AFRICAN CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT (ACED) is a non-profit, non-government organization established by young African professionals from the West African sub-region to tackle problems of education, drug & substance abuse and rural development on the continent.

Africa in space

ACED recognizes that:

  • The African continent, with a population of over 700 million people across 54 countries, is still largely illiterate, with about 48% of its inhabitants hardly able to read and write.
  • Most parts of the continent still lack basic facilities and infrastructure such as schools, good roads, electricity, water, health centres and markets.
  • Most African leaders and governments lack the political will to objectively assess the needs of their local people and direct intervention projects/programmes accordingly and through community-based structures.
  • The drug situation across Africa portends a lot of danger for its youths and threatens the future of the continent.
  • Global economic interests, especially in oil, solid minerals and agriculture have massively depleted Africa’s natural resources and have grave consequences on the natural environment.
  • Global economic policies must be seen to address the real problems of lack of proper, functional and affordable education, abject poverty, disease, drug peddling and abuse, neglect of the rural populace (who constitute over 80% of Africa’s population) and the degradation of the environment.
  • Coastal/wetland ecological resources abound in this continent yet remain under-utilized due, largely, to ignorance and inadequate funding.

ACED is the product of an incisive study of the African question. It is our conviction at this centre that issues such as those above which have surreptitiously taken their toll on growth and development in the continent for many decades have easy answers which can translate into peace, development and an educated African society.