
The Breaking down Borders Tour
Breaking Down Borders Tour is an initiative of the Leaders Who Dare to Dream Foundation (LWDTD). The Tour was launched as a 10-country tour which commenced in August 2016 in Zimbabwe and completed its 10th lag in August 2017 in Botswana. During this period, the tour team travelled across Zambia, Uganda, Namibia, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Lesotho respectively. The tour is made possible through collaborations with youth-led NGOs, young social entrepreneurs, and civic leaders in the particular countries.
Project Objectives

Promote Arts and Cultural exchange between African youth.

Nurture Pan-African youth developmental work and engagement through the dialogue and capacity building.

Produce a collective memory of youth participation and social impact.

Create a platform for collaboration and exchange between youth activists, artists, organisers, researchers to study, curate and/or document learnings and best practice that can be translated into accessible data.

Encourage collaboration and exchange across African borders in order to facilitate trade, skills transfer and capacity building.
Tour Elements

Cultural Exchange
The tour aims to promote African heritage through highlighting and documenting African natural and historical heritage sites.

Youth Collaborations
Throughout the tour in all the 10 African countries, we partnered with youth led organizations who created the program, and allow us to document and get insight into their work. This cements our objective of creating space for youth to collaborate in bringing positive change

Youth Engagement
The initiative facilitates skills transfer through worskhops, exhibitions and talks with policy makers.

The Breaking Down Borders Africa Tour Documentary
The tour through the Africa countries is documented for the Breaking Down Borders Africa documentary and docu-series. The documentary is aimed at promoting youth collaborations; partnerships and networking opportunities across socio-political and economic youth led organisations in Africa. The documentary further profiles and highlights the work done by young people, so as to promote Africa’s development, pride and a source of opportunities by its youth. The Breaking Down Borders Africa Tour documentary has recorded close to 200 hours of footage, in over 9 countries. The first season of the docu-series is currently in postproduction.
Host organisations
Tour Timeline

The Breaking Down Borders Africa Tour will be kicking off it’s 2nd cycle in 2019.
BE A PART OF THE JOURNEY
– If you want to collaborate or engage with the Breaking Down Borders Initiative while we are in your part of the continent, contact us below. If you want to host the BDBA Tour in your country, also let us know:
The Breaking Down Borders Initiative in partnership with The European Dance Star Union DanceStar scouts for exceptionally talented dancer from each country who will be presented with an immediate qualification into the Star Dance World Championships 2018. Earning them the opportunity to represent their country and TEAM AFRICA on a global platform. 5 dancers from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, respectively have already been selected.
ONLINE AUDITIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
Next Auditions: Egypt Date TDB
