USA Africa Dialogue Series - FOOTPRINTS: Women's Month: Preserving and Documenting: The Emergence of African Community Abroad: March 25 at the Rayburn Building, US Congress

Subject: FOOTPRINTS: Women's Month: Preserving and Documenting: The Emergence of African Community Abroad: March 25 at the Rayburn Building, US Congress

Humanities Project: Footprint.

KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST IS KEY TO THE FUTURE Dear Readers, for all practical purposes, from time through 1970s, the African Community abroad in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere was a predominantly student population. Members were few in college campuses and largely kept to their own tight-knit circles in the community. Most, on government scholarships, returned to serve their countries. In the 1960, the Kennedy administration brought hundreds of African students to America for higher education, including Barack Obama Sr., the father of former President Obama. Known as the "Kennedy Airlift," the generation marked a new and steady pattern of African migration. The original posting received impressive feedback on this groundbreaking project. Philanthropists, like Dr. Ibrahim Fofanah (Sierra Leonian), in the heyday, were located after almost 25 years. Mamadi Diagne (Guinean) of Amex, DC relocated to work with Ivorian President Alassane Quattara as his Foreign Policy Adviser.  Unfortunately, Mamadi died in August 2022. Dr. Sulayman Nyang (Gambian), the former Dean of African Studies, Howard University, who coined the descriptor "Continental Africans" to identify African immigrants and descendants of African immigrants in the Diaspora, died in November 2018. The community lost a fountain of knowledge. The narrative, first published in mid 2000, does not include the information. Mayor Marion Barry is no longer with us. But there is Ayo Bryant, the then Director of the catalytic DC Commission on African and Caribbean Affairs established by District of Columbia Bill 95-166. It was signed by Mayor Marion Barry on September 12, 1995.   If you know anyone, dead or alive, noted in the NARRATIVE, please reach out. Please send evidence of development at the time, as they occurred in context of Continental African ownership of, and influencing, narratives in public space. Either there are eyewitnesses or a document. It is important. This is an example. By the mid-1990s, civil society actors were in the foreign affairs space. https://washingtontimes.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB0F2C0B70AAA94?search_terms Evelyn Joe's Response to an editorial by Todd Pitcock on Nelson Madela calling Muamar Gaddafi "Dear Brother." Ms Joe changed of headline to: Mandela Refuses to Pander to Western Politics: Published in Washington Times. Download Article https://washingtontimes.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB0F2C0B6A1D7E1?search_terms Another response by commentator YOU MAY DOWNLOAD TO KNOW WHY THESE WOMEN ARE CORNERSTONES. DATING HISTORY: THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN COMMUNITY ABROAD. Telling the Authentic Story: The Making of a Community, How It Emerged. A Humanities Project. Footprints: Grassroots to Foundation. District of Columbia and the United States of America. Date: Saturday March 25, 2023. Time: 5:00pm to 8:00pm Venue: United States Congress, Rayburn Building. Special Tribute: Historical African American Women with Lived Experience: The Great Migration from the South and Washingtonian. Approach of Research and Documentary. Oral history is a field of humanities and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. It does not deal with contemporary events but may examine how the present is shaped by the past. It conveys a story to the general public. It becomes interwoven in the local, state, national American story, and for the larger world. It becomes a reference for subsequent generations. The standards are based on the National Endowment for the Humanities. Other narrators may address topical issues of a particular historical subject or event, including men. They may be witnesses or with significant knowledge of the subject. The value of oral history lies largely in the way it helps to place people's experiences within a larger social and historical context. We look forward to an evening of enlightenment for posterity. It is unprecedented. Ms Soffie Ceesay from The Gambia. Cornerstone Ms Adam Ouologuem from Mali. Cornerstone Dr. Catherine Unonkwo-Uzoma from Nigeria. Cornerstone Chef Marie Faye from Senegal. Mantle Ms Omega Tawonezvi from Zimbabwe. Mantle Mama Lena Bradley (sitting) 94 Years Old. Historical African American. The Great Migration from the South to Washington, DC. Dr. Ambassador Arikana Chihombori-Quao From Zimbabwe, New York, Tennessee, to Washington, DC. Bridge. Dr. Therese Foy Nguijoel Keynote: Strength of Cultural Identity Co-Emcee Gospel Singer, Minister Giilleh from Sierra Leone. Founder, SLAAM Awards, Co-Founder, Save the Nation. THE NARRATIVE RESERVATION IS NECESSARY.  A Gastronomy program, relationship between food and culture with Leaders of Organization will take place on Sunday March 26, 2023 at 6:00pm by Invitation. For more informational, call 202-829-1160. 202-341-5888 or email: management@jahkente.org

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