African Club MGIMO

🐆Dear friends!

🎉We're excited to invite you to our Concert of african music and culture on April 1st at 16:30! During this celebration you will be able to feel the atmosphere of the sunniest and most colourful continent! ☀

🌟 What are you in for?

- Thrilling music🪘
- Hot dancing 🕺🏼
- Afro dance workshop 💃🏼
- African quiz 🌍
- Treats 🧁
- Positive mood! 😄

🎶Such concerts are a long standing tradition of our club, we are very happy to revive it after such a long hiatus and welcome everyone to our party!

📆1 April, Friday
🕟16:30
↪Foyer of conference hall (small stage, building A)

Guests that are not from MGIMO need to pre-register at this link BEFORE 29 March 21:00

https://forms.gle/6WVfAvuGiGT9SKbw6

Mvemba a Nzinga was the ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo from 1509 until his death in 1543. He is known for his conversion to Christianity and the spread of the religion through his kingdom after the arrival of the Portuguese in Kongo, as well as his condemnation of the Portuguese slave trade.

🌅Africa as a source of inspiration🌅

On 19 February the activists of African club MGIMO attended the exhibition 'We all come from Africa' organized in Moscow. 'We all come from Africa' is a project of a young artist Margarita Sulyaeva. As a volunteer, she worked as a teacher in a Tanzanian school for several months. During her journey, Margarita was able to touch a completely unique cultural paradigm. The result of understanding African realities was a series of photographs and graphic works inspired by the brightness of colours of traditional art forms. All of them reflect the main idea of ​​the artist - the idea of ​​the world, beautiful in its diversity, which emerged from the common source.

Link to the site with information about the exhibition described: https://www.culture.ru/events/1558579/vystavka-vse-my-rodom-iz-detstva-afriki

Warm and productive relations between Russia (the USSR) and Zimbabwe dates back a long period of time. In the photo set presented you can see some pictures that demonstrate the spirit of friendship existing among the peoples of 2 countries at the modern stage.

African club MGIMO is grateful to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Zimbabwe for designing the photo album "Moscow-Harare: 40 years of diplomatic relations."

Great Zimbabwe (The Republic of Zimbabwe)

“King Solomon gave the Queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for; besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.”
– 1 Kings, 10:13

According to one set of legends, Great Zimbabwe was the palace complex of the Queen of Sheba. According to another set, it was where the laborers of King Solomon’s Mines – which were thought nearby by a generation of deluded treasure hunters – relaxed during their time off. In point of boring fact, it was the capital city, eventually covering some 1700 acres with a peak population of around 18 thousand, of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe which arose in 1220 AD and was gone by 1450 AD. Built entirely of stone (quite a feat in the jungle), Great Zimbabwe was soon afterward abandoned and fell into ruin. The earliest known record of the ruins is by the Portuguese officer Vicente Pegado, written in 1531. He makes mention of great walls, made of chiseled stone fitted without mortar. The ruins lie in three groupings: the Hill Complex, the Valley Complex, and the Great Enclosure, where the majority of the archaeological artifacts have been found: soapstone figurines, gold beads, copper ingots, bronze spearheads, jeweled pendants and bracelets, and much else. So, maybe those treasure hunters weren’t so deluded after all.

In 1847, the Declaration of Independence was signed in Liberia. So the country became the first modern republic in the history of the African continent.

We would like to thank the Ambassadors' Spouses Club and photographer Liliya Boldyreva for preparing a wonderful photo project.
Over the last few months, in our social networks, we published wonderful works of Liliya Boldyreva taken in Benin. We hope that you enjoyed the pictures and interesting information about places where they were taken as much as we did.

We hope that the Spouses of Ambassadors Club will continue to cooperate with the African Club in the future.

The Benin Bronzes are a group of several thousand metal sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin in what is now Nigeria. Collectively, the objects form the best examples of Benin art, and were created from the thirteenth century onwards by artists of the Edo people.

Jebel Barkal (The Republic of the Sudan)

“At the south-west corner a large perpendicular mass of sandstone has become separated by a deep fissure from the body of the mountain … it has all the appearance of a colossal statue.”

– E. A. Wallis Budge

«I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself».

- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

We invite you to the interesting exhibition of our partners!

🖼 We all come from Africa
📆 27th January - 20th March

Today we are delighted to tell you about South Africa!

💎South Africa is the only highly developed country in Africa. South Africa is the world's leading gold producer, accounting for 25% of global output. South Africa's economy accounts for as much as 2/3 of the African continent's GDP. South Africa is the only African member of the G20.

🗺South Africa is situated in Southern Africa bordering Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe in the North and Mozambique and the Republic of Eswatini in the North East. In addition, within South Africa is the enclave state of Lesotho.

🔑 South Africa is the first country that once had nuclear weapons but eventually abandoned them voluntarily.

🧩 South Africa officially joined BRIC on 18 February 2011, and from that moment the union was named BRICS ( 'S' stands for South Africa). The South African government officially expressed its desire to join BRIC back in 2010. Then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, following the G20 summit in Seoul, stated that the BRIC members were not against South Africa joining them.

💿 Through the BRICS, South Africa planned to achieve several geopolitical objectives, among them solving the problem of poverty, social inequality and the creation of jobs in the domestic labour market. In addition, through its membership in BRICS, South Africa strengthens its bilateral ties with the other member states of the union, ensuring greater support for itself in the activities of international financial institutions and organisations.