Brazil Hosts Conference of the African Diaspora in the Americas

From August 29 to 31, 2024, Salvador (BA) will host the Conference of the African Diaspora in the Americas, organized by the African Union and the government of Togo, in partnership with the Federal Government of Brazil and the Government of the State of Bahia, with the support of the Federal University of Bahia and the Brazil-Africa Institute. This meeting seeks to strengthen African roots around the world and establish greater dialogue between representatives of state and civil society from the countries of the African Union and the Americas.

Brazil, which has the largest Afro-descendant population outside of Africa and has accumulated two decades of policies aimed at promoting racial equality, was invited by the High Ministerial Committee of the African Union on the Decade of African Roots and the Diaspora to host this meeting.

Experts, researchers, cultural figures, references from social movements and other representatives from the public and private sectors will be present in the capital of Bahia to discuss Pan-Africanism, remembrance, restitution, reparation and reconstruction. The event will be limited to invited participants from the African Union and the Americas, for the civil society segment, on August 29 and 30, and for the government segment, on August 31.

The Conference will be one of the preparatory stages for the 9th Pan-African Congress, which will take place in Togo from October 29 to November 2, 2024. Its theme will be “Renewing Pan-Africanism and Africa’s Role in Global Governance: Mobilizing Resources and Reinventing Itself to Act”.