About US

Yole!Africa

City center of Goma

Music / Filmmaking lab

Recording studio & cinema

Co-working space

Yole Africa street performance film production in Goma Congo

Beautiful flowering plants at Yole Africa cultural center garden

Yole!Ekolojia

Bulengo district surrounded by the internally displaced camp (IDC)

Arable land

Inter-science researches

The community:

Youth

Artists

Activists

Mothers and children of IDC

Indigenous community of Mbuti people

What we DO

Social-ecological innovation

Youth Empowerment

Community Building

Community gathering around campfire at Yole Africa cultural center in Goma Congo — Evening community gathering at our cultural center, where youth come together to share stories and create positive change

Young people sharing joy and laughter at Yole Africa youth empowerment program — Genuine moments of joy and connection that emerge from our creative arts programs and youth empowerment initiatives

African youth leader contemplating under moonlight - Yole Africa empowerment through art — A moment of contemplation under the African sky, representing the thoughtful leadership development at Yole Africa

African woman artist at Yole Africa cultural center Goma Congo

Traditional African natural materials used in Yole Africa art programs

Re-membering

What ?

Re-connection to ancestral ecology through agro-liberation and a decolonial curriculum

Why ?

Proposing peaceful alternatives to normalized violence

Wealth and resource sovereignity

Self-healthcare

How ?

Communal farming

Intergeneration capacity building

Platform for exchange

Healing

What ?

Community building

Why ?

Resilience

Psyhological wellbeing

Network creation

How ?

Storytelling

Rebuilding spiritual belonging

African woman performing dance at Yole Africa cultural center

Young person dancing at Yole Africa youth empowerment program

Aged wall architecture at Yole Africa cultural center in Goma

Youth construction skills development at Yole Africa empowerment program

Imagining

What ?

Creation of possible future solutions through all different kinds of art

Why ?

Decomposing systemic injustices

Finding new pathways meaningful to the local community

How ?

Education

Filmmaking

Fine arts

Performing art

Inter-science researches

Our PROGRAMS

Sustainable agriculture program at Yole Africa cultural center Goma

Agroliberation in Practice

A hands-on training in ancestral agroecology…

Workshop training at Yole Africa youth empowerment program

Community Journalism & Media

Empowering communities in self representation

Traditional African dance performance at Yole Africa cultural center

Healing

A deep dive into ecology as a spiritual and seed keeping social practice…

Storytelling

Interactive workshops in film, dance, Music, and spoken word…

Youth celebrating achievement at Yole Africa empowerment program

Remembrance

International and regional exchange platforms with the diaspora

Yole!Africa HISTORY

2000

Yole!Africa is founded in Uganda- Kampala ( International displacement intervention)

2000

2002

Yole!Africa Goma is Implemented in DRC. (Internal Displacement intervention Volcano eruption )

2002

2001-2005

Launch of festivals, youth media training, community film screenings. ( First ever international film Festival in DRC)

2001-2005

2006-2010

Expansion into regional training and international film collaborations. ( Meeting the world on our own term Great Lake regional network Nyavu )

2006-2010

2011–2015

Decomposing The Colonial Gaze curriculum Integration

2011–2015

2016–2020

Introduction of Agroliberation practices.

2016–2020

2021–2023

Community Making Response programs Yole!Farm and Yole Ekolojia.

2021–2023

2024–2030

Construction of Yole! Campus on Idjwi Island

2024–2030