Your Story Has Roots. Your Future Has Possibilities.
Welcome to the CCAF African Village: a living home of memory, knowledge, identity, community and transformation.
Remember who you are. Discover what you carry. Become who you are meant to be.
- Heritage Recover histories and reconnect with cultural memory.
- Progress Turn knowledge into leadership, enterprise and innovation.
- Self-awareness Explore identity, purpose, Ma’at and Ubuntu.
- Education Courses, libraries and learning communities.
- Future Prepare conscious, capable Africans to shape their societies.
Walk through the CCAF African Village
A hopeful picture of the future we can build together. Choose any place to see what happens there and the part you could play. Every place is also listed below the map.
Explorer
Welcome to the village of tomorrow
Point at, tap or tab to any place. Districts open a part of this website; everyday places show what life here could be like.
Enter →Everyday life in the village, and the part you can play
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Clean energy and water
Wind turbines and solar fields feed a shared microgrid; a water tower stores clean water and the river is protected, not polluted.
Your part: Become an engineer or technician, maintain a system, or join a river clean-up.
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Health centre
A solar-powered clinic with a maternity wing, telemedicine links to specialist hospitals, an electric ambulance and community health workers who visit every home.
Your part: Train as a nurse, doctor or community health worker, or support health education.
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Neighbourhood school
Bright, cool classrooms close to home, where children learn in their own languages as well as in global ones.
Your part: Teach, read with a child, or tutor after school.
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Market square
Farmers, makers and traders under shade canopies, with solar cold storage, mobile payments and electric delivery carts.
Your part: Start an enterprise, mentor young traders, or buy from local producers.
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Homes and gardens
Homes built from local earth and timber that stay cool without air-conditioning, with rooftop gardens, solar panels and rainwater tanks.
Your part: Design and build sustainable homes, or be a good neighbour.
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Play park
A playground and football pitch on safe, lit paths, open to every child, including children with disabilities.
Your part: Coach a team, organise games, or help keep the park safe.
Sankofa: go back and fetch what is needed for the journey ahead
Sankofa is an Akan concept from present-day Ghana. Every path in the village follows six steps, from remembering to contributing.
- Remember Encounter history, ancestral memory, oral narratives and living traditions.
- Question Examine assumptions and explore different perspectives.
- Understand Weigh evidence, context and scholarly interpretation.
- Reconnect Link what you learn to identity, family and community.
- Transform Reflect, build skills and change perspective.
- Contribute Preserve a story, share knowledge, serve the future.
What brings you home today?
Choose one or more. No account needed: your choices stay on this device unless you save them to a Passport.
Go straight to
- MaktabaThe African Heritage Library
- Sankofa AcademyLearning and transformation
- Griot FiresideStories and living memory
- Kgotla CommonsCommunity dialogue
- Origins AtlasAfrica through space and time
- Futures ForgeInnovation and entrepreneurship
- Living EarthNature and ecological knowledge
- Diaspora BridgeReconnection across the world
- Assembly HallEvents and public programmes
- Sankofa Political StudiesOur flagship programme
- African Heritage LibraryEducation, research & cultural exchange
- Africa Memorial DayAnnual commemoration
- About CCAFWho we are and why
Our programmes
- ProgrammeSankofa Political StudiesA journey into African identity, history, philosophy and consciousness.
- ProgrammeAfrica Memorial DayCCAF’s annual day of remembrance, reflection and renewal.
- ProgrammeAfrican Heritage LibraryA centre for education, research and cultural exchange.
- ProgrammeAfrican Cultural Learning CentreA learning pathway through African traditions, heritage and identity.
- ProgrammeDiscover Africa ProgramA curated journey of discovery across the continent.
- ProgrammeTep RaEducating through artistry: CCAF’s creative expression programme.
Explore further
- Origins Atlas Africa through space and time: places, kingdoms, sites and people on an interactive map.
- Futures Forge African innovation, science and enterprise, past and present, and the people building what comes next.
- Living Earth Africa’s ecosystems and species, and the ecological knowledge communities have carried for generations.
- Diaspora Bridge Histories of movement, displacement and connection between Africa and its global diaspora, and the cultures that travelled with them.
Welcome, in the languages of home
- Ẹ kú àbọ̀ Yorùbá
- Nnọọ Igbo
- Barka da zuwa Hausa
- Karibu Kiswahili
- እንኳን ደህና መጡ አማርኛ
- أهلاً وسهلاً العربية
- Akwaaba Twi
- Dalal ak jàmm Wolof
- Siyakwamukela isiZulu
- Wamkelekile isiXhosa
- Bienvenue Français
- Bem-vindo Português
The village is being prepared in 16 languages. Each opens only when a native-speaking reviewer has approved its translation; until then you will see the English original, clearly marked.