Partners - Indigenous Africa

PARTNERS

Violations Against Indigenous Africa (VAIA) partners with indigenous people’s organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and local, national, regional, and international organizations to ensure that indigenous people’s interests are accurately and effectively represented and promoted. We seek to amplify each other’s efforts and foreground indigenous voices.

We are currently building our network of partners. Please check back soon for updates!

University of Michigan
African Studies Center

Turkana Development Organizations Forum

Réseau des Peuples Pasteurs du Sahel

First Peoples Worldwide
University of Colorado—Boulder

PAICODEO

L’Assemblée Mondiale Amazighe

Fjärde Världen

Mulika Afrika

The University of Michigan has its origins in land coercively purchased by the United States Federal Government from the Anishinaabeg (including Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi) and Wyandot nations. While this project documents ongoing cases of land expropriation and dispossession outside of the United States, we are also based in a university that stands, like almost all property in the United States, on lands obtained from indigenous peoples, generally through violence, intimidation, and dishonesty. Knowing and acknowledging where we live and work does not change this, but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of these histories must shape our research, teaching, and outreach to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals.