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 the annual reports for the African Presidential Center's President-in-Residence program.
This is the image of His Excellency Amani Abeid Karume at the 2012 Roundtable.
This is the image of His Excellency Mwinyi, Former President of Tanzania speaking at the 2012 Roundtable.
This is the archive of the fall 2010 APARC Communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter, which features the African Americans And U.S. Foreign Policy Conference, October 26-28, 2010 at Boston University.
This is the archive of the summer 2005 APARC Communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter, with a special report on the 2005 African Presidential Roundtable.
This is the archive of the spring 2012 APC Communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter which has a special report entitled, "African Ambassadors Discuss the Real State of Africa."
This is the image of His Excellency Amani Abeid Karume at the 2012 Roundtable.
This is the image of Ambassador Stith and Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
This is the archive of the fall 2008 APARC Communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter. This issue has the Africom Forum Special Report
This is the image of Ambassador Charles Stith Speaking at the advisory board meeting.