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 image of His Excellency Benjamin Mkapa at the 2012 Roundtable.
This is the image of African Presidential Staff and Interns at the 2012 Roundtable.
This is the archive of the fall 2010 APARC communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter, which features His Excellency Bingu wa Mutharika discussing Food Security at BU Lecture.
This is the archive of the summer 2008 APC communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter, which was a special report on the 2008 African Presidential Roundtable.
This is the archive of the Summer 2004 Boston University African Presidential Archives and Research Center Newsletter, a bi-annual newsletter. This issue includes an African Presidential Roundtable special report.
This is the image of Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool giving a speech about South Africa as an emerging market in the developing world and as an economic leader in Africa.
These are a collection of images from an APC event for the Joe Kennedy for Congress 2012 campaign, which was held on November 1, 2012.
This is the image of discussant Chris Sattler, CEO of Uranium One, at the 2012 Roundtable.
This is the image of former President of Zambia, Rupiah Banda, giving an African Presidential Lecture Speech.
This is the image of discussant Manoko Maubane of the University of the Witwatersrand speaking at the 2012 Roundtable.