{"id":38,"date":"2015-11-16T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T11:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:43:58","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"African Renaissance in Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row section_type=&#8221;in-container&#8221; bg_type=&#8221;image&#8221; bg_image=&#8221;9057&#8243;][vc_column]<div class=\"eut-element eut-slogan eut-align-center\" style=\"\"><h3 class=\"eut-slogan-title eut-align-center eut-title-line\"><span>African Renaissance in Brief<\/span><\/h3><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Across Africa, inequality still decides who gets care and who suffers. Exclusion still determines who thrives and who is forgotten. Injustice still chooses who speaks and who is silenced.<\/p>\n<p>We exist to change that.<\/p>\n<p>African Renaissance Trust works at the intersection of citizens, duty bearers and policy \u2013 because lasting change happens when people shape power. We focus on women, youth, and marginalized communities because we believe that when those furthest behind move forward, Africa moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t just study Africa\u2019s problems. We help solve them.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row section_type=&#8221;fullwidth-element&#8221; bg_type=&#8221;color&#8221; bg_color=&#8221;#8C183A&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;40&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;40&#8243; margin_bottom=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column][vc_empty_space]\t\t\t<div class=\"eut-element eut-carousel-wrapper eut-with-gap\" style=\"\" data-items=\"5\" data-slider-autoplay=\"yes\" data-slider-speed=\"4500\" data-slider-pause=\"no\">\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"eut-carousel-navigation eut-dark\" data-navigation-type=\"1\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"eut-carousel-buttons\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"eut-carousel-prev eut-icon-nav-left\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"eut-carousel-next eut-icon-nav-right\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"eut-carousel eut-carousel-element eut-portfolio\" data-items=\"5\" data-slider-autoplay=\"yes\" data-slider-speed=\"4500\" data-slider-pause=\"no\">\r\n<div class=\"eut-carousel-item\">\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"portfolio-468-6a267445d5f8a\" class=\"eut-portfolio-item post-468 portfolio type-portfolio status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry portfolio_category-au-ar portfolio_field-team-photos\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"eut-hover-style-1 eut-image-hover eut-zoom-none eut-light\">\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"eut-media eut-light-overlay eut-opacity-100\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1200-x-900-px-Gallery-AU-AR-African-Partneship-Platform-Meeting-800x600.png\" class=\"attachment-engic-eutf-small-rect-horizontal size-engic-eutf-small-rect-horizontal\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1200-x-900-px-Gallery-AU-AR-African-Partneship-Platform-Meeting-800x600.png 800w, https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1200-x-900-px-Gallery-AU-AR-African-Partneship-Platform-Meeting-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1200-x-900-px-Gallery-AU-AR-African-Partneship-Platform-Meeting-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1200-x-900-px-Gallery-AU-AR-African-Partneship-Platform-Meeting-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1200-x-900-px-Gallery-AU-AR-African-Partneship-Platform-Meeting.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"eut-title eut-light\">AU &#038; 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bg_type=&#8221;image&#8221; bg_image=&#8221;9057&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Across Africa, inequality still decides who gets care and who suffers. Exclusion still determines who thrives and who is forgotten. Injustice still chooses who speaks and who is silenced. We exist to change that. African Renaissance Trust works at the intersection of citizens, duty bearers and policy \u2013 because lasting change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":132,"href":"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9864,"href":"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/9864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-african-renaissance.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}