Saturday, December 31, 2016

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Institute of the Black World » 50th Anniversary Founder’s Kwanzaa Statement Kwanzaa, the Nguzo Saba and Our Constant Striving: Repairing, Renewing and Remaking the world


The 50th anniversary of the pan-African holiday, Kwanzaa, of necessity brings added focus and emphasis on its customary call for remembrance, reflection and recommitment. We remember our history and the legacies left and the people who made and left them for us and the world. We reflect on the expansive meaning of being African in the world, on the context and issues of our times, and on our way forward in struggle to forge a future responsive to our needs and interests as well as those of the world. And we recommit ourselves to our highest values, to our most anchoring, elevating and liberating practices, and as ever to the good of our people and the well-being of the world. At this historical milestone and marker, it is good to remember and reflect on the origins of Kwanzaa, not only in the ancient African festivals of harvest and shared good, but also its origins in the relentless and righteous struggles of the Sixties, i.e., the Black Freedom Movement for freedom, justice, equalit
http://ibw21.org/commentary/50th-anniversary-founders-kwanzaa-statement-kwanzaa-the-nguzo-saba-and-our-constant-striving-repairing-renewing-and-remaking-the-world/

Friday, December 30, 2016

Institute of the Black World


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/rondaniels/ Mission The Institute of the Black World 21st Century is committed to building the capacity of Black communities in the U.S. to work for the social, political, economic and cultural upliftment, the development of the global Black community and an enhanced quality of life for all marginalized people. Values IBW´s vision is rooted in the values of cooperation, community and mutual respect. It is founded on the principles of self-determination, African humanism and social justice. The struggle for social transformation through the creation of new relationships and institutions is central to our task. The objective of our work is to create greater unity among people of African descent, to acquire and maintain power to reconstruct our communities and to build viable and vital nations, inspired by the idea of a new, non-exploitative social order. Strategies for Implementation...
http://ibw21.org/

As Obama departs, we owe him our thanks


So it is worth marking what Trump will inherit, as we head into what is already a rocky and tempestuous presidency. Unemployment under 5 percent. Eighty-one months of jobs growth and counting. Average wages rising at 2.4 percent over the last year. Growth at 3.5 percent over the last full quarter. Inflation at 2 percent. 20 million more Americans with health insurance. America one of the global leaders in the green industrial revolution. A president respected at home and abroad, known for his thoughtfulness and his great eloquence. Let us hope that Trump can build on that legacy, and not lead us into a far deeper hole.
https://www.diasporaengager.com/pr/file/as-obama-departs-we-owe-him-our-thanks-28630314.php

34 African-Caribbean diasporans granted Ghanaian citizenship - Graphic Online


At a ceremony in Accra yesterday to formalise the process, the 37 people were made to swear an oath of allegiance to the country to that effect. Presenting certificates of citizenship to them, Mr Mahama said their naturalisation made them entitled to every privilege deserving and due any Ghanaian. He said he was optimistic that the skills and knowledge acquired by the naturalised Ghanaians would contribute immensely to the development of the country. “ You have expressed so much gratitude to me and other stakeholders for the opportunity given you today, but I do not think you have to thank me because I have only restored to you what rightfully belongs to you and was painfully taken away” he said . http://africandiasporaleaders.com/eriekabennett/
http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/34-african-caribbean-diasporans-granted-ghanaian-citizenship.html

Thursday, December 29, 2016

U.N. advocates for autism awareness across African diaspora | New York Amsterdam News: The new Black view


https://www.diasporaengager.com/ResourcesAll Before children are diagnosed with autism in Africa, some are excluded from their families, reportedly. By working with the U.N., Ugoji Eze, the CEO and founder of Eng Aja Eze Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on the plight of women and children in conflict zones, is hoping to challenge the stigma of autism in Africa and in Black communites abroad. “I wanted to raise awareness about autism in Africa to break down cultural stigmas and barriers,” Eze said. “When a family has a child with autism, they tend to hide them. They feel like they have a curse or they’re witches. They steer them from mainstream education or even interacting with their family.” According to Eze, there is a lack of education, medical care and local schools in Africa that allocate resources toward children and adults with autism. “The child is left behind,” Eze said. “Their basic human rights are deprived of them.”
http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2016/dec/22/un-advocates-autism-awareness-across-african-diasp/

Immigration and Rapid Population Growth


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/InternationalAffairPlatform The Census Bureau has come up with a new population clock on its website that provides access to new population estimates. The population clock shows the U.S. population currently growing by one person every 13 seconds. That is the net growth after subtracting deaths and residents moving out of the country. How many new residents is that a year? It works out to be about 2.43 million population increase a year. So, how much of that increase is due to immigration? The population clock shows that net immigration causes the population to grow by one person every 29 seconds. That works out to 1.09 million persons per year. And, if the rate of increase from immigration is compared to the overall increase, immigration accounts for 45 percent of the increase. But that share is misleading. Immigration accounts or a much larger share: more than three quarters of the increase.
http://immigrationreform.com/2016/12/20/immigration-and-rapid-population-growth/

Here’s what to tell people who love to remind blacks that Democrats were pro-slavery in the 19th century


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/SurvivalSkillsPlatform Republicans love reminding liberals that their party “freed the slaves.” Some know enough history to remind Democrats that their party, in fact, defended slavery. While true, they cherry pick their parts of US History—a 150-year old part, at that. While watching cable “news,” during a Thanksgiving visit to my Mom, this tired argument again reared its head. In so doing, the selective nature of historical knowledge, regarding race and politics, smacked me in the face. One Republican politician (guess this person’s race and sex), lamented that blacks vote for the party of slaveholders rather than the party of Lincoln. Blacks, he implied, have forgotten history and only voted for Clinton because Democrats give black people “handouts.” I flashed back to Donald Trump discussing “the Blacks” before all-white audiences in which he bashed the Democrats on race matters. Being a historian,
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/heres-what-to-tell-people-who-love-to-remind-blacks-that-democrats-were-proslavery-in-the-19th-century/

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

INTERVIEW: Nigeria is dancing on the cliff — Ex-U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria - Pan African Visions


www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/NigerianDiasporaPlatform By Bisi Olanipekun* Former United States Ambassador to Nigeria and an expert on Nigerian and African affairs, John Campbell, in this one-on-one interview with PREMIUM TIMES Washington Bureau reporter, Bisi Olanipekun, discusses Nigeria, his new book on South Africa and the U.S.-Africa relations especially with the incoming Trump administration. PT: As a […]
https://www.panafricanvisions.com/2016/interview-nigeria-dancing-cliff-ex-u-s-ambassador-nigeria/

Year in Review 2016: Smithsonian’s African-American museum opens to the world


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/author/ The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s opening was anything but small. Every step from conception to delivery led to a monumental milestone for the Smithsonian Institution, the Washington region and the United States — for the people behind its debut, the people it features and the people who would come. What now stands at the corner of Constitution Avenue and 14th Street NW is the product of a century of sporadic discussions, 13 years of work, 52 months of construction and $540 million. The 400,000-square-foot structure on 5 acres adjacent to the Washington Monument houses an important history — and represents another important piece of that history.
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2016/12/20/year-in-review-2016-smithsonians-african-american.html

Obama Scraps Registry for Some Immigrant Men, Mostly Muslims - ABC News


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/LegalServicesPlatform The Obama administration on Thursday officially scrapped the last vestiges of a U.S. registration system for Muslim immigrants. If President-elect Donald Trump now wants to introduce an expanded version of the program, he will have to start from scratch. The post-9/11 registration program for immigrant men arriving mainly from the Islamic world hasn't been enforced since 2011. Although it never prohibited travel for men and boys from the more than 20 affected countries, including Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump's suggestions about banning Muslim immigrants from the United States have led to fears that it could be reinstated and used for new and enhanced purposes. The decision to erase it from the books entirely marks one of President Barack Obama's last administrative actions on immigration and will at least slow any Trump effort to introduce even tougher requirements, as has been suggested by a top adviser.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-dumps-registry-immigrant-men-muslims-44345477

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

New Yorker: Illegal Immigrants 'Brace' for Trump | Truth Revolt


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/MentoringTutoringPlatform An article in The New Yorker is warning illegal immigrants to "brace" themselves for the coming Presidency of Donald Trump, alleging the election has increased their "states of anxiety" alongside physical and mental illnesses.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/new-yorker-illegal-immigrants-brace-trump

The other kind of immigration


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/NewImmigrantsPlatform The flow of people from poor countries to other poor countries is little-noticed but vital. IN MOST ways, it is a typical immigrant success story. Ouesseni Kaboréq was once a butcher in Burkina Faso, a poor, landlocked west African country. Encouraged by an uncle who was flourishing abroad, he left his country in search of better-paying work. He has done so well that he now employs 41 people. All but two are immigrants like him. The natives cannot bear to get their hands dirty, he says. But Mr Kaboréq did not migrate to Paris or New Jersey. Instead he crossed just one land border, into neighbouring Ivory Coast. He works in the large meat market in Port Bouët, on the outskirts of Abidjan, near a store that demonstrates its classiness with a picture of Barack Obama on the awning. Mr Kaboréq is not the kind of immigrant whom economists obsess over, nor the kind who irks voters and brings populists to power in the West.
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21712137-flow-people-poor-countries-other-poor-countries-little-noticed

How Hillary Clinton Missed the Power of the Black Vote | The Huffington Post


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/ When Hillary Clinton first announced her run for president, I questioned whether she would get the needed African American support at the ballot box on e...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-hillary-clinton-missed-the-power-of-the-black-vote_us_582e8496e4b08c963e343d3d

Obama administration kills program Trump could use to register Muslim, Arab immigrants | Mic


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/SpiritualPlatform Donald Trump wants to register Muslim immigrants. Barack Obama is taking steps to make that harder. On Thursday, the Obama administration officially ended the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, a program designed with the intent of tracking Muslim and Arab immigrants to the United States following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. NSEERS hasn't been in use since 2011, when the Obama administration suspended the program indefinitely, but only by vacating all the countries-of-origin from the registry, not actually striking the program. By completely dismantling NSEERS, rather than simply suspending it, the Obama administration is sending a signal to President-elect Donald Trump that they don't want to be tied to any of the incoming administration's possible tracking or targeting of Muslim immigrants — something Trump campaigned heavily on during his race for the White House.
https://mic.com/articles/163114/obama-kill-nseers-donald-trump-muslim-registry-register-immigrants#.74TJorCuF

Monday, December 26, 2016

MUGABE OUT : Diaspora Fights For Vote | ZimEye


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https://www.zimeye.net/mugabe-out-diaspora-fights-for-vote/

Ugandans In Diaspora Urged To Invest In Agriculture


www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/UgandanDiasporaPlatform Biggest News Source for News in Uganda and the East African Region ,Breaking news in Uganda and Daily news and the latest from Uganda. Ugandans in the diaspora have been advised to invest in agriculture as the most lucrative and under developed sector. The finance minister, Matia Kasaija, said this would boast production and create more jobs. Kasaija said this while officiating at the ninth Home is Best summit 2016, for the diaspora in Kampala on Wednesday under the theme: "Diaspora Investment; A Bridge to Middle Income Economy." "The population is growing and demand is available. We only need to graduate from peasant to commercial agriculture to boost production," he said.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1442581/ugandans-diaspora-urged-invest-agriculture

Sunday, December 25, 2016

Ghana's New President Springs from Founding Fathers - Pan African Visions


By Francisca Kakra Forson* ACCARA, GHANA —  Ghana will have a new president next month when Nana Akufo-Addo takes office following his victory in last week’s election. www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/GhanaianDiasporaPlatform The new president has spent a lifetime immersed in the West African country’s politics. Akufo-Addo won the presidency of Ghana by pledging to fix […]
https://www.panafricanvisions.com/2016/ghanas-new-president-springs-founding-fathers/

40,000 Haitian, African and Middle Eastern immigrants expected to descend on U.S. border | Immigration | themonitor.com


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/ImmigrantIntegration An estimated 40,000 immigrants from Haiti, Africa and the Middle East are expected to descend on U.S. borders and try to cross illegally next year, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar said Tuesday. The estimate comes from the Costa Rican ambassador to the United States, Roman Macaya, who is expecting to receive the immigrants in his country before they attempt to make their way into Mexico and, eventually, the United States, Cuellar said. "Roughly 40,000 migrants from Haiti, as well as Africa, Asia and the Middle East, will enter Costa Rica through their border with Panama this next year," Cuellar said in a news release. "They will then attempt to work their way up to the U.S.-Mexican border. Currently, migrants in Costa Rica are blocked from moving further north by the Nicaraguan military." Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott also said that he had been http://africandiasporaleaders.com/
http://www.themonitor.com/news/immigration/haitian-african-and-middle-eastern-immigrants-expected-to-descend-on/article_d1a0ad16-c6d4-11e6-8757-672e315da85d.html

Saturday, December 24, 2016

US, EU Sanction DRC Officials for Undermining Democracy - Pan African Visions


www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/DemocraticCongoleseDiasporaPlatform The United States and European Union have imposed sanctions on officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who allegedly used violence and other means to delay the country’s elections. President Joseph Kabila’s second and, according to the constitution, final term is due to end in one week on December […] www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/DemocraticCongoleseDiasporaPlatform
https://www.panafricanvisions.com/2016/us-eu-sanction-drc-officials-undermining-democracy/

Ramping up US Africa Relations – An Interview with Dr. Melvin Foote of the Constituency for Africa – DUNIA Magazine


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/melvinfoote/ What are some of the improvements that you think we need to see in terms of the relationships which you’ve mentioned between Africans and African Americans? What are the challenges, but what are especially the improvements in the relationships? Dr. Melvin Foote: Well, when I first came to Washington our foreign aid to Africa constituted dropping food from airplanes. Sometimes we killed people on the ground with the food coming out of the airplane landing on their heads. That was the nature of our strategy to address hunger and poverty in Africa. We were not on the ground…we just dropped stuff from the airplanes. We’ve gone from those days of airplane food drops to where we started giving the money to African governments directly. And of course they stole a lot of the money and put it in secret Swiss Bank accounts. We then switched up and gave the money to NGOs, http://africandiasporaleaders.com/melvinfoote/
http://www.duniamagazine.com/2016/08/ramping-up-us-africa-relations-an-interview-with-dr-melvin-foote-of-the-constituency-for-africa/

Barack Obama, Reparations, and America's Wealth Gap - The Atlantic


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/address-sir-hilary-beckles-chair-caricom-reparations-commission-naarcs-reparations-town-hall-atlanta/ The country’s first black president never pursued policies bold enough to close the racial wealth gap. Born in 1953, I am a child of the waning years of legal segregation in the United States. My parents, on the other hand, spent about 40 years of their lives under Jim Crow, and all of my grandparents lived most of their lives under official American apartheid. At the time of Barack Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008, my mother and all four of my grandparents were deceased. But my father was alive and well—and absolutely thrilled to http://africandiasporaleaders.com/address-sir-hilary-beckles-chair-caricom-reparations-commission-naarcs-reparations-town-hall-atlanta/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/how-barack-obama-failed-black-americans/511358/

Friday, December 23, 2016

Cruz: Give Clarence Thomas a place in the African-American museum - Crossroads Today


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/PeaceAndWarPlatform Sen. Ted Cruz says the new African-American museum honoring black history has made "a mistake" by not featuring Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. "As much as I am grateful for the museum and its efforts to preserve and promote the indispensable, yet oft-neglected, contributions of African Americans to the collective history of our nation, I believe the museum has made a mistake by omitting the enormous legacy and impact of Justice Thomas, as well as his compelling background," the Texas Republican wrote Monday to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Thomas has been on the high for 25 years, making him the longest serving African-American justice on the Supreme Court.
http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/34096065/cruz-give-clarence-thomas-a-place-in-the-african-american-museum

New Ebola Vaccine Gives 100 Percent Protection! #Ebola


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/HealthcarePlatform In a scientific triumph that will change the way the world fights a terrifying killer, an experimental Ebola vaccine tested on humans in the waning days of the West African epidemic has been shown to provide 100 percent protection against the lethal disease. The vaccine has not yet been approved by any regulatory authority, but it is considered so effective that an emergency stockpile of 300,000 doses has already been created for use should an outbreak flare up again. Since Ebola was discovered in the former Zaire in 1976, there have been many efforts to create a vaccine. All began with a sense of urgency but then petered out for lack of money. Although only about 1,600 people died of Ebola over those years, the grotesque nature their deaths — copious hemorrhaging from every orifice — has lent the disease a frightening reputation. Ultimately, only the huge, explosive 2014 outbreak that took 11,000
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/health/ebola-vaccine.html

Marcus Garvey's Family Asks President Obama for a Posthumous Pardon | Democracy Now!


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/juliusgarvey/ Marcus Garvey was a pioneering figure in the Black Freedom struggle in the early 20th century. He inspired generations of civil rights activists around the world from Malcolm X to Nelson Mandela. Martin Luther King once said, "[Garvey] was the first man of color to lead and develop a mass movement. He was the first man on a mass scale and level to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny. And make the Negro feel he was somebody." In the 1920s, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover targeted Garvey for his political activity as a leader of the Pan-African movement. Garvey was convicted in 1923 on a charge of mail fraud and sentenced to five years in jail. His charges and conviction effectively ended Garvey’s political movement and eventually led to his deportation back to Jamaica. Today his family is asking President Obama for a posthumous pardon. We speak to his son, Dr. Julius Garvey. http://africandiasporaleaders.com/juliusgarvey/
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/22/part_2_marcus_garveys_family_asks

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Kwanzaa Celebrates Unity, Faith And African Roots | The Huffington Post


The holiday was established during the civil rights era to commemorate African heritage. The colors black, red and green are part of Kwanzaa celebrations due to their special significance, according to PBS. Black represents the people, red is for the blood uniting all those with African ancestry, as well as the blood shed during slavery and the civil rights movement and green is for the lush land of Africa. These colors also reflect the Pan-African movement itself. Dr. Maulana Karenga: African Diaspora in California (USA). Creator of Kwanzaa, Activist, Scholar, Founding Member of Several National African-American Organizations in the USA. http://africandiasporaleaders.com/maulanakarenga/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kwanzaa-2016_us_585c29a9e4b0eb586485acce

Gambia: Buhari, other West African leaders cannot intimidate me – Jammeh - Pan African Visions


By Ebuka Onyeji* The Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, has hit out at regional mediators urging him to step down, saying he will not be intimidated. www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/GambianDiasporaPlatform President Jammeh had earlier conceded defeat in the election, after a 22-year-rule, but recanted a week later, asking for fresh polls to be conducted by a […]
https://www.panafricanvisions.com/2016/gambia-buhari-west-african-leaders-cannot-intimidate-jammeh/

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Diaspora vs. Moldova - Transitions Online


www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/MaldivanDiasporaPlatform The West-leaning candidate lost the presidential election despite overwhelming support from expatriate voters, raising many questions. www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/MaldivanDiasporaPlatform
http://www.tol.org/client/article/26569-diaspora-vs-moldova.html

Comcast seeks proposals for African-American-owned independent networks | Business | phillytrib.com


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/InvestmentPlatform Comcast Cable is now accepting proposals for two substantially African-American-owned, independent networks that it will launch in select Comcast markets by January 2019. https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/InvestmentPlatform. Since the NBCUniversal transaction, Comcast has successfully launched more than 20 independent networks, doubling the number of independent network launches that it committed to as part of the transaction. Four of those networks were launched as a result of a public request for channels that satisfied the criteria established in several agreements between Comcast and leading diversity organizations: two African-American majority-owned networks (ASPiRE and REVOLT) and two Hispanic American-operated networks (Baby First Americas and El Rey). Additionally, two substantially Hispanic American-owned networks, Kids Central and Primo TV, will launch on Comcast Cable systems beginning in January.
http://www.phillytrib.com/news/business/comcast-seeks-proposals-for-african-american-owned-independent-networks/article_b8b7096a-3ce4-5acb-9311-097eacbcce85.html

‘Why Africa, Nigeria must court the historic diaspora for its capital gains’ — Arts — The Guardian Nigeria


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/CulturalIssues The Jews have seized on the holocaust saga and have made capital gain out of it. But Africa is afraid of its slave trade past and appears in a hurry to forget and move on. How does Africa benefit from that experience? The diaspora is not being well featured in African discourse. Yet they yearn to return in their millions to their roots. That is the focus of Badagry Diaspora Festival, to re-ignite a forum for them to look back to Africa with pride. We have a lot to gain by courting them back to Africa. Africa’s capital wealth resides in these Africa’s Historic Diaspora and African leaders are not doing anything to tap into it. Africa is doing nothing to sharpen this kinship with these Africans in the diaspora; these African Historic Diaspora (descendants of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade) are in-between the cultural essence of their host land and the homeland; they know their root is deep https://www.diasporaengager.com/Africa
http://guardian.ng/art/why-africa-nigeria-must-court-the-historic-diaspora-for-its-capital-gains/

How can the county council reach out to Louth diaspora? - Dundalk Democrat


www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/LaotianDiasporaPlatform Louth County Council is looking for ideas for its county diaspora strategy from Dundalk Municipal District. The council is now focusing on building connections with our local diaspora to benefit local and regional development. “The success of T...
http://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/home/228025/how-can-the-county-council-reach-out-to-louth-diaspora.html

Sudanese in diaspora support #Dec19Disobedience | Radio Dabanga


www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/SudaneseDiasporaPlatform A number of cities in the world witnessed demonstrations of Sudanese over the weekend, in support of the civil strike in Sudan planned for today. Activists in the country have been calling on the social media for a #Dec19Disobedience action, following the implementation of a package of austerity measures in November. www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/SudaneseDiasporaPlatform The response to the first civil strike on 27-29 November was limited. People in the Sudanese capital mainly stayed at home during the first day. However the experience of the disobedience action carried out by the people will have an impact on the future, a journalist told Radio Dabanga on 30 November. www.DiasporaEngager.com/miniRegister
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudanese-in-diaspora-support-dec19disobedience

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Sessions to African-Americans: Fear not - POLITICO


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/recipient/ The prospective attorney general and his allies attempt an image makeover, with an explicit appeal to African-Americans. Jeff Sessions took a surprise trip to South Carolina last week at the behest of the Senate’s only black Republican. His allies talk up how Sessions locked arms with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. And the senator, in a lengthy nominee questionnaire delivered this month, practically depicts himself as a civil rights hero. When the Senate takes up President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be the nation’s next top law enforcement official in January, allegations of racism that have dogged Sessions for three decades running are certain to be his biggest liability. So he and his allies have mounted an aggressive public relations campaign to refashion Sessions’ image. http://africandiasporaleaders.com/rondaniels/
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/jeff-sessions-confirmation-race-232782

Recipients - Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders


List of the names of the The Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders http://africandiasporaleaders.com/recipient/
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Remarks by Administrator Gayle Smith at the Center for Global Development | December 7, 2016 | U.S. Agency for International Development


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/barackobama/ Over the last 8 years, President Obama's signature development initiatives have reduced poverty, malnutrition, and mortality, all while spurring entrepreneurship and innovation, empowering women and girls, and helping to build more stable, accountable, and inclusive partners for the United States. Whether it's combating hunger, preventing the spread of deadly diseases, or increasing access to education and clean energy, USAID is achieving real results that change people's lives for the better - despite the often harsh realities of the sharp-edged world we live in.http://africandiasporaleaders.com/barackobama/
https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/speeches/dec-7-2016-administrator-gayle-smith-center-global-development

Monday, December 19, 2016

Opportunities for Ireland’s diaspora to return in 2017


www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/IrishDiasporaPlatform In the coming week, many of Ireland’s diaspora will return home for the Christmas break to visit family and friends. For some of those returning there will be discussions around the possibility of making the move home more permanent. While some might be concerned about access to housing, schools, and levels of personal taxation, seeing these as barriers to making the move, at Morgan McKinley we are seeing more and more opportunities for those wishing to return to work and live in Ireland. 2016 has been a year of great political change both at home and abroad, but it is true that with great change comes great opportunity. Brexit, as predicted, is already influencing hiring forecasts and the skills sets required by employers — but in a positive way.www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/IrishDiasporaPlatform
http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/opportunities-for-irelands-diaspora-to-return-in-2017-435417.html

Let's not forget to celebrate Kwanzaa | Opinion | valdostadailytimes.com


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/maulanakarenga/ As a majority of African-Americans prepare to celebrate the tradition of Christmas, let us not forget to celebrate our own prestigious and rich culture also. Kwanzaa (derived from Swahili) is an annual, non-religious holiday that takes place over seven days from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, bringing family, community and culture together for many African-Americans. The founder of Kwanzaa is Dr. Maulana Karenga. This year, Dec. 26 marks the 50th anniversary of the widely celebrated holiday! So, why is this not widely publicized? As an African-American, I see it as my obligation to acknowledge and celebrate this holiday, as do millions throughout the world. Kwanzaa brings a cultural message, which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. Given the continued awakening and re-education of ancient African cultural knowledge, http://africandiasporaleaders.com/maulanakarenga/
http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/opinion/letters/let-s-not-forget-to-celebrate-kwanzaa/article_cff40d64-67b1-5f44-be4b-1f0c485d69a5.html

Canada adopts lottery system for reuniting immigrants with parents, grandparents - Politics - CBC News


https://www.diasporaengager.com/ResourcesAll Canada is adopting a lottery system to replacing the current first-come, first-served immigration application process to reunite parents and grandparents.https://www.diasporaengager.com/ResourcesAll
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-immigration-parents-grandparents-1.3895808

Adoption Opportunities on Diaspora Engagement


Discover the Techniques and Networks You have been Looking for to Solve your Adoption Problems
https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/AdoptionPlatform

Latino voters will reshape American politics as we know it — and here’s the proof - Salon.com


http://africandiasporaleaders.com GOP strategists have long yearned to sway Latino voters — but in the age of Trump that's less likely than ever. Twenty years ago, neither Democrats nor Republicans saw Latinos as a voting bloc worth wooing. Instead, they often pursued policies that actively played into xenophobia. In 1996, Bill Clinton signed into law the Illegal http://africandiasporaleaders.com/jessejackson/ Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which according to a recent Human Rights Watch report, set into motion today’s mass deportation. In that same year, future Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel wrote a memo urging Clinton to “claim and achieve record deportation of criminal aliens.” Over the last decade, the Democratic Party has changed its tune, and started trying desperately to woo Latinos. Today, leading Democrats overwhelmingly support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and a
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/18/latino-voters-will-reshape-american-politics-as-we-know-it-and-heres-the-proof/

Nigeria Diaspora Community laud appointment of Ogunlesi into Trump’s advisory board - Vanguard News


www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/NigerianDiasporaPlatform The Nigerian Union Diaspora (NUD), the umbrella organization for the socio-political and economic empowerment of Nigerians in the Diaspora has congratulated Nigeria born Adebayo Ogunlesi on his appointment to the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum by US President-elect, Donald Trump. www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/NigerianDiasporaPlatform
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/nigeria-diaspora-community-laud-appointment-ogunlesi-trumps-advisory-board/

African Immigrants Are Leaving China As Economic Opportunities Shrink | AFKInsider


www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/ChineseDiasporaPlatform Guangzhou, China, is thought to have Asia's largest African population. African immigrants are leaving China as economic opportunities shrink. With 13.5 million people, Guangzhou, China, is one of the most populous metropolitan areas on Earth, and it’s thought to have Asia’s largest African population. Estimates of Africans living in the city range from 20,000 to as many as 200,000, which would represent almost 2 percent of residents. Most Africans live in an area less than four square miles in the central districts of Yuexiu and Baiyun known locally as “Chocolate City,” Al Jazeera reported. Formerly known as Canton, the coastal city has a large foreign population and was home at one point to up to 200,000 Africans, according to a 2014 report by the Guangzhou Development Research Institute. Chinese authorities dispute that number. http://diasporasnews.com/involving-international-diaspora-education-research-development-count
http://afkinsider.com/136226/african-immigrants-are-leaving-china-as-economic-opportunities-shrink/

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Freedom is Slavery | www.splicetoday.com


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/SchoolOrEducationalInstitution Reviewing the seventh and eighth episodes of The Deleted, from writer/director Bret Easton Ellis.Throughout the first season of The Deleted, “freedom” and “safety” are words that Parker (Ian Nelson) uses to encourage recovered escapees to stay. Parker means what he’s saying about the Institute, but over the course of these eight episodes it becomes obvious how much he doesn’t know about what he’s been entrusted to sell; he’s the middle manager as starry-eyed true believer. “It’s a fucking cult,” Logan (Daniel Zovatto) chastises him. It’s near the start of episode seven. The two men on a deck that looks out over the Pacific Ocean; Parker is standing, authoritative and fully clothed, while Logan slouches shirtless in a chair. Somewhere out on the beach, a disheveled Ryder (Nash Grier) approaches, clutching a handgun. https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/SchoolOrEducationalInstitution
http://splicetoday.com/moving-pictures/freedom-is-slavery

Kenya : Kenyan real estate firms eye diaspora billions - The Standard


Kenyans in the diaspora have challenged the Government to offer tax rebates for those who want to invest back home. www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/KenyanDiasporaPlatform
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000227070/kenyan-real-estate-firms-eye-diaspora-billions

What if Africa calls upon its diaspora to boost economic transformation? | People Move


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/BenchmarkingPlatform In observance of the International Migrants Day, Dec 18 The stock of African migrants in 2015 was estimated at about 23.2 million (Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016: and the top emigration countries are mostly fragile and poor (see Table 1). About 31.1% of Sub-Saharan Africans migrate to high-income countries compared to 90% in North Africa. The leading destination of these migrants include France, Saudi Arabia, USA, UK, Spain, and Italy. The second generation of African diaspora in the Western hemisphere was estimated at 1.1 million in 2012, and most of them live in Australia, Europe, and the USA.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/what-if-africa-calls-upon-its-diaspora-boost-economic-transformation

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Women Building Peace after Forced Migration: The Case of the Myanmar Diaspora in Norway - Norway | ReliefWeb


www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/MyanmareseDiasporaPlatform While research and policy has increasingly focused on women’s peacebuilding roles in conflictaffected countries, less attention has been paid to the roles of refugee women in diaspora groups as peacebuilding actors in their countries of origin. Using the case of the Myanmar diaspora in Norway, this policy brief illustrates how women in diaspora can contribute to their countries of origin through transnational engagements. www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/MyanmareseDiasporaPlatform The case study finds that women in the Burman and Chin ethnic groups in the Norwegian Myanmar diaspora engage in economic and social remittances to support education and contribute to peacebuilding in Myanmar.
http://reliefweb.int/report/norway/women-building-peace-after-forced-migration-case-myanmar-diaspora-norway

Hamilton: Immigrants provide excellent timing for Falls school | Opinion | niagara-gazette.com


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/Unemployed Contrary to the famous and melodic Caribbean song where a father gives life advice to his son, the lemon tree doesn’t have to be pretty and its fruit doesn’t have to be sour. When Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster agreed to allow Buffalo’s Jewish Family Services to relocate 50 foreign immigrants, including their 35 school-aged students to the city, whether he knew it or not, the timing couldn’t have been better. I had for many years been trying to solve a unique problem in our city with dissident minority youth in helping them “find themselves” by giving them both a sense of person, and more importantly, a sense of place. With the advent of an influx of English as a Second Language students coming, http://africandiasporaleaders.com/
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/opinion/hamilton-immigrants-provide-excellent-timing-for-falls-school/article_6696e128-a1c6-5a98-8314-c1c6ef0f2ab2.html

Friday, December 16, 2016

Archaeologist explores how African Americans were converted to Christianity


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/ImmigrantDiasporaMembers At the site of a plantation where abolitionist Frederick Douglass once lived, University of Maryland (UMD) archaeologists have uncovered striking evidence of how African and Christian religious beliefs blended and merged ...
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-archaeologist-explores-african-americans-christianity.html

Migration Data Hub | migrationpolicy.org


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/Philanthropy Humanitarian Protection Statistics Use our interactive maps and data to find out where refugees and asylum seekers originate and the countries in which they reside, as well as annual asylum applications by country of destination. Learn which countries are the leading countries of refugee resettlement, where particular refugee populations have dispersed around the world, and more. Asylum Applications in the EU/EFTA by Country, 2008-2016 (Q1) This map shows total annual asylum applications in individual European Union Member States and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) and by country of origin, by year from 2008 through the first quarter of 2016. Darker colors indicate a higher concentration of asylum seekers for the country and year shown. https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/Philanthropy
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/migration-data-hub

Lieberman very troubled about dwindling Diaspora Jewry #i24news


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/khazrielbenyehuda/ Citing 2013 Pew survey showing all-time high intermarriage rates, Liberman calls to strengthen Jewish identity. Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday said he is “really troubled” about the state of American Jewry, issuing a stern warning that if Diaspora Jews don’t “pull themselves together,” their numbers will dwindle int the coming two generations. “One of the things that really troubles me is the whole issue of Judaism, of the Jewish people in exile,” said Lieberman. Speaking to an audience of Russian-speaking Jews at a Limmud FSU conference in the southern city of Eilat, the defense minister specifically warned of the current state of US Jews, citing a 2013 Pew survey that showed that one-fifth of American Jews don’t identify as “Jewish” when asked about their religion. http://africandiasporaleaders.com/khazrielbenyehuda/
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/132753-161216-liberman-very-troubled-about-dwindling-diaspora-jewry

Comcast in search for two new African-American-owned networks | theGrio


https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/International Comcast announced that it would be accepting proposals for two new networks, specifying that they were looking for African-American-owned networks. O Thursday, cable giant Comcast announced that it would be accepting proposals for two new independent networks, specifying that they were looking for substantially African-American-owned networks in particular. “We are looking forward to receiving another round of great proposals as we begin the process to launch two more African American majority owned networks,” said Justin Smith, Senior Vice President of Content Acquisition for Comcast Cable. According to Black PR Wire: Criteria for selecting the next two substantially African American owned networks that Comcast will launch include: the content of the network; whether the network is fully financed; whether the network’s ownership and/or management group(s) https://DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/GovernmentalAgency
https://thegrio.com/2016/12/15/comcast-in-search-for-two-new-african-american-owned-networks/

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Yamina Benguigui : "La diaspora algérienne rêve enfin du continent africain" | Le Point Afrique


http://africandiasporaleaders.com/about-the-book/ ENTRETIEN. La cinéaste franco-algérienne dit tout de son rapport à l'Algérie, et pourquoi il y a aujourd'hui une volonté générale de regarder vers le sud. Pourquoi maintenant ? Combien sont-ils ? Qui sont-ils ? Autant de questions auxquelles, pour l'instant, il n'y a pas de réponses officielles, de chiffres encore moins. Le flux est difficile à quantifier en raison de leur double nationalité. Mais voilà, le mouvement est là, l'Algérie met le cap sur l'Afrique subsaharienne et compte sur sa diaspora pour atteindre ses objectifs. Loin de tout angélisme, tous savent (qu'ils viennent de France, des États-Unis, d'Australie...) qu'il faudra du temps au pays pour intégrer cette nouvelle donne. De passage à Alger pour le Forum africain de l'investissement et des affaires qui s'est déroulé du 3 au 5 décembre, Yamina Benguigui https://diasporasnews.com/why-does-africa-weep-and-deteriorate-real-causes-and-solutions-to-african-impoverishment/
http://afrique.lepoint.fr/culture/yamina-benguigui-la-diaspora-algerienne-reve-enfin-du-continent-africain-09-12-2016-2089167_2256.php

Major 1 hosts Stewards in Spectaular All Night Prayer - Prophetic LIVE


In another ECG first, founder and leader of Enlightened Christian Gathering Church, Major Prophet Shepherd Bushiri called together a gathering .. http://africandiasporaleaders.com/shepherdbushiri/
http://www.propheticlive.org/major-1-hosts-stewards-spectaular-night-prayer/

Chief Rabbis discuss criteria for recognizing Diaspora rabbis - Jewish World - News -


https://www.diasporaengager.com/miniRegister The Chief Rabbinate Council met to discuss the criteria for recognizing marriage, divorce and conversions performed by Diaspora rabbis.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221723