DAZ - Deutsch-Afrikanisches Zentrum e.V.

About us

The Bonn International Women's Center, together with other initiatives and individuals, organized the Bonn Africa Conference in December 2006. 350 Africans and Germans developed the idea of a new forum for dialog with Africa.
On February 24, 2007, around 70 Africans and Germans met at a follow-up seminar to put ideas and strategies for implementing the resolutions and wishes of the Africa Conference into practice. They decide to give their commitment the form of an association. Since January 2008, the German-African Center has been a registered non-profit association. The DAZ actively promotes better understanding between Africans and Germans.
The DAZ sees diversity as an opportunity. It focuses its work on uncovering the potential of Africans and Germans, promoting skills and making them usable for society as well as networking similar initiatives and organizations.
Another focus of the DAZ's work is to work with Africans in Germany to support and promote development in their home countries.

Projects:
- With its series “Africa Country Portraits” in cooperation with the VHS Bonn, the DAZ makes an important contribution to conveying a differentiated image of Africa. A variety of cultural events and activities promote encounters between Africans and Germans and thus international understanding.
- Women read women: Women reading literature by women from the Global South - Aims: we try to introduce women who come from the Global North or live here to the little-noticed literature by female authors from the Global South, thereby broadening their horizons and inviting them to leave their bubble. A book can open up a new perspective, shift your own point of view or simply make you dream. Literature by women for women offers the opportunity to network and creates a change of perspective, which should help us to understand each other better when living together in diversity. The participating women share their literary experience with the outside world and thus help society to see the bigger picture.
- The right to have rights: Film screening & panel discussion

The board consists of 4 members, each with a different individual function.

By arrangement, we can provide other net participants with advice, give a presentation, and provide up-to-date specialist information and contacts in the field of our work.