WORLD CONGRESS OF PANAFRICANS...anyone attending???

Shemsi en Tehuti · (#1 (**permalink**))

WORLD CONGRESS OF PANAFRICANS
DAKAR, SENEGAL WEST AFRICA
December 27 to 31, 2007

http://www.jsapublishing.com/wcpe.html

If anyone has attended this before in previous years, could you tell me what you thought of it. I recently starteda Pan-African organization here in Florida, and was contacted by some of the organizers of The Congress to attend.

Does anyone plan to attend???

Agu Bu Oji · (#2 (**permalink**))

I recently starteda Pan-African organization here in Florida.

Sounds intresting. How it going and what do you do? Family are in the process of buying aplace in Florida,5 mins fromsea world.

Shemsi en Tehuti · (#3 (**permalink**))

Apedemak wrote:

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I recently starteda Pan-African organization here in Florida.

Sounds intresting. How it going and what do you do? Family are in the process of buying aplace in Florida,5 mins fromsea world.

Adult Pan-Africanist conscious education through study of African-centered literature.

Agu Bu Oji · (#4 (**permalink**))

So its a study group... whats the purpose? When ever I hear the term, 'Pan African'I tend to think of a group focused on setting up trading links or some kind of rights movementwith the same idea behind it.Linking and connecting people to the continent and to each other.

The term 'Pan-African' has an activist ring to it I just don't see (or hear) in a study group. If its teaching disporans about the continent its an African history class/cultural study even if it is about the wider African community R.Rashidi style.

http://www.jpanafrican.com/index.htm

http://www.jpanafrican.com/submission.htm

^ Not sure when the deadline is. Guess its the same kind of thing.

MarcusGarveyLives · (#5 (**permalink**))

As it is a 'World' Congress, can anyone explain precisely who Jacques S. Agboton President WCP Foundation, Deborah Rice-Lamar Director, Human Resources, Sababu K. Shabaka Co-Chair NIAC, Blanche William CEO, Greatness by Design, Evelyne Laurent-Perrault Co-Founder of ENCUENTRO, Inc., Larry Adderly Sr.Communication Specialist, Regenia S. Miller CEO RSM Global Research, Annette Kashif Professor, Bethune Cookman, Donald Freeman Director Umoja House. Jim Reed Estate Contractor, Shango Ra Garvin Real Estate Developer, Pearl Woolridge Special Collection Librarian, Enrique Ennis Chairman Khepera Study Group, Tanya Simon-Oparah Director Outreach Services, Kelechi Egwin Youth Leader, Queen Mother Dorothy Lewis Co-Chair NIAC, and Ama Tyus Physician actually are?

As far as I know, no Africans in Britain have ever heard of any of them.

MarcusGarveyLives · (#6 (**permalink**))

I thought so.

Shemsi en Tehuti · (#7 (**permalink**))

I take it no one has heard of it or been there. Shouldn't folks make a conscious effort to get there, at least those who consider themselves Pan-Africans?

Shemsi en Tehuti · (#8 (**permalink**))

MarcusGarveyLives wrote:

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As it is a 'World' Congress, can anyone explain precisely who Jacques S. Agboton President WCP Foundation, Deborah Rice-Lamar Director, Human Resources, Sababu K. Shabaka Co-Chair NIAC, Blanche William CEO, Greatness by Design, Evelyne Laurent-Perrault Co-Founder of ENCUENTRO, Inc., Larry Adderly Sr.Communication Specialist, Regenia S. Miller CEO RSM Global Research, Annette Kashif Professor, Bethune Cookman, Donald Freeman Director Umoja House. Jim Reed Estate Contractor, Shango Ra Garvin Real Estate Developer, Pearl Woolridge Special Collection Librarian, Enrique Ennis Chairman Khepera Study Group, Tanya Simon-Oparah Director Outreach Services, Kelechi Egwin Youth Leader, Queen Mother Dorothy Lewis Co-Chair NIAC, and Ama Tyus Physician actually are?

As far as I know, no Africans in Britain have ever heard of any of them.

MGL, I thinik Agboton and the others you mentioned are only the coordinators for the U.S. I don't think they work internationally, but only in the States.