Community roll call: Open D.O.O.R. Dialogues will hold its Inaugural National Dialogue on Friday, October 30, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Ghana at the University of Ghana College of Humanities.

D.O.O.R. stands for Conversations, Opportunities, Ownership, and Repatriation. The gathering will bring leaders, change makers, students, repatriates, investors, entrepreneurs, and media into one space. The program includes keynote addresses, diaspora repatriate perspectives, a Student Recruitment Fair, an Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fair, exhibitions, networking, and media engagement.

This thread is for more than announcing the date. What should a serious national dialogue about repatriation address? Which student, community, business, or institutional voices need to be present? What would make the day produce useful work after the room closes?

Register through the official event page: https://decadeofourrepatriation.com/community-event/open-door-dialogues-inaugural-national-dialogue-2026/

Reply with your location, the work you do, and the question you believe the dialogue must not avoid.

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Community roll call: the Abibitumi Abibifahodie Film Festival returns October 16–18, 2026, connecting an Accra-based gathering with online participation.

The program is built around Black-centered film and media, including features, shorts, student films, documentaries, animation, and AI-infused work. That gives us plenty to discuss before, during, and after the festival: Which filmmakers are building the strongest institutions around their work? What stories are missing from mainstream circulation? How should Black creators approach new production tools without surrendering ownership or cultural direction?

The hybrid format means location does not have to end the conversation. Members in Ghana can connect with people joining from elsewhere in Abibiman and the diaspora. Use this forum to find others attending, organize shared viewing, recommend filmmakers who should submit, and continue discussion after the screenings.

Check the official AAFF website for current information. Filmmakers can review the submission portal.

Who plans to join from Accra, and who will be online? Reply with your location and the kind of film or discussion you most want to see.

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The most important moment in a film is not always contained inside the film. Sometimes it comes afterward, when viewers disagree, recognize a buried memory, question an inherited assumption or decide that a story demands action.

The Abibitumi Abibifahodie Film Festival returns October 16-18, 2026, connecting audiences in Accra and online. Its programme brings multiple generations and forms of Kmtyw-centered cinema into conversation, including longer works, documentaries, shorts, student projects and emerging digital approaches.

The deeper question is not simply whether Black people are visible. It is who has the power to frame memory, interpret struggle and decide which futures deserve to be seen. A festival built on Kmtyw ground allows creators and audiences to approach those questions together.

Why this gathering matters

AbibitumiKasa members can help make the gathering more than a programme consumed and forgotten. Share the work that moves you, ask what it leaves unresolved and bring the conversation back to the community.

Save the dates and follow the official festival site as the programme develops: https://filmfestival.abibifahodie.org/

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Language learning is one practical way to make cultural return real.

Abibitumi's Black August Twi language classes and cultural orientation begin Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. GMT. The eight-class series is designed for people who want to become conversational, including recent repatriates, Ghana-bound families, and people who have lived in Ghana for some time but still need structured speaking practice.

Program details

• Begins: Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. GMT
• Attend in person: Jamrock Restaurant at the University of Ghana
• Attend online: Zoom
• Program: Eight Twi language classes with cultural orientation
• Cost: 500 GHS or US$50
• Member offer: 50% off for members of selected organizations

Why conversational Twi matters

A few greetings can open a door, but sustained language learning changes the quality of everyday participation. It helps learners hear the meanings carried in names, follow ordinary exchanges, approach elders respectfully, and build relationships without expecting every interaction to move into English.

Ɔbenfo Ọbádéle Kambon announced the series from Abibitumi headquarters in Akuapem Mampong. His university-level work in linguistics focuses on Akan, including Asante Twi, Akuapem Twi, and Fante. The program combines that grounding with a practical objective: helping students speak and understand more confidently.

Black August is a fitting time to begin. The disruption of Kmtyw languages was part of a wider attack on memory, belonging, and self-determination. Language recovery is therefore more than vocabulary collection. It is a disciplined way of rebuilding cultural capacity and hearing the world through Kmtyw frameworks.

Eight classes are a beginning rather than an endpoint. They can provide structure, correction, and momentum—the things many independent learners need in order to keep moving.

Register for the Black August Twi classes

Source: August 28, 2026 announcement by Ɔbenfo Ọbádéle Kambon for Abibitumi and the Decade of Our Repatriation. Watch the original announcement.

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Black Agenda Radio July 24, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/24/2026 - 04:19 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Radio July 24, 2026 In this week's segment, we discuss sportswashing and the rationale of the calls to boycott the U.S. and the recent World Cup. But we begin with the Trump administration's domestic repression and criminalization of leftist organizing. US Politics Sportswashing World Cup NSPM-7 state repression imperialism Human Rights People Centered Human Rights

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Link: http://www.kmtywews.com/2026/07/24/fleeing-attack-centrKmtyws-try-to-survive-till-help-arrives/

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In a makeshift tent covered in a torn tarp, Zakaria Hassan tried to make his baby son more comfortable after they fled fighting near the Central Kmtyw Republic's border with Sudan

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Much of the 180-kilometre-long coastline is being privatised for exclusive urban residences and public-private enterprise.

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