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 Sam
Ulu Onwuka
is from Nigeria, West Africa. After graduating with diploma from the
University of Calabar Nigeria and the Osondu Fashion Institute Nigeria, he
established his own fashion designing outfit/training center known as (Samkad
International Tailors) while simultaneously engaging in arts, writing, and
stage/theater performances.” He later established his own movie
production/entertainment company in Nigeria know as (SAMNET PRODUCTIONS)
and moved to Lagos Nigeria where he made several scores of award winning
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Prof. George Elliot Clarke:
In addition to being a poet, playwright and literary critic Clarke is the E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. He taught English and Canadian Studies at Duke University (1994-1999). During 1998-99 he was appointed the Visiting Seagrams Chair in Canadian Studies at McGill University, then became professor of English at the U. of T. in 1999, before being appointed E.J. Pratt Professor in 2003.
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 Prof.
Olufunmilayo Olopade
Clinician / Researcher, Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics
University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois
Olufunmilayo Olopade is an oncologist who translates her basic research on individual and population cancer susceptibility into an effective clinical practice for treating breast cancer among African and African-American women. Trained in clinical oncology and cancer genetics, her early research led to the identification of a tumor suppressor locus on the short arm of the 9th chromosome.
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DR. CHIKA A. ONYEANI has been selected by the world’s No.1 newspaper, the New York Times, to be a “2005 Fellow to the New York Times Company Foundation Institute.” Onyeani is one of 12 people selected out of the more than 165 ethnic newspapers published in New York.
This is not only a great honor to Dr. Onyeani, but to the African Sun Times, which he founded in 1989, and has been its Publisher and Editor-in-Chief.
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 George
Quateng-Mensah: General Manager of the Liberia Agriculture Company.
Mr. Mensah a Ghanaian National, 52 years old is a husband of a Liberian woman, Annette, both are blessed with five children, three boys and two girls, his philosophy in life is, "there should always be a fear of God in people, people must be treated with justice, regardless of their status in society".
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Jonathan Armah Mason:
“He’s a lover of sports; he's always seen in the midst of sports enthusiasts and young athletes. He is a down to earth person who believes in making things to happen once they have to do with the promotion of sports and human resource development, despite under any difficult circumstances.”
“His effort to encourage combatants in the Liberian civil war to lay down arms through sports is worth commendable. He is indeed a gentleman, whose efforts of providing helping hand to the needy goes on endlessly”, words of some Liberians who admired the works of Mr. Mason. They expressed their happiness recently in the Liberian capital Monrovia when they spoke to the www.africanevent.com
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 Professor
Chudi Uwazuruike: Political Sociologist and international affairs scholar, mass communications expert, and novelist-playwright, Chudi Uwazurike, is a Senior Fellow, Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, (IRADAC) at City College, City University of New York. An fervent believer in the imperative of the industrial revolution, his 2003 keynote address at the inauguration of the Ambassador Emeka Echeruo Center for Public Policy and Diplomacy at Imo State University in Owerri, Nigeria, defined good governance in Africa as the ability of today's elite to engender the technological revamping of the dreary life of the people, just as nations from Singapore and China to India, have managed to do with a determined leadership.
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African scientist, Damian Anyanwu
born January 1957 in Nguru, Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria. He is ranked No. 3 of 100 most outstanding Nigerians. Chief Damian Anyanwu is considered to be the man who can make Africa a technological
Continent. He is the founder of Damian Anyanwu Research Center inc (DARCI) here in US. The center based in New Jersey will be launching its branch in New York City April 2004. Black history month
presentation Febuary 27, 2004 at Nigeria House, 828 Second Ave on 44th Street, NYC.
He was inducted into the Members of the order of the Niger. (MON) which has diplomatic status, he also toured around the Countries to conduct seminars and received awards from different universities and institutions of higher learning. His Radio transmitters were made from herbal granules stuffed in empty
tins, wires and improvised local material. Few months ago, US president, George W. Bush invited Chief Anyanwu to Washington D.C for a presidental dinner where he was honored by the President and his cabinet
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Funmilayo Tofowomo-Okelola is the editor and publisher of CafeAfricana.com. Funmilayo was born in Ondo, Nigeria to the Late Sir, Hon. Justice Tofowomo and Princess Adeneye Adenola who is a descendant of the Late King Ademeso Aroworayi I of Ondo Township. Funmilayo received her M.A. (1996) from California State University, San Bernardino. She is married with a daughter. Funmilayo launched CafeAfricana.com in May 2003 to promote the achievements and interests of Africans in the Diaspora. CafeAfricana.com is about Culture, Arts, News, Politics, Lifestyle and Community. CafeAfricana.com promotes artists, authors, musicians, poetry, films and museums. At CafeAfricana.com visitors can browse works of premier African artists. In addition CafeAfricana.com has a literary section containing books, journals and publications by Nobel Laureates and renowned authors. This web site is the place for film enthusiasts and aficionados. For more information send an email to Cafeafricana@cs.com.
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