Letter

It is with great pleasure that I write this missive to introduce myself, as the newly appointed Cultural Program Coordinator at the Goree Institute. I look forward to continuing the legacy of providing cultural programs that are designed to ignite social change on the continent and throughout the Diaspora. The institute looks forward too expanding the link between culture and sustainable development. For a long time development has been exclusively defined in terms of tangible’s such as, dams, factories, houses, food and water, which are all in fact extremely essential. It is important, however, to include culture within the development paradigm as a means of achieving a satisfactory intellectual, emotional, moral and spritiual existence. This development allows groups, communities and nations to define themselves and their futures. The Goree Institute is expanding its cultural program in directions that respond to the current cultural environments, that we are committed to serving. The institute looks forward to providing fresh programming that is engaging to the intended populations. In short, programming that encourages self-reliance in Africa and throughout the Diaspora. The institute appreciates your continuous commitment and support. We look forward to strengthening and expanding these relationships to achieve the shared objective of realising cultural growth and development in Africa!

"I am talking of millions of men who have been skilfully injected with fear, inferiority complexes, trepidation, servility, despair, abasement." (From. Discours sur le colonialisme, Aimé Césaire)