Africa Social Forum

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The African Social Forum is an African social movement movement opposed to neo-liberal economic policies in Africa and what they see as the exploitation of the African continent in a framework of neo-liberal globalisation.^[1]

The first meeting of the African Social Forum took place in Porto Alegre (Brazil) from 25 to January 30, 2001.

Their motto is "Another world is possible".

[edit] Aims

The aims of the movement as listed on their website are as follows:

To consolidate the capacities of analysis, proposal and mobilization of the organizations of the African social movement so that they can fully play their part in Africa and within the world social movement,
To build an African space of concerted development of alternatives to néo-liberal globalization, starting from a diagnosis of its social, economic and political effects,
To define strategies of social, economic and political rebuilding, including a redefinition of the role of the State, market and organizations citizens,
To define the methods of control citizen so that political alternation supports the expression and the implementation of alternative answers, credible and viable.

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