Who we are.

The Agenda for Dialogue and Depolarisation (ADD) is a hybrid, non-governmental initiative that was founded by Dr Moses Tofa in 2023. We are registered in South Africa. Our agenda is to depolarise deeply polarised African countries through the promotion of systemic dialogue and dialogic political atmospheres. African countries are getting deeply polarised. This polarisation is a product of factors that are both endogenous and exogenous to Africa. It is therefore vitally important for Africans to intentionally address the internal factors that are polarising them and to build a bulwark against the external forces that are polarising them, exploiting Africa’s resources, and keeping Africa perpetually weak, vulnerable, and beholden to imperial interests.

Africans must realise that a deeply polarised Africa is the biggest and most lucrative enterprise for imperial interests. There is no society that is not polarised but not all polarisation is harmful to society. Polarisation can either be healthy or harmful to society. Where it is nurtured in ways that promote the democratic contestation of ideas, polarisation can actually transform society because it allows the emergence and application of the best ideas. But where polarisation causes deep divisions, it is extremely harmful to unity, democracy, peace, security, and development.

Africa is standing at a defining juncture where it faces two irreconcilable choices; to depolarise and live, or to continue on the path of polarisation and perish. It is against this background that we seek to deplete the ruinous polarisation that is embedded in African politics and society. Please, support our life-giving vision to depolarise and unify Africa.