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Dutch Afrocentric educational institute launches crowdfunding for its Ghanaian university partner
Broos Institute, the Afrocentric educational institute that launched the first university African studies program in the Netherlands, has launched a crowdfunding campaign this week for its African partner The Millar Institute.
Donate through the crowdfunding here: https://whydonate.com/nl/fundraising/bouw-aan-kennis-in-ghana
You could also scan the QR code
The Millar Institute for Transdisciplinary and Development Studies is an open university located in Bolgatanga in the north of Ghana, a rural area with beautiful people. To get there, you fly from Accra to the small airport of the town of Tamale and then drive three hours further north by car - or even better by bus - almost to the border with Burkina Faso.
That is where Professor Dr. David Millar started the unique university 10 years ago, where education is provided from an endogenous perspective.
We believe in development from within; within the worldview, belief system and culture of a people. Everything starts with the indigenous knowledge of the people and we guard against dominance from an externally controlled agenda. Our university has developed to add topics such as transdisciplinarity and transcendence, experiential learning and decolonization of knowledge systems to the educational system.”
Dr. Millar.
The Millar Institute has delivered dozens of graduates with Master's and PhD degrees over the past 10 years.
Professor Millar's perspectives matched the objectives of the Broos Institute seamlessly and the two institutes eagerly concluded that cooperation could benefit both their interests. The aim is to work with the Millar Institute to achieve the Afrocentric campus that the Broos Institute envisions in the Netherlands. In this way, Broos exports African knowledge, perspectives and principles that have always been leading in world development over the past hundreds of years. Start dates for the first short courses that will be provided together in the Netherlands will be announced soon. There are also some interesting research ideas in the pipeline.
But that concerns the development of people in the west.
Broos Institute is not like organizations that only take from Africa. Knowledge also has a price; African knowledge, perspectives and principles are an export product that is undervalued. They make us richer, so we give back.
The plan is to give The Millar Institute a gift on their tenth anniversary in November 2024, that will help them to continue the good work they do for their community in northern Ghana.
Read their funrdaising letter
Broos Institute turned it into a crowdfunding initiative. “We also contribute because we put our money where our mouths are. Will you also do that, all those people who always talk about Africa?”
Donate through the crowdfunding here: https://whydonate.com/nl/fundraising/bouw-aan-kennis-in-ghana
You could also scan the QR code
ABOUT BROOS INSTITUTE
Broos Institute is an Amsterdam-based, mission driven nonprofit organization, that is introducing Afrocentric perspectives into the Eurocentric education system. The institute is currently running the Africana Development Studies Program in collaboration with the Anton de Kom University of Suriname (AdeKUS) and the Kwame Nkruma University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. We are the first educational foundation in the Netherlands to launch such a program in which the African diaspora takes centerstage.
More tertiary level programs and educational initiatives with an Afrocentric perspective are set to be launched, in collaboration with other international universities.
Broos Institute is named after Suriname’s venerated Maroon leaders, Broos, the only anti-slavery freedom fighter of whom a picture exists.