Malunga is a global network that brings together a diversity of actors: activists, intellectuals, educators, artists, people in public service, and strategic allies with a common agenda of fighting against anti-Black racism and demanding anti-racist policies as a primary resource for achieving global justice.
The Network adopts the expression Malunga, a Congo-Bantu word that emits a profound message through four interrelated meanings:
- First, a large ship: symbol of the shared journey.
- Second, collective suffering: in memory of the wounds of the past.
- Third, black solidarity: a force that unites and sustains.
- Fourth, as travel companions: representation of mutual support and co-responsibility.
The Malunga Network was born as a collective response to structural racism and its historical consequences: from the transatlantic slave trade to the multiple forms of violence that still persist. It is also a space for celebrating black values, knowledge, and cultural expressions, which promotes the construction of more equitable societies through an intersectional agenda of racial, ethnic, social, gender, and ecological justice.
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Making it Possible:
We are articulated through a multidimensional process that includes exchanges of experiences, strategic alliances, and dialogues for understanding and action.
Telling Our Tales:
We seek to disruptively narrate the resistance processes of communities and the actions of the network. We understand narration from a perspective that values diversity and celebrates blackness, allowing us to tell our stories in our own voices.
Achieving Changes:
Through political advocacy, we seek to influence decision-making on key issues for the network, strategic institutions, grassroots organizations, and social movements.
Liberating Knowledge
We focus on generating critical, situated, and strategically disseminated knowledge. This allows us to analyze and understand the forms of oppression and other power relations that shape the realities of racialized groups, as well as their concrete practices of resistance and global transformation.
Publications
Insights, reflections, positions, and Afro-descendant voices that chronicle our struggles and celebrate our resilience.
Regimes of anti-Blackness and Movements against anti-Black Racism in the Caribbean and Latin America
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Reflections, knowledge and memories in movement towards global justice.
Meet the winning projects of the Malunga scholarship 2025
From the Malunga Network, we want to deeply thank all the individuals, organizations, and collectives who applied for the Malunga...
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Launch of the digital report Regimes of Anti-Blackness and Movements Against Anti-Black Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Agustín Laó-Montes, as the first publication of the Malunga Network
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Interview with Ana Belique, a Renowned Leader from the Dominican Republic
In this conversation, Ana Belique, co-founder and leader of Reconocido, a network that mobilizes Dominicans of Haitian descent in the...
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