Mandela Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts

AiB and Bridgewater State University Partner to Focus on Nonprofit Management

July 3, 2019

This summer Seth J. Meyer, a Professor at Bridgewater State University (BSU), reached out to Africans in Boston (AiB) to help plan a day of fellowship around nonprofit relationships between Africa and the US. AiB’s Events Manager, Nampera Lugira, spearheaded a panel of African nonprofits within the Boston area who could come and talk about how they work across continents.

Nampera Lugira organized and moderated AiB Panel on African Nonprofits in the Diaspora with over 17 African Mandela Fellows courtesy of Bridgewater State University.

The AiB Panel on African Nonprofits in the Diaspora included the following panelists:

Kobena Bonney – Director, Africans in Boston. Kobena is the current President of the Ghana Association of Greater Boston (GAGB). GAGB is a charitable and socio-cultural mutual aid organization of Ghanaians and friends of Ghana in the Greater Boston region of Massachusetts.

Voury Ignegongba – President, Africans in Boston. Voury is a Chadian-American business man and real estate developer who founded Africans in Boston in 2010.

Oluwatoyin Adewumi, Ed.M, Executive Director, Oluwatoyin (Toyin) is a 2-year breast cancer survivor. She was diagnosed on February 14, 2017. A mother, wife, and entrepreneur, her experiences during treatment became the clarion call to establish TamBo Foundation.

The afternoon panel was wonderful and really gave the fellows some food of thought. There were also some fellows exchanging information of panelists. We hope there will be some future coalition building with Seth J. Meyer, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bridgewater State University.