Africa Mbele (pronounced m-BELL-ay: Swahili for forward) was birthed out of numerous conversations among concerned Diasporans’ about these dire conditions facing Africa.
Africa is full of vibrancy in its heritage, culture, resources, and unsurpassed natural wonder. Yet extreme corrupt practices and kleptocracy continue to plague Africa as an underlying epidemic. The UN estimates that Africa loses about $88.6 billion of its gross domestic product (GDP), annually due to illicit financial flows.
We plan to build a diasporic movement to leverage recoverable assets by investing these resources in innovate projects to improve food production, energy access, communications, water and waste management, education, and health and wellbeing services for the greater good of the most vulnerable in Africa.
We will educate, mobilize, and activate the approximately 174+
million in the Disaspora to actively engage in a collaborative global
network to influence the recovery and impact of sustainable
infrastructure projects.
We will create from a quasi-endowment style model a fund aligned with an investment strategy shaped by environmental, social, or governance (ESG) factors for these recoverable assets and then will disburse them for the completion of special infrastructure
projects throughout Africa.
“ Corruption is a cancer, a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity.”