On Saturday, December 15, 2007, the President of the World Afrikan Diaspora Union (WADU), His Excellency (Ambassador) Dudley Thompson is urging the community to participate in the Diaspora forum at the African American Research Library & Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at 1:00 p.m. The primary objective of the forum is to continue the 2007 goal of consolidating a Diaspora Secretariat to accomplish the mission of reuniting Africans in the Diaspora with those in Africa. Secondly, the forum is a preparatory session for 2008 WADU Pan Afrikan Movement Summit in South America in May 2008. Thirdly, Dr. Leonard Jeffries will present a special tribute to the legacy of Dr. Asa Hilliard. Finally, the forum will be used to begin appointing key State Representatives to WADU from across the Diaspora. The State Representatives will be responsible to facilitate elections of delegates to the 2010 Diaspora Convention to formally establish WADU as the 6th Region of Africa.

The public is cordially invited to participate and to get information on steps taken so far to unify Africans in coordination with those in the Caribbean, Europe and Africa. President Dudley Thompson will give the keynote address and will be joined by other WADU and Pan African regional and local leaders such as Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Nana Farika Birhane, Minister Akbar Muhammad, Dr. Niara Sudarka and Mama Anna Swanston.

For information and direction to the forum on December 15, 2007 in Fort Lauderdale, please contact 954-625-2800.The African American Research Library is located at 2650 Sistrunk Blvd. 33311 or call.  Also contact WADU by visiting http://www.wadupam.org/ or call 404-527-7756/404-822-2049.

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