Today, TransAfrica Forum is working with our civil society allies across the African world to amplify their voices in the international policy arena and to create closer alliances between U.S. Americans, Africans, and Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our work highlights the impacts of U.S. foreign policy with a primary focus on advocacy and education.

TransAfrica Forum leverages its resources and relationship building work to target specific countries in which it has civil society partners on the ground. At present, TransAfrica is working in solidarity to study and analyze new models of democratic, economic, political and social structures.

• In Liberia, TransAfrica Forum works on economic justice  is focused on examining the impact of U.S. aid and multinational corporations on the economic and political post conflict reconstruction in that West African nation.
• In Colombia, TransAfrica Forum has launched an education campaign to inform U.S. citizens about the negative impacts of U.S. foreign policy towards Colombia, which is home to the 3rd largest Afro-descendant population in the Western hemisphere. We have advocated for the U.S. to reduce its military aid to Colombia, to cease its fumigation programs, and to support and protect Afro-Colombian democratic structures and leadership.
• In Zimbabwe, TransAfrica Forum is working to amplify the voices of civil society and Zimbabweans amidst the political turmoil, lack of representation and distortion of the realities by western and Zimbabwean media following the aftermath of the March 29 elections.
• In Haiti, our work addresses the role of the U.S. and international financial institutions in its political, economic and social instability— particularly with regards to organic democracy, Haiti’s food crisis, and international trade policy.
• In Kenya we work at examining the political and social underpinnings of the post 2008 elections violence.
• In Venezuela, TransAfrica Forum works on developing products, forums for dialogue and delegations to support the Afro-Venezuelan civil society movement and ensure its active and central role in the Bolivarian Republic.

TransAfrica Forum is working with members of the expatriate community from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia (the Horn of Africa) living in the United States in an effort to better understand the rich and complex history of that region and the impact that the Global War on Terror is having in the Horn’s further destabilization.

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