maybe of interest to some. I noticed that Dr. Nyang is a speaker.
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2000
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From: Ernest E. Uwazie [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 11:07 AM
Subject: RE: National African American Youth Leadership Summit 2000
I hope you find the enclosed conference program on "Africans in America..."
interesting. Please distribute or post to any relevant sites/people.
Thanks, Ernest Uwazie
California State University, Sacramento
Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution (CAPCR)
and
The African Studies Coalition
Africans in the Americas...
May 4-6
, 2000
Conference Pre-Registration Form
NAME________________________________________________________________________
_______
Mailing
Address_____________________________________________________________________
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_______________________________________________________________________
Phone
Number_____________________FAX______________________Email___________________
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Means of Travel [ ] Air(from/to)______________________ [ ]
Other_____________________________
Transportation to/from airport/Hotel:
flight#/time/date__________________________________________
Do you need (for presentation) Visual Aids [ ] VCR[
] Overhead [ ]
Other
(Specify)___________________________________________________________________
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FEES:
*Registration [ ] $30.00
(Required of all!)
May 6 Peace Awards Dinner [ ] $30.00 [add $5 at
door]
OR May 6 Awards Dinner & Reception [ ] $45.00 [" " " "
]
Total Amount Enclosed $___________
*Add $5 if paid after April 20.
Make Check/Money Order payable to CAPCR Trust Foundation. Mail completed
Pre-registration form and fees before April 20, 2000 to:
Ernest E. Uwazie, Director
Center For African Peace and Conflict Resolution
California State University, Sacramento
6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6085
Ph. (916) 278-6282 FAX (916)278-7692
[email:[log in to unmask]]
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March 3, 2000
TO: All Conference Participants
FROM: Ernest Uwazie, Director
RE: Conference Registration /Tentative Program
Please, take time and review the accompanying conference tentative program
and bring any corrections to my immediate attention. Also, complete the
enclosed Pre-Registration Form and return it with the correct fee before
April 20, 2000. Your early registration will enable us make the necessary
preparations and plans for what promises to be another successful
conference. The final Program will be available at the Conference.
HOTEL: We recommend Inns America at 25 Howe Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95826;
phone is 916 386-8408; price is $49.90 + tax(if you mention that you are
attending the Africa conference at CSUS) OR Motel 6, 7850 College Town
Drive, Sacramento, CA 95826; phone: 916-383-8110; price is $42 + tax). Both
hotels are about 1/2 mile to campus. Other hotels are available upon
request!
AIRPORT PICK-UP/DROP OFF: Please state, as requested in the registration
form, your flight arrival and departure information, if you need
transportation to/from Sacramento International Airport.
Paper Submission: All presenters are requested to send 2 copies of their
papers to us by April 20, plus bring about 15 additional copies to the
conference. We will also reproduce limited copies for distribution.
Panel Chairs: Please ensure that your begins and ends on time. Contact with
panelists before the conference is highly encouraged, to facilitate
communication and smooth/even presentation. Also, please provide us with a
1-2page summary of the panel proceedings, conclusions and recommendations;
we will need this written summary by May 10, for appropriate conference
report in the CAPCR Spring newsletter. Your contributions will be
acknowledged therein! Your cooperation with this request is highly
appreciated.
Conference Proceedings: The conference proceedings will be authored/edited
by Dr. Jessie Mulira, CSUS Professor of History. Additional information will
be provided at the conference.
PARKING: Drive to any of the CSUS information kiosks, from either campus
entrance, and obtain a parking permit, reserved under the "Africa
Conference."
We encourage you to attend the May 4, wine & cheese reception; it will be an
opportunity to make new friends and renew old ones, as well as interact with
the conference key speakers.
Finally, you are cordially invited to join us at our 2000 Africa Peace
Awards, to honor two outstanding Black Men: the renowned Professor Cornel
West, and Mr. Kevin Johnson of the Phoenix Suns. The proceeds will support
20 Sacramento high and CSUS students' participation in CAPCR 2nd US-Africa
Youth Peace & Cultural Education Program in Ghana, in summer 2000.
Please, let me know if you have any questions at 916-278-6282 or email
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . We look forward to seeing you
at the May 4-6, Conference.
California State University, Sacramento
Center for African Peace & Conflict Resolution(CAPCR)
&
African Studies Coalition(ASC)
Present:
The 9th Annual Africa/Diaspora Conference
Theme: AFRICANS IN THE AMERICAS: Past, Present, & Future
DATE: May 4-6, 2000
A Tentative Conference Program
[Based on information received to date, March 3, 2000. Please bring any
corrections to the immediate attention of Ernest Uwazie:
email:[log in to unmask]]
TENTATIVE CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Africans In The Americas: Past, Present & Future
May 4: 3pm: Conference Registration
Location: Tahoe room, university union, 3rd floor
3:45-5:30pm: Plenary 1: Youth Africa Study/travel Abroad Programs:
Experiences from Ghana & South Africa
Location: Student Board Chambers, University Union, 3rd Floor
Panelists: Ernest Uwazie, CSUS
Cecil Canton, CSUS
Patricia Holmes, CSUS
Rahim Wasi, CSUS
Andrea Jennifer Porras, CSUS
Sulonda Smith, CSU-Hayward
Nehanda Imara, San Jose State University
Felicia Nance, Fresno State University
Sam & Aisha Walton, Youth Travel Abroad Program,
Sacramento
Chair: John Shoka, CSUS
5:40pm: Wine & Cheese Reception:
Location: Student Board Chambers
6pm pm: Slide presentation on Summer 1999 Youth Peace &
Cultural
Education Programs in Ghana; Reception continues!
Presenters: Brandon Hicks, Thurgood Marshall Continuing School,
Sacramento
Blessing Okorougo, Laguna Creek High School, Elk
Grove
Shanee Dewitt, C.K. Mclatchy High School,
Sacramento
Bethlehem Gashaw, Laguna Creek High School, Elk
Grove
Vanessa Fletcher, Florin High School,
Sacramento
Dante Giray, Sacramento High School
Derik Green, Florin High School, Sacramento
Tieska McDowell, Florin High School,
Sacramento
C.W. Webb, Jr., UC-Davis
May 5: 8:00am: Registration Contd., Redwood Room.
8-9am: Authors Meet Book Critic/Reviewer on
Interethnic/Religious Conflict Resolution in Nigeria.
[Breakfast provided during session]
Reviewer: David Covin, CSUS
Co-authors/Respondents: Ernest E. Uwazie, Godfrey N. Uzoigwe, Isaac O.
Albert; Muhammed T. Ladan.
Chair/Discussant:Getachew Metaferia, Morgan State University, Baltimore,
Maryland.
Location: Redwood Room, University Union, first floor
910am: Call to order: Mc: Hortense Simmons, CSUS
Opening Remarks: Ernest Uwazie, CAPCR Director
Welcome Remarks: Cecil Canton, Chair, CAPCR
Don Taylor,
Chair, ASC
David Covin,
Director, Pan African Studies
Michael
Harter, Dean, College of Health &
Human Services
Donald R.
Gerth, CSUS President
10:15-10:40am: Opening Address: Building a sustainable
constituency for Africa in U.S. : prospects and challenges, Bernadette
Paolo, Vice-President, National Summit on Africa, Washington, D.C.
Introduction of Opening Speaker: Don Taylor, CSUS
10:50am: Introduction of Keynote Speaker: David Covin
11am-12pm: Keynote Address: Africans in the Americas: past, present &
future, Ali Mazrui, Director, and Albert Schweitzer Professor in Humanities,
Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, New York.
12-115pm: Lunch (non-host)!
12pm-6pm: Registration contd: Tahoe Room
12-1:10pm: Lunch (non-host)
1:15pm-325pm: : Concurrent Session A: Africans in America
Location: Student Board Chambers, university union
African immigrants in Washington, DC Area: migration waves and community
building, Kinuthia Macharia, American University, Washington, DC.
Creating the vertical village: Senegalese traditions of immigration and
transnational cultural life, Diana N'Diaye, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC.
The process of migration and identity challenges among Somali immigrants in
Canada, Abdi Kusow, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant.
African immigrants and Crime in U.S., Obi N. Ebbe, State University of New
York, Brockport.
African Muslims In The United States of America: Between Islam and The West
Sulayman Nyang, Howard University, Washington, DC.
Coming to America to Stay: Gender, African cultures and immigration
Obioma Nnaemeka, Indiana University, Indianapolis
Chair: Smile Dube, CSUS
2-330pm: Concurrent Session B: AIDS in the African Diaspora
Panelists: Joan Dworkin, CSUS
Patricia Clark-Ellis, CSUS
Jocelyn Graves
TBA
Location: Capital Room, university union, 3rd floor
Chair: Mary Braham, CSUS
330-5pm: Concurrent Session C: Revisiting Africa documentaries by Profs.
Ali Mazrui, Basil Davidson, & Henry Gates, Jr.
Lead Presenter /Chair: Godfrey N. Uzoigwe, Mississippi State University,
Starkville
Discussants: Ernest Uwazie, CSUS
Lila Jacobs, CSUS
Cecil Canton, CSUS
Gary Hunter, Rowan University, Mount Laurel, New
Jersey
Appollos Nwauwa, Rhode Island College, Providence
Gloria Chuku, University of Memphis
Adeline Apena, Sage College, New York
540pm: Reception
Film(TBA): Taylor Fischer, African Diaspora Film Society,
Sacramento
7pm Group Dinner arrangements & check out Sacramento nightlife!
May 6: 830am: Registration contd., Tahoe Room
Coffee/tea/juice/pastries served!
845-1045am: Concurrent Session D: The changing African family in America
African Family Heritage from Sea to Shining Sun
Alpa Bah, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.
Kennithia Burford, CSU Stanislaus, Turlock, California.
Joseph Matadi, Student, CSU Stanislaus, Turlock, California.
The Afro-American Woman in the Diaspora and the African Woman's
perception
on marriage
Nkiruka Elizabeth Onwuhara, Independent Scholar
Katherine Chinyere Onwuhara, Abia State University, Okigwe,
Nigeria
Family Violence among Immigrant African Families.
Newton S. Ekpo, Providence Family & Educational Development,
Elk Grove, California.
The Dearth of Traditional African Marriage Values in a Single Parent
Society.
Stephanie Linda Anyaegbu, Nigerian Freelance Journalist and Author.
Grassroot Women in Democracy
Uchechukwu Onyemenam, Ebonyi State Judiciary, Nigeria
Chair Delo E. Washington, CSU_Stanislaus-Turlock
845-1030am: Concurrent Session E: African US diaspora, crime, and law
Countering advance-fee fraud in Nigeria: the US connection
Raymond Ihuoma, Nigerian Police Force Headquarters, Lagos/Hubert
Humphrey Fellows Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Fear of Black Crime; The fall of the Intelligent Bayesian Empire
Donald F. Tibbs, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Profiling: Who makes it an Issue
Roscoe-Moses, Leora Kim, Champman University, Sacramento.
Making sense of theory and crime and race in US: facts and
myths, Sue Cote, CSUS
The impact of changing US civil rights law on minorities, Elton
Long, CSUS
Chair: Joseph Russell, CSUS
845-1030am: Concurrent session F: African/African American Studies and
curriculum development
African American studies: voices from an urban high school
Walter Ryce, Thurgood Marshall High School, San Francisco
Ebonics and language policy in California
Jose Cintron, CSUS
Recruitment of African American leaders for urban schools
Lila Jacobs, CSUS
Mentoring African American students
Paul St. Roseman, CSUS
RISE: African centered program
Irene St. Roseman, CSUS
Chair: TBA
1030am-12pm: Concurrent Session G: Africans in Canada, the US, Caribbean and
Latin America
African Religions in the Diaspora-Orunmila In Focus
Eboigbe Osayomwanbor, Benin City, Nigeria.
Caminos De Macho: History/culture/power and the making of Afro-Cuban
Manhood
S. Jafari Allen, Columbia University, New York.
The Falsification of African-Canadian Historiography under
the Guise of Canada's Multi-culturalism.
Amoaba Gooden, Graduate Student African-American Studies
Temple University Canada
Why Haiti; not Africa, be the Central point of Africa
Diaspora history and struggle.
Angelo Williams, California State Legislature, Sacramento.
The many faces of africa: the diaspora on Angolans of Portuguese
descent-a
personal testimony, Maria Alexandrino, CSUS
African presence in Cuba
Dagne Tedla, Sacramento City College
Chair: Dagne Tedla, Sacramento City College.
1030am-12pm Concurrent session H: African/ American relations/ international
policy
Toward an Ethical US/African International Policy: Truth,
Accountability,
Sustainability, Reconciliation
Leanne A. Sowande, California Polytechnic University, Pomona
Rwandaise people and the colonial Impact
Diogene Mulindahabi, Kigali, Rwanda.
The Economic Impact of immigration of Africans to the Americans: The
case
of Rwanda.
Francis Mutini Baijahe, Universite Nationale Du Rwanda, Kigali.
Civil and human rights in Africa
J. U. Musa, Kaduna Polytechnic, Nigeria
Color-Blind Racism: How 'Racism Lite' keeps Blacks at the bottom of
the Well.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, Texas A& M, College Station.
Racial Harmony and Peace: How to create and maintain them.
E. S Etuk, Emida International Publishers, Maryland.
The management of Public Space In Authentic Plural
Societies: Community Identity Structure, Civil Society, and the Nation-state
in Africa.
R. Nwafo Nwanko, Howard University, Washington, DC.
Chair: Alexandre Kimenyi, CSUS
1030am-12pm: Concurrent session I: African families in US: challenges &
prospects
Lead presenter: African families in the US and the crucible of social Change
in 21st century, Carlene Young, San Jose State University
Discussants: Newton Ekpo, School of Marriage & Family Life, Elk Grove,
California
Kaylene Richards-Ekeh, CSUS
Ladi Sorunke, African Christian Fellowship, Western Region
Silvest Morris, African Christian Fellowship
Monique Ugbaja, Author, Maryland
Edem Akpan, University of Calabar, Nigeria
James Igbinovia, Calvary Christian Center, Sacramento
Margaret Okoroji, Rose Rhoades & Associates, Lanham, Maryland
Kofi Hemeng, Ghanaian Association of Sacramento
Mathilda Mukantabana, Consumnes River College, Sacramento
Chisorom Okwuosa, Attorney, State of California
Johnny Mez, Human Development & Leadership Institute, Sacramento
Chair: Austin Ahanotu, CSU-Stanislaus-Turlock
1215-145pm: Plenary 11: Roundtable Discussion: Rethinking African & African
American Relations in 21st century: challenges & prospects.
Discussants: David Covin, CSUS
Otis Scott, CSUS
Ernest Uwazie, CSUS
Don Taylor, CSUS
Jessie Mulira, CSUS
Rita Cameron-Wedding, CSUS
John Shoka, CSUS
Maria Alexandrino, CSUS
Sulayman Nyang, Howard University, Washington, DC
Carlene Young, San Jose State University
Delo Washington, CSU-Stanislaus-Turlock
Sean King, CSUS
Meron Negash, CSUS
Rahim Wasi, CSUS
Godfrey Uzoigwe, Mississippi State University,
Starkville
E.S. Etuk, Emida International Publishers, Maryland.
Diana N'Diaye, Smithsonian Institution
Meli Hekeno, CSUS
Obioma Nnaemeka, Indiana Univesrity, Indianapolis
Chair: Cecil Canton, CSUS
1:55-3pm: Plenary 111: Conference Summary & Closing
Ali Mazrui
Bernadette Paolo
Godfrey Uzoigwe
Austin Ahanotu
Cecil Canton
Smile Dube
Joseph Russell
John Shoka
Mary Braham
Delo Washington
Kinuthia Macharia
Sulayman Nyang
Diana N'Diaye
Dagne Tedla
Chair: Obi Ebbe
May 6, 6pm-1am: 2000 *Africa Peace Awards Dinner & Dance/Fundraiser
Location : Masonic Temple, 1123 J Street, Sacramento
Honorees: Professor Cornel West and Mr. Kevin Johnson
Mc. : Ms. Karen Massie, Reporter, KX TV 10
* Proceeds will support the CAPCR 2000 summer youth peace & cultural
education program in Ghana.
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Subject: National African American Youth Leadership
Summit 2000
I am extremely delighted by what I briefly saw happening at
your Summit
banquet - high school students from all over the United
States gathered to
discuss such topics as violence, gender oppression, the "N"
word, skills,
winning, technology, and those beloved venerable vital
history making Black
Colleges and Universities.
At this moment I happening to be listening to Taylor
Branch's monumental
trilogy "Pilar Of Fire, v2, America In the King Years,"
1998. (I do a lot of
driving.) Probably unlike most of you I had kind of
forgotten the historic
importance of the "children's marches." These moved first
their elders and
then the entire country into what? an "improved" racial
environment?
60% of Black males are under the "supervision" of the courts
and now with
Proposition 21 children between the ages of 14 and 17 are to
be treated by
the courts as adults? Already as a result of "mass
incarcerations" we are
seeing mass foreclosures on black duel parent family
formations and mass and
political disenfranchisements. Laws that are now on the
books are racially
destructive! I think that we have a whole new civil rights
crisis on our hands.
At least we have entered the lobbying age. I think that this
crisis is less
likely to remedied by street demonstrations (although these
can't hurt) as
by public opinion and the ballot. Rather than admittedly
sublime spectacles
of children marching into danger as in 1963 the thing to do
now is let
politicians know about our lobbying strength.
Here the theory is that a bill always has four particularly
interested
persons; its legislative author, its opponent, and their
aids(2) assigned to
work it. With email even disbursed people can coalesce as a
politically
significant lobby. Spokespersons should inform the "four key
persons" and
the public at large as to its interest in legislation,
suggest way of
improving it, and - or how implacably our constituency
opposes certain laws
and measures and etc. (I can supply more info on this, let
me know.)
I am sure that Mayor Willie Brown and others have already
given National
African American Youth Leadership Summit 2001 a lot of
thought along these
lines. I'll put in my two bits just for encouragement. First
undertake an in
school and an online inter school discussion of issues.
Categorize and
prioritized. Students do the whole thing. Select impartial
student editors
to draft discussion documents for the 2001 conference.
Discuss and draft
final position papers. Send these to the 2 key legislators
and their aids of
course, the President, Congress, Governors, State
Representatives, Mayors,
Parents, voting age citizens, friends and myself. Here is a
lot of work.
Grant academic credit for it, additional credit to editors
etc.
This is a challenge: what better educational experience than
real world
lobbying for really important causes all in the tradition of
those truly
admirable children who marched into danger, honor, and glory
in Montgomery
Alabama in 1963?
Best wishes and please, keep me posted
George Pope
George Pope, 650 573 1631, fax 415 723 7267, [log in to unmask]
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