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 · 4 March 2003
This is the archive of a speech given by President Kaunda of Zambia, APC's 1st President in Residence, on March 4, 2003.
This is the image of Ambassador Stith with former President of Zambia Rupiah Banda, and the Zambia wreath they placed at the memorial of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta …
This is the archive of the annual reports for the African Presidential Center's President-in-Residence program.
This is the image of His Excellency Thabo Mbeki at the African Presidential Roundtable 2013.
This is the archive of the winter 2005 APC Communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter.
This is the image of a group photo at the Continental Breakfast for students and former Heads of State at the 2013 Roundtable.
This is the archive of the summer 2007 APARC Communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter, which was a special on the 2007 African Presidential Roundtable.
This is the archive of the Winter 2005 APARC Communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter, which was a special report on African-American universities collaborative.
This is the image of discussants at the 2011 Roundtable.