Founding Date

4 mayo 2008

Classification

Afro Argentinean Culture of Colonial Stock

Address

No tiene sede, da como referencia la dirección del secretario, Carlos César Lamadrid: Calle 302, casa 127, sector C, Ciudad Evita. La Matanza (Prov. de Buenos Aires)

Telephone Numbers

+54 11-4495-5852

Links to social networks

https://www.facebook.com/asociacionmisibamba/

Person in charge

Other members of the Executive

Hugo Vicente Taiano, Vice president; Carlos César Lamadrid, Secretary; Antonio Rafael Fernández, Treasurer; Mauro Lamadrid, member; Aída Lucía Barrientos, member; Graciela Beatriz Garay, substitute member; Yolanda del Carmen Ibañez, substitute member.

E-mail

misibamba@hotmail.com

Web address

https://www.misibamba.com/

Objectives of the institution

• To lay the basis to make the Afro Argentinean culture visible to the entire Argentinean society and to the international community.
• To promote the vital development of the Afro Argentinean culture within the communities of Argentinean Afro descendants.
• To encourage the exchange between the various ethnic groups of Argentina and the world.
• To contribute to the education of the Argentinean society in general and the international community by contributing our knowledge on the different aspects of the Afro Argentinean culture. To this end we will develop seminars, lectures, workshops and conferences; audio-visual materials and documentaries, and a periodical publication centred on our problems.  We will also assist the mass media, establish radio programmes together with competent professionals in each of the above-mentioned areas; implementation of recitals.
• To collaborate with national and international governmental institutions in order to give assessment, plan and promote programmes of exchange and integration.
• To promote social, cultural and educational exchange and integration among the members of the African diaspora in our country and the African countries through representative institutions in Argentina.
• To struggle against all forms of discrimination, racism and xenophobia, as well as against the omission of the Argentinean afro descendants. To this end we will promote and develop cooperation with national, provincial and foreign learning institutions.
• To create training and capacity building workshops in ethnic education in order to increase the appreciation of the ethnic diversity of the country.
• To develop an ambience of cordial relations and solidarity between the associated and promote intellectual and cultural improvement.

Heritage documents under its protection

The association has its own library Gabino Ezeiza, opened on November 24th, 2012, made up by approx. 120 publications in paper, video and sound track.

112 census cards of the first self-managed census of Afro Argentineans of colonial stock (2014).

The state of conservation of these documents is good. This documentation is used by the members of the institution.

Other publications by the institution

Carlos César Lamadrid, César Omar Lamadrid and Norberto Pablo Cirio

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