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AfrICANDO 2001
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Integrating Africa into the World Economy
Institute for Democracy in Africa |
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THE FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA |
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St. Thomas University
16400 N.W. 32nd
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AfrICANDO 2001
Table of Contents
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FORWARD
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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SPEAKERS
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CONFERENCE REVIEW
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RECOMMENDATIONS
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OPENING REMARKS
Anthony D. Okonmah Executive Director, Foundation for Democracy in
Africa |
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WELCOME REMARKS
Dr. Gershwin Blyden Executive Director, Institute for Democracy in
Africa |
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WELCOME REMARKS
Rev. Msgr. Franklyn M. Casale President, St. Thomas University |
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WELCOME REMARKS
Alex Penelas Miami-Dade County Mayor |
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WELCOME REMARKS
Gerald N. Morkel Premier of Western Cape Providence |
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CLOSING REMARKS (OPENING
SESSION)
Fred
Oladeinde
President, Foundation for Democracy in Africa |
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TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT ACT
2000-ONE YEAR LATER
Joe Gallagher, Citibank International Malik Chaka, U.S House Africa Subcommittee Steve Hayes, Corporate Council on Africa Luis Cuervo, Enterprise Florida Patrick Dean Coleman, U.S. Department of
Agriculture Joseph Lopez, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
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EFFECTS, DILEMMA AND
FUTURE OF AGOA
Patrick Dean Coleman U.S Department of Commerce |
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AFRICA-CARIBBEAN TRADE AND
INVESTMENT ROUNDTABLE
Sam Smoots, Overseas Private Investment Council Tappan, Bannerjee, U.S Department of Commerce Tanya Galery-Smith, U.S. Small Business
Administration Bryant Salter, Enterprise Florida John Macho, Enterprise Florida Patrick Sibbilies, Caribbean Agri-Businesss
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CENTURY GLOBAL TRADE TRENDS Dr. Craig Reese, St. Thomas University Mme. Aminata Tall, Senegalese Minister for Family
and National Solidarity Besa Kotati, U.S Department of Agriculture Charles Townsley, Port of Miami-Dade Angela Gittens, Miami Aviation Department Robert L. Buhl, International Trade Liaison, Inc Dr. Anthony Bryan, University of Miami North-South
Center George Dunlop, MicroBanx |
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AFRICA ADDRESSES OBTACLES
TO INVESTMENT
Anthony Okonmah, Executive Director, FDA Dr. Dushyantha Jayaweera, University of Miami Joseph Balcer, Institute for Democratic Strategies Dr. Constance Freeman, Africa Center for
Strategies Studies Dr. Robert Groelsema, U.S. Agency for
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CORRUPTION, TRANSPARENCY
AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Joseph
Balcer Institute
for Democracy strategies |
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THE
FACILITATIVE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY TO TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN AFRICA Robert
J. Groelseman, PHD U.S.
Agency for International Development |
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BLACKS IN NORTH AMERICA
Professor Joseph D. McNair Miami-Dade Community College |
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Published by the Institute for Democracy in Africa, St. Thomas University, 16400 N.W.
32nd
Avenue, Miami, FL. 33054.
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© 2001 by Foundation for Democracy in Africa.
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strictly those of the authors and should not be attributed in any manner to the
Foundation For Democracy in Africa, to its affiliated organizations, or to the
members of its Board of Directors or the organizations they represent.
FORWARD
More than 7,000 people
representing various nationalities from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America,
North America, South America, Europe, and other regions of the world joined the
Foundation for Democracy in Africa from May 2-5, 2001, in Miami, Florida, to
celebrate AfrICANDO 2001, our 4th annual U.S.-Africa Trade and
Investment Symposium and the AfrICANDO Arts and Cultural Festival at the Port
of Miami, the gateway to Africa.
A year after the signing of
the African Growth and Opportunity Act
(AGOA) and the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) into law as the Trade
and Development Act of 2000, U.S. government agencies, along with American,
African and Caribbean businesspeople and financing agencies discussed the
current successes and future opportunities in U.S. trade with Africa and the
Caribbean. Clearly, from reports coming in from the U.S. Department of Commerce
and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, there has been a significant
increase in African goods and services coming into the US.
Sub Saharan Africa’s major
exports to the U.S. under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and AGOA
increased from $682,120,000 in 2000 to
$8,166,026,000 in 2001. Of that total, $7,579,158, 000 represents U.S. imports
from Sub Saharan Africa under the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act alone in
2001.
The increase in trade can be
directly linked to the use of AGOA or its expanded GSP provisions. According to reports from the United States
International Trade Commission in 2000, South Africa recorded $583,176,000
under GSP, and a year later that total had risen to $923,243,000. Malawi sold to the U.S. $23,218 in GSP goods
in 2000, and a year later, the total was $35,362,000. Swaziland finished 2000 with $11,957,000 in U.S. sales, and
realized $14,770,000 in sales a year later. Nigeria in 2000 had $71,0000 in
U.S. sales under the GSP, and increased to $5,688,461,000 under the GSP and
AGOA in 2001.
By sectors, the
$8,166,026,000 U.S. imports under the African Growth and Opportunity Act
represents: $6,827,424,000 in energy related products, $359,354,000 in textiles
and apparel, $319,124,000 in minerals and metals, $300,537,000 in
transportation equipment, $140,921,000 in agricultural products and $128,079,000
in chemicals and related products.
This trend in higher U.S.
imports from Sub Saharan Africa may represent a new dawn in U.S. Africa
relations and needs to be encouraged from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean so
that it becomes sustainable. These trade ties also may serve as a platform for
foreign direct investment from the U. S to Africa. It also may lead to closer cultural ties and create the
opportunity for the development of more strategic alliances between the U.S.
and nations in Africa.
World trade is expected to
change drastically under the new trade order begin ushered in by the World
Trade Organization. This development and others will significantly impact U.S.
trade with Africa and the Caribbean, and the nations of Africa and the Caribbean
need to work together and use their combined comparative advantages to become
more efficient and competitive in the production and distribution of their
goods and services, especially to the nations of the Western Hemisphere,
Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Africa has the population base and close
proximity to Europe, the Middle East and the nations of Asia that the Caribbean
nations lack, while the Caribbean nations have close proximity to the other
nations in the Western Hemisphere. Improved trade relationships between nations
of these two regions will go a long away toward enhancing the economic and
political interest of all concerned. With increased economic ties between the
nations of the Caribbean and Africa, an important Trans-Atlantic bridge will
emerge.
Despite a return on
investment in recent years of about 30% in Africa, there is hesitation on the
part of mainstream institutional investors from the U.S. and other parts of the
developed world to invest in Africa, in spite of the significant improvements
in the political and economic conditions in these emerging free market
democracies.
Africans and Africans in the
Diaspora need to take advantage of this unique return on investment and show
their support for the economic uplift of Africa. Africans and Africans in the
Diaspora must come to the table and assume the leadership in providing the
necessary investment to build the infrastructure and institutions necessary to
develop Africa.
During AfrICANDO 2001, the
Foundation for Democracy in Africa recognized the following dignitaries for
their contributions and support for Africa:
Miami-Dade County
Commissioner Javier D. Souto for sponsoring and ensuring the passage of a
resolution before the Miami-Dade County Commission that offers assistance to
African nations in their effort to combat the spread and devastation of the
HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Dr. and Mrs. G.S. Smith of
the Apostolic Revival Center for their work in Kenya, Tanzania and worldwide,
providing humanitarian assistance and leadership training.
Garth C Reeves, publisher
emeritus of the Miami Times, for promoting Africa and African issues through
the media.
Peter
Anisworth Webley, publisher of Caribbean Today, for raising the positive
profile of South Florida’s Caribbean community.
Athalie Range, the first black elected to the Miami City Commission, the first black citizen appointed as department head in the State of Florida, appointed by former Governor Reuben Askew, for being a role model and mentor for leader in the public and private sector in the United States.
Charles Towsley Director of
the Dante B Fascell Port of Miami for his support of the Africa Growth and
Opportunity Act (AGOA) and for working to position the Port of Miami, as the
gateway for goods from Africa.
The Medal of Glory, the Foundation for Democracy in Africa’s highest award, was presented
in 2001 to His Excellency Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari GCFR, the former Executive
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1979-1983) for his leadership in
instituting democratic values and discipline in modern day Nigerian politics
and for his contribution to the building of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The Pan African Movement is
going through a major transformation that may provide the necessary elements it
requires to become the “center of the storm” in the economic advancement of
Africa. Not since the pre-independence days (1950-1970 for most African
nations) has the call for an African Union been heard so loud and clear.
The recent election of
Abdoulaye Wade, veteran politician, economist, writer, teacher and Pan
Africanist, as the President of Senegal, may provide the missing “ leg ‘‘ that
the “Mbeki-Olusegun-Bouteflika “school of thought requires to launch its final
assault in redefining the objectives and priorities of the modern day Pan
African movement. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold
War, the Socialist platform enshrined in the Pan African Movement charter by
Kwame Nkrumah, Madibo Keita, Sekou Toure and other fathers of the Pan African movement
is now replaced with Capitalist platform by the new modern day Pan African
leaders: South African President Thabo Mbeki, Nigerian President Olusegun
Obasanjo, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Senegal President
Abdoulaye Wade.
The New Africa Initiative,
as proposed by Thabo Mbeki, Olusegun Obasanjo and Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the
“Omega Plan,” put forward by Abdoulaye Wade, provide compelling arguments by
these new leaders of the Pan African movement for the need to accept new values
that will bring positive changes and discard old ideals that have stood in the
way of progress for the interest of the African people.
As these new leaders of the
Pan African movement unfold their plans and galvanize the necessary support
within Africa, they demand the support of all free market believers worldwide.
The September 11, 2001,
terrorist attack on the United States should be viewed as an attack on freedom,
democracy, and the free market system. The international community needs to pay
more attention and devote more resources to the resolution of armed conflict,
thus preventing these conflict areas from becoming training camps for
terrorists and launching pads for terrorism.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic
continues to challenge the development agenda of the nations of Africa,
stressing their health care infrastructure. AIDS is killing the young and
brightest Africans at the peak of their careers and flooding African
communities with orphans. The AIDS pandemic provide a compelling argument for
the cancellation of the debt accumulated by past totalitarian regimes, so that
resources currently used to service debt could be used to address the health
care and social needs faced by Africa due to the devastation of the AIDS
pandemic. The Foundation for Democracy hereby appeals to President George W
Bush to provide the leadership and use the influence of the United States of
America to make this happen.
Once again, we thank all our
sponsors, friends, members and supporters worldwide for their continuing
support, and we look forward to welcoming you next May 9-12 to AfrICANDO 2002.
May God Bless Africa and May
God Bless America
Fred O. Oladeinde
President
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Foundation for
Democracy in Africa wishes to thank the following organizations and individuals
for their financial support, and in kind contributions received because without
them this event would not have been possible. We would like to give thank to
the government of Miami Dade County and Mr. Barry E. Johnson of AT&T. We
would also like to extend our appreciation to the following organizations and
individuals namely; Miami Dade Transit, United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), HOT 105 FM, Miami-Dade Police Department, Enterprise Florida,
City of Miami International Trade Board, AT&T, POMTOC, Commissioner Rolle,
Commissioner Moss, Commissioner Barbara Carey Shiler, Commissioner Betty
Fergerson, Commissioner Natachia Seijas, Miami-Dade County Tourist Development
and Cultural Affairs Council, International Longshoreman’s Association
Local(1416&1922), DMJA/Harris, Secure Wrap, Royal Caribbean International,
Carnival Cruise Lines, Seaboard Marine, Maersk Sealand, Metro Miami Action
Plan, Texaco, Publix, Valria C. Screen Esq., and Greater Miami Convention of Visitors Bureau for their support.
Special thanks to the Seaport of Miami Director
Charles Townsley, Assistant Director Khalid Sallahuddin, the staffs Ms Drew
McKinney, Angela Simons, Cassandra Gainey, Chonita Williams, Angie P.,
LaPrinycsess Azatta Bess, Oregena Ramiogan, Mufutan Folorunsho and Shikyma
Ciare. Thanks are also extended to the Miami Dade Aviation Department for
extending a VIP treatment to the speakers and delegates that were received at
the airport and we thank you also for the signages provided to the conference
sites. Special thanks to director Angela Gittens, assistant director Miguel
Southwell, and the staffs - namely Irving Fourcard, Ana Sotorrio, Mark
Anderson, Michael E. Matthews. Special thanks to Mario Martinez, Felix Maristany,
Rogelio Gonzalez, and Lorem Lee.
Thanks to the Miami Dade Transit department, Danny
Alvarez and Patrice Rosemond for all the transportation needs provided us. We
would also like to extend our appreciations to The Greater Miami host
Committee, Cornelia “Corky” Dozier for providing the limousines for the VIPs,
and William D. Talbert, III- and Karen Johnson, Miami Conventions and Visitors
bureau. Also to the Miami Dade Parks and Recreation, Sandrell Rivers for
providing equipments and cultural entertainment for the Gala night. To the ITD
group, Jennifer Ritchey and Roberto Balvez for providing us with the computers
and radios.
Dr. Hilroy Thomas of the School of Continues
Education, St. Thomas University edited a portion of this document. We would like
to thank the students and staff of the Institute including Sekou Camera and
Stephen Opoku Adu; Graduate student with the Institute from Ghana. Special
thanks to Monsignor Franklyn M. Casale and all the professors who helped make
this possible through their time and assistance. Dr. Craig Reese and Patricia
Murry for their support and assistance in putting this document together. We
would also like to thank Mr. Jose Funetis for the great audio-video services
that he provided us with. More importantly our greatest thank goes again to
Monsignor Franklyn M. Casale for a very thoughtful opening prayer for AfrICANDO
2001 success.
LIST OF SPEAKERS
AND DISCUSSANTS
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Charles .A. Towsley |
Director-Port of Miami |
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Dr. Gershwin Blyden |
Institute for Democracy in Africa |
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Tappan Bannerjee |
U.S. Department of Commerce |
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Tanya Galery Smith |
U.S Small Business Administration |
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Hon. Alex Penelas |
Executive Mayor of Miami-Dade County |
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Hon. Dennis Moss |
Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioner |
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Dr. Fred Holman |
St. Thomas University |
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Dr. Craig Reese |
St. Thomas University |
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Rev. Msgr. Franklyn Casale |
St. Thomas University |
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Dwayne Wynn |
Mayor’s Task Force on African Trade |
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Fred Oladeinde |
Foundation for Democracy in Africa |
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Anthony D. Okonmah |
Foundation for Democracy in Africa |
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Gregory B. Simpkins |
Foundation for Democracy in Africa |
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George S. Dunlop |
Michoacan Export Partners |
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Bryant Salter |
Director-Latin America and Caribbean regions for
International Trade and Business Development for Enterprise Florida |
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John Macho |
Director-Latin America and Caribbean regions for
International Trade and Business Development for Enterprise, Enterprise
Florida |
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Dr. Anthony Bryan |
Director- Caribbean Studies, University of Miami |
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Patrick Sibbilies |
Caribbean Agri-Business Association |
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Robert L.
Buhl |
Specialist- International Trade Liaison, Inc. |
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Angela Gittens |
Director- Miami-Dade County Aviation Department |
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Besa Kotati |
U.S Department of Agriculture |
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Dr. Lawrence Abraham |
Institute for Democracy in Africa |
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Khafra Kambon |
Emancipation Support Committee, African people in
the Caribbean |
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Sir James Mancham |
Former Seychelles President |
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Peter Webley |
Publisher, Caribbean Today |
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Dr. Nancy Walker |
Africa Center for Strategic Studies |
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Mr. Khafra Kambon |
Emancipation Support Committee (Trinidad &
Tobago |
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Mr. Malik Chaka |
U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa |
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Dr. Rick Kittles |
National Human Genome Center |
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Gerald N. Morkel |
Premier-Western Cape Province, South Africa |
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Joseph Lopez |
Administrator of the U.S Foreign Agriculture |
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Luis G. Cuervo |
Trade Development for Latin America and the
Caribbean for Enterprise Florida |
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Mme.Aminata Tall |
Senegalese Minister for Family and National
Solidarity |
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Dr. Robert Groelsema |
USAID |
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Dr. (Mrs.) Kema Chikwe |
Nigeria Minister of Aviation |
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Richard Danso |
Local Attorney |
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Sam Smoots |
Overseas Private Investment Council |
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Patrick Dean Cole |
U.S Department of Agriculture |
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Dr. Dushyantha Jayaweera |
University of Miami |
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Amb. Richard .T. McCornmack |
Formal U.S Ambassador to the Americas |
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Hon. Comm. Dennis Moss |
Miami Dade County Commissioner |
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Hon. Comm Dorrin Rolles |
Miami Dade County Commissioner |
Amb. Mamadou Seck |
Senegal Ambassador to the United States |
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Dr. Constance Freeman |
Africa Center for Strategic Studies |
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Roxanne MacDonald |
Broadwing |
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Camille Selvon Abrahams |
Full Circle Productions |
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Gizelle Blacate |
Wassi One Production |
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Nikki Estrada |
GoFuzion |
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Nidhi Tando |
Networked Intelligence for Development |
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Michael Tupper |
NAP of the Americas |
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Darien Dash |
DME Interacting Holding Inc. |
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Mrs. Athalie Range |
Range Funeral Homes |
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Dr. & Mrs. G.S Smith |
Apostolic Evangelistic Association Inc. |
CONFERENCE
REVIEW
AfrICANDO 2001
Hundreds of business people, government officials
and members of civil society from the United States, African, the Caribbean and
Latin America took part in the AfrICANDO 2001Trade and Investment Symposium
held at the Port of Miami from 2-5 May 2001.
Among the officials who took part in AfrICANDO 2001
were: Nigerian Minister for Aviation Kema Chikwe, Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex
Penelas, Port of Lagos (Nigeria) Director Alhaji Isa Babamakpa and Port of
Miami-Dade Director Charles Towsley, who was the official host for the
symposium. Senegalese Minister for
Families and National Solidarity Aminata Tall was unable to attend due to the
recent elections in her country, but she sent as her representative Mme.
Safietou Ba Diop from her ministry, who read her plenary speech.
For the first time, the Caribbean Commonwealth Secretariat played an active role in AfrICANDO. Fay Housty, Director for Foreign Policy and External Economic Relations was a speaker at this year’s event. This level of participation presages the increased interest in the Caribbean in trade, not only with the United States, but also with African nations as well. Also present at AfrICANDO 2001 was Khafra Kambon of the Emancipation Support Committee (ESC) from Trinidad & Tobago. ESC is a program partner of the Foundation in upcoming trade and cultural projects.
AfrICANDO 2001 presented a variety of speakers on
several topics from the public and private sectors. They examined the conference theme from such perspectives as a
one-year update on the African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Caribbean
Basin Initiative, 21st century trade trends and the impact of new technology on
the marketplace.
Former Under
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Richard McCormack, who has recently
completed an economic assessment mission to Africa for the Bush Administration,
gave a well-received speech on effective U.S. engagement with the nations of
Africa.
The symposium was the forum for the historic signing
of two agreements on Thursday, 3 May: a sister seaport agreement between the
Port of Miami-Dade and the Port of Lagos and a sister airport agreement between
Miami International Airport and Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos. These agreements were the culmination of
months of effort by the Foundation for Democracy in Africa and Miami-Dade
County. They offer hope for expanded trade through the lessening of time for
the shipment of goods and transportation of passengers between West Africa and
Miami. Moreover, such enhanced transportation links could link Africa to the
Caribbean and Latin America through Miami, which is the “Gateway to the
Americas.”
AfrICANDO 2001 also inaugurated a process of
matchmaking between businesses from the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean and Latin
America. For example one Colombian
company concluded a nearly $20,000 initial distribution deal with a Senegalese
partner. Other distribution and
partnership arrangements are still under discussion. The Foundation will be working with the U.S. Small Business
Administration and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global
Technology Network, as well as other public and private sector organizations in
the United States, Africa and the Caribbean to elicit such augments and
distribution.
However, matchmaking at AfrICANDO was not limited to
business deals. Two Nigerian
journalists covering the symposium were presented with computers through the
efforts of Axe Multi-Media. AIDSCorps,
a Liberian non-governmental organization dealing with the HIV-AIDS epidemic
primarily among refugees, is now pursuing the use of animation as a tool to
reach young people in education efforts on HIV transmission.
Several international and local Miami personalities were given awards for their work in supporting democracy and free enterprise. The recipient of the 2001 Medal of Glory Award was Ahaji Shehu Shagari, Nigeria’s first executive President. He was unable to attend and will receive his award in Nigeria later this year. Others who were honored for their efforts were: Miami-Dade Commissioner Javier Souto; Port of Miami Director Charles Towsley; Garth Reeves, publisher of Miami Times; Peter Webley, publisher of Caribbean Today; Mrs. Athalie Range, a noted Miami community activist, and Dr. and Mrs. G.S. Smith, founders of the Apostolic Evangelistic Association, Inc.
Miami-Dade County also presented awards. The Key to Miami-Dade County was given to
Lagos Port Director Alhaji Isa Babamakpa; His Excellency Mamadou Seck,
Senegal’s Ambassador to the United States, and Ambassador Richard McCormack.
Thousands of people attended the May 5 AfrICANDO
Arts and Cultural Festival at the Port of Miami. Entrepreneurs from countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, Jamaica,
Tanzania, Senegal and Trinidad & Tobago sold a variety of apparel and other
products. Performers from Africa, the
Caribbean and Latin America performed, including headliner King Sunny Ade of
Nigeria, who also performed at the Gala Awards Dinner on 4 May.
RECOMMENDATIONS PRESENTED AT THE PLENARY SESSIONS
The symposium produced 11 recommendations at the
Plenary Roundtable sessions for further action to promote
U.S.-Caribbean-African trade and to enhance future AfrICANDOs:
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Miami-Dade
County and the Foundation for Democracy in Africa must work to actualize sea
and air links between Miami and Nigeria as soon as possible.
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Agriculture
must be pursued as the best way to improve economies in African and Caribbean
countries because it is labor-intensive, require less capital investment,
utilize abundant land, and provide food security and income from exports.
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Access
to capital must be made available for small and medium sized African and
Caribbean indigenous enterprises.
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An
emphasis must be placed on education, which will not only create a new
generation of leaders, but also will provide the knowledge base needed to
effectively overcome obstacles in investment such as the spread of HIV-AIDS and
tropical diseases, conflict and failure to respect the rule of law.
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Nations
in Africa and the Caribbean need to develop programs to effectively address the
HIV-AIDS pandemic, such as the Foundation’s mother-to-child transmission
prevention program.
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There
must be broadened ongoing networking and matchmaking among U.S., African,
Caribbean and Latin American organizations and businesses, including often
neglected groups such as black Hispanics from the Caribbean and Central and
South America represented in Miami.
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Trade
missions to Africa must involve businesses not only from the U.S., but also the
Caribbean and Latin America. There must be increased Caribbean content in
future AfrICANDO and Foundation events.
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There
should be a pre-AfrICANDO event held in Abuja, Nigeria, in February 2002 to
bring U.S., African, Caribbean and Latin American companies together in
preparation for a June 2002 AfrICANDO in Miami, whose tentative theme is:
“Expanding Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Opportunities.”
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There
should be more youth involvement in AfrICANDO, including a student exchange
between Senegal and Miami schools and a youth entrepreneur workshop at
AfrICANDO 2002.
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The
Foundation for Democracy in Africa must develop enhanced relations and
cooperation with organizations such as the Caribbean Community Secretariat and
education institutions such as the University of Miami.
· The public and private sectors and civil society must make available the resources necessary for the Foundation for Democracy in Africa to continue its efforts in promoting U.S-African-Caribbean-Latin American trade.