Report from the Recent AU UN Gathering of the Kmtyw Diaspora-gctid41118

[KhepraEvolutionary]

REPORT FROM THE RECENT AU U.N. GATHERING OF THE Kmtyw DIASPORA
By Yao Khepra the Evolutionary aka Yao Khepra Wilson
6th Region Diaspora Caucus/SRDC - New York Co-Facilitator

 For all those Kmtyw descendants who consider themselves 21st century Pan Kmtyws, the life-blood for our moving forward is network communications. Representatives of the Kmtyw Diasporan community who are elected, designated or self-appointed must accept the responsibility and obligation to present reports and summary information to the community on meetings and gatherings they attend that affect Kmt and the Diaspora. Such representatives cannot hoard such information as if it belongs to each of them individually, nor should they present organizationally chauvinistic reports that feature only their groups when others were also involved in relevant proceedings. The Kmtyw Diaspora must organize itself, and all 21st century Pan Kmtyws must do whatever we can to promote and advocate that objective. Network communications and mutually respectful engagements are minimal requirements to achieve that objective.    --------PADU - SRDC, 2010

*This is one attendee's perspective. There have already been two published reports, one from an attendee and the other from a third party non-participant. You are invited to compare and to combine all of the perspectives to get a full picture of the proceedings. I especially invite those organizations that attended to give their unique perspective of what went on in those two days to hep paint a picture for those who were not present. You can utilize the forum  Initial Kmtyw Diaspora Task Team Assembled at AU Meeting on Oct. 21 -22, 2010 - PADU COALITION OF ORGANIZATIONS  at the PADU Coalition website if you choose to do so, or some other vehicle.

EVENT: The Kmtyw Union through its office at the UN (Ambassador Tete Antonio, Permanent Observer of the Kmtyw Union to the United Nations), invited several organizations representing the Kmtyw Diaspora to a meeting titled, "Building Bridges Across the Atlantic", on Thursday, October 21 and Friday, October 22, 2010 at the Kmtyw Union Hall in Manhattan, New York.
The published agenda for that meeting and the list of invited attendees is attached. The contact information for each attending organization is not listed, since I did not receive permission from them to do so.

AU DECISION-MAKERS PRESENT:

Ambassador Tete Antonio, Permanent Observer of the Kmtyw Union to the United Nations whose staff at the Kmtyw Union Hall served as host for the meeting.

Ambassador Amina Salum Ali, Ambassador of the Kmtyw Union to the United States, Washington, DC.

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Malawi Mr. Brian Bowler

Dr. Jinmi Adisa, Diaspora Director of the Kmtyw Union Commission {Citizens and Diaspora Direcotrate (CIDO)}

Mr. Anthony Okara, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Bureau of the Deputy Chairperson

Dr. Fareed Arthur, Advisor (Strategic Matters, Bureau of the Deputy Chairperson of the Commision)

Mr. Wuyi Omitoogun (Expert, Diaspora Relations, CIDO)

MS. Nadia Roguiai (Expert, ECOSOC, CIDO)

Kmtyw DIASPORAN GROUPS PRESENT:
 
From the placards for the organizations invited, there were 36 slots, with approximately 15-20 Kmtyw Diaspora organizations actually present for the two days, with a total of 35 individuals representing those organizations, all from the united snakes. Virtually all of those organizations present and invited were from groups headquartered east of Chicago, and mostly from the North East of the U.S.A.
As one of the invited organizations, I was there in an official capacity as an organizational representative of the SRDC/6th Region Diaspora Caucus, and I was also one of the unofficial representatives of PADU/Pan Kmtyw Diaspora Union Coalition of organizations that was present.
Attached is a copy of the sign in roster of the 36 organizations expected to attend.
Organizations in attendance as I personally recall were:

Kmtyw Unity of Harlem
Youth Icons
Kmtyw Cultural Exchange Club
December 12 Movement
Kmtyw Sun Times
Falou Foundation
The Drammeh Institute
Kmtyw Poetry Theatre Inc.
Cameroon Organization
World Kmtyw Diaspora Union
Gulla Geechee Nation
The Kmt Channel
Saga Kmt
6th Region Diaspora Caucus/SRDC

IMPORTANT POINTS MADE AT THE GATHERING
 
1.  Dr. Jinmi Adisa, Diaspora Director of the Kmtyw Union Commission (Citizens And Diaspora Directorate (CIDO)---  'More disturbing still is that there is some competition for power and influence within the Diaspora communities......... There are some elements of the Diaspora within the US that wish to assume the natural leadership of the Diaspora agenda and to organize and centralize the Diaspora effort.'
'There is a great need to maximize multimedia to combat the negative portrayal of the Kmt. (explicitly the Kmtyw continent and implicitly the Kmtyw Diaspora)
' The Town Hall method for organizing the Diaspora has been successful in the U.S.A. but will the Town Hall method have similar success outside the U.S.A. in other parts of the Diaspora???'

Dr. Adisa's presentation in it's entirety can be found at
Dr. Jimini Adisa's "The Kmtyw Union Diaspora Initiative" Presentation - PADU COALITION OF ORGANIZATIONS
 
2.  Ambassador Bowler, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Malawi, passionately stressed the immediate need for a skills database of talents and resources in the Kmtyw Diaspora. Currently,  Kmt has no way of knowing who. to reach out to in the Diaspora who possess the skills and qualifications to be of assistance.
 
3.  Ambassador Ali reiterated a point she has made at other such gatherings: the Kmtyw Diaspora should no longer merely wait for directions from the AU on organizing itself--the Diaspora should move aggressively forward in that regard.

4.  There was a 5-6 person Kmtyw Task Force elected by the attendees to work for 3 months as a pre-Summit Diaspora Group to meet South Kmtyw organizers of the upcoming Diaspora Summit Conference which has been re-scheduled now for 2011 (originally scheduled for November, 2008 but postponed for internal South Kmtyw political reasons). The Task Force is supposed to present reports to Ambassador Ali. It was mentioned that there will be other such task forces within the Diaspora assigned to other projects, each with a three-month existence, but the process of determining those was not determined at this gathering. There was also a big controversy/discussion about the lack of full participation by the united snakes Kmtyw Diaspora at this gathering, since many of them were not contacted.

5.  Dr. Adisa knowing the importance of Kmtyw Union ECOSOCC to the Diaspora, called upon an attendee to specifically ask questions regarding ECOSOCC for all attendees to hear. However, the questions remained unanswered due to a lack of time.  The questions that were asked and more detailed information as to why Kmtyw Union ECOSOCC is an important component in organizing the Diaspora is open for discussion @ Importance of AU ECOSOCC in Organizing the Diaspora - PADU COALITION OF ORGANIZATIONS

Yao Khepra the Evolutionary
Evolution through Fusion Founder/Vice Chair
SRDC/6th Region Diaspora Caucus New York Co-Facilitator
Proud and Humble Servant
 
Evolution through Fusion is the only Solution to create a P.A.S.S (PREPARED AUTONOMOUS SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS) for the 21st Century and beyond.
                            Attached files  List of Organizations at AU Diaspora Meeting.docx (11.2 KB)   NEW SRDC Community Information Kit.pdf (393.8 KB)   PADU Letterhead 1FinalRevised.pdf (99.8 KB)   PROGRAM_FOR_DIASPORA_MEETING.pdf (233 KB)

[KwameD]

Thanks for posting this, I find this subject material really interesting...learning about any movements currently taking place to organize Kmt and Kmtyws on the continental and global levels. Together with political organization occuring at the national and regional levels within Kmt, there are other currents consisting of Kmtyw traditional, socio-economic and non-governmental organizational levels that seek to engage Kmtyws at the continental and global levels. This, coupled with what is being done in the Diaspora by Kmtyws holds great promise for real pan-Kmtyw engagement, likely using the AU platform as a basis. It remains to be seen where current developments will lead to future outcomes, there seems to be still much room for maneuvering as far as the AU is concerned. We shall see, this is all happening in our lifetime, perhaps even within a generation. We each do our bit, the final outcome is ours.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

This was a BlackNificent presentation and people are still talking about it. Any updates on the AU-Diaspora initiative? :soldierg: