2025 June Newsletter

Register now for this year’s Awards Gala, taking place on Sunday, September 21, 2025 and learn about the Adinkra symbols incorporated into this year's logo from AAI's Resident Storyteller.

Thanks to generous support from the Mellon Foundation, AAI is working to make publicly available 70+ years of archival records.

AAI’s School Services Program is thriving in Southeast Michigan where we partner with primary and secondary schools, thanks to our Director of Education, Dr. Stacie Smith.

Join us in celebrating accomplished aerospace engineer, Okrofobou Nana Yaw Adjei II, and remembering the late Hon. Kouaro Yves Chabi.

NYAFF and AAI co-presented two powerful films, Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema and Mueda, Memory and Massacre, that spotlight Mozambique’s rich cultural and political history.

AAI’s Kwesi Amoak shares his key findings on healing work from the sessions he facilitated at this year’s Global Circle for Reparations and Healing: Accra Summit II.

This year’s NIEC conference on “Leading The Way: Becoming An Energy Hub with In-Country Value” laid the groundwork for Namibia’s path to becoming a center for energy excellence in Africa.