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SAVE THE DATE- November
12, 2014, 12:00-1:30 p.m., Atlanta Georgia
Author & Diplomat: Ambassador (Dr.) Robin R. Sanders Discuss Her Book
& Her Life in Africa
Dr. Sanders can also
address current event issues happening on the African Continent
Host: Georgia Center
for International Visitors (GCIV)
Location: Regency
Suites, Magnolia Room, Atlanta, Georgia
Cost Includes Lunch: $10
GCIV members; $15 non-GCIV members
There is an upcoming event you don't want to miss; a
uniquely awesome Author Talk and Book Signing with Ambassador (Dr.) Robin
Renee Sanders, a U.S. Diplomat for 20 years. She will highlight key
cultural elements of her book which should be important to all of us as
global citizens, particularly seeing African signs and symbols like Uli
as information systems. She is also available to discuss current
events in Africa given her past and current experiences on the ground on
the Continent. See below information on her book. Her full bio is also
attached. Sanders will be available for special signings of
her hardcover full color coffee table book, which comes in a gift
set, following the discussion. She has recently been a subject
matter expert on Ebola on MSNBC, Al Jazeera, China TV, Armstrong Williams
Show, and TVOne News. Her full bio is attached above. Sanders will
be available for special signings of her hardcover full color coffee
table book, which comes in a gift tote, following the discussion. Photos
of Sanders and Book Cover follows below along with book
summary.
More on Ambassador
(Dr.) Sanders and why this book is important:
Ambassador (Dr.)
Sanders is CEO of the
FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative and owner of FE3DS, LLC, and having lived in Africa for several years,
was always struck by the ancestral, socio-historical and educational
aspects of certain African cultural practices, especially languages,
artifacts, and sign and symbol systems from the Ovahimba in Namibia and
Pygmies in Congo, to the Horom, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and Fulani of
Nigeria. Her experiences on the Continent made her appreciate each and
every culture and "its information systems," which in the end
she called "communication expressions."
This book follows
eight extraordinary Nigerian women in the December phase of their lives
as they try to preserve the meanings of their endangered sign, symbol,
and motif system called Uli. Uli is an acknowledgement of their Igbo
history, culture and ancestors. Sanders that non-text, non-oral forms of
communication expressions such as Nigeria's Uli, and other sign and
symbol systems throughout the world, particularly in Africa, are just as
important or "viable" as the written word and their meanings
should be respected and preserved.
The Legendary Uli
Women of Nigeria is
a uniquely groundbreaking work. It does not discuss, or view African
signs and symbols as art or designs for contemporary clothes or jewelry,
but stresses that they communicate. It also argues that world signs and
symbol systems like Uli should be included as an area of study within the
communication and information system academic field, which she recommends
be called "communication expressions" since these systems do
communicate the socio-historical aspects of a culture.
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