Looking at the continent both from the outside and from within, the mainstream messages that define Africa rarely articulate the subtlety and nuance of its people or their existence. The clich\u00e9s and commonly held notions of Africa and Africans as poor, corrupt and criminally inclined, crowd out a more balanced view of the extraordinary diversity and creativity of everyday existence.<\/strong><\/p>\n It is within this combination of reality and fiction that the Africa Centre has found its purpose. Our intention is to use Pan-African cultural practice as a tool to: manifest what otherwise would only sit in our imaginations; release new ideas and make them freely accessible to receptive audiences; and ensure that people living on this soil can define for themselves what is possible and what their reality looks like.<\/strong><\/p>\n Although grand in its ambitions, the Africa Centre is not trying to solve the continent\u2019s challenges, but rather to provide alternative ways of seeing them, offer solutions and create models that can be replicated and applied by others.<\/strong><\/p>\n Today the vision of the Africa Centre is brought to life through a range of programmes presented both in live format across Africa, and through virtual media for anyone to engage with. Our current projects \u2013\u00a0Artists in Residency<\/a>,\u00a0Badilisha Poetry X-Change<\/a>,\u00a0Everyday African Urbanism<\/a>,\u00a0Infecting The City<\/a>,\u00a0Talking Heads<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0WikiAfrica<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0all celebrate and encapsulate what it means to be in Africa today and what is conceivable for 21st-century Africans.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Africa Centre was established in 2005 as an international centre for creativity, artistic excellence and intellectual engagement. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, the Africa Centre\u2019s social innovations extend across the continent. Our continent is confronting a myriad of issues, both real and imagined. These are wide-ranging, and include access to employment, education, healthcare, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/infectingthecity.com\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/AC-logo-web.png\"){kind=logo}
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