwide for, by, and in cooperation with the African Diaspora. Note that African Diaspora has an inseparable relationship with other cultural groups in the society in which they reside. Therefore, Africa's strong potential to wield more cultural influence in the world than ever before.

However, much of what is visually documented about Africa is a view from the outside. We believe that it is vital for Africans to present their views of the world and their growth and future roles. Our purpose is to improve the efficacy of showcasing and reaching consensus on the mutual benefits of cooperation between African, African Diaspora, and other cultural societies worldwide, especially on community issues and development needs, of which gender equality, 

African Views is also committed to creating and maintaining a safe place where people of all ages, races, and cultures can come together to ask questions, learn about others, teach, share valuable information, especially about fair representation of cultures within the world's cultural diversity or societies, collaborate, discuss inter-personal socio-cultural issues, and have open dialogues to find solutions to common problems, such as racial healing, ethnic conflict resolutions, violence against women, as well as improve collective paradigms and visions, and create new opportunities for harmony, prosperity, and sustainability. In simple terms, it is clear that for us to participate effectively in globalization, a strategic rapprochement between Africans and Africans in Diaspora is essential. But this may not happen successfully if our knowledge of each other's cultures and consciousness is limited. This is why the African Views Cultural Exchange (ACE) programs and the Gender Harmony are relevant. The ACE program has developed over the years and continues to produce many outcomes.

The African Views organization has produced ground-breaking concepts that have the potential to significantly alter people's lives, such as the concept and advocacy of the African Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Royal Institute of Global African Cultures and Traditions,  and the Alliance of African Civilizations, also known as the African Royal Kingdoms (the ARK). The group created the idea of "gender harmony" as a means of inspiring and mobilizing men to support causes that benefit women. African Views' work led to the creation of the global campaign of the Anti Violence Against Women's Act (AVAWA) movement, which prioritizes the fulfillment of the constitution's provisions for women by the government. This global campaign was created as a way to make sure that African governments take responsibility for the protection of women and girls and are held accountable for any negligence or discriminatory action against them. The idea is to accelerate the implementation of CEDAW and other global agreements that prohibit violence against women and girls.

ASPIRATION

Taking up the challenge on African issues is one of the most important benchmarks for humanity's collective standards. We can become more tolerant by understanding our values and gaining a deeper appreciation of our fellow human beings. When we share our different heritages and ways of life with others in a respectful, cohesive and constructive way, we take one step closer towards a more equal and fair society.

OBJECTIVE

Our objectives are to attract, assemble, and organize ideological, intellectual, cultural, traditional, and customary information across formal and informal disciplines faculties into meaningful categories and build new and more vital institutions. Facilitate access to the information, provide logistics, and promote options to strategically utilize this information to overcome the multilayered marginalization of the vast majority of African peoples within local communities, nation-states, or global economic and political systems.

The detail objectives of the African Views framework are as follows:

1. Promote The AVAWA (Anti Violence Against Women Act) and Gender Harmony

2. Promote The ARK (African Royal Kingdom) and all its organs

3. Establish the Royal Institute of Global African Cultures nd Traditions

4. Capture a broader scope of African descent and highlight individuals' inherent diversity, cultures, strengths, and creativity.

5. Provide a historical and current overview of the global African community and mobilize contemporary African centered scholars, institutions, and motivated individuals to share information and collaborate on presenting the history, culture, and present condition of African people both at home and abroad. Information required and encouraged serve towards building efficient, thriving, safe, stable, and just African societies worldwide.

6. Bring to light what the African population is like in a particular country. And bring to different light cultures from around the world to educate and inform members of communities about their values for fair representation.

7. Help communities determine where to locate services and allocate resources more efficiently by creating accessible databases and directories of available services.

8. Create a forum for interpretation of facts and statistics for more informed decisions.

9. Provide forums for an intelligent dialogue about existing issues, including sustenance and effectiveness through blogs, interviews, journals, conferences, and programs.

10. Provide opportunities and encourage collaboration for development projects.

11. Encourage proposals and development of positive solutions, in theory, and inaction, in regards to improvements in the areas of economic development, democratic values, gender disparity, socio-cultural values, infrastructure, quality of lives, health care, education, women and children welfare, governance, sustainable environmental practices, etc.

12.  Collect facts and figures that allow experts and audience to connect and interpret how those facts reflect Africans and the African diaspora conditions, development, and issues everywhere in the world.

13. Foster inclusiveness and positivity and promote collaboration between Africa and the African Diaspora for better cooperation, creativity, positivity, and a communal spirit among themselves and all people worldwide.

14. Promote integrity, accountability, and transparency in African communities as a development tool by providing performance reviews from the grass-roots level.

15. Promote ethnic conflict resolutions, and racial healing in the context of cultural harmony.

GOALS

Encourage more open-mindedness about human diversity. To instill in people, especially children, a sense of human dignity, encourage them to love learning about others, and a sense of fairness. Heal prejudices based on race, gender, sexuality, nationality, class, disability, education, or culture. Furtherance of enlightenment and cooperation between and beyond the African Worlds and promote the eradication of poverty and prejudices in all its forms!