Sentences with phrase «on diaspora»

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Some of the earliest depictions of African individuals in Western art, their stories are now «lost to the winds of history» and it is a meditation on diaspora and the realities of an imagined promised land.

Through the work of eight mentors and 11 UK - based emerging artists, the exhibition will expand on diaspora as a term, and forms part of the ICF and UAL's joint 22 - month Diaspora Platform project.

In his new installation in Washington the artist the has produced a powerful meditation on diaspora and resilience

We came out of traditional publishing houses where we thought there was only going to be a greater drive to reduce fixed costs and an ever increasing need to rely on the diaspora of freelance specialist talent.

He is the COO of World Singles Networks, and has been focused on diaspora dating around the world.

Mrs Abike Dabiri - Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President Buhari on Diaspora, has hailed the appointment of Ahmed Rufai Abubakar as Director - General of National Intelligence Agency...

It was agreed that a technical committee be set up, comprising officials of INEC and the Presidency, to share experience and information that would be beneficial to the cause of actualizing on Diaspora Voting in the country.

MPs concluded that the potential negative effects, both on the diaspora communities who consume khat in the UK, and on the growers who cultivate it in Africa, outweighed any possible benefits of the ban.

Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Diaspora Hon Abike Dabiri has celebrated a Nigerian resident in the Middle East country of Qatar.

By Ikenna Asomba Former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on the Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri - Erewa, on Monday, frowned at the continued gale...

«As the Chairman Committee on Diaspora in the House of Representatives in the Seventh Assembly, we intervened in the case of 24 Nigerians about to be killed in Libya.

Special Adviser to the President on Diaspora Matters, Hon Abike Dabiri, further incurred the wrath of many online commentators after she tweeted that the Federal Government was going to look into the circumstances that led to the girls» death.

Not exact matches

Along with a rapper named Humble the Poet, she performs a song she released on YouTube last year called #LEH, a slang term in the Indian diaspora meaning ridiculous.

This all - you - can - eat, all - you - can - drink Night Market — modelled on the pop - up street bazaars found throughout the Asian diaspora — is just the latest in the Stop's long series of innovative fundraising events and services that have successfully brought together top chefs, like - minded corporate sponsors and a seemingly insatiable community of foodies to raise both awareness and money.

On the domestic political front, meanwhile, Canada is a country of immigrants with multiple large diaspora populations.

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.

The orthodox are stuck in the 19th century believing that they are following the religion of 3000 years earlier, when, in fact, most of their traditions are based on experiences in the diaspora of the last 1900 years, but mostly limited to the past 200.

But they do have a task, a task that was given to them by their mother churches overseas — find a way to heal the anomaly that is life on the ground in the so - called «diaspora.»

That Judaism is a religious civilization implies that the survival of the Jewish people in the Diaspora depends on its making religion a matter of vital interest (GJM 499).

Herod the Great, in order to gain control over the Sanhedrin, would import important personages from the diaspora and place them on the Sanhedrin.

Another face of caring is simply not abusing: Some of the Diaspora stand on street corners seeking work, and admit it or not, sometimes Christians employ them at below minimum wage.

A lot of pundits say the Puerto Rican diaspora could have a major effect on some elections this year — particularly in Florida.

When we have a Pakistani diaspora of over one million people, and there are hundreds of thousands of journeys between our countries every year, what goes on in Pakistan matters on the streets of Britain.

Aziz, stated in Abuja when the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri - Erewa, paid him a courtesy visit.

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.

Convened by Professor Corneliu Bjola together with Jennifer Cassidy and Ilan Manor (both doctoral students at Oxford) the seminar aimed to analyse the impact digital tools have on the relations between diaspora communities and MFAs / embassies.

On giving diaspora Nigerians a chance to participate in elections, president Buhari said his government was studying the scenario, stressing that what was utmost was to make the process more credible.

The global proliferation of information technologies has had a conflicting impact on the practice of Diaspora diplomacy.

Flowery tales of the exploits of Ghanaians in the diaspora flood the media on a regular basis.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri - Erewa, on Thursday, said that the Nigerian government will not revert its stance on...

[ii] Wafula, C., «Kenyans in Diaspora miss out on 2013 poll», Daily Nation (27/11/12).

There is, however, a strong coalition of citizen journalists working diligently in Cameroon and the Diaspora to provide insightful and critical commentary on recent events in the country.

The recent and on - going clashes taking place between members of the Kurdish and Turkish diasporas in Europe reflect the violent trans - nationality of this conflict: violence — as oppression and resistance alike — is «travelling» across time and space.

On the other hand, however, Kurdish supporters of the PKK in the diaspora often view nationalism, statehood and capitalism as the very roots of the political inequality that Kurds have historically been (and continue to be) subjected to.

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.

According to a statement released by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri - Erewa and signed by her Media aide, Mr Abdur - Rahman Balogun, on Monday said the latest gruesome killing of Tochukwu Nnadi by Police in South Africa, was unacceptable to the people and government of Nigeria.

The aim is to research, discuss and present issues related to diasporas and migration, and their past and present impact on subjectivity and identity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion, politics and sociality.

The Federal Government on Friday launched the Nigerian Economic Diplomacy Initiative, NEDI, to among other aims, bridge the gap between local talents and Nigerians in Diaspora,...

The World Bank on Monday revealed that Nigerians living in the Diaspora repatriated $ 22 billion home in 2017, making it among the highest, and the fifth...

The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri — Erewa has finally addressed reports faulting Garba Shehu's statement that Buhari...

Speaking at a press conference organised by the Diaspora Togo — Ghana solidarity movement, Bernard Mornah said government's silence on the crisis, coupled with the large number of Togolese coming into the country could lead to xenophobic attacks in Ghana.

Speaking to Citi Business News in Copenhagen, at a reception by her office to welcome four Ghanaian journalists on a press trip at the invitation of the Danish Government, Her Excellency Mrs. Amerley Ollenu Awua - Asamoa, said Government's policy of diaspora engagement is aimed at attracting Ghana's high quality manpower to help bring home the needed investment to drive the government's industrialization agenda.

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.

One official said the difference was that Trump had specifically promised to take action on Cuba to a rally of the Cuban diaspora last year in Florida, a state which Trump won.

This appeal was made in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs. Dabiri - Erewa.

The group runs the Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute on West 58th Street, which was founded in 1976 and promotes the history, culture and art of African descendants in the Americas.

The three - day event was held on the theme:» Development Opportunity, value: Welcome Home: and attracted Ghanaians in the Diaspora to access the opportunities in the Economy.

The group in reference to its members home and in the Diaspora, recalled have come together in recent time to deliberate on the present and future of Iwo with a view to harnessing its potentials towards greatness.

In my meeting with members of the Somali Diaspora here in Britain on Monday, one young lady told me it's all about having a job and a voice.