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On this day in 2021...

R.I.P.

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RUNOKO RASHIDI

Runoko Rashidi is an anthropologist and historian with a major focus on what he calls the Global African Presence--that is, Africans outside of Africa before and after enslavement. He is the author or editor of twenty-two books, the most recent of which are My Global Journeys in Search of the African Presence, Assata-Garvey and Me: A Global African Journey for Children in 2017 and The Black Image in Antiquityin 2019. His other works include Black Star: The African Presence in Early Europe, published by Books of Africa in London in November 2011 and African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East, published by Books of Africa in London in November 2012 and revised and reprinted in April 2013, Uncovering the African Past: The Ivan Van Sertima Papers, published by Books of Africa in 2015. His other works include the African Presence in Early Asia, co-edited by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima. Four of Runoko's works have been published in French.

As a traveler and researcher Dr. Rashidi has visited 124countries. As a lecturer and presenter, he has spoken insixty-sevencountries.

Runoko has worked with and under some of the most distinguished scholars of the past half-century, including Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke, Asa G. Hilliard, Edward Scobie, John G. Jackson, Jan Carew and Yosef ben-Jochannan.

In October 1987 Rashidi inaugurated the First All-India Dalit Writer's Conference in Hyderabad, India.

In 1999 he was the major keynote speaker at the International Reunion of the African Family in Latin America in Barlovento, Venezuela.

In 2005 Rashidi was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree, his first, by the Amen-Ra Theological Seminary in Los Angeles.

In August 2010 he was first keynote speaker at the First Global Black Nationalities Conference in Osogbo, Nigeria.

In December 2010 he was President and first speaker at the Diaspora Forum at the FESMAN Conference in Dakar, Senegal.

In 2018 he was named Traveling Ambassador to the Universal Negro Improvement Association & African Communities League RC 2020.

In 2020 he was named to the Curatorial and Academic boards of the Pan-African Heritage Museum.

He is currently doing major research on the African presence in the museums of the world.

As a tour leader he has taken groups to India, Australia, Fiji, Turkey, Jordan, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, Togo, Benin, France, Belgium, England, Cote d'Ivoire, Namibia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Peru, Cuba, Luxembourg, Germany, Cameroon, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Senegal, the Gambia,Guinea-Bissau,Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.

Runoko Rashidi's major mission in life is the uplift of African people, those at home and those abroad.

For more information write to Runoko@hotmail.com or call (323) 803-8663.

His website is www.drrunoko.com

[lboogie1906]

Ambassador Gail Denise Mathieu (November 1951) A native of New Jersey, grew up in Newark and Westfield. She graduated from Antioch College with a BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies then went on to obtain a JD from Rutgers University School of Law. She attended The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She was an assistant prosecutor for the city of Newark and is a member of the New Jersey and DC bars. She married Erick Mathieu and they have one son.

She joined the Foreign Service in 1978 and began her diplomatic career. She served as Deputy Office Director of West African Affairs (1997-99) and as the Deputy Director of Pacific Islands Affairs (1995-97). Previously, she served as the U.S. Observer to UNESCO. Her overseas assignments have taken her to US Embassies and Missions in Geneva, Switzerland, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Paris, France, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Just before her appointment as Ambassador to Niger, she was Deputy Chief of Mission in Accra, Ghana where she oversaw all aspects of Embassy operations.

She served in Niger during a severe drought. Even in “normal” times two-thirds of the population lived on less than one dollar a day and 40% of the children showed signs of malnutrition. Niger was rated the second poorest country in the world when she was assigned there and experienced “chronic food insecurity.” She urged donors and governments to look beyond responding to emergencies and worked toward having the US encourage trade between the two nations which would, she believed, play a major role in transforming Niger’s weak economic and agricultural sector.

While in Namibia her main goals included strengthening primary democratic institutions and respect for human rights, combating HIV/AIDS, and promoting economic growth and prosperity.

She is the recipient of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Presidential Meritorious Service Award, and several other Superior and Meritorious awards. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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President Bola Tinubu has reshuffled his cabinet, appointing seven new ministers for Senate confirmation, amidst growing calls for a shake-up. Alongside the dismissal of five ministers, Tinubu reassigned 10 others to new portfolios. Below are profiles of the seven new ministerial nominees. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu – Minister of State, Foreign Affairs Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu is an accomplished diplomat, lawyer, businesswoman, and former beauty pageant titleholder. She has previously served as Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Affairs and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Ghana and Spain. Bianca is also Nigeria’s permanent representative to the United Nations World Tourism Organization. Widely recognised as the widow of former Biafra leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, she brings her vast international experience to her new role. Maigari Dingyadi – Minister of Labour and Employment Maigari Dingyadi, from Sokoto State, was Minister of Police Affairs from 2019 to 2023. He is a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and has a long political career, including serving as Secretary to the Sokoto State Government and representing Bodinga Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. He also previously chaired the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE). Jumoke Oduwole – Minister of Industry Jumoke Oduwole is an academic and advisor, formerly serving as Special Adviser to the President on Ease of Doing Business from 2019 to 2023. Before this, she was the Senior Special Assistant on Industry, Trade, and Investment in the Office of the Vice President. Currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lagos, her expertise in international law and economics positions her well for her new portfolio. Nentawe Yilwatda – Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction Hailing from Plateau State, Nentawe Yilwatda is a registered Engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). Yilwatda is a lecturer at the Federal University of Agriculture in Makurdi and previously served as Resident Electoral Commissioner in Benue State, having been appointed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by former President Muhammadu Buhari. Idi Maiha – Minister of Livestock Development Idi Maiha is a business executive and former Managing Director of Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company. He is currently the Chairman and CEO of Zaidi Farms Limited, a leading agricultural enterprise based in Kaduna. His appointment to the newly created Ministry of Livestock Development reflects his extensive background in agribusiness and corporate leadership. Yusuf Ata – Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development Yusuf Ata is a seasoned educator and former Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly. He previously served as Special Adviser to the Governor of Kano on Assembly Matters and later on Inter-Governmental Affairs. With deep roots in Kano’s political scene, his experience in governance will be valuable in his new ministerial role. Suwaiba Ahmad – Minister of State, Education Suwaiba Ahmad is a trained educationist and gender advocate, currently a lecturer at Bayero University Kano. She is also the Director of the university’s Centre for Gender Studies. Ahmad has held various academic administrative roles, including Sub-Dean Academics and Head of Department for Science Education, bringing her expertise in education and gender equality to her ministerial duties. Bianca Ojukwu, 6 Others Appointed as Tinubu Sacks 5 Ministers Tinubu Sacks Five Ministers in Major Cabinet Reshuffle Conclusion With these new appointments, President Tinubu has set the stage for a rejuvenated cabinet to tackle Nigeria’s pressing challenges. The diverse backgrounds of the new ministers promise fresh perspectives in government as the administration works towards its goals of economic recovery, security, and national development. Stay informed with Ejes Gist News – Your Source for Credible News in Nigeria Now

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Christmas Charity Bazaar organised in support of an academy for less fortunate children in Accra

Christmas Charity Bazaar organised in support of an academy for less fortunate children in Accra

In the spirit of the season of giving, Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel Accra, in collaboration with a selected number of embassies in Ghana, will open its doors on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 of November to the general public for the first ever Christmas Charity Bazaar aimed at raising funds for the Street Academy. Participating embassies include Israel, Japan, Spain, Germany, India, Türkίye, New…

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How 3 Songs Of Shatta Wale Were Chosen For The ‘Black Beach’ Movie Revealed

How 3 Songs Of Shatta Wale Were Chosen For The ‘Black Beach’ Movie Revealed

Ghanaian musician, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, well known as Shatta Wale, earned another enviable feat in his music career after three (3) of his songs were featured in a Spanish movie. Shatta Wale’s ‘Ayoo’, ‘Mama Stories’ and ‘My Level’ songs were featured in a Spanish movie, ‘Black Beach’ which is distributed on Netflix. Information about how these songs were chosen was not readily available…

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The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 to Divide Africa 

In 1884 at the request of Portugal, German chancellor Otto von Bismark called together the major western powers of the world to negotiate questions and end confusion over the control of Africa. Bismark appreciated the opportunity to expand Germany's sphere of influence over Africa and desired to force Germany's rivals to struggle with one another for territory.

At the time of the conference, 80% of Africa remained under traditional and local control. What ultimately resulted was a hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that divided Africa into fifty irregular countries. This new map of the continent was superimposed over the one thousand indigenous cultures and regions of Africa. The new countries lacked rhyme or reason and divided coherent groups of people and merged together disparate groups who really did not get along.

Fourteen countries were represented by a plethora of ambassadors when the conference opened in Berlin on November 15, 1884. The countries represented at the time included Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway (unified from 1814-1905), Turkey, and the United States of America. Of these fourteen nations, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Portugal were the major players in the conference, controlling most of colonial Africa at the time.

The initial task of the conference was to agree that the Congo River and Niger River mouths and basins would be considered neutral and open to trade. Despite its neutrality, part of the Congo Basin became a personal kingdom for Belgium's King Leopold II and under his rule, over half of the region's population died.

At the time of the conference, only the coastal areas of Africa were colonized by the European powers. At the Berlin Conference, the European colonial powers scrambled to gain control over the interior of the continent. The conference lasted until February 26, 1885 — a three month period where colonial powers haggled over geometric boundaries in the interior of the continent, disregarding the cultural and linguistic boundaries already established by the indigenous African population.

Following the conference, the give and take continued. By 1914, the conference participants had fully divided Africa among themselves into fifty countries.

Major colonial holdings included:

Great Britain desired a Cape-to-Cairo collection of colonies and almost succeeded through their control of Egypt, Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), Uganda, Kenya (British East Africa), South Africa, and Zambia, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), and Botswana. The British also controlled Nigeria and Ghana (Gold Coast).

France took much of western Africa, from Mauritania to Chad (French West Africa) and Gabon and the Republic of Congo (French Equatorial Africa).

Belgium and King Leopold II controlled the Democratic Republic of Congo (Belgian Congo).

Portugal took Mozambique in the east and Angola in the west.

Italy's holdings were Somalia (Italian Somaliland) and a portion of Ethiopia.

Germany took Namibia (German Southwest Africa) and Tanzania (German East Africa).

Spain claimed the smallest territory — Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni).

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Godwin Louis 🎉

Here's to another year filled with blessings and success!!! 🥂

🙏🏽🎂🎉🌍🎶🎷

"Godwin Louis, alto saxophonist, was born in Harlem, New York and began playing saxophone at age nine. Godwin grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut and Port au Prince, Haiti. Godwin was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Saxophone Competition. He has performed around the globe including: Mali, Senegal, Togo, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, Russia, Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Venezuela, Colombia, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia.

Godwin is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute for Jazz Performance.

Godwin has studied and performed with Herbie Hancock, Clark Terry, Roger Dickerson, Ron Carter, Al Foster, Jack Dejohnette, Jimmy Heath, Billy Preston, Patti Labelle, Toni Braxton, Babyface, Madonna, Gloria Estefan, Barry Harris, Howard Shore, David Baker, Mulatu Astakte, Mahmoud Ahmed, Wynton Marsalis, and Terence Blanchard just to name a few.

In addition, Godwin has performed as a sideman, guest soloist and has conducted clinics and master classes worldwide. As a composer, Godwin has received the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, and the Jazz Gallery's "New Works Commission". As an educator, humanitarian and ambassador, Godwin has traveled from Ghana to China to help promote cross-cultural understanding and introduce thousands to America’s indigenous art form, through public concerts, master classes, and jam sessions. Godwin is the founder of Experience Ayiti, a nonprofit educational, multidisciplinary arts organization. "

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Art+Feminism Announces New Call to Action Artwork Commissions from Wendy Red Star + Tuesday Smillie

Art+Feminism is pleased to announce that Wendy Red Star and Tuesday Smillie have been selected for the 2019 Call to Action art commissions. Under this program, artists create a Creative Commons licensed work that is hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Established in 2017, Divya Mehra’s Dangerous Women (Blaze of Glory) was the inaugural commission.

Ashkaamne (matrilineal inheritance), 2019 by Wendy Red Star depicts in black and white the artist and her daughter, Beatrice Red Star Fletcher, reclining in matching striped shirts and blankets, with the words, “Apsáalooke feminist,” repeated in the background. Apsáalooke inheritance is based on matrilineal descent, tracing affiliation along with the mother-to-daughter line. The Apsáalooke Nation consists of ten matrilineal clans, which represent the belief that there are ten lunar months from conception to birth.  The mother’s clan takes care of the physical and emotional needs of the child. Wendy and Beatrice are part of the Ashkaamne clan, also known as the Treacherous Lodge. This image represents a lineage, female empowerment, and the next generation. Click here to view the work on Wikimedia Commons.

Rage/Sorrow, 2018 by Tuesday Smillie is an animated gif. The text “RAGE” appears large, filling the square format from left to right. “RAGE” is quickly obscured by a cascade of rectangles and the text, “SORROW,” repeated in a smaller font. The work was initially inspired by the artist’s reflection on the public murder of queer Greek HIV activist, Zak Kostopoulos, by a mob of people. Rage/Sorrow, a born-digital work, suggests the role of technology and the internet in nurturing and exacerbating pre-existing social divisions. The endless loop of the gif mimics a cycle of anger and anguish produced by the constant stream of horrifying news. Click here to view the work on Wikimedia Commons.

About the Artists

Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Wendy Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new and unexpected perspectives, along with creating a forum for the expression of Native women’s voices in contemporary art. Red Star holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Montana State University, Bozeman and a Master of Fine Arts from University of California, Los Angeles. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues including Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris. Red Star is the recipient of a 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and a 2018 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. She has lectured widely, at institutions including Banff Centre; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Yale University, New Haven; and California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. The Newark Museum will host Red Star’s first career survey exhibition later this year. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

At the core of Tuesday Smillie’s work is a question about the individual and the group: the binary of inclusion and exclusion and the porous membrane between the two. Smillie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Recently, she has shown at Artist Space, New York; New Museum, New York; Participant Inc, New York; the Rubin Museum of Art; and Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham. Smillie is the recipient of a 2014 Artist Grant from Art Matters, New York and the 2018–19 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award by Rose Art Museum. In 2014, she was named the first Resident Artist by the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art. Her work has been featured in Artforum; the Boston Globe; and New York Magazine, and she has lectured at Cornell University, Ithaca and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Smillie lives and works in New York.

About Art+Feminism

Founded in 2014, Art+Feminism is a do-it-yourself campaign to improve coverage of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia. The project is a response to the gendered gaps in participation and content on the world’s most popular online research tool. Art+Feminism creates accessible training materials and step-by-step organizer kits to encourage the organization of edit-a-thons, events where people of all gender identities and expressions collectively create and update articles on Wikipedia, add images to Wikimedia Commons, expand WikiData entries, and more. Since 2014, over 10,000 people at more than 800 events around the world have participated in Art+Feminism’s Edit-a-thons, resulting in the creation and improvement of more than 33,000 articles on Wikipedia.

Art+Feminism is led by Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, McKensie Mack, Michael Mandiberg, and Melissa Tamani. Art+Feminism’s Regional Ambassadors are Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Accra, Ghana; Stacey Allan, Los Angeles, California; Amber Berson, Montreal, Canada; Daniela Brugger, Basel, Switzerland; Marta Delatte, Barcelona, Spain; Dominique Eliane, Ivory Coast; Medhavi Gandhi, Chandigarh, India; Linden How, Portland, Portland, Oregon; Walaa Abdel Manaem, Cairo, Egypt; Amanda Meeks, Flagstaff, Arizona; Jessie Mi, Taiwan; Juliana Monteiro, São Paulo, Brazil; and Taryn Tomasello, Portland, Oregon. Art+Feminism is supported by Qubit New Music, Inc. and the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Ten dead, search continues for 11 crew after Spanish fishing boat sinks off N.L.

Search and rescue teams were expected to continue operating overnight after 10 members of a Spanish fishing boat died and 11 were missing in the icy waters of the North Atlantic east of Newfoundland.

The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax updated the number of dead Tuesday night after three more bodies were recovered from the sunken vessel.

"Our thoughts go out to all the families of this crew," the centre said on Twitter.

The search was to continue in the area 460 kilometres east of St. John's, Lt.-Cmdr. Brian Owens, a spokesman for the centre in Halifax, said in an interview.

"One of the advantages overnight is you can potentially spot flares or strobe lights," Owens said.

Three survivors were located in a life raft by another Spanish fishing boat in the area since the first distress signal was received just after midnight Tuesday.

Owens said it wasn't known whether the survivors would be taken to St. John's or back to Spain. He had no word on their condition.

Earlier in the day, he said a debris field had been located in the North Atlantic.

"It has allowed us to focus our efforts … and centralize our search," Owens said, adding that some life-jackets, fishing equipment, gear and an empty life-raft were found at the site.

Owens said the search teams were battling difficult sea conditions, adding that the region was experiencing 74-kilometre-per-hour winds and sea swells of 5.5 metres. "The visibility has decreased with fog so it is making it a little bit challenging on the water."

Conditions in that area of the North Atlantic, however, can be much worse, he said.

"Personally, I've seen 10- to 15-metre swells," he said. "Five- to five-and-a-half (metres) is still a bit of a rough ride, depending on the type of vessel you are in. The Spanish fishing vessels that are assisting in this search are designed for this weather."

Owens said three Cormorant helicopters were rotating in and out of the area and flying from St. John's to the Hibernia offshore oilfield and then out to the search site. He said a provincial airlines aircraft and a C130 Hercules out of Greenwood, N.S., were flying overhead doing sensor sweeps.

The Canadian Coast Guard vessel Cygnus was on route to the debris site, he said, where "a number" of Spanish fishing ships have been assisting.

Owens was unable to confirm the name of the missing ship, but authorities in Spain have said the 50-metre vessel Villa de Pitanxo sank at about 1 a.m. Eastern Time in rough seas. Spanish authorities said the ship operates out of Spain's northwestern Galicia region.

The news was a tragic blow to the port town of Marin in northwestern Galicia, where many make their living from the sea. Marin Mayor Maria Ramallo said the sinking of the boat was the biggest tragedy on record for the community.

"We can't remember anything worse than this," Ramallo told Spain's state news agency, EFE.

Those rescued were in one of the vessel's four lifeboats, while two other lifeboats were found empty and the fourth was unaccounted for.

Spanish officials said the sunken vessel's crew included 16 Spaniards, five Peruvians and three workers from Ghana. The owner of the fishing boat, Grupo Nores, wasn't immediately available for comment.

In a statement, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey said that he spoke with Spain's ambassador to Canada, Alfredo Martinez, to convey condolences on behalf of the people of his province.

"Like the people of Spain, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have a historic attachment to the sea," he said. "An attachment that is fruitful, but which all too often results in tragedy."

The premier expressed hope that more of the crew would be found alive. "Our thoughts are with the families of the crew members and we share their grief."

The sinking comes on the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Ocean Ranger oil rig on Newfoundland's Grand Banks, about 315 kilometres east of St. John's, on Feb. 15, 1982. The rig was demolished by high winds and massive waves, which led to the deaths of 84 men.

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Go well … you have fulfilled your purpose 💕https://www.patreon.com/RunokoRashidi

RUNOKO RASHIDI

Runoko Rashidi is an anthropologist and historian with a major focus on what he calls the Global African Presence--that is, Africans outside of Africa before and after enslavement. He is the author or editor of twenty-two books, the most recent of which are My Global Journeys in Search of the African Presence, Assata-Garvey and Me: A Global African Journey for Children in 2017 and The Black Image in Antiquityin 2019. His other works include Black Star: The African Presence in Early Europe, published by Books of Africa in London in November 2011 and African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East, published by Books of Africa in London in November 2012 and revised and reprinted in April 2013, Uncovering the African Past: The Ivan Van Sertima Papers, published by Books of Africa in 2015. His other works include the African Presence in Early Asia, co-edited by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima. Four of Runoko's works have been published in French.

As a traveler and researcher Dr. Rashidi has visited 124countries. As a lecturer and presenter, he has spoken insixty-sevencountries.

Runoko has worked with and under some of the most distinguished scholars of the past half-century, including Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke, Asa G. Hilliard, Edward Scobie, John G. Jackson, Jan Carew and Yosef ben-Jochannan.

In October 1987 Rashidi inaugurated the First All-India Dalit Writer's Conference in Hyderabad, India.

In 1999 he was the major keynote speaker at the International Reunion of the African Family in Latin America in Barlovento, Venezuela.

In 2005 Rashidi was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree, his first, by the Amen-Ra Theological Seminary in Los Angeles.

In August 2010 he was first keynote speaker at the First Global Black Nationalities Conference in Osogbo, Nigeria.

In December 2010 he was President and first speaker at the Diaspora Forum at the FESMAN Conference in Dakar, Senegal.

In 2018 he was named Traveling Ambassador to the Universal Negro Improvement Association & African Communities League RC 2020.

In 2020 he was named to the Curatorial and Academic boards of the Pan-African Heritage Museum.

He is currently doing major research on the African presence in the museums of the world.

As a tour leader he has taken groups to India, Australia, Fiji, Turkey, Jordan, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, Togo, Benin, France, Belgium, England, Cote d'Ivoire, Namibia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Peru, Cuba, Luxembourg, Germany, Cameroon, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Senegal, the Gambia,Guinea-Bissau,Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.

Runoko Rashidi's major mission in life is the uplift of African people, those at home and those abroad.

For more information write to Runoko@hotmail.com or call (323) 803-8663.

His web site is www.drrunoko.com

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[implexis]

1982

Jan 1  Another military coup in Ghana. Exuberant soldiers loot homes and shops.

Jan 7  Ghana's new military regime, led by Jerry Rawlings, announces the creation of tribunals for "revolutionary justice" regarding "crimes against the people."

Jan 12  The Rawlings regime announces the return of diplomatic relations between Ghana and Libya. Libya's leader, Gaddafi, has sent a message of solidarity with Ghana's "revolution."

Jan 26  Unemployment in Britain increases by 129,918 to 3,070,621 -- a post-war record.

Feb 2  In Hama, a Syrian city of 350,000, Muslim Brotherhood insurgents have taken power, driving out Baathist authorities and declaring the city liberated. With tanks and air power, Syria's Baathist president, Hafez al Assad, crushes the Brotherhood. Estimates of those killed in the city will range from 10,000 to 40,000. In 1982 Hama has a population of around 270,000. In 2011 its population will be 699,000 and largely hostile to the rule of the son of Hafez. For the Assad regime the massacre buys thirty years of rule.

Feb 25  The European Court of Human Rights rules that teachers who beat children against the wishes of the parents are in breach of the Human Rights Convention.

Mar 10 The United States describes Libya as supporting terrorism and subversion and places an embargo on Libyan oil imports.

Mar 13  Massacre and rape of Mayans is occur ab out 100 kilometers northwest of Guatemala City. A civil war is taking place and the Mayans are being described by anti-Communists as subversives and by soldiers as "garbage" and "trash". (NewsHour, 8 May 2013)

Mar 13  Colonel Gaddafi describes President Reagan as a "destructive person" and a "terrorist."

Mar 22  In Nicaragua the Sandinista government has been criticized for forcibly removing some 10,000 Miskito Indians from land along the Honduran border. It claims that the evictions were necessary because of incursions into northern Nicaragua by armed exiles.

Mar 23  In Guatemala, General Efraín Ríos Montt, takes power in a coup. He was critical of Catholic priests who had questioned the mistreatment of the Catholic Mayans, and had described the priests were leftist agents. The Reagan administration

Apr 2  The military junta in Argentina lands troops in British-ruled Falkland Islands, which Argentines call the Malvinas and consider Argentinean.

Apr 3 Prime Minister Thatcher announces the despatch of a naval task force to the Falklands.

Apr 5  Britain's government in Falklands surrenders.

Apr 25  Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula in keeping with the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979.

May 2  A British nuclear submarine sinks an Argentine Navy cruiser, killing 323 sailors.

May 4  An Argentine missile hits a British light cruiser, killing 20.

May 24  Iranian troops retake the border town of Khorramshahr, 40 kilometers southeast of Basra, capturing 19,000 Iraqi soldiers. They execute 2,000 of their prisoners in retaliation for the rape of Iranian women at the beginning of the war.

May 29  British paratroopers defeat a larger force of Argentine troops in the first land battle of the Falklands.

May 30  Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO.

Jun 3  In London, Israel's ambassador to Britain is shot and critically wounded by the Palestinian terrorist organization led by Abu Nidal.

Jun 4  Palestinians have been launching attacks against Israelis from southern Lebanon, including rocket and artillery attacks across the border into northern Israel. Israel bombs Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ammunition depots and training bases. The PLO retaliates by shelling Israeli settlements.

Jun 6  Israel invades southern Lebanon, an operation the Israelis call "Operation Peace for Galilee."

Jun 9  Israeli forces have engaged Syrian forces and forced them to withdraw to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Israeli troops are on the perimeter of the city of Beirut. They send airplanes against trapped PLO there, and they begin patrolling all roads in and out of the city.

Jun 11  The Sandinista regime says that they have killed 21 ''counterrevolutionaries'' in recent days near the Honduran border. Those fighting the Sandinista regime from Honduras have been described as former National Guard soldiers who fled Nicaragua when the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime.

Jun 13  Inflation has dropped to 7 percent, but the nation is in a recession and unemployment is rising. President Reagan's budget director, David A. Stockman, tells the U. S. Chamber of Commerce that the nation should stick with President Reagan's policies if it is to ''end the curse of inflation once and for all, even if it means short-run economic and fiscal difficulties.''

Jun 14 In the Falklands, at Stanley, the commander of Argentina's forces, General Mario Menéndez, surrenders to British Major General Jeremy Moore.

Jun 15-16  In Argentina, policemen disperse crowds angered by the surrender to the British.

Jun 16  Returning to her residence at 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is cheered by a crowed behind police barricades. They sing ''Rule, Britannia'' and ''She's a Jolly Good Fellow.''

Jun 18  In Argentina, junta leader General Leopoldo Galtieri, who started the Falklands War, resigns.

Jun 18  In the US, the Census Bureau reports that the number of families headed by one parent has doubled since 1970, caused primarily by divorce.

Jun 19 Total dead in the Falklands War: 649 for Argentina, 258 for Britain.

Jun 19  Argentina defeats Hungary in football (soccer) 4 to 1. Some Argentine players weep with joy.

Jun 21  The Princess of Wales, Diana, gives birth to her first son, William.

Jun 25  Governor Rex Hunt returns to his position as Commissioner of the Falklands.

Jul 18  Guatemala's President Montt is reported by the New York Times as announcing to the people of Guatemala, "If you are with us, we'll feed you; if not, we'll kill you."

Jul 20  The Provisional IRA detonates 2 bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 others and killing 7 horses.

Jul 23 The International Whaling Commission chooses to end commercial whaling by 1985-1986.

Jul 24  United States envoy Philip Habib brokers a shaky cease fire, but incidents continue.

Aug 12  Mexico announces its inability to pay its foreign debt. A debt crisis is launched throughout Latin America.

Aug 20  An agreement has been reached whereby 800 French, 800 US and 400 Italian "peacekeeper" troops will be in Lebanon for thirty days or less, helping the Lebanese army provide a safe evacuation of Yasser Arafat's PLO combat forces to Damascus.

Aug 21  French forces land in Lebanon.

Aug 23  In Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel of Christian Phalangist political party is elected President. He promises to be the president of all the people and is scheduled to take office on September 23.

Aug 25  The US Marines arrive in Lebanon.

Aug 30  From Beirut, Arafat and his 14,000 combatants take a cruise ship to Greece. Around 2000 Syrian troops are also evacuated from Beirut. From Greece the PLO will go to Cyprus and then be dispersed to Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, North and South Yemen, Tunisia and Greece. The new PLO headquarters will be in Tunisia.

Sep 10  The US Marines in Lebanon return to their ships.

Sep 14  Lebanon's president-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated, killed with 25 others by a bomb. Confessing to the crime will be Habib Tanious Shartouni, a Christian Maronite member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, which advocates a Greater Syria.

Sep 18  Israeli commander Ariel Sharon allows Lebanese Christian militiamen to search for terrorists in the Sabra and Chatila Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut. The camps are surrounded by the Israeli army. Between 700 and 3,500 Palestinians are estimated to have been massacred.

Sep 22  President Reagan orders Marines back into Lebanon to support the Lebanese armed forces.

Sep 23  Amin Gemayel, Bachir's brother, is elected president of Lebanon.

Sep 25  In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Sep 29  US Marines return ashore for peacekeeping duties in Lebanon.

Oct 15  The Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act is signed into law by President Reagan. He calls it "historic reform." The law contributes to the elimination of New Deal restrictions on mortgage lending – restrictions that, in particular, limited the ability of families to buy homes without putting a significant amount of money down. A new era of borrowing by citizens is in the making. The economist Paul Krugman is to describe the law as encouraging risk taking and as allowing the Savings and Loan industry, whose deposits are federally insured, "a license to gamble with taxpayers’ money, at best, or simply to loot it, at worst." (NYT, June 1, 2009)

Oct 17  In El Salvador, some military officials believe that guerrilla factions are acting with greater coordination than they have in recent months.

Oct 29  In Spain elections bring a return of socialists to power for the first time since 1937. Joy erupts in the streets of Madrid. It is the old Socialist Workers' Party, the PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español), which has followed a softening trend. It is moderate and reformist more than it is Marxist – like other Social Democrat parties.

Oct 30  The US Ambassador to El Salvador, Deane R. Hinton, warns that aid to El Salvador could be halted unless El Salvador's government does something about ''thugs'' accused of murdering thousands of civilians.

Nov 2  According to Newsweek magazine, Reagan administration officials say that the US is supporting clandestine military operations against Nicaragua intended to harass but not to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government.

Nov 10  The Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev dies at the age of 75.

Nov 12  In the Soviet Union, former KGB chief Yuri Andropov is selected to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party, succeeding the late Leonid Brezhnev.

Dec 4  President Reagan is in Guatemala City. He declares "President Ríos Montt is a man of great personal integrity and commitment. ... I know he wants to improve the quality of life for all Guatemalans and to promote social justice."

Dec 4  The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution. It will be described in Wikipedia as reflecting "Deng Xiaoping's determination to lay a lasting institutional foundation for domestic stability and modernization."

Dec 31  In the United States, unemployment is described as 10.8 percent, a new high for recent years. But inflation has dropped another point since mid-year, to around 6 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen from the 800s in recent months to 1046. The DJIA has been moving sideways for more than a decade. (It was just below 1000 in January 1966.) A new rally is on the way as people begin to put their money back in stocks.

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Marwah Studios Presented International Excellence Awards In Cinema During 13th Global Film Festival

Noida: “I try to push ideas away and the ones that will not leave me are the ones that ultimately end up happening, and one of those is the announcement of ICMEI International Award for Excellence in Cinema during 13th Global Film Festival Noida 2020.  Now we have constituted this new prestigious award. We don’t make movies to make more money  but we make money to make more movies. Cinema has to be  always backed and supported by passion,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios and founder of Noida Film City.

Sandeep Marwah, forty years in glamour business, is seven times World Record Holder in Media. He is the  recipient of more than seven hundred awards from all over the World, chairing around hundred film, television, media, social, governmental and private organizations and is the cultural Ambassador of many countries.

“Create your own visual style, let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable to others. Film Making is ultimate team sort. To make a film is easy but to make a good film is a war and to make a very good film is a magic. I always consider film makers as magicians,” said H.E. Muhammed Cengic Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to India at the first ICMEI International Awards for Excellence in Cinema inviting film personalities to Bosnia for film shooting. H.E. Muhammed Cengic is also patron to Indo Bosnia Film And Cultural Forum.

“Films are the best representative of culture of any country. Films are the best way to express yourself. The pain is temporary but once films are made then  the history is created. Indo Peru Film And Cultural Forum has grown with time,” said Carlo Polo Ambassador of Peru to India also spoke about the film Industry at Peru and the films which have done extremely well. H.E. is also the Patron to Indo Peru Film And Cultural Forum.

Marwah Studios International Award for Excellence in Cinema was conferred upon twenty nine film makers from twenty One countries of the World. This is a first kind of function in India where so many creative people from the World of cinema  have been honoured at the same time.

Sahra karimi, Shajia sojaei and  Mohibulla Hamidi from Afghanistan, Pouran Derakhshandeh and Behrooz Chaihel- Iran, Prabhakar saran- Panama, Aida Begic and Faruk Loncarevic- Bosina & Herzegovina, Mike berry and Karl Bardosh- USA, David Canovas- Spain, Romail Gulzar and Peter Ferris- UK, Karma Tshering- Bhutan, Maria Mercedes Coroy- Guatemala, Gabor a Forgacs and Jeno Hodi – Hungary, Akrom Isakov – Uzbekistan, Rani Bleier and Dan Wolman -Israel, Naveen shalaby- Egypt, Richard yaw Boatang- Ghana, Effie Bachtsevana – Greece, Chaai Yeewei – Singapore, Adam Dawla- Germany, Joel Calero- Peru, AMB Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen – Nigeria, Nariman Mammadov – Azerbaijan and  Yassine Samih from Morocco were honoured with prestigious award.

Later all the filmmakers spoke about their feelings and impression about this very exclusive international event online. It was indeed bonding of different cultures through Cinema. ”We could bring love, peace and unity through art and culture,” added Marwah.

[talentzmedia]

A Ghanaian Ambassador to the United States of America USA H.E Baffour Adjei Bawuah has disclosed that Sarkodie and D.Black are not in USA,as it's earlier reported. The earlier reports claimed Sarkodie was returning from a trip to Spain before he got stuck in the USA after Ghana's borders were closed on Sunday March 22,2020. But in an interview on GhOneTv with Serwaah Amihere mentioned by H.E Baffour Adjei Bawuah revealed that Sarkodie and D.Black are not part of the Ghanaian nationals in the America who have expressed interest in returning home and per his confidential check Sarkodie is rather in Europe and not the USA. He further stated that about 300 Ghanaians in the USA have expressed interest in returning home on the Government chartered flight. He again stated that about 33 Ghanaians in New York city alone have died from Coronavirus with an unidentified number living the virus . The USA has recorded over 1.7 Million Covid-19 cases with 99,462 deaths and over 353,000 recoveries as at May 26,2020. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAqt7HWBwJz/?igshid=n9n4wdoh6lhv

[blacktiemagazine]

http://blacktiemagazine.com/society_2020_may/the_peoples_vaccine.htm More than 140 world leaders, experts and elders have made an unprecedented call for guarantees that COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics, tests and treatments will be provided free of charge to everyone, everywhere. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – President of the Republic of Ghana

Imran Khan - Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Cyril Ramaphosa - President of the Republic of South Africa and Chairperson of the African Union

Macky Sall - President of the Republic of Senegal

Karen Koning Abuzayd - Commissioner of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Syria, Under Secretary-General as UNRWA Commissioner-General (2005-2010)

Maria Elena Agüero - Secretary General, World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid

Esko Aho - Prime Minister of Finland (1991-1995)¹

Dr. Shamshad Akhtar - Former UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Rashid Alimov - Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (2016-2019), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan (1992-1994)²

Amat Alsoswa - Former Yemen’s Minister for Human Rights, Former United Nations Assistant Secretary General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Regional Director/ Arab States Bureau

Philip Alston - John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law and Former UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

Baroness Valerie Amos - United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (2010-2015)

Rosalia Arteaga Serrano - President of Ecuador (1997)²

Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Avila - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Salvador (1999-2004)

Shaukat Aziz - Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004-2007), former VP of the Citibank²

Jan Peter Balkenende - Prime Minister of The Netherlands (2002-2010)¹

Joyce Banda - President of the Republic of Malawi (2012-2014) and Champion for an AIDS- Free Generation¹

Nelson Barbosa - Professor, FGV and the University of Brasilia, and former Finance Minister of Brazil

José Manuel Barroso - Prime Minister of Portugal (2002-2004), President of the European Commission (2004-2014)¹

Carol Bellamy - Former Executive Director, UNICEF (1995-2005)

Valdis Birkavs - Prime Minister of Latvia (1993-1994)¹

Irina Bokova - Director-General of UNESCO (2009-2017)

Gordon Brown - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-2010)

Sharan Burrow - General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)*

Winnie Byanyima - Executive Director of UNAIDS and UN Under-Secretary General

Kathy Calvin - Former Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Foundation

Kim Campbell - Prime Minister of Canada (1993)¹

Fernando Henrique Cardoso - President of Brazil (1995-2003)¹

Gina Casar - Senior Advisor to the Executive Director, World Food Programme

Hikmet Cetin - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey (1991-1994), former Speaker of the Parliament²

Ha-Joon Chang - Director, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge

Judy Cheng-Hopkins - Former Assistant Secretary-General, Peacebuilding Support, United Nations

Laura Chinchilla - President of Costa Rica (2010-2014)¹

Joaquim Chissano - President of the Republic of Mozambique (1986-2005) and Champion for an AIDS- Free Generation¹

Helen Clark - Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999-2008), UNDP Administrator (2009-2017)¹²

Emil Constantinescu - President of Romania (1996-2000)²

Radhika Coomaraswamy - former UN Under Secretary General and The Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict

Ertharin Cousin - Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (2012-2017)

Paula A. Cox - Premier of Bermuda (2010-2012)

Herman De Croo - Minister of State of Belgium; Honorary Speaker of the House²

Olivier De Schutter - Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

Danny Dorling - Professor of Human Geography at Oxford University

Ruth Dreifuss - President of Switzerland (1999) and Federal Councillor (1993-2002)

Diane Elson - Emeritus Professor University of Essex, Member of UN Committee for Development Policy

Maria Fernanda Espinosa - President of the United Nations General Assembly (2018-2019), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador (2007-2009, 2017-2018) and Member of the Political Advisory Panel of UHC2030

Moussa Faki - Chairperson of the African Union Commission

Christiana Figueres - Executive Secretary of UNFCCC (2010-2016)

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir - President of Iceland (1980-1996)¹

Louise Fréchette - UN Deputy Secretary-General (1998-2006)

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr - Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The New School

Patrick Gaspard - Former United States Ambassador to South Africa, President of the Open Society Foundations

Jayati Ghosh - Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University

Felipe González - President of the Government of Spain (1982-1996)¹

Rebeca Grynspan - Vice President of Costa Rica (1994-1998), Ibero-American Secretary General

Alfred Gusenbauer - Chancellor of Austria (2007-2008)¹

Tarja Halonen - President of Finland 2000-2012, BoT Member NGIC*

Han Seung-Soo - Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (2008-2009)¹

Noeleen Heyzer - Member of the UN Secretary-General's High Level Advisory Board on Medication²

Mladen Ivanic - President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2014-2018)²

Devaki Jain - Feminist economist, Honorary Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford and member of the erstwhile South Commission (1987-90)

Arjun Jayadev - Professor of Economics at Azim Premji University

Rob Johnson - President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - President of the Republic of Liberia (2006-2018)¹

Mehdi Jomaa - Prime Minister of Tunisia (2014-2015)¹

Anthony T. Jones - Vice-President and Executive Director of Gorbachev Foundation of North America (GFNA)¹

Ivo Josipovic - President of Croatia (2010-2015)²

Naila Kabeer - Professor of Gender and International Development at the London School of Economics

Michel Kazatchkine - Special Advisor to the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Senior Fellow, Global Health Center, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Kerry Kennedy - President Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, BoT Member NGIC*

Rima Khalaf - President of the Global Organization against Racial Discrimination and Segregation, and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (2010-2017)

Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete - President of Tanzania (2005-2015)*

Horst Köhler - President of Germany (2004-2010)¹

Jadranka Kosor - Prime Minister of Croatia (2009-2011)²

Bernard Kouchner - Minister of Health of France (1992-1993, 1997-1999, 2001-2002), Minister of Foreign affairs of France (2007-2010); founder of Médecins sans frontiers / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Médecins du Monde / Doctors of the World (MdM)

Chandrika Kumaratunga - President of Sri Lanka (1994-2005)¹

Aleksander Kwaśniewski - President of Poland (1995-2005)¹²

Rachel Kyte CMG - Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera - President of Uruguay (1990-1995)¹

Ricardo Lagos - President of Chile (2000-2006)¹

Zlatko Lagumdzija - Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-2002)¹²

Laura Liswood - Secretary General of the Council of Women World Leaders

Nora Lustig - President Emerita of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University

[expogroup]

Autoexpo Kenya to open tomorrow at KICC in Nairobi

The 22nd Autoexpo Africa is being held in Kenya at the KICC Nairobi, from the 18th to the 20th of July 2019. East Africa’s premier Automotive Spareparts Accessories and Equipment fair features exhibitors from over 30 countries who are the leaders in the automotive industry will be showcasing their products, services and equipment. Celebrating its 22nd anniversary, the leading trade exhibition for automobile, truck and bus parts, equipment, components, accessories, tools, and services continues to bring world-leading manufacturers, suppliers, and service providers in touch with one of the most important markets in the world. The event is expected to host various dignitaries including ambassadors, high commissioners and trade representatives who have confirmed their attendance. Among them would be, Mr. Thanit Ngansampantrit (Embassy of Thailand), Mr. Syed Ahmed Maroof (The High Commission Of Pakistan), Mr. Meles Alem Tikea and Mr. Siraj Jundi (Embassy of Ethiopia), Ms. Marta Eugenia Juarez Ruiz (Embassy of Costa Rica), Mr. Andrii Pravednyk (Embassy of Ukraine), Mr. Dmitry Maksimychev and Mr. Dmitrii Charnetskii (Embassy of Russia), Mr. Sayem Ahmed (High Commission Of Bangladesh), Mr. Ahmad Alfar and Mr. Mahmut Burak Ersoy (Embassy of Jordan), Mr. Michael Derus (Embassy Of Germany), Mr. Nuku Kamasa-Quashie (The High Commission of Ghana).

 Autoexpo Africa is the only show featuring the widest range of the latest products in the automotive sector, bringing together companies from countries around the world to Kenya and the EAC region.  Countries dominant this year are Thailand, China, India, Pakistan, Spain, Greece and United Kingdom with several leading international brands looking to build a solid foundation in the East African market. Advance Auto Supply (Thailand), Panther Tyres and Osaka Batteries (Pakistan), Gameroil (Spain), Asteriya and Yenmak Engine Parts (Turkey), S & S Ltd - Recor Batteries (Greece), Boston Garage Equipment and GT Exhausts Ltd (United Kingdom), Amara Raja Batteries Ltd, Garima Global Pvt Ltd and Jitendra New EV Tech Pvt Ltd (India), Dr Greiche (Egypt), Champion Lubricant Oil (United Arab Emirates) are some of the market leaders in their respective industries who will be at the exhibition.

The event is sponsored by major companies from Kenya that include key players such as Mobikey Truck and Bus Co., Ltd showcasing MAN Trucks and Buses, CMC Motors Group Limited representing Eicher, Robert Bosch East Africa Ltd, Multi-Line Motors (K) Ltd, Real Auto Spares Ltd, CHEKI - Timam Cars, 3 Continents Limited and more. The event showcases a wide range of products and equipment for the automotive industry. The event generates access to about 14.3 million business prospects during three-days, The rapid industrialization and modernization currently sweeping through many African countries have resulted in an increased demand for capital goods such as machinery, lubricants, spare parts, ball bearings and other automotive mechanical goods and accessories. The market for automobile spare parts, in particular, has been an attractive sector for global exporters, as Africa has witnessed a remarkable increase in imports by 30%. Last year’s event witnessed international pavilion participation from India, Turkey, China, Italy, Malaysia and Germany. Over the years, Autoexpo has grown to cater to the demands of not just the Kenyan market, but of the whole region of East Africa. Kenya is certainly one of the biggest markets in Africa, but Autoexpo also lays strong emphasis on attracting traders and importers from neighbouring countries. Kenya is a model location for a specialized trade fair such as Autoexpo Africa which presents a comprehensive spectrum of products and solutions in the automotive industry. This will be a crucial and positive approach for the domestic producers looking to upgrade their technology, pushing  them to remain competitive in the industry, as well as provide a one-stop platform for international companies looking to invest and enlarge their footprint in Kenya and the region.

 Visit: http://autoexpo.expogr.com/ for more information or contact: Trevor Daniel Media Manager Autoexpo ( East Africa ) Email: autoexpo@expogr.com Int'l: +971 43050755 | Kenya: +254 792268513