Dan Kashagama

Dan Kashagama, is the founder of the African Unification Front, a Pan-African political movement. He attended the St. Mary's School in Nairobi, and the University of Toronto in Canada before founding the AUF in 1996. Kashagama is also the founder of the African Film and Television Association.

His journalism assignments included work as production and assignment editor, news researcher, producer, and television reporter. He worked for several years with Kenya Television Network (KTN), and with British Columbia Television (BCTV), covering a wide variety of international and cross-boundary issues, but especially chronic instability and the recurrent refugee crises in Africa.

Kashagama was also the editor of several publications, including the Talking Drum in British Columbia, as well as the Operative Report, the official newsletter of the Canadian Network for International Surgery, covering Essential Surgical Skills programs and Injury Control and Prevention developments in Africa.

Kashagama's administrative background includes work with the Canadian Network for International Surgery, where he organized vital medical and education projects in Africa and in Canada. As Chair and CEO of the African Canadian Association of British Columbia he initiated and run community projects aimed at addressing the problems of minority communities in Canada and the US.