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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This is the archive of a pictorial chronicle of the 2013 African Presidential Roundtable Event. Cover photo (left to right) - Ambassador Charles Stith (Director APC), His Excellency Frederick Tluway …
This is the image of a group photo at the Continental Breakfast for students and former Heads of State at the 2012 Roundtable.
This is the archive of the summer 2006 APARC communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter, which was a special on the 2006 African Presidential Roundtable.
This is a video compilation of interviews and presentations related to the 2007 African Leaders State of Africa Report with Ambassador Charles Stith, director of the African Presidential Archives and …
This is the image of His Excellency Amani Abeid Karume, speaking with the African Presidential Lecture Series in Spring 2011.
This is the image of His Excellency Nicephore Soglo giving welcome remarks at the 2012 Roundtable.
This is the archive of the summer 2012 APC Communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter, which features a special report entitled, "President Rupiah Banda defends democracy in Zambia and Africa". Banda was …
This is the archive of the 2010 State of Africa Report, which offers much-needed commentary on politics and policies from the perspective of the individuals shaping those trends. It was …
This is the image of Hillary Clinton and Ambassador Charles Stith.
This is the image of discussant George Bepete of the University of the Witwatersrand speaking at the 2012 Roundtable.