Afritudine for culture

Africa is uniquely and obstinately represented as the continent of poverty. This cultural distortion leaves no room for African dignity, for the portrayal of its cultural riches, of its contemporary artistic heritage, or of its creative potential. Africa also wants the contribution it can and intends to make to global development to be made known. It wants to offer the products of its intelligence and develop its vocation for culture. Giving a voice to the riches of Africa means restoring dignity to a continent which is all too often identified in terms of its poverty.

By setting the rich contribution of Africa to global creativity against its economic underdevelopment, the Afritudine Cultural Association offers a new strategy for relations with African countries: there must be no paternalism, no clear or uneasy conscience. The importance of culture in the evolution of democracy and in the economic and social development of each country must be fully understood.

Afritudine’s Statute
The Association is non-party, non-denominational, non-profit. The Association shall solely pursue its cultural purposes and, to reach its institutional goals, it intends:
• to carry out and promote any activity useful for developing and raising awareness of African cultural heritage
• to produce, edit, promote and distribute publications, in order to deepen and spread awareness of the African continent
• to promote and/or organise cultural and artistic events, shows, and reviews aimed at promoting awareness of the African continent, its cultural heritage and its diverse forms of artistic expressions
• to carry out activities geared towards cultural solidarity in order to awaken public opinion as to the problems and the opportunities related to the development of African cultural progress
• to carry out any activity that encourages the creation, production, promotion and spread African cultural expression
• to sustain artists, craftsmen, intellectuals and scholars as basic resources for the development of democratic and dignified cultural, social and economic progress
• to participate in domestic and international cultural initiatives to encourage the utilisation, awareness and fruition of African cultural heritage
• to establish relationships with like-minded domestic and/or foreign associations for mutual treatment, assistance, cultural exchange and possible representation

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