Contents: Overview • Promoting the involvement of state officials in U.S. policy toward Africa • Touring the East Coast • The report says we have had a particularly hectic four months since our last Trustees' meeting because the staff has shrunk, but the program seems to keep growing'; as reported some weeks ago, our long time ·projects director, Dumisani Kumalo responded to a call from Thabo Mbeki and has returned home to become the Chief of the U.S. section of South Africa's Foreign Ministry. The report discusses a major U.S. policy consultation under our Carnegie program state legislators, U.S. aid, trade, investment, Nigerian democracy, U.S. policy, National Security Advisor...
Contents: Overview • Promoting the involvement of state officials in U.S. policy toward Africa • Touring the East Coast • The report says we have had a particularly hectic four months since our last Trustees' meeting because the staff has shrunk, but the program seems to keep growing'; as reported some weeks ago, our long time ·projects director, Dumisani Kumalo responded to a call from Thabo Mbeki and has returned home to become the Chief of the U.S. section of South Africa's Foreign Ministry. The report discusses a major U.S. policy consultation under our Carnegie program state legislators, U.S. aid, trade, investment, Nigerian democracy, U.S. policy, National Security Advisor Berger, Chief Anthony Enahoro, The Ford Foundation, City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, the New York Times Editorial Board, N.Y, City Corporate Social Responsibility Director Patrick Doherty, a conference in Rwanda, NGOs, peace, civil society, the Great Lakes Region, dynamic women's organizations, funding, development, a national speaking tour, Michael Lapsley, the Justice and Peace Commission in South Africa, the ANC (African National Congress), AID funding for Africa, Jim Cason, Congressman Benjamin Gilman,, ACOA (American Committee on Africa), Wyatt Tee Walker, the House International Relations Committee, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Carnegie Foundation, the National Consultation on U.S. Policy Toward Africa, Rep. Lois DeBerry, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), Rep. Irma Hunter-Brown, Avel Gordly, State Senator Hillman Frazer, Rep. Diane Watson, Sep, Spencer Coggs, California Congresswomen Maxine Waters, South African Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin, Carol Peasley, the U.S. Agency for International Development, African American leaders, Sani Abacha, Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko, lobbyists, Massachusetts State Senator Mark Montigny, Eastern Cape province, Connecticut Representative Reginald Beemon, a trade office, Oregon, legislatin, Texas Rep. Helen Giddings, African business people, Gugile Nkwinti, Salih Booker, the South African Ambassador and Mrs. Sonn, Michael Fleshman, State Senator Wilkerson, Rep Byron Rushing, Rep. Gloria Fox, the Legislative Black Caucus, Nicholas Rostin, the Massachusetts State Office for International Trade, Boston anti-apartheid activist Lee Farris, MIT, Harvard, Tracy Herbert-Barry, The Tructor Company, Robert Ward, Lieutenant Argeo Paul Lelluci, Mary Tiseo, Rev. Mike Battle, the Garden State Convention Center, and Rutgers.
