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   Howard University recently hosted an international conference titled Africa and People of African Descent: Issues and Actions to Re-Envision the Future from September 14-16, 2011. The conference which was organized by Dr. Clément Akassi and Dr. James Davis of the Department of World Languages and Cultures was held to celebrate and reinforce the United Nations declaration of 2011 as the year of Africa and People of African Descent, and unite Africans and people of African descent. The opening guest speaker was Congressman Hayden Pirela of Cojedes, Venezuela. His presentation was titled: Race and Affirmative Action in Venezuela.
   
   The conference also included distinguished speakers who conducted several thought provoking and enlightening round tables, panels, special sessions, presentations, and art exhibits focused on subjects such as:
   Post-Colonial Images of Women in African and African Diaspora Film and Literature
   Western Representation of Africa and African Diaspora in Media and Literature
   Hybridity and multiculturalism in the Construction of Identities in Africa and the Americas. Literature and Film
   Post-Colonial Composition Pedagogy: Using the Culture of Marginalized Students to Teach Writing
   Africa and African Diaspora between Science, Myth and Literature
   RepresentationsWhat’s in a Name? Unpacking Black Terminologies of Identity
   Global Establishment of Afrocentric and Afrikan Centered Education: the Hispanophone and Lusophone Americas
   Youth in Sierra Leone: Resilience and Strength, From War to World
   Role of Afro- Colombian Women and Youth and in Latin America and in the Global Community
   Colonial Languages, Subalternity and Subject of the Global History
   Public Policy for People of African Descent in Latin America
   District of Columbia’s African and (Afro) Latino Issues
   Equatorial Guinea: Black Gold, White Elephants, and Invisible People
   Myths of the Racial Democracy in Brazil
   Subalternity and Spaces of African and African Descent Resistance
   Can the Afro Latino Speak?
   How to teach the African Universal Culture to the Global Community?
   Teaching Black Memories in Africa, Europe, Latin America and USA
   Socio-political Commitment and Blackness in Literature
   Race, Migrations and New Identities in Latin America and Europe
   African Heritage in Mexico and Central America
   Africa and Africans in Spain
   Black Identity and Cultural Conflicts in the Caribbean Through Literature and Film
   Pan Africanism and Contribution of African Diaspora to Changes in Africa
   Youth, New Technology, Media Freedom and Stability/Changes in Africa
   The Role of International Organizations in the Promotion and Protection of Afro-descendants’ Rights
   Teaching Black Memories in Latin America and USA
   Oil, Nation and Transnational Identities in Equatorial Guinean Literature and Culture
   
   Some of the esteemed presenters were:
   Miguel Barnet (Cuba). President of the Cuban Foundation “Fernando Ortiz”, anthropologist and author of Biografía de un cimarrón (Biography of a runaway slave)
   Enrique Patterson (Cuba/USA). Professor, philosopher, essayist, journalist, spokesperson for the Citizens Committee for Racial Integration (CIR)
   Catherine Murphy (Film Director www.theliteracyproject.org)
   Edvan P. Brito (Howard University)
   Louis Ndong (Bayreut Unversität-Germany)
   Regina Okafor (Howard University)
   Brandi M. Waters (Harvard University)
   Derayeh Derakhshesh (Howard University)
   Rosetta Colding (Codling Educational Consultants-USA)
   Lorien R. Hunter (University of Southern California)
   Vanessa Plumly (University of Cincinnati)
   Françoise Pfaff (Howard University)
   Andrés Cartagena Troche (Universidad de Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Campus)
   Chair: Edgar Bauer (Scholar and Writer-Germany)
   Kristen Gunderson (University of Maryland, College Park)
   Catherine Kapi (Morris College)
   Jean Jacques Taty (Howard University)
   J. Edgar Bauer (Germany)
   Monique Leslie Akassi (Virginia Union University)
   Dabian T. Witherspoon (Morgan State University)
   Paul Mukundi (Morgan State University)
   Monique Leslie Akassi (Virginia Union University)
   Vanessa Plumly (University of Cincinnati)
   Gerceida Jones (New York University)
   Phyllis E. Cooper (Norfolk State University)
   Jorge E. Cardoso As it Relates to Social Theatre”
   Ron Kipling Williams (Artist and Human Right Activist-Baltimore)
   Katherine A. Porras (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and Vicky Leyva (Afro-Peruvian Artist)
   Yvette Modestin (Founder/Director Encuentro Diaspora Afro, Panamá-USA)
   Brandi M. Waters (Harvard University- Youth Coordinator, Encuentro Diaspora Afro)
   Chioma Naji (Program Director for the Africans For Improved Access Program at the Multicultural AIDS Coalition)
   Quito Swan (Professor, Howard University)
   Christopher Rodriguez (Writer-DC)
   Msomi Moor (Bowie State University)
   Tshango Mbilishaka (Nation House Afrikan Centered School)
   Mark Bolden (President of the DC Association of Black Psychologists)
   KMT Shocklee (George Mason University)
   “Creating Successful Afrikan Centered Curricula”
   Msomi Moor (Bowie State University)
   Julie Guyot –Djangoné (Howard University).
   Hernando Viveros (Pheps Stokes-USA/Colombia)
   Héctor Mauricio Álvarez Mosquera (Afro-Colombian Youth Leader-Colombia)
   Óscar Felipe Murillo Mosquera (Afro-Colombian Youth Leader-Colombia)
   Carlos Fernando Mena Bonilla (Universidad del Quindio-Colombia)
   Edna Liliana Valencia Murillo (Afro-Colombian Woman Jourmalist-Colombia)
   Sandra de Las Lajas Torres Paz (Adviser -Presidential Program for the Integral Development of the Afro-Colombian Population Negra, Palenquera and Raizal- Colombia)
   Yolanda María Paz Estupiñan (Director -Cátedra de Estudios Afrocolombianos Secretaria de Educación de Tumaco Nariño-Colombia)
   Cecilia Ordoñez Saavedra (Office for Etnic Affairs -Gobernacion de Cundinamarca, Bogotá- Colombia)
   Justo Bolekia Boleká (Universidad de Salamanca-Spain/Equatorial Guinea)
   Francis Wangendo (Howard University)
   Abraham Brahima (Universität Bayreuth -Germany)
   Félix Suárez Reyes (Universidad del Cauca, Buenaventura-Colombia)
   Bégong-Bodoli Betina (Université Gaston Berger-Senegal/Central African Republic)
   Justo Bolekia Boleká (Universidad de Salamanca-Spain/Equatorial Guinea)
   Sonia Pierre, Executive Director of Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA-Dominican Republic)
   James J. Davis (Howard University)
   Claudia Mosquera (Universidad Nacional de Bogotá–Colombia)
   Jessica Corredor (URMIS-Université Paris 7, Denis Diderot-France)
   Carlos Augusto Viáfara López (Universidad del Valle – Colombia)
   Alejandro Campos-Garcia (York University-Canada)
   Claudia Mosquera (Universidad Nacional de Bogotá–Colombia)
   Ngozi Nmezi (Director of Office for African Affairs – DC Government)
   Roxana Olivas (Director of Office for Latino Affairs)
   Pape Samb (Phelps Stokes -Director, Africa Programs and Freedom Endowment (PAFE))
   Rosario de Swanson (Marlboro College)
   Maria Zalduondo (Texas Christian University)
   Joanna Boampong (University of Ghana-Ghana)
   Lola Aponte Ramos (Universidad de Puerto Rico)
   Rosario de Swanson (Marlboro College)
   Joseph Kraus (Program & Development Director, EG Justice)
   Tutu Alicante (Equatorial Guinea, Equatorial Guinean Justice-EGJ)
   Juan Manuel Davies (Equatorial Guinea, Writer)
   John Heilbrunn (Colorado School of Mines)
   Hannah Appel (Stanford University)
   Justo Bolekia Boleká (Equatorial Guinea/Spain, Universidad de Salamanca)
   Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University)
   Alain Pascal Kaly (Universidad Federal Rural del Río de Janeiro - Brazil)
   Cheryl Sterling (New York University)
   Antonia A. Quintão (Universidad de Mackenzie - Sao Paulo, Brazil)
   Arivaldo Santos de Souza (São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas-Brazil)
   Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University)
   Chantal Allela-Kwevi (Université Omar Bong-Gabon)
   Mesi Walton (Howard University)
   Khady Diene (University of Maryland, College Park)
   Gustavo Makanaky (University of Pittsburgh-USA/Colombia)
   Kimberly Hernández-Cuevas (North Carolina Central University)
   Calixto Quiñones (Writer-Ecuador/USA)
   Juan Manuel Davies (Writer-Equatorial Guinea/USA)
   Hablando de Héroes” (“Talking about Heroes”)
   Kayra Hardin (Writer-Panama)
   Rafael Perea Chalá (Universidad Nacional de Bogotá-Colombia )
   Delia Mc Donald (Writer-Costa Rica)
   Recaredo Silebo Boturu (Writer, Play writer and Actor-Equatorial Guinea)
   Clément Akassi (Howard University)
   Marco-Polo Hernández-Cuevas (North Carolina central University-México/USA)
   Enrique Patterson (Professor and Journalist-Cuba/USA)
   Claudia Mosquera (Universidad Nacional de Bogotá-Colombia)
   Arivaldo Santos de Souza (São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas-Brazil)
   Jorge Ramirez Reyna (President of ASONEDH-Peru)
   Roland Roebuck (Emeritus, University of District of Colombia-Puerto Rico/USA)
   Dr. Eulalia Bernard (Emeritus Professor at Universidad de Costa Rica and Writer)
   Victorien Lavou (Université de Perpignan-France)
   Bernard Shitemi (Catholic University of Eastern Africa)
   Luciana Brito (Universidade do São Paulo-Barzil/New York University)
   Olasope Oyelaran (Emeritus Professor at Western Michigan University)
   Victorien Lavou (Université de Perpignan-France)
   El Hadji Amadou Ndoye (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar-Senegal)
   Annette Dunzo (Howard University)
   Mara Regina Paulino (Brazil)
   Madis Krouma (Johannes Gutenberg Unversität–Germany)
   Jerome Branche (University of Pittsburgh)
   El Hadji Amadou Ndoye (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar-Senegal)
   Benita Sampedro (Hofstra University)
   Esther Kahn (Howard University)
   Alline Torres Dias da Cruz (Museo Nacional/Universidade Federal do Río de Janeiro-Brazil)
   Fred Williams (Howard University)
   Stefania Licata (Università di Palermo-Italy/State University of New York at Stony Brook)
   Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas (North Carolina Central University)
   Rebeca Moreno-Orama (American University)
   Yvette Modestin (Founder/Director-Encuentro Diaspora Afro- Panama/USA)
   Marlène Marty (Université de Lille-France)
   Clotilde Chantal Allela-Kwevi (Université Omar Bongo-Gabon)
   Mbare Ngom (Morgan State University)
   Sese Shedrack Site (Equatorial Guinea/Spain)
   Mercedes Tibbits (Howard University)
   Dieudonné Afatsawo (Hampden-Sydney College)
   Michael Ugarte (University of Missouri)
   Μbare Ngom (Morgan State University)
   Mamadou Badiane (University of Missouri)
   Aleida Rodríguez (Howard University)
   Julio Moracen (Associate Scholar at the Havana Theater Center-Cuba/Brazil)
   Ndioro Sow (Universidad Gaston Berger-Senegal)
   Mamadou Badiane (University of Missouri)
   Théophile Koui (Université d’Abidjan-Cocody-Ivory Coast)
   Quito Swan (Howard University)
   Gervais Gnaka Lagoké (University of District of Columbia)
   Amphas-Mampoua Mbow (American University of London-UK)
   Odoziobodo Severus Ifeanyi (Enugu State University of Science and Technology Nigeria)
   Théophile Koui (Université d’Abidjan-Cocody-Ivory Coast)
   Stephen E. Armah (Ashesi University College-Ghana)
   Paul Mukundi (Morgan State University)
   Yao Esebio Abalo (Universität Bayreuth/Deutschland-Germany/Togo)
   Nacer Wabeau (Universidad de Costa Rica-Costa Rica/Algeria)
   Stephen E. Armah and Lloyd G. Adu Amoah (Ashesi University College-Ghana)
   Gay McDougall (UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues)
   Corinne Lennox (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London-UK)
   Roberto Rojas (OEA-USA/Peru)
   Esther Ojulari (ChildHope-UK)
   Carlos Quesada (Global Rights-USA/Costa Rica)
   Dolan Hubbard (Morgan State University)
   Juan Carlos Hernández-Cuevas (Claflin University)
   Armando Arboleda (Universidad del Pacífico, Buenaventura-Colombia)
   Dana Williams (Howard University)
   Dolan Hubbard (Morgan State University)
   Sosthène Onomo-Abena (Université de Yaoundé I-Cameroon)
   Clelia Rodríguez (Washington College)
   Joseph-Désiré Otabela (University of Missouri)
   
   It was an excellent conference which I hope will become an annual event in the future.
   
   For more about the conference, visit https://sites.google.com/...peopleafricandescent/home
   To view some videos of the conference, view http://www.youtube.com/user/SusanMajekNetwork
   For pictures and recaps, visit http://sociablesusan.blogspot.com

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