Contents: 1. Opening and Approval of Minutes • 2. Executive Director's Report • Report from South Africa • Africa Policy in the New Clinton Administration • Nigeria Program • Sisulu Project: George Houser • U.S. Organizing on Africa - Constituency Building • 3. Finance Report • 4. Grants and Projects Report • 5, Other Business • 6. Adjourned. The next board meeting is planned for late April/early May 1997 • The minutes discuss Tilden LeMelle, Salih Booker, Marvin Rich, Peter Weiss, Jim Cason, Jennifer Davis, Dumisani Kumalo, Aisha Satterwhite, the South African Constitution, the anti-apartheid struggle, the Solidago Foundation, the...
Contents: 1. Opening and Approval of Minutes • 2. Executive Director's Report • Report from South Africa • Africa Policy in the New Clinton Administration • Nigeria Program • Sisulu Project: George Houser • U.S. Organizing on Africa - Constituency Building • 3. Finance Report • 4. Grants and Projects Report • 5, Other Business • 6. Adjourned. The next board meeting is planned for late April/early May 1997 • The minutes discuss Tilden LeMelle, Salih Booker, Marvin Rich, Peter Weiss, Jim Cason, Jennifer Davis, Dumisani Kumalo, Aisha Satterwhite, the South African Constitution, the anti-apartheid struggle, the Solidago Foundation, the Church of the Brethren, Betsy Landis, Johnny Carson, George Moose, Dick Wolpey, Gay McDougall, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), lobbying, Maurice Dawkins, Nelson Mandela, the Carnegie Foundation, the April 1997 Consultation in Washington,, D.C., AID, the Speaker from Eastern Cape, Donald Payne, Michael Fleshman, Herb Shore, tapes of Sisulu interviews, Rica Hodgson, the Mayibute Center, money, the African American Summit in July in Zimbabwe, Congress, Oliver Tambo, the "National Summit on Africa", the Ford Foundation, Africare, Michael DeShazer, a South Africa documentary, Blackisde, the Women's Project, cutting down staff, the Combined Federal Campaign, direct mail, regular donors, the budget, Board members, Working Assets, the Soros Foundation, George Soros, Andrew Norman, Bob Boehm, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Shell oil, the Ogoni 8 trial,, sanctions, Sun City, Adonis Hoffman, Nigerian government cronies, the Corporate Council on Africa, a fact-finding delegation to Nigeria, and Irma Hunter Brown.
