Every Fall semester, OAS hosts its annual Umoja Benefit Ball as a way to engage the wider UVA community with impactful work being done on the continent by various NGOs. During this event, we usually collectively fundraise and campaign for an organization or cause that is actively impacting the continent or the African diaspora. This year, our goal is to create a scholarship fund that will be awarded to students at the Charlottesville High School from African descent.

Date: November 12th, 2021

Time: 7-10 PM, doors open at 6:30

Location: Newcomb Ballroom

Dress code: Formal attire

Theme: The African Renaissance

"The African Renaissance is a philosophical and political movement to end the violence, elitism, corruption, and poverty believed to plague the African continent, and to replace them with a more just and equitable order."

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