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Priority Africa Network (PAN)

Priority Africa Network Priority Africa Network prioritizes issues of social and economic justice in Africa, organizing regionally in the Bay Area and working in collboration with partners nationwide and in Africa.

In particular, PAN works with diverse immigrant community groups in the Bay Area to provide information resources and networking opportunities for collaboration and capacity building. For the past few years, PAN has conducted community forums that bring together various leaders from immigrant communities in Africa, to forge collaboration and mutual support on the critical issues that effect our lives.


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Nationally, PAN works to address the need for African immigrant inclusion at the national level by providing new analyis and perspectives on race and immigration as relate to the immigrant communities.

PAN shares an office and works in collaboration with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).

Detroit to Dakar

"Detroit to Dakar" (D2D) is an initiative by U.S. based organizations who came together to brainstorm and coordinate activities for the USSF in Detroit June 22 – 26, 2010 as well as the World Social Forum in Dakar in February 2011. We invite you to join us in Dakar or virtually as we build a vision of making linkages between struggles here in the U.S. and in Africa.

Concept Paper on WSF by Demba Musa Dembele

D2D Vision for Dakar

D2D Plans for World Social Forum, Dakar

World Social Forum Site

For more info on D2D, contact Priority Africa Network in Oakland CA
Tel:(510) 663 2255, Email: detroit2dakar@yahoo.com