Public Papers/Private
Conversations Project
The Public Papers/Private Conversations Project is
the first step in the development of the archival work of
the Center. This project will require semi-annual visits to
select African countries to allow researchers to collect the
public papers of democratically elected leaders, and to meet
with them and conduct in-depth interviews regarding contemporary
events in their countries and on the continent.
The intent of the project is to digitize the materials collected
and develop ways to make the information available to our
collaborating institutions and the broader community.
In addition to adding to the archives of the Center, this
project represents an opportunity to gather current information
regarding developments in Africa, and would put the Center
on the cutting-edge of policy debates and deliberations on
Africa.
October 1, 2010: APARC Lecture Series with African Union Chairperson and President of Malawi, His Excellency Bingu wa Mutharika
On October 1, 2010, His Excellency Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi and Chairperson of the African Union, presented his plans for food security in Africa to the world with a lecture and videoconference at Boston University’s African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC). President Mutharika’s address coincided with the President’s formal unveiling of his five-year food security plan for Africa.
“What President Mutharika hopes to accomplish is really rather straightforward and simple,” said Ambassador Charles R. Stith, Director of APARC and former U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania. “Mutharika has taken Malawi from being a beggar state to a food exporting state. As the current African Union Chairperson, he has dedicated himself to doing for Africa what he has done for Malawi. Given Africa’s agricultural potential, it should be the world’s bread basket, rather than being viewed by the world as a basket case.”
APARC connected the lecture via videoconference to five universities that partner in APARC’s American African Universities Collaborative, under the sponsorship of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Those universities include Boston University; Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth City, North Carolina; Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia; the University of Ghana at Legon; and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
President Mutharika took office in May of 2004, and also serves as Malawi’s Minister of Agriculture. Mutharika has used his role as African Union Chairperson as a platform to promote food security and combat hunger and malnutrition in Africa. He has also championed the need for democracy and free market reform to promote growth and development in Africa.
President Mutharika's Speech, "That African Food Basket"
For a video of President Mutharika lecture, please click the link below:
http://www.bu.edu/buniverse/view/?v=1Sn7g6Q9
APARC Forum with AFRICOM Commander General William E. Ward October 22, 2008
General William E. Ward, Commander of the United States Africa Command, engaged pubic and private sector leaders along with students and faculty from 4 universities. The videoconference, entitled “United States Africa Command: Moving Forward in Partnership,” focused on the future of U.S.-Africa relations and AFRICOM’s role on the African continent.
View the video from this event
APARC Leadership Lecture Series with Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS)
The Honorable Sam Brownback, 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate and United States Senator (Kansas) on "Africa, Al Qaeda, and U.S. Security: How Better U.S. - Africa Relations Benefits U.S. Security Interests"
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