AfricaBound » Events http://africabound.org Empowerment - Leadership - Sustainability Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:23:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Killeen Afra’Am Festival http://africabound.org/bills-test/ http://africabound.org/bills-test/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 20:22:01 +0000 admin http://africabound.org/?p=196 ABC proudly represented Senegal and Africa by and large in the 2nd Afra’Am Festival in Killeen, Texas on August 6, 2011.  We thank Mr. ElHadj Aziz Gueye, Head of the Senegal Tourism Office in Atlanta, GA for providing ample brochures and other Senegal informative materials for our numerous visitors during the one-day event.  The performance of Sabar and Djembe drumming by the young coed band under the leadership of Souleye Kante (the grandson of the world renown Senegalese master drummer Doudou Ndiaye Rose) kept the crowd asking for more under the joyfuleyes of the proud parents.  A real family event indeed. 

We had the opportunity to visit with Honorable Timothy Hancock, Mayor of Killeen who took time to come and meet us.  Ms. Darlene Golden and Mr. Raymond Gray (Aka) Jay Ray J,  the two wonderful organizers selected Senegal and Jamaica as the two countries to be highlighted in the 2011 event.  We are still harvesting the fruit of the event through possible visits to Senegal and formal ties between Killeen and Senegal cities as well as Jamaica and Senegal through the very organic global citizen effort. 

ABC also provided to the kids a new game of  ”mbegue”: rolling a bicycle ream by pushing a stick in its grove or from a rope tied on the ream and the stick.  A challenge that kept adults trying more than the children who had their time well spent that day…they said!

 

]]> http://africabound.org/bills-test/feed/ 0 Drumming Malaria Out http://africabound.org/drumming-malaria-out/ http://africabound.org/drumming-malaria-out/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:20:17 +0000 ddfaye http://africabound.org/?p=120 Venue: Karibou Ethiopian Restaurnt

Address: 1209 East 11th.

Come and get involved in fighting Malaria in Africa and helping build the Africa Bound Corporation FayeKunda African Village in Cedar Creek, Bastrop Co.

]]> http://africabound.org/drumming-malaria-out/feed/ 0 2009 Pan African Conference http://africabound.org/2009-pan-african-conference/ http://africabound.org/2009-pan-african-conference/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:27:31 +0000 billc http://africabound.org/?p=108 The University of Texas at Austin Presents:

The 2009 Pan African Conference on Africa

Science – Technology – Environment

Learn more by visiting:

http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa

ABC has been invited to present. Dr. Faye’ s Talk will be at UT campus. Location: ‚Äì Quadrangle Room 3.304 9am-10:30am (tentative time) on Sunday Mar, 29.

His subject will be:
The State of neem (Azadirachta indica, Juss) in Africa with specific reference to Senegal in meeting the UN Millennium Goals. Dr. Faye will also be talking about the ABC Malaria Prevention, and other ABC activities in Africa.

The conference will be open to the public too.  Just go on campus, find the location, enter to listen, mingle and network. However, if anyone is interested in the banquets and other more formal activities, he/she needs to register (I think $65 for the whole three day conference. Not bad!!!!). There is a link on the site above to register. I think this will be a very good opportunity to learn about the neem and for the potential business prospects for this untaped gold mine, it would be a good intro.

Learn more by visiting:  http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa

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