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Rich...
My schedule is set to offer voluntary service in
setting up thing for the Afro Fest. I will be free
from 7am to 10a. Free again from 11A to 3p. after that
i will then want to enjoy the fest activities.
Settro
608-333-6924
--- Aggo Akyea <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> AFRICA FEST 2006: Saturday, August 26 @ Warner Park
>
> Join African Association of Madison, Inc. for $25
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> Mail check to; AAM, PO Box 1016, Madison, WI 53701,
> 608-258-0261, [log in to unmask],
> www.AfricanAssociation.org
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> Warner Park to be spot for ninth Africa Fest
>
> The Capital Times
> By Pat Schneider
> August 24, 2006
>
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=96130&ntpid=4
>
> Madison, Wisconsin: Dane County's multifaceted
> African community will celebrate its heritage this
> week with the ninth annual Africa Fest.
>
> The celebration this year has been moved to Warner
> Park on North Sherman Avenue from the Monona Terrace
> Convention Center so that traditional foods - and
> beer - will be available for sale, said Aggo Akyea,
> president of the African Association of Madison.
>
> "There will be a bit more freedom in the outdoors
> to dance and have fun," Akyea said.
> The free festival, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
> Saturday, also will feature dance and music, a
> fashion show, cooking demonstrations, crafts and
> exhibits.
>
> Akyea said the festival has been attracting a
> couple of thousand people, but that organizers hope
> that three or four times that many will attend in
> the new setting.
>
> In conjunction with the festival, the Africa
> Association is sponsoring a public lecture on
> Friday.
>
> Toyin Falola, professor of history at University
> of Texas-Austin, will speak on "U.S.-African
> Relations: Beyond Media Stereotypes and Images" at 7
> p.m. at the Red Gym, 716 Langdon St.
>
> Akyea estimates the number of native Africans
> living in Dane County at 1,500. They represent
> perhaps 70 percent of the continent's 53 nations, he
> said.
>
> And while once most came in connection with the
> University of Wisconsin-Madison, Akyea said that
> increasingly is not the case.
>
> "We have a whole new generation of immigrants from
> West Africa," he said.
> The Africa Association was founded in 1991
> primarily as a social organization, but Akyea said
> the organization is preparing to begin to offer
> social services.
>
> An agreement with Centro Hispano will put the
> agency in the Latino organization's Badger Road
> headquarters by next year, where it offers
> immigration counseling to African newcomers, Akyea
> said.
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> Published: August 24, 2006
> Copyright 2006 The Capital Times
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