George Bamu, the founder of the U.S.-based 501C (3) non-profit, Africa Agenda, is a journalist, writer, and IT practitioner. A native of Cameroon, Bamu has lived in Aurora, Colorado for more than two decades. **Learn more at AfricaAgenda Dot Org

Building Aurora’s Future

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Africa Agen­da has been select­ed to be the spot­light non-prof­it that will help show­case this year’s Build­ing Aurora’s Future. Build­ing Aurora’s Future is in its sec­ond year and was start­ed by Auro­ra City Coun­cil mem­ber Ryan Fra­zier as a way to bring togeth­er a com­mu­ni­ty that “lives, works and plays togeth­er.” This year, the focus…

Kenya Post Election Dialogue

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Den­ver-Sat­ur­­day Feb. 9, 2008, 2:30–4:30 pm in the Com­mu­ni­ty Room of Auro­ra Cen­tral Library (14949 E. Alame­da Pkwy, Auro­ra, CO 80012) Africa Agen­da will host a his­tor­i­cal, post-elec­­tion forum and com­mu­ni­ty dia­logue on the elec­tion dis­putes in Kenya, cur­rent peace efforts, and work toward rec­on­cil­i­a­tion between Kenyan cit­i­zens and their gov­ern­ment. Long con­sid­ered one of the…

Africa’s New Era Continues with Gains in Peace and Democracy

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In the world of fast-paced twen­­ty-four-hour news, to craft a pow­er­ful news head­line means the head­line should stand out and draw read­ers’ atten­tion amid a pletho­ra of sto­ries from all direc­tions. It’s a the­o­ry that applies to print and tele­vi­sion news–when pow­er­ful head­line news, embod­ied in sud­den peace agree­ments, rebel sur­ren­ders, may­hem, and con­flict, easily…

Colorado Association of Black Journalists Embracing New Media

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The 2007 Annu­al Ban­quet of the Col­orado Asso­ci­a­tion of Black Journalists(CABJ)  took place on August 3 at the Den­ver Mar­i­ott City Cen­ter. The event fea­tured jour­nal­ists and media pro­fes­sion­als all over Col­orado. The theme for the 2007 event was Embrac­ing New Media. Awards were pre­sent­ed to jour­nal­ists in var­i­ous cat­e­gories, includ­ing Broad­cast, Pub­lic Rela­tions, and…

Kofi Annan — A Tribute

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His full name is Kofi Atta Annan. Many of us have not reflect­ed on or digest­ed the role that he has played in inter­na­tion­al rela­tions, diplo­ma­cy, and world affairs since he took over lead­er­ship at the Unit­ed Nations almost nine years ago. We looked away out of a lack of inter­est in real lead­er­ship from people…