Africa Week (19-21 May)
Africa Week 2025: Global solidarity for the Restitution and Restoration of African Heritage through Culture, Education and Sciences
This year, UNESCO Africa Week highlights in its 2025 edition the importance of engagement under the theme "Global Solidarity for the Restitution and Restoration of African Heritage through Culture, Education and Sciences鈥
Dates: May 19-21, 2025
Location: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
With a brand-new program as interesting as it is diversified including Conferences, Cinema, Gala, Exhibitions, Reception-Cocktail and high-level presence, UNESCO and Africa Group are putting at honor the African descendence and diaspora.
Africa Week 2024: Celebrating Innovation, Development, and Culture in Africa
UNESCO Africa Week returns in 2024 with a rich and varied program under the theme "Education for Innovation, Development, and Culture in Africa."
This annual event celebrates the cultural diversity of the African continent and highlights the importance of education for sustainable development and innovation.
What is UNESCO Africa Week?
UNESCO Africa week is the annual flagship event of the Africa Group at UNESCO, a body that brings together the Member States of the African continent. Africa's heritage through exhibitions, conferences, film screenings, gastronomy and many other activities await you at UNESCO Headquarters during Africa Week.
Africa week includes a kaleidoscope of cultural, scientific, artistic and epicurean events in honor of Africa Day (25 May), when the Organization of African Unity (OAU), today the African Union (AU), was founded in 1963.
It is therefore a joy and an honor to celebrate African and Afro-descendant cultures here at UNESCO, in an institution that is deeply linked to the history of this continent, these countries and these peoples, and which also knows how much it owes to them.
African cultures, traditions and innovations.
Member States, students, entrepreneurs, artists and civil society, all will be there.
