The African Forum for Cultural Diplomacy

About the Forum

Background

The African Forum for Cultural Diplomacy is a non-governmental organisation with core values set in establishing a footprint in all of Africa’s 54 Countries and its Diaspora. Institute of Cultural Diplomacy Global, with Headquarters in Berlin & USA bestowed on former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zimbabwe and its long time Minister of Tourism, Dr Walter Mzembi the privilege and rights to envision and lead its African Chapter introduced hereunder as African Forum for Cultural Diplomacy (AFFCD). 

Vision & Objectives

The African Forum for Cultural Diplomacy AFFCD ‘s vision and objectives include inter alia;

  1. Contributing to closing the Global diplomacy deficit.
  2. Conflict Management and Resolution
  3. Diplomacy Education and Training
  4. Diplomacy Mentorship
  5. Taking the art of constructive engagement to grassroots level through the practice of cultural diplomacy.
  6. Corporate Governance training and benchmarks for private and public sectors.

AFFCD will establish 8 Centres of Cultural Diplomacy Excellence each affiliated to and based on the Continents 8 Regional Economic Communities. Each of the 54 will be represented in one of the regions.  Please note some countries have been removed from some of the Economic block to create balance in the AFFCD population.

The 8 regions as defined by AFFCD:

  1. AMU – Arab Maghreb Union
    Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia
  2. CEN-SAD – The Community of Sahel-Saharan States
    Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, Ghana, Gambia
  3. COMESA – Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
    Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Seychelles
  4. EAC – East African Community
    Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
  5. ECCAS – Economic Community of Central African States
    Sao Tome & Principle, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo
  6. ECOWAS – Economic Community of West African States
    Cape Verde, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia
  7. IGAD – Intergovernmental Authority on Development
    Djibouti, Sudan, Somalia, South Sudan
  8. SADC – Southern African Development Community
    Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia

The AFFCD will invite eminent African personalities from both the public and private sectors to direct the implementation of its vision to end conflict in Africa through Cultural Diplomacy by 2030; and promote a new ideology of centrism, inclusivity, constructive engagement and tolerance of the diversity and different socio- economic political cultures & backgrounds and move the Continent to the politics of moderation and growth with equity and equal opportunity for all its Citizens.

AFFCD will be the Think Tank for this emergency solution to the toxicity of its Continent’s politics and socio- economics.  We believe Africans will do well going forward if they evolve their own political socio-economic agenda again, by defining the centre and make it hold for the majority who deplore leftist and rightist extremes.

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African Forum For Cultural Diplomacy (AFFCD) CIC
7 Bell Yard 
London 
England
WC2A 2JR

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