Malunga: Network for Global Justice and against Anti-Black Racism

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.