AFP News Agency - Armed men attacked Paul James' father at 5 am. The herder was stabbed, beaten and shot in the head. His crime? Settling on coveted land. The first part of our special report on Fulani nomads

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Paul Elvis Tangem the Coordinator for the GGWSSI at the African Union Commission, in the executive/administrative branch of the AU, headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Desertification is a type of land degradation in dry-lands in which biological productivity is lost due to natural processes, or induced by human activities, whereby fertile areas become increasingly arid, and may be caused by a variety of factors, such as climate change and over exploitation of soil.

One of the countermeasures for mitigating or reversing the effects of desertification is reforestation and in 2007 the African Union (AU) started the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWSSI) Africa project in order to combat desertification in 20 countries across the Sahel and Sahara regions. The wall is projected to be 8,000 km wide, stretching across the entire width of the continent and has US$8 billion dollars in support so far. To date, the project has restored 36 million hectares of land, and by 2030, the initiative plans to restore a total of 100 million hectares. The Great Green Wall has created many job opportunities for the participating countries, with over 20,000 jobs created in Nigeria alone.

Dr. Paul Elvis Tangem is the Coordinator for the GGWSSI at the African Union Commission, in the executive/administrative branch of the AU, headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Before joining the African Union Commission, Dr. Tangem worked as Regional Enterprise Development Manager for Tree Aid International, a UK based international development charity. He also worked with The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO) as Technical adviser for the programs to promote different groups engaged in forest products based enterprises. He has also served with other organizations including Centre in Scotland, Environmental Justice Foundation, London, and the Watershed Task Group in Cameroon. He is also a mentor and coach, and is behind the establishment of well known start-ups in Cameroon, West Africa.

Dr. Tangem holds a BSc from University of Dschang - Cameroon, MSc in Ecology & Management University of Edinburgh, an Executive MBA from PGSM Paris, and PH.D in Business Administration, and several other certificates and diplomas. He is a member of several professional networks including Junior Chambers International where is a Senator, and a pioneer member of World Greening Alliance created by World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Elion Group in China.

On this episode we will hear from Dr. Tangem about -

His background - how he developed an interest in ecology, the environment, and his path towards managing the GGWSSI project at the AU

An overview of the Great Green Wall Initiative project

The technological steps involved in the de-desertification processes, including managing water, biomass, and rebuilding soils

- Benefits of the GGWSSI (i.e. food, non-food crops, wealth, carbon capture) as well as challenges (i.e. terrorism, country specific interests)

Future focus and plans for expansion of the GGWSSI in other parts of Africa, as well as for dealing with coastal deserts / salt water agriculture / aquaculture opportunities

Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan being interviewed by Imhotep Gary Byrd on the GBE - WLIB

"Eighth Annual Senghor-Damas-Césaire Lecture in Africana Studies
Please join African Studies as we host Dr. Molefi Asante, Professor of African American Studies at Temple University.Dr. Asante will speak on "Negritude and the United States of Africa"on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in
Falvey Library room 205.
Co-sponsored by The Cultural Studies Program and The Institute for Global Interdisciplinary Studies."

This is a documentary highlighting on the progress of The Small Scale Horticulture Development Project (SHDP) Which is jointly funded by Africa Development Bank (ADB) and The Government of Kenya through the ministry of Agriculture.

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Afrikan Education

In this 1987 episode of Detroit Black Journal, Dr. Tyrone Tilory and Dr. Robert Newby trace the psychological trauma inflicted upon African American's to the slave period of American history and the emphasis that was then put on establishing the total inferiority of the slave. They say that history lingers in the difficulty many African Americans have with low self-esteem and the disregard American society shows toward black people.

Economists use exponential functions to model economic growth. The human population is presently growing exponentially. However, any exponential growth that continues indefinitely would eventually expand faster than the speed of light, in direct violation of the known laws of physics.

Today, we will end this series of three discussions by centering our discussion on one of the two most central issues in African and African American Culture, the Black Family and the Black Extended Family.
. We have our guest Dr. Serie McDougal author of the book Black Men’s Studies Black Manhood and Masculinities in the US Context. Review Dr. McDougal’s background.
3 I will provide an African historical context for the nature of the Black family in the U.S., the Caribbean, South America and Europe. The paradigm or model for African families was discovered by me after I had the most beautiful experience of my life, when I piped into the mind of God and was privileged to have revealed to me the basis for African families. Since the family is the foundation of society, the way African families operated was the way the larger society functioned. This family model derived from the world’s first people who came into being 140,000 years ago, the Twa, who are the mothers and fathers of humanity, and who lived in the highest state of civilization in the history of the world.

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