From the banks of the Niger to the streets of New York, from Kingston to Cape Town, from São Paulo to London — 1.4 billion people of African descent share a common heritage and a common future. The WBC exists to connect, celebrate, and empower every one of them.
We did not choose to be scattered across the earth. But we can choose what we do with that scattering — and we choose solidarity, renaissance, and return.
The ancestral homeland and the beating heart of the movement. Africa is not just the origin of the diaspora — it is its present and future. The WBC's Africa chapter will coordinate with the African Union, national governments, and community organisations across West, East, Central, North, and Southern Africa.
Home to the largest and most economically powerful Black diaspora outside Africa. Black Americans have driven cultural, political, and artistic movements that shaped the entire world — from the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. The North America chapter will be a critical pillar of WBC's economic and political agenda.
Brazil is home to the largest African-descended population outside Africa — yet Afro-Latin communities remain among the most marginalised in the hemisphere. The WBC's Latin America chapter will amplify voices that have long been pushed to the margins of the region's political and cultural life.
The Caribbean has produced some of the most transformative voices in Black intellectual and political history — from Marcus Garvey to CLR James to Frantz Fanon. Caribbean nations led early Pan-African movements and will be foundational partners in the WBC's institutional architecture, bringing centuries of experience in Black self-governance.
Black Europeans — from Afro-British communities in London to Afro-French communities in Paris, Afro-Germans, and communities across the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, and beyond — navigate unique challenges at the intersection of race and European identity. The WBC's Europe chapter will give these communities a unified platform and political voice.
Often overlooked in Pan-African discourse, Black and African communities across the Gulf states, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific face distinct challenges around legal status, labour rights, and cultural recognition. The WBC is committed to ensuring no part of the diaspora is left behind in the movement's agenda.
The WBC honours this history without being imprisoned by it. We remember the wound in order to understand the stakes — and we channel that memory into building something no force on earth has managed to destroy: our unity.
The World Black Congress is being built in every city, every country, every community where people of African descent live and thrive. Find your regional chapter, connect with local organisers, and help shape the institution that speaks for all of us.