The Another Roadmap Africa Cluster are a group of scholars and practitioners of artistic and cultural education who are working in both formal and informal contexts across the African continent.

They have come together to pursue a joint programme of research into arts educational practice in Africa that is critically informed and grounded in historical analysis. The group’s aim is to build a shared knowledge base and a structure of mutual learning that will benefit African practitioners and contribute to advances in thinking and practice worldwide.

The Another Roadmap Africa Cluster operates under the aegis of the Another Roadmap School, an initiative launched by the Another Roadmap Network in 2014 which aims to provide open spaces for trans-regional exchange and learning in arts education as an engaged practice committed to social change. Over the course of a 3-year pilot phase (2015-2018), the participating working groups of the Another Roadmap School, are carrying out practice and research projects, contributing to a trans-regional arts education ‘glossary’ and sharing their results in the form of ‘learning units’, publications and a travelling exhibition.

The following individuals/organisations are currently participating in the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster: Art is Everywhere (NG), Artists Home (RW), Ba re e ne re Literary Festival (LS), Contemporary Image Collective (EG), Emeka Eguibe (NG), Keleketla! Media Arts Project (ZA), Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design (UG), Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi (NG/USA), Chike Obeagu (NG), Emeka Ogboh (NG), Picha Arts Centre (DRC), Wits School of Art (AZ), WYart Foundation (NG).

Inaugural Meeting of the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster, 23 – 25 July 2015

The inaugural meeting of the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster will take place at the Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design (NIAAD) in Namulanda, Uganda 23 – 25 July 2015. The aim of this meeting will be to plan the joint programme of research that the working groups in the Africa Cluster will pursue over the course of the next 3 years. The meeting will culminate in a public launch of the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster, and the first public presentation of Decolonizing Art Education – the joint arts education research project between NIAAD and the Zurich University of the Arts. (Details of the event to follow.)

The inaugural meeting of the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster has been made possible by the generous support of Pro Helvetia Johannesburg, Pro Helvetia Cairo, the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SBFI) and the Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design (NIAAD).

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