Culture and Development East Africa (CDEA)

Culture and Development East Africa (CDEA) is a creative think tank based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania dedicated to providing services to multi-stakeholders in the arts & culture and development sectors in Tanzania, and wider East African Region.

CDEA believes that culture is as an enabler of sustainable development that provides peoples and communities with a strong sense of identity and social cohesion and contributes to more effective and sustainable development policies and measures at all levels.

To achieve this among other things CDEA provides an arts space for artists to listen, converse, critique, create, collaborate and innovate. The organization also carries out research, analysis and advocacy on creativity and urban revitalization.