CONFERENCE FREE AFRICA- FREE IVORY COAST: NO TO THE RECOLONIZATION OF IVORY COAST (CÔTE D’IVOIRE) AND AFRICA

DATE: JANUARY 28TH 2012 TIME : 2 :00 PM-TO -7:00PM
LOCATION : Melrose Hotel 2430 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,

Washington DC 20037. Metro station: Foggy Bottom (Blue and
Orange line to Virginia).

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

MINISTER AKBAR MUHAMMAD
SCHOLAR ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NATION OF ISLAM
WILL SPEAK IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF IVORY COAST
AGAINST THE RECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA.

SPEAKERS :

TOUSSAINT ALAIN,
COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST AND FORMER
ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT LAURENT GBAGBO.
PRESIDENT OF COTE D’IVOIRE COALITION.
WILL DISCUSS THE IVORIAN RESISTANCE

EUGENE PURYEAR,
MEMBER OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF, PSL
(PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION).
EDITOR OF LIBERATION NEWS. MEMBER OF
ANSWER COALITION.

DEBORAH KIPENE LUBULA,
WILL ADRESS THE CURRENT CRISIS IN THE
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO AND ITS
SIMILARITIES TO THE POST-ELECTORAL CRISIS IN
IVORY COAST. SHE TRAVELLED TO IVORY COAST IN
2011 AND PARTICIPATED IN WOMEN WEEK-LONG SITIN
PROTEST IN FRONT OF UN PEACEKING BARRACKS IN
ABIDJAN TO ASK FOR THEIR DEPARTURE FROM IVORY COAST
WHERE THEY HAD BEEN PERCEIVED AS PART OF A COLONIAL
OCCUPATION FORCE.
FOR INFORMATION CALL : 240 483 9007 /OR/202 553 2680

GUEST SPEAKER:

Dr. OUMAR MARIKO
POLITICIAN, PHYSICIAN, CANDIDATE FOR
PRESIDENT, MALI.
WILL SPEAK ON DEMOCRACY , ELECTIONS AND
SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA .

TOHOU BAH, EDUCATOR IN OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA,
AND ELDER OF THE WE COMMUNITY IN THE USA.
WILL SPEAK ON THE GENOCIDE OF THE GUERE PEOPLE OF
WESTERN IVORY COAST.
Come and listen to the speakers to be enlightened on
what is truly going on in Africa currently