African Renaissance Ambassador

'Preamble' by Nelson Mandela: “Africa is beyond bemoaning the past for its problems. The task of undoing that past is ours, with the support of those willing to join us in a continental renewal. …We (Africans) must take responsibility for our own destiny, that we will uplift ourselves only by our own efforts in partnership with those (Non-Africans) who wish us well.” The African Renaissance Ambassador (ARA - pronounced ‘era’) Corp exists to promote the African Renaissance. ARA mobilizes and nurtures greater active involvement of Africans at home and abroad in solving Africa’s problems, highlighting Africa’s virtues and values. ARA translates the African Renaissance vision in to practical terms, and works with partners in Africa, the African Diaspora and good-will non-Africans in championing the cause for Africa’s globally beneficial renewal. You can become an African Renaissance Ambassador, wherever you are today.

African Renaissance Speech (August 13 1998)

African Greats and positives: Great people, facts and perspectives on Africa

Promoting Peace in Africa: (Photo: Wangari Maathai) In partnership with the Tutu Foundation.

African Science Renaissance: Inspired by Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail, and Gordon Bell Prize Winner Phillip Emeagwali

/Upcoming events and highlights

ARA to suport 2007 ARA debates champins to UN Foundation summit in July 2008

ARA to co-sponsor International Malaria and Biomaterials workshop

The yearly ARA trademark African Renaissance Ambassador Debates are on the way

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Are you fed-up with the negative news from Africa? Would you like to be a part of history in supporting the African Renaissance? Here is how you can contribute!

ARA's Objectives: Inform & Transform
1. inform – create awareness about the African Renaissance and enlighten the grassroots on how they can actively participate within their communities in making the African Renaissance a reality
2. inform – thoroughly prepare Africans traveling abroad and facilitate their transition abroad so they can give back towards sustainable development. Life-saving information outreach

3. inform – highlight the positives of Africa: Show casing the greatness about mother Africa: Origin of Modern man

4. transform: promote the adoption of a Renaissance ethos amongst Africans: Getting rid of the slavery, appartheid, and colonialism
mentality in the minds of Africans
5. transform – mobilize and facilitate (Life-saving) support from without Africa for transformative activities within African communities.
6. transform – build transformative partnerships for Africa’s sustainable development,
7. transform – build a renaissance generation of Africans
African Renaissance Creed: by Marianne Williamson)
“…It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
ARA services and benefits target 3 groups: Africans in Africa, Africans in Diaspora, and good-will non-Africans
Celebrate African Renaissance Day with us each year on August 13: the Anniversary of the African Renaissance Statement by Thabo Mbeki:
Celebrate the African Renaissance
“…to be a true African is to be a rebel in the cause of the African Renaissance, whose success in the new century and millennium is one of the great historic challenges of our time." T Mbeki