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October 2018

Taste of the Caribbean Fundraiser for Cops for Kids with Cancer

October 21, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
VFW Post #1018, 500 Morton Street
Dorchester, MA 02124 United States
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On Sunday, October 21, 2018, from 11AM to 7PM, LLEGO Boston will be joined by the City of Boston, the Boston Police Department, the Berkshire Partners Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club, and members of the Boston community at its 2nd Annual “Taste of the Caribbean” fundraiser. This year, all proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit “Cops for Kids with Cancer,” a charitable organization focused on raising funds to aid families of children fighting cancer, to improve their quality of…

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Boston Pan African Forum 8th Annual Fall Reception

October 26, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Wheatley Snowden Auditorium, 100 Morrisey Blvd
Boston, 02125 United States
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"Returning to the Source: The Future of Reparations and Restorative Justice for Afrikan Enslavement" Come Enjoy Great Food, Music, & Networking For Further information and to RSVP please contact 617-287-7138  

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November 2018

Lecture with Emilie Diouf

November 8, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
BU African Studies Center, 232 Bay State Road - Room 505
Boston, 02215 United States
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Join us for a Conversation with Emilie Diouf! Free and Open to the Public! After Recognition: The Politics of Mediating African Women's Traumatic Experience of Sexual Violence. This talk will proceed to consider ethical translation as an approach to mediating African Women’s experiences of sexual violence. Ethical translation takes into consideration the ways in which the interactive dynamics between the context of trauma narration and the conditions of reception play into the readings and interpretations attached to African women’s narratives…

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Makwande! Increasing Africa’s Presence on Wikipedia

November 13, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
BU school of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, 02215 United States
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Did you know there are active Wikipedias in 292 languages, including more than 30 African languages? Yet all of these languages together still have less than half the number of articles in the English-language Wikipedia. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1928649447242109&set=pcb.1928610190579368&type=3&__tn__=HH-R-R-R-R&eid=ARCa_Xq8eH5a_UaOjUk0uPApWm1NZAXEhKFB_C8DBh2_P9d2krvIVE_XJ4NDd-ePRUv3Nd4g7FIxemI4 Edit Wikipedia in African Languages including (Amharic, Tigrinya Oromo etc..) or add to Wikipedia’s content about Africa in English, French & other widely spoken languages. If you know one of these languages, and if you can spare minutes between 1 and 4pm on Tuesday…

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VAYA – a South African movie – Boston premiere

November 16, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Paramount Theater, 559 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111 United States
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VAYA Paying homage to the Tsotsitaal namesake meaning “to go”, VAYA chronicles the innocence lost by three young South Africans who journey away from their rural homes on a train bound for Johannesburg. Stirring and suspenseful, director Akin Omotoso intertwines stories of strangers struggling to survive that culminate in an explosive moment based on real accounts. VAYA made its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and garnered Omotoso the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director.

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AiB meeting – Building Structures

November 17, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Boston College – Cushing 001 Auditorium, 235 Beacon Street - Cushing Hall
Chestnut Hill, 02467 United States
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  Please join us on Saturday November 17th 2018 at 2pm at the monthly AiB meeting as we work on strengthening the AiB team and building Diaspora Credit Union 2020. a) AiB Management structure: Board, Event Officer, IT Officer, Website Officer, Finance Officer, Marketing Officer, Communications Officer, Social Media Officer, Ambassadors b) Diaspora Credit Union management structure: Managing Director, Board,  Project Managers, consultants and regular meetings to move agenda forward and grow Diaspora Savings and Investments Account. Building Structures Meeting …

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Africans in Boston at the United Nations

November 27, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
UN Headquarters, 405 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017 United States
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Africans in Boston Executive Director Vivian Kobusingye Birchall will be speaking at a side event to the Global South-South Development Expo taking place between 27 and 30 November at United Nations Headquarters. http://www.expo.unsouthsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-GSSDExpo-Structure.pdf The event is titled “Implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Through South-South Cooperation.” She will share experiences from working with members of the African community in the Greater Boston area, contributions the diaspora has made to home countries, and lessons for countries to…

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December 2018

Meet and Greet with State Department Official at Asmara Restaurant

December 7, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Asmara Restaurant, 739 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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Meet and Greet with State Department Official Maria Martinez, Desk Officer for Burkina Faso and Cape Verde will have a meet-and-greet session with Diaspora members in the area. She will be discussing how the State Department is helping those two countries ! Please join us and pay for your own meal ! Please RSVP at info@africansinboston.org For more info please contact AiB Event Officer Nampeera Lugira at info@africansinboston.org

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Life of the Party by Afrimericanone

December 8, 2018 @ 9:00 pm - December 9, 2018 @ 2:00 am
Suya Joint, 185 Dudley Street
Roxbury, MA 02119 United States
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Wow... where has the year 2018 gone? I guess time flies when you are having fun... Good News the fun isn't over yet!!! Come join us for a End of year celebration 'LIFE OF THE PARTY' at the Suya Joint 185 Dudley St, Roxbury, MA 9pm - 2am Firstly, if you have been following us this year online or offline, supporting us with donations, volunteering your time, contributing to our discussions and celebrating our successes and criticizing our shortcomings... we want…

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2018 YCM End of Year Banquet and Scholarship Award

December 9, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm
The Lantana of Randolph, 1074 Hyde Park Avenue
Hyde Park, MA 02136 United States
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YORUBA COMMUNITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Annual End of Year Banquet and Scholarship award night. Scholarships will be awarded to our Children in a night filled with fun, dances and praises to God. Tickets available at Jamakex Hyde Park Business Center 1074 Hyde Park Avenue, Hyde Park, MA 02136 @ $50 per person. For more info, please contact: Jide Ogungbadero | 617.388.2026 | ogungbadero@comcast.net  

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