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One house for the global African family.
TAS stands for Together and Stronger. Together and Stronger Africa is the membership house of Africans abroad, of Africans living elsewhere on the continent, and of everyone from elsewhere who has made Africa home.
countries, five regions, one continent-wide house — and every city abroad where African families have settled.
Who we are.
Together and Stronger Africa is a membership organisation. Its members are professionals, entrepreneurs and families whose lives cross a border that touches Africa, and the associations they have built wherever they live.
A member holds a digital card, free of charge. With it come the benefits the whole membership negotiates in twelve areas of everyday life, the standing of a community behind the family, and a place in a house that is recognised on every continent.
We are one house of the Together and Stronger family, which serves people with a cross-border story in the Americas, Europe, Canada, India, China, East Asia, West Asia and Africa.
The idea: great numbers.
One household has no bargaining power. Hundreds of thousands of households, standing together, do.
Mathematicians call it the law of large numbers. Membership organisations built on it have changed what ordinary families pay for travel, insurance and health in other parts of the world: people who share a stage of life join in very great numbers, and are heard as one.
In Africa the idea is already proven. The savings circle, in which members contribute on a fixed schedule and each receives the pool in turn, has financed businesses, homes and degrees for generations. We apply the same discipline to purchasing power, at the scale of a continent and of its families abroad.
We do not run savings circles and we never hold members’ money. The membership applies the same principle to purchasing power.
64%
of people born in sub-Saharan Africa who live abroad live in another African country (2024). Most African journeys are within Africa.
24.3million
people living in sub-Saharan Africa were born in another country (2024).
US$56billion
was sent home to sub-Saharan Africa in 2024.
Sources: United Nations (UN DESA), 2024; World Bank, 2024 estimate. These figures describe the communities we serve. They are not our membership.
One card, every house.
The family has seven regional houses and a member organisation in the Americas. Each house knows its own region: its languages, its systems, its associations.
- One card. Your membership is recognised by every house, so it follows you from Dakar to Paris, from Nairobi to Toronto, from Lagos to Dubai.
- One catalogue. The same twelve areas of benefit everywhere, shaped by each house for the lives of its members.
- One negotiator. TAS Member Services negotiates and runs the benefit programmes for every house.
- One hand held out. The TAS Foundation gives free first help to everyone, and full hardship, family-emergency and life-milestone support to card-holding members.
What we believe.
A family abroad is not a family that left. It is a family that grew.
- Stronger communities.
The association, the professional network and the alumni group are our first institutions. They placed our graduates, backed our businesses and welcomed our newcomers long before anyone else did. We build on them. We do not replace them.
- Always stronger together.
One household cannot bargain with an airline, a bank or an insurer. A continent of households can. Every member adds weight to the negotiation, and every member shares in what is won.
- Together we stay strong.
Across borders and across generations: in the language we speak at home and in the ones we learned on the way, for the child born abroad and for the parents who stayed.
- Together we stand.
When one of us falls, the rest of us carry the weight. That is the meaning of the Mutual Aid Compact, and it is older than any document.
- Together, we get things done — beautifully.
With care, with rigour, and with pride in where we come from. What bears our name must be worthy of the people it serves.
The standards we keep.
Six rules that do not bend, in any house of the family.
We never ask about status.
Immigration or residence status is not asked, not recorded and plays no part in membership.
We never sell personal data.
Not to advertisers, not to partners, not to anyone. What we collect is set out plainly in the privacy notice.
Associations never pay.
An association joins at no cost and keeps its name, its funds and its independence.
Every benefit is marked plainly.
A programme is either with your member card or free to everyone, and it says so.
No legal, immigration, tax or financial advice.
Our guides are general information. Where a professional is needed, we refer you to a qualified one.
Membership is not insurance.
Insurance programmes are offered only through licensed providers. The Mutual Aid Compact is not insurance and creates no right to payment.
A house is kept by those who serve it.
Ambassadors in their cities, liaisons for their associations, interpreters, guide writers, professionals who give an hour of orientation: members who serve are the pride of this house.
The family.
Three sister organisations and seven regional houses. One card is recognised by every house.
- TAS Member Services
Negotiates and runs the benefit programmes for every house of the family.
Visit TAS Member Services - TAS Foundation
Free first help for everyone, and full hardship, family-emergency and life-milestone support for card-holding members.
Visit the TAS Foundation - TAS World
The hub of every house: the map of every region and the way into each of them.
Visit TAS World - The other houses
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- TAS Americas
Together and Stronger in the Americas: the house of the family for North, Central and South America, at togetherandstronger.org.
- TAS Africa
The house you are visiting: for Africans abroad, Africans across the continent and everyone who has made Africa home.
- TAS Europe
For everyone who has made Europe home, and for Europeans abroad.
- TAS Canada
For newcomers to Canada and for Canadians living abroad.
- TAS India
For overseas Indians, and for people from elsewhere living in India.
- TAS China
For Chinese families abroad, and for international residents in China.
- TAS East Asia
For the families of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, at home and abroad.
- TAS West Asia
For everyone who lives and works across the Gulf and West Asia, and for their families at home.
- TAS Americas
Independence
Together and Stronger Africa is an independent membership organisation. It is not a government body, embassy or public authority, and is not affiliated with any. It speaks for its members and for no one else.
Languages
We serve members in English and French: on this site, in our letters and at the assistant at the bottom of every page.
International office
Visitors are received by appointment.
5150 E Pacific Coast Hwy, 2nd FloorLong Beach, CA 90804, USA
Wherever we go, we go together.
Membership is free. One membership per adult; children under 18 are included on a parent’s membership.