As part of the project we completed a series of oral history interviews with long-standing members of AFFORD. You can listen to them all here, discussing the migration-development nexus, Pan-Africanism, global development policy spaces and what AFFORD means to them.
Hear Gibril Faal talk about AFFORD, in particular how AFFORD was part of the shifts in understandings of the migration-development nexus.
Listen to the new chief executive director Stella Opoku-Owusu on the future of AFFORD, and about the importance of engaging youth diasporans for the future of AFFORD.
Co-founder Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie talks about the beginnings of AFFORD and its increasing presence in national and international policy spaces.
Onyekachi Wambu reflects on his time at AFFORD, how he transitioned from volunteer to chief executive director, and the organisation he has dedicated much of his working life to.
Championing diasporic engagement in policy has been a big part of AFFORD’s work. Alache Ode discusses AFFORD’s relevance to global development policy spaces here (in 2 parts).
Nicholas Atampugre, one of AFFORD’s co-founders, reflects on his personal journey to the start of AFFORD and the organisation’s Pan-African influences.
Listen to Ndidi Njoku, the current chair of AFFORD, reflect on the organisation and the role it plays in her life.