AFRICAN VIEWS EVENTS & OBSERVANCES
African Views organization aims to provide opportunities to ask and answer the most critical questions and provide you, and our audience worldwide, with information that empowers you through understanding. Therefore all African Views events are designed and organized to fulfill these aims.
The African Views Organization celebrates parallel events of the United Nations' observances. It also celebrates the African Union and National Observances with a creative event design of its own. Some of the African Views Events are as follows:
UN Observances
AU Observances
US Observances
JANUARY
January 15: Martin Luther King's Day
It is observed on the third Monday of January each year.
January 24: International Day of Education
FEBRUARY
February: US National Observance of African History in America
February 1–7: World Interfaith Harmony Week
February 2: African World Interfaith Harmony Day
February 4: International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation –
February 6: Bob Marley Day
February 16: United Nations' Observance of Commission for Social Development
February 21: International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on February 21 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and promote multilingualism.
February 22: World Thinking Day https://www.wikiwand.com/en/World_Thinking_Day
MARCH
March 1: Zero Discrimination Day [UNAIDS]
March 3: World Wildlife Day
March International Women's Day
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 14 days from 2nd week of March
March 20: International Day of Happiness
March 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 21: World Poetry Day (UNESCO)
March 22: World Water Day
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
APRIL
7-April 7: International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
April 7: World Health Day [WHO]
April 20: Chinese Language Day (Chinese)
April 21: World Creativity and Innovation Day
April 22: International Mother Earth Day
April 25: International Delegate's Day
April 25: World Malaria Day [WHO]
April 25: International Girls in ICT Day [ITU]
April 30: International Jazz Day (UNESCO)
MAY
May 3: World Press Freedom Day (UNESCO)
May 15: International Day of Families
May 16: International Day of Living Together in Peace
May 16: International Day of Light [UNESCO]
May 17: World Telecommunication and Information Society
May 21: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
May 25: The African Union Day
JUNE
June 1: Global Day of Parents
June 4: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5: World Environment Day
June 7: World Food Safety Day
June 12: World Day Against Child Labour
June 13: International Albinism Awareness Day
June 15: World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
June 17: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
June 18: Sustainable Gastronomy Day
June 19: International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
June 20: World Refugee Day
June 21: International Day of Yoga
June 23: United Nations Public Service Day
June 25: Michael Jackson Ultimely Departure
JULY
July 6: International Day of Cooperatives (first Saturday in July)
July 11: World Population Day (UNDP decision 89/46 15, A/RES/45/216)
July 15: World Youth Skills Day
July 17: World Prayers for Peace – Interfaith/Intercultural Harmony and Ancestral remembrance
July 18: Nelson Mandela International Day - Truth and Reconciliation
July 19: African and Caribbean Countries Stock Exchanges Forum presentation to global investors
July 21: Underwriting of the Royal Institute of African Cultures and Traditions by the Founding fathers
July 30: International Day of Friendship
AUGUST
August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
August 12: International Youth Day
August19: World Humanitarian Day
August 23: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition [UNESCO
SEPTEMBER
September 5: International Day of Charity
September 8: International Literacy Day (UNESCO)
September 10: World Suicide Prevention Day [WHO]
September 12: United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
September 21: International Day of Peace
September 27: World Tourism Day
September 28: International Day for Universal Access to Information
September 30: International Translation Day
OCTOBER
October 1: International Day of Older Persons
October 2: International Day of Non-Violence
October 5: World Teachers' Day [UNESCO]
October 7: World Habitat Day October 7 (first Monday in October)
October 10: World Mental Health Day [WHO]
October 11: International Day of the Girl Child
October 15: International Day of Rural Women
October 16: World Food Day [FAO]
October 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
October 20: World Statistics Day
October 24: United Nations
October 24: World Development Information Day
October 27: World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (UNESCO 33/C/Resolution 53) 27-Oct
October 31: World Cities Day
NOVEMBER
November 2: International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
November 10: World Science Day for Peace and Development (UNESCO)
November 16: International Day for Tolerance (UNESCO)
November 17: World Toilet Day
November 20: Africa Industrialization Day
November 20: Universal Children's Day
November 21: World Television Day
November 21: World Philosophy Day (UNESCO November 21 (third Thursday in November)
November 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (
DECEMBER
December 1: World AIDS Day
December 2: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 5: International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social
December 6: World Soil Day
December 9: International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime
December 9: International Anti-Corruption Day
December 10: Human Rights Day
December 11: International Mountain Day
December 12: International Mountain Day
December 21-January 7: Holiday
Spirit of the Dragon
Tribute and Legacy of Bruce Lee - Annual Cultural Harmony Programs
Commission on the Status of Women Anti-Violence Against Women Act (AVAWA)
Gender Harmony
Women Advancement Movement together with Men's support
Legacy of Suffragettes
SDG Education programs for children
Cultural Exchange program for children and youth
Campaign Against Child Labor
African World Interfaith Harmony
(World Interfaith Harmony Week)
Dignity of Rural Women Global Corporate Social Responsibility
Annual Conference
Medical /Health facilitation
3rd Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Cultural Harmony 2018
2nd Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Historic Truth & Reconciliation
Dr. W.E.B. Dubois & Marcus Garvey
2nd Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Trade & Investment
Caribbean & Africa Stock Exchanges
Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
World Prayers for Peace
UN Observance
Emancipation
Prayers and Meditation for Peace & Prosperity
3rd Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Interfaith Harmony 2018
2nd Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Prayer meditations
World Cultural Diversity Day
Word Cultural Diversity
Forum on Traditional Medicine
The New World Economy
1st Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
African Union
Launch of Gender Harmony with UN Department of Public Information
4th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity 2019 Summit
4th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
world prayers for Peace
4th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
2019 Mandela Day
4th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
the Ark of Return Prayers
4th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Trade & Investment Conference
4th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
African Art Restitutions
Brooklyn Museum
Telemedicine Conference
Science & Technology - Africa & Italian Cooperation
3rd Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Forgiveness and Unity
Environment and Animal Right Advocacy in partnership with Chinese Moviemakers- When Africa meets you.
ACE Program for Children
Pioneering project for connecting classrooms between Africa and the America
Cultural Harmony program
Pioneering project on world traditional string instrument orchestra
Transformative strategies for cultural sustainability and cultural harmony Social studies class on Ndebele Cultures
Responding to the educational needs and Engaging Rural Children in Africa
African Union launches ECOSSOC in Washington DC
Forum on New Slavery and human abuses in Libya at the UN in Geneva
Breaking Cultural Barriers at the Uganda House
56th UN Commission for Social Development 2018
UN Youth Conference in New York with African Youth Attendees
62nd CSW
Adopt AVAWA forum at the Nigeria House
Blockchain at the United Nations
3rd Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Ted Weiss Federal Building
African Views with the National Park Service
3rd Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
International Attendees
3rd Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Haiti Stock Exchange
Deliberation of Scholars on the Declaration of the Royal Institute of Global African Cultures & Traditions
3rd Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
The Ooni of Ife Great speech and Ambassador Tijjani, New York
Pan African Unity Dialogue (PAUD)
The Institute of the Black World 21st Century, New York
Pan African Council of Traditional & Customary Authorities
Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire
International Colloquium on Reparations by INOSAAR, APRGE, and AHRC, UK in Porto Novo, Rep of Benin
Youth Initiatives in Cotonou, Benin
Hip Hop Honorary Chieftaincy at eh Apolo theater, Harlem, New York
Conference on Council of Traditional Rulers in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
Council of African Traditional Rulers Conference Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
1st Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
African Union Ambassador Tete Antonio, Ambassador Tony Bossa, Chairman William Verdone, 2016
Spirit of Peace & Prosperity The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan, Adeyeye Ojaja II
first US tour of the Yoruba Obas
African Cultural Exchange for Children
Schools across, New York and New Jersey
5th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
The ARK and the Royal African Institute
5th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Annual World Prayers for Peace
5th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Mandela Day- Truth & Reconciliation
5th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
Trading and Investment
5th Spirit of Peace & Prosperity
African Arts and Culture
Osu Mantse
Accra Ghana
The Royal Institute of Global African Cultures and Traditions with Gregory Kiss
Traditional Performances at the Osu Mantse
Traditional Chieftaincies of the
Dwenase Traditional District of Ghna