Hello All:
Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao is a friend to the Mayor's commission, and was honored in 2018 by the Odunde' 360 Commission. She has also addressed the Congressional Black Congress's African Round Table, as well as being instrumental in bringing about intraAfrican trade, and the consolidation of African currency.
Dr. Chihombori-Quao speak twice in
Philadelphia.
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Community College of Philadelphia
Room S2-03 Winnet Student Life Building,
17th & Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA
6 pm to 8 pm
City Hall Caucus Room, 4th floor
City Hall, 4th floor
1401 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Arikana
Chihombori-Quao is a dynamic activist for justice for Africa and African
people wherever they reside. She is outspoken about injustice
and long-standing historical economic-financial arrangements, and
social and cultural injustices that continue to be fostered and
perpetrated against Africa and people of African descent.
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| Ambassador Chihombori-Quao and The Hon. Jannie L. Blackwell |
Though she is
no longer serving as the Ambassador to the US on behalf
of the African Union she is a member of the newly formed AFRICAN DIASPORA CONGRESS, which held their first ever conference in Dallas, TX the beginning of November, to begin formulating plans for a liberated new African Continent.
She continues to speak out against
21st-century colonialism perpetrated against Africa and African Americans, as well as people of African Heritage world wide - and to work for economic, political, cultural
and social justice for the Global African community.
We, therefore, invite you to come and hear her speak on these topics and to dialogue with her about solutions and actions.
Belinda Church
Special Assistant
Office of The Honorable Jannie L. Blackwell
City Council Room 408 - City Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-686-3418 or 3419
215-686-1933 (fax)
For those of you who are not familiar with Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, I'm providing an overview below:
Reinstate Dr Arikana Chihombori-Quao As AU Permanent Representative to the USA
Recently, a letter from the African Union (AU) Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, dated October 7, 2019 unceremoniously relieved Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao of her duties as the African Union Permanent Representative to the USA with effective November 1, 2019. Dr. Chihombori-Quao has served in this position for only two years and she still has one year left in her tenure.
By this petition, we implore all Africans, the African Diaspora community in the United States and friends of Africa to hereby express our displeasure with the callous manner in which Dr. Chihombori-Quao was dismissed with ignominy, and request that she be reinstated.
Who is Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao?
“Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao is a medical doctor and activist. She is a public speaker, educator, diplomat, founder of medical clinics, and an entrepreneur. She is a first generation immigrant to the United States from Zimbabwe. She is the African Union representative to the US. She was appointed in 2017. She holds a bachelor's degree in General Chemistry, a master's degree in organic chemistry, and a Doctor of Medicine degree. Dr. Chihombori-Quao was a family medicine specialist in Tennessee. She practiced medicine for 29 years in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.”
It is quite noteworthy that it took Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao almost a year to decide to accept this leadership role, and when she did, she executed it very effectively and dynamically.
“Dr. Chihombori-Quao is outspoken about the implications of the Berlin Conference that took place in Berlin, Germany in 1885. She lectures about the outcome of the divisions on the continent of Africa that were made. She sees these divisions as a cause of some of Africa's problems that are still in effect today. She seeks to reunite African states, and Africans in the Diaspora.”
Here is one of her famous speeches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOTEs2UHego
You can learn more about Dr. Chihombori-Quao here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arikana_Chihombori_Quao.
We Need Your Support and Signature.
We need your support in encouraging all African presidents and leaders to take action and reinstate Ambassador to her position. Africans and all stakeholders in the United States and indeed worldwide are appalled by African Union’s treatment of this highly-regarded diplomat recruited from the African Diaspora. We can speak authoritatively that she was neither called to order by the African Union Commission nor summoned for disciplinary action before the letter of summary dismissal from her duties was handed to her just as she was on her way for official assignment.
In an era that places emphasis on the need to encourage women participation in governance, treating one of the most highly educated, highly progressive and highly engaging African female diplomats this way is not only distasteful but casts doubts regarding African readiness to confront its developmental challenges. The African Diaspora community in the United States who have had the privilege of building strong rapport and alliances with Dr Arikana Chihombori-Quao are shocked with this development. At various fora, Dr Arikana Chihombori-Quao spares no time in sensitizing the African Diaspora on the tasks ahead and their role in uplifting the continent.
In her short two years in office, Dr. Chihombori-Quao has persistently placed Africa in the center-stage of global discourses, seizing on every opportunity in marketing the continent to attract investment from both the African Diaspora and the international community. Her exemplary work on behalf of Africa in the United States is simply unassailable. We have long noted that for Africa to realistically detach itself from the shackles of neocolonialism or untie itself from the apron-strings of its former colonial powers, independence of policy-making and actions are paramount. Dr Arikana Chihombori-Quao comes from that school of thought.
We demand for her reinstatement as well as a formal letter of apology from the African Union Commission. It is important to note that the entire African Diaspora community has a stake in this matter, and how the African Union Commission decides to address it will determine its future relationship with the African Diaspora, especially in an environment that recognizes the vital role of the diaspora in African development.
Note: This letter was initially distributed to garner petition signers. Since the African Diaspora Congress's convention in Dallas, TX, there has been a move toward nation building - and educating Africans on their power and right to autnomy.
NOW THAT YOU KNOW
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
STAY BLESSED &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria Dulan-Wilson
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