Associazione Africa e Mediterraneo

Africa e Mediterraneo is a non-profit organisation created to promote intercultural awareness, especially between Italy and Africa, and to conduct development education. With its constitution officially formalised in 2002, since 1997 Africa e Mediterraneo has brought together a group of professionals committed to the task of promoting contemporary African artists and intellectuals. Africa e Mediterraneo pursues its goals by regularly publishing the biennual journal Africa e Mediterraneo, and by organising initiatives such as intercultural workshops (in both school and out-of-school contexts), exhibitions, conferences, training courses for teachers and other activities linked to cultural and intercultural cooperation. Africa e Mediterraneo is committed to raising awareness and encouraging appreciation of African cultures, in the belief that culture is a route to development, peace and justice among people. Another important topic for Africa e Mediterraneo is mass communication, understood as both the set of technologies required to transmit and receive information (in all its economic, social and cultural forms), and as the set of values, symbols and representations that underlie mass democracy and public participation. Communication, as a factor inherent in that which allows a community to represent itself, to form relationships with other communities and to play its role in the world, is therefore an important tool in promoting mutual understanding. The activities carried out by Africa e Mediterraneo include: 1 – the organisation of intercultural projects and development education, including at the international level; 2 – the organisation of projects promoting cultural cooperation and respect for human rights; 3 – the organisation of exhibitions on African cultural expression; 4 – the redaction of the biennual journal Africa e Mediterraneo; 5 – the organisation of training courses and conferences for teachers. Main project we are currently running: www.comix4equality.eu/ https://www.facebook.com/Comix4equality