The program will showcase Afrikan cultures and explore the diversity of the Fargo/Moorhead area. We will also discuss Afrikan leaders and their vital contributions toward peace and development on the continent. BLA will also cover stories of returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV) who have served in different Afrikan countries.

Prominent Afrikan Leaders:

• Emery Patrice Lumumba

  • Hero of the DR Congo’s independence

• Kwame Khruma of Ghana

  • Father of the Pan-Afrikansim movement

• Julius Nyerere of Tanzania

  • Conceptor of the Ujamaa philosophy

• Nelson M. Mandela

  • Fought apartheid in South Africa and spent 27 years in prison