:: OSIFA :: The first Ideas were in Africa.

Welcome to OSIFA

OSIFA is an organization devoted to the cause of promoting and facilitating a more effective participation of Africa(ns) in the world of ideas, and in the process countering the continent’s undeserved marginalization in this realm. The fact of the matter is that Africans demonstrably hold their own in comparison with people from other regions of the world in all and any tasks. Yet, the fact of the matter also is that, despite this, Africans too often get no corresponding “respect” for their intellectual competence and abilities. The reason? The persistence of certain negative myths about the continent, coupled, perhaps, with neglect on our part to proactively cultivate and stamp our mark on the world of ideas. We at OSIFA have no doubt that both the resources and the capacity to achieve this objective do exist, and have always existed, within African societies; they have just needed to be mobilized and properly channeled towards the purpose. This is what OSIFA aims to do – with your support.