Sentences with phrase «diaspora for»

The mission of the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) is to collect, conserve, explore, interpret, and exhibit the material and intellectual culture of Africans and African Americans in Houston, the state of Texas, the southwest and the African Diaspora for current and future generations.

Curated by Los Angeles artist Charles Gaines, a close friend and collaborator of Adkins, the New York exhibition «focuses on the formal methods he employed to distill his art down to the very «essence» of his materials, often mining the history of the African diaspora for marginalized forms and figures.

Curated by Milen Nae, the exhibition is titled «Confusion» and built on the central question of «Is it possible to create a new diaspora for those who share, not the same place of origin, nationality, race or religion, but the same feelings and experiences?»

Darryl Atwell, a collector based in Washington, DC, has been acquiring works by artists of the African diaspora for the last eight years.

The exhibition focuses on the formal methods he employed to distill his art down to the very «essence» of his materials, often mining the history of the African diaspora for marginalized forms and figures.

Her Spelman experience expanded her interest in exploring the rich diversity in the African Diaspora for personal and professional growth.

I thought he'd spent himself on flotsam like the last two Spy Kids flicks, thought he'd really screwed the pooch on a fiasco like Once Upon a Time In Mexico, on which he mistook Sergio Leone's formalist genre Diaspora for a mess of ideas trailing camera flourishes.

His statement read in part, «The Indigenous People of Biafra and its leadership worldwide congratulate Biafrans and all the IPOB family members worldwide both in Biafra land and in the Diaspora for their compliance with the sit - at - home order issued by our indefatigable leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Diaspora for Nigeria president Goodluck Jonathan [UK] chapter and Initiative for National Re-birth, Abuja - Nigeria, wishes our visionary and patriotic president, a happy 57th birthday.

international coordinator, Diaspora for Nigeria president Goodluck Jonathan [UK] Chapter, Europe coordinator, Initiative for National Re-birth with its headquater in Abuja, Nigeria..

So I urge you to ensure the unity and stability of the Yoruba race within the territory of Nigeria, interface with the Yoruba inside Africa continent and network the Yoruba in the Diaspora for global collaboration in the areas of cultural integration, skills development, mental enrichment and social interaction.

He said there was the need to put in place modalities that would enhance the repatriation of resources of the Diaspora for the development of the nation

President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has lauded Nigerians home and diaspora for their prospective policy recommendations.

Not exact matches

Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

This diaspora is a very important constituency for the Indian prime minister.

But these cities boast large and vibrant diaspora communities, which largely generate the demand for these options.

Just the opposite is true today: Israel's prospects for survival against neighbors committed to her destruction depends in part on the Christian sympathy for the Jewish people, whether they live in Israel or in the Diaspora.

Take note that there is no record of any evangelistic efforts in the temples of Venus or Aphrodite but there is ample evidence that the Jewish diaspora was the primary means of moving the gospel forward for the first fifty years of the church.

Then as now, the country was too small for the population, and the diaspora, or dispersion, of the Jews to other lands was caused by economic as well as political and military factors.

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When we regathered after the evangelical diaspora of the «60s, we discovered that there had been a significant number of scattered, lonely and frustrated «Evangelicals for Gene McCarthy.»

He is of significance for Judaism not only as religious philosopher, translator of the Bible, and translator and re-creator of Hasidic legends and thought, but also as a religious personality who has provided leadership of a rare quality during the time of his people's greatest trial and suffering since the beginning of the diaspora.

The question of Irishness has been hovering over the Catholic abuse scandals for years, ever since journalists noticed (but scarcely dared point out) that they seemed concentrated among the Irish Catholic diaspora of the United States, Canada and Australia.

Now the Korean diaspora spread to every part of the world, is very important for world mission.

Third, the Korean diaspora has great significance for world mission.

Thus China laid the groundwork for a disenchantment with Christendom that led me 30 years later to hope for the end of cultural Christianity as the enabling condition for the development of a diaspora Christianity.

According to the statement, the American experience has been one of unmitigated disaster for the «indigenous peoples» of the Americas and of the «African Diaspora.»

In the past in Israel many Jews followed other gods and for that we have sent to other lands and are now in the diaspora.

The Exile, which for many Jews was indefinitely prolonged through dreary years of Diaspora, was a time when the messianic expectation was of special relevance.

It is clear from everyone who has written or spoken of their reason for leaving that intolerance and injustice are neck and neck for the two leading causes of this diaspora: Intolerance for other races, other beliefs, other opinions, and now other orientations; injustice to the powerless, the voiceless, the meek, the poor, and the exploited (be it economically, emotionally, or sexually).

«It appears the review has looked at a narrow period and not covered the period in the latter half of 1984 and may not have addressed some of the concerns raised by UK politicians in the last three weeks, eg threat of sanctions by India against the UK, Germany, Canada and USA towards the end of 1984 for sympathising with Sikhs in the Diaspora.

He commended the Buhari Diaspora Support Organization for deciding to identify with the country, «when you could have stayed here, and being comfortable.»

He said: «It is a shame that this is 2016 and we still do not have an accurate data base for the Nigerians in Diaspora.

The enduring and powerful sense of what it means to be Scottish may, in many respects, be a construct of sentimental depictions of the place, but — regardless of whether it is based on ancestry, a love of the real place or on Braveheart and shortbread tin imagery — the diaspora's relationship with Scotland does have real economic and social consequences for the nation.

In antiquity, fierce land hunger in Crete and surrounding islands, triggered the founding of Greek colonies, a cluster of voluntary diasporas, angling for economic survival.

What role this has played in shaping the current independence debate is hard to say, but it seems certain that the diaspora will continue to affect the social and economic development of Scotland, regardless of whether it chooses to vote for independence or to continue to be part of the United Kingdom.

Like other governments reaching out to their diaspora populations, the Scottish government has been actively pursuing business people with Scottish heritage (or other connections), whose sense of «Scottishness» or kinship with Scotland could be harnessed to improve opportunities for international trade or development of skills in Scotland.

As for «Oodua Republic», it is the Yoruba homeland of the political South West; plus Edo, Ishan and Auchi lands (the present Edo State), the Itsekiri country of the present Delta, and, of course, the Yoruba «diaspora» in the political «North» of Kwara and Kogi, up to Lokoja and Idah!

Scottish identity is clearly attractive for many members of the Scottish diaspora — however one chooses to define it — around the world.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

The report was prepared for the Rockefeller Foundation - Aspen Institute Diaspora Programme (RAD

They include Samia Yaba Nkrumah, a former chairperson of the party and former Member of Parliament for Jomoro; Mr Bright Akwetey, a lawyer, Mr Joseph Agyepong, a party stalwart in the diaspora and businessman; and Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, a former General Secretary of the party.

While making clarifications on the development, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri - Erewa told journalists in Abuja on Monday that the Italian Embassy had earlier indicated to the Director - General, National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons that the burial would take place in Salerno, Italy on November 26, 2017.

Hi John, we would like to keep in touch with the Social Liberal diaspora, but as far as SLF membership is concerned we want our members to stay in the party and support our campaigns for social liberalism.

There was just no incentive for any investor to come to Osun, no incentive for Osun people in diaspora to come home.

The man of God who has been a blessing unto many influential people within Ghana and the diaspora expressed his profound gratitude to God for his life and encouraged the people who had gathered to celebrate with him to continuously have faith in God in all situations of life.

He also blamed diaspora politicians for the noise about kogi.

Saturday evening, African professionals in the diaspora gathered on Long Island to support Dr. Bola Omotosho, a Ghanaian Nigerian American running for NY City Council in the West Bronx.

He commended the Indian Government, Indians in the Diaspora and people in the host countries for supporting his global HIV / AIDS campaign tour.

There have been growing calls for President Mugabe to be given political asylum, led by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the African Diaspora Forum (ADF).