African Presidential Center Collection
Boston University
Boston University’s African Presidential Center (APC), also known as the African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC) was led by the former US Ambassador to Tanzania, Charles Stith, who began this organization with the intent to chronicle and facilitate developmental growth in Africa. The Center worked with fifteen democratic African countries: Benin, Botswana, Cape Verde, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia. This Center focused on five major programs that offered particularly unique insights into contemporary trends and developments in Africa. With the President-in-Residence program, a former democratically elected African head of state took up residence at Boston University and spoke at various venues throughout the United States. The Public Papers/Private Conversations Project was an oral and documentary history project focusing on current trends and development in Africa. The African Leaders State of Africa Report is comprised of reports presenting the perspectives of select African heads of state relative to their respective countries and regions. It is an annual report that allowed the Center to disseminate the African point of view to those involved in creating policy and shaping opinions about Africa. The African Presidential Roundtable was a gathering of former African heads of state, policy makers, and public sector leaders. Discussants came together on a yearly basis to deliberate on issues of growth and development as they pertain to the continent. The APC American – African Universities Collaborative was a partnership between the Center, HBCUs, and African Universities that was designed to provide students at partnering institutions to the full range of APC programs.
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BU: Boston University · 15 March 2013
This is the video of an interviewer at Boston University with his excellency Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Mohamud, former President of Somalia, as a part of the APC President-in-Residence Program.
BU: Boston University · 21 September 2012
This is the video of a lecture by Ambassador Zhong Jianhua, the Special Representative on African Affairs for the People’s Republic of China. He defended China's position in Africa and …
BU: Boston University · 2 April 2012
This is the archive of a speech given by President Banda of Zambia, APC's 8th President in Residence, on April 2, 2012.
BU: Boston University · 2 April 2012
This is the video of the African Presidential Center inaugural lecture with former President of Zambia, Rupiah Banda.
BU: Boston University · 17 February 2012
This is the video of a lecture by the South African Ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool on South Africa joining BRIC countries as the leading African emerging economy. …
BU: Boston University · 27 January 2012
This is the video of a panel discussion on the real estate of Africa with panelists: Ambassador Charles Stith (Director, African Presidential Center), Ambassador Walter Carrington (Former U.S. Ambassador to …
BU: Boston University · 1 June 2011
This is the video of the 2011 African Presidential Roundtable, where former African heads of state from a broad spectrum of countries gathered in Balaclava, Mauritius between June 1-2, 2011 …
BU: Boston University · 10 March 2011
This is the archive of a speech on developments in North Africa given by President Karume of Zanzibar, APC's 7th President in Residence, on March 10, 2011.
BU: Boston University · 10 March 2011
This is the video of a lecture by the former President of Zanzibar, Amani Abeid Karume, on the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia. "To attempt to speak on such …
BU: Boston University · 1 August 2010
This is the video of the 2010 African Presidential Roundtable, where former African heads of state from a broad spectrum of countries gathered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania between August …