Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - African Diaspora Fellowship Initiative Kicks Off

Dear Prof.
I am intimately connected with the history and growth of this Initiative including how Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation who was once President of Brown University initiated this idea based on his experience of a similar Israeli Diaspora project while he was Provost at the University of Pennsylvania. The Africa program then started a drawn out due diligence process that included needs assessment studies in the USA and Canada, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa. After the reports, there was a convening that included University of Ghana, Legon, the University of Wits, IIE, the Fulbright Program, CODESRIA, AUST, Abuja, ARIST, the World Bank and ACLS. This proposal and the details in it are the product of many versions that included inputs from three institutions, two blind external peer reviewers.
There is nothing to acknowledge to our distinguished colleague below.
All our documents are available and open to inspection on legal challenge. This is neither Dr. Ukaegbu's idea or proposal. We have a list of the scholars and academics led by Prof. PT Zeleza who all worked on the shaping of this idea.
Thank you,
Tade Aina.

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> On Mar 13, 2014, at 5:38 PM, "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
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> My take on this is that you met someone who
> went the extra mile to make your dream a reality.
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> It would be nice for him to acknowledge the source of the ideas.
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> Even so, you should be proud of your pioneering role.
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> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
> Prof. of History & African Studies
> History Department
> Central Connecticut State University
> New Britain
> CT 06050
> africahistory.net
> vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
> Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
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> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chikwendu Christian Ukaegbu [c-ukaegbu@northwestern.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 5:19 PM
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - African Diaspora Fellowship Initiative Kicks Off
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> A great program. May I say that I floated this exact idea to the United Nations Volunteer Program. I aske for funding to enable me to work in Nigeria in the summer of 2004. The United Nations established what they called United Nations Volunteers (UNV ) sometime in 2002 or earlier. I applied to do capacity building with Igbo entrepreneurs in Southeast Nigeria whom I had been studying since 1991. I also volunteered to teach graduate students at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) and from there mentor a young academic who might continue with, or modify, extant syllabus on the subject. I also opted to do same in other universities in Nigeria (see attached, my then statement of intent). After waiting for a long time without response from the UN I called the contact person at the UN who told me he saw my application but that he did not have the budget to fund my kind of volunteer project i.e.to go and teach at UNN and at the same time do capacity building of entrepreneurs. I, after that conversation, realized that the UNV was for community development kinds of things unrelated to the project I designed. That same idea I floated to pursue 2004 has now surfaced in the exact form I designed it but from another venue. My proposal and the Diaspora program look exactly the same (see attached). Intriguing indeed.
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> Chikwendu Christian Ukaegbu
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> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] on behalf of Chika Onyeani [afrstime@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:03 AM
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> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - African Diaspora Fellowship Initiative Kicks Off
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> African-born scholars living and working in American and Canadian universities are now able to apply for fellowships to undertake academic projects in African universities under a diaspora initiative supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
> Some 100 scholarships are up for grabs under the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program which will commence in June 2014 and will run for two years. (Continue reading)<http://africansuntimes.com/2014/03/african-diaspora-fellowship-initiative-kicks-off/>
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> Chika Onyeani
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