CO-CHAIR’S MESSAGE
Richard Ndayizigamiye
Tamari Kitossa
Karibuni!
The Brock/Niagara African Canadian Renaissance Group and its partners at Brock University proudly present African Heritage Month events at Brock University for 2013. As we continue aim – In and Out of Africa: Beyond the poverty of theory – we invite you to join us and participate in our activities as we celebrate, debate and share what is a tradition at Brock University. This year, the Committee has worked diligently to bring a FOCUS ON HAITI. We will do so through the art work of renowned Haitian painter Jean Salomon André; MLLS screenings and discussion of Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ documentary series “Black in Latin America". For the Dr. Wilma Morrison Annual African Heritage Month Lecture, we are proud to present Mr. Justice James Turnbull, Superior Court Justice of Ontario and founder of The Joy and Hope of Haiti Foundation.
Moreover, International Services and Programs Abroad, as well as the Niagara Social Justice Forum, have collaborated to bring the Brock University and the Niagara community a broadened range of events. International Services has produced a raft of events ranging from drumming and cooking seminars to presentations of Brock University service learning students who visited Ghana and Namibia in 2012. International Development Week. Through the MA program in Social Justice and Equity Studies, our partners at the Niagara Social Justice Forum (February 1) offer, among their panels, a discussion by Drs. Ana Isla and Hevina Dashwood on the implications of mining in Ghana and Latin America. So all in all, African Heritage Month at Brock University will be food for the mind, body and soul.
The organizing committee could not put forward these events without our partners. For example, our events in 2012 – at which the Honorable Jean Augustine inaugurated the Dr. Wilma Morrison African Heritage Month – would not have been possible without the enthusiastic support, financial endowment and sponsorship of our friends and partners on the campus.
Picking up from Dr. Jack Lightstone who supported our past events, Dr. Murray Knuttila, Provost and Vice-President Academic, astonished the Rt. Honorable Dr. Jean Augustine by his very public commitment of his time and the resources of his office to African Heritage Month on the campus. The adjudicating committee for the Speakers Series in the Council for Research in the Social Science (CRISS), then as now, has seen fit to fund the lecture series and related African Heritage month events. Human Rights and Equity Services, a champion of equity and justice at Brock University, have been staunch supporters and allies as we work to dispel myths and contribute to an
atmosphere of justice and learning.
Furthermore, in small ways and ways in kind that cannot be measured, we have graciously received support from Audiovisual Services, BUSU, CFBU, colleagues in English Language and Literature, colleagues in the Faculty of Education, History, HRI, Labor Studies, MA in SJES, MLLS, Sociology, Printing Services, ROOTS African Caribbean Society and WISE. Now, with Modern Languages, our list of partners at Brock grows and lay the foundation for African Heritage Month for years to come.
The Brock/Niagara African Renaissance Group is comprised of volunteers, from the community and the campus. Without their energy, commitment and time, our efforts would have come to naught. From our volunteers and partners we welcome you to African Heritage Month at Brock University.
Karibuni Chakula! (Welcome to the feast!)
Richard Ndayizigamiye
Tamari Kitossa
Karibuni!
The Brock/Niagara African Canadian Renaissance Group and its partners at Brock University proudly present African Heritage Month events at Brock University for 2013. As we continue aim – In and Out of Africa: Beyond the poverty of theory – we invite you to join us and participate in our activities as we celebrate, debate and share what is a tradition at Brock University. This year, the Committee has worked diligently to bring a FOCUS ON HAITI. We will do so through the art work of renowned Haitian painter Jean Salomon André; MLLS screenings and discussion of Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ documentary series “Black in Latin America". For the Dr. Wilma Morrison Annual African Heritage Month Lecture, we are proud to present Mr. Justice James Turnbull, Superior Court Justice of Ontario and founder of The Joy and Hope of Haiti Foundation.
Moreover, International Services and Programs Abroad, as well as the Niagara Social Justice Forum, have collaborated to bring the Brock University and the Niagara community a broadened range of events. International Services has produced a raft of events ranging from drumming and cooking seminars to presentations of Brock University service learning students who visited Ghana and Namibia in 2012. International Development Week. Through the MA program in Social Justice and Equity Studies, our partners at the Niagara Social Justice Forum (February 1) offer, among their panels, a discussion by Drs. Ana Isla and Hevina Dashwood on the implications of mining in Ghana and Latin America. So all in all, African Heritage Month at Brock University will be food for the mind, body and soul.
The organizing committee could not put forward these events without our partners. For example, our events in 2012 – at which the Honorable Jean Augustine inaugurated the Dr. Wilma Morrison African Heritage Month – would not have been possible without the enthusiastic support, financial endowment and sponsorship of our friends and partners on the campus.
Picking up from Dr. Jack Lightstone who supported our past events, Dr. Murray Knuttila, Provost and Vice-President Academic, astonished the Rt. Honorable Dr. Jean Augustine by his very public commitment of his time and the resources of his office to African Heritage Month on the campus. The adjudicating committee for the Speakers Series in the Council for Research in the Social Science (CRISS), then as now, has seen fit to fund the lecture series and related African Heritage month events. Human Rights and Equity Services, a champion of equity and justice at Brock University, have been staunch supporters and allies as we work to dispel myths and contribute to an
atmosphere of justice and learning.
Furthermore, in small ways and ways in kind that cannot be measured, we have graciously received support from Audiovisual Services, BUSU, CFBU, colleagues in English Language and Literature, colleagues in the Faculty of Education, History, HRI, Labor Studies, MA in SJES, MLLS, Sociology, Printing Services, ROOTS African Caribbean Society and WISE. Now, with Modern Languages, our list of partners at Brock grows and lay the foundation for African Heritage Month for years to come.
The Brock/Niagara African Renaissance Group is comprised of volunteers, from the community and the campus. Without their energy, commitment and time, our efforts would have come to naught. From our volunteers and partners we welcome you to African Heritage Month at Brock University.
Karibuni Chakula! (Welcome to the feast!)
