Wim Oscé (Africalia, Belgium) presented this presentation during the Global Youth Anti-Corruption Forum in the Culture & Development Session - Linkages and added value of cultural elements in maximizing the potentials of development projects with a focus on anti-corruption.

1. Case studies
Cultural projects
in Africa

2. ‘Africalia’s purpose is to make culture
a vector of
sustainable human development’

3. ‘Art and culture facilitate discovery,
and increase awareness and knowledge’

4. ‘They strengthen commitments and
help to open up
and promote dialogue’

5. ‘Culture and art, closely related to the
concept of creativity, have a
fundamental economical value and are
therefore essential for the lives
of thousands of people’

6. Book Cafe
Project in Zimbabwe, Harare
A meeting place of
mixed cultures and Arts

8. Projects in the Slums of
Matare and Kibera
Kenia, Nairobi
Aimed on Social Integration

9. Slum TV
Film and documentaries
www.slum-tv.org

10. The importance of ‘Rolmodels’
Julius Mwelu
Founder of The Mwelu Foundation
www.mwelu.org

11. Hot Sun Foundation
Kibera Film School
www.hotsunfoundation.org

12. Projects in Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou
A network example

13. The Cultural Platform of Burkina Faso
A cooperation of 5 major organizations
Music, Theatre & Contemporary Dance

14. The ‘Cartel’
A Cooperation of 4 Theatre Companies

15. A Brand new project in
Congo, Kinshasa
Kin Label
A way to tell the story of
50 Years of independency,
accessible to Youngsters

17. Working over the Borders
The Pan African Projects:
‘Cinetoile’ in 8 African Countries
‘Je Danse Donc Je suis’
in 2 African Countries

18. Cinetoile – Cinema project
Reinforcing the operators in the field
www.cinetoile.eu

19. ‘Je Dance Donc Je Suis’
Choreograph - dance project
With streets Kids

20. ‘Africalia supports this cultural and artistic
richness with the objective of enabling
local people, organizations and artists
to blossom and to participate to a
necessary change of mentality
in the North as in the South’