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A LITTLE HISTORY ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PEACE & PROSPERITY IN THE
WORLD DURING WORLD WAR II:
African American & AFrican History Month Special Feature, 2012 - Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project
Black History Month Special Feature, 2012
Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project
Atomic Bomb ExplosionThe Manhattan Project, 1941-1946, was one of the largest scientific undertakings in the history of the United States, ranking with the ten year effort to place an American astronaut on the moon between 1961 and 1969. It began with a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt in August 1939, from a number of prominent physicists including Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard, which warned of Nazi Germany's efforts to produce "extremely powerful bombs of a new type," and urged the United States government to engage in research that would produce the weapon first. The Roosevelt Administration heeded the warning and on October 9, 1941, President Roosevelt approved a crash research program to build an atomic bomb. Four years later this program produced the world's first atomic bombs. They were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August 1945, instantly killing over 110,000 people and forcing the Japanese government to surrender. This display of deadly power, heretofore unmatched in the history of humankind, ushered in the nuclear age.
Approximately 130,000 Americans worked on the project with the vast majority serving as construction workers and plant operators at newly created communities such as Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington. Drawing on natural resources from around the world including critically important uranium from the Belgian Congo, scientists and technicians, plant operators, military personnel, and construction workers labored around the clock in secrecy to complete the project and build this weapon of mass destruction before Nazi Germany completed its own atomic bomb. Much of the initial research on the U.S. bomb was done in existing laboratory facilities at major universities including Columbia, Princeton, and the largest of the atomic research centers, the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.
On August 13, 1942, the mission to produce the atomic bomb was officially named the Manhattan Engineer District in order to avoid calling attention to the scientific nature of the work. The working title eventually became the Manhattan Project. Several hundred scientists and technicians worked at various times and at numerous secret facilities across the United States and Canada that were engaged in the research that would produce the first atomic weapons. Scientists such as Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Edward Teller became legendary figures not only in the scientific community but among the general population when their crucial work on this project became generally known. Only through the efforts of African American newspapers such as the Chicago Defender and the Pittsburgh Courier, and after 1945 Ebony Magazine, however, were people made aware of the handful of black scientists and technicians (all men) who worked on the project as well.
The fact that any African American scientists and technicians were available to be involved in the Manhattan Project is remarkable given the enormous limitations placed on the education of blacks in the South before World War II. As late as 1933 only 54% of Southern white students were attending high school and only 18% of Southern blacks were there at a time when the overwhelming majority of African Americans lived in the states of the former Confederacy. Also given the huge differential in the laboratory equipment and prepared teaching staff, even those in segregated black high schools got scant exposure to any type of science training. Students at historically black colleges at the time usually faced similar challenges.
Northern black students had greater opportunities for scientific training. Thanks to the Great Migration that began in World War I and brought tens of thousands of blacks out of the South to Northern cities, a number of Southern born individuals, such as Moddie Daniel Taylor of Alabama and Jasper Brown Jeffries of North Carolina, were educated in Northern universities including the all important University of Chicago. Northern-born African Americans such as Harold Delaney and Lloyd Quarterman, both of Philadelphia, although attending racially segregated schools in their hometown, nonetheless had far more exposure to science training than their Southern-born counterparts.
Not all of the scientists and technicians, however, overcame huge educational disadvantages to earn the right to work on the Manhattan Project. Three black men, all of whom were classified as project scientists since they all had received Ph.D.'s before they were hired, had exceptionally stellar educations by any standard. Chemist William Knox and his brother, biologist Lawrence Knox, were from a New Bedford, Massachusetts family that valued education. Of the five siblings in that family, three men, William, Lawrence, and younger brother Clinton, who became an historian, all received Ph.D.'s before World War II. William earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while Lawrence completed his doctorate at Harvard University. Mathematics prodigy, J. Ernest Wilkins, born into a prominent black Chicago family, entered the University of Chicago in 1936 at the age of thirteen and received his Ph.D. in 1942 at the age of 19.
Although the black press described all of the African Americans working with the Manhattan Project as "white-coated scientists," many were in fact technicians who nonetheless performed invaluable service in the development of the world's first atomic weapons. Lloyd Quarterman, whose official title was junior chemist, worked with Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and Albert Einstein at Columbia University. Robert Johnson Omohundro was a mass spectroscopist which meant he identified and examined particles to calculate their mass. After World War II four technicians, Harold Delaney, Ralph Gardner-Chavis, Jasper Brown Jeffries, and George Warren Reed, Jr., all completed their doctorates. The training and contacts they gained while working on the Manhattan Project no doubt proved exceedingly valuable as they completed their advanced degrees.
When World War II ended the scientists and technicians moved on with their lives and work. Some became faculty at black colleges and universities in the South. Others pursued positions in private industry or returned to government employment. Edwin Roberts Russell did all three. He chaired the Division of Sciences at Allen University in South Carolina in the late 1940s and early 1950s, then worked for E.I. DuPont's Savannah River Nuclear Laboratory which was a combined government-private industry project. Samuel Proctor Massie, one of the Manhattan Project scientists, served as President of North Carolina Central College (now North Carolina Central University) between 1962 and 1966 until his appointment that year by President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the first African American faculty member at the U.S Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
Despite these individual success stories, the work of the black scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project has been largely forgotten by most of those who lived during that era, and unknown to younger generations who are often encouraged to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math without knowing of those pioneers of color in that field nearly eight decades earlier. We at BlackPast.org have assembled the names of the individuals who worked on the Manhattan Project. Their remarkable profiles are linked below.
Scientists:
Lawrence A. Knox
William Jacob Knox
Samuel Proctor Massie
Moddie Daniel Taylor
J. Ernest Wilkins
Technicians:
Sherman Carter
Harold Delaney
Harold Evans
Ralph Garner-Chavis
Jasper Brown Jeffries
Lloyd Albert Quarterman
Robert Johnson Omohundro
George Warren Reed
Edwin Roberts Russell
Benjamin Franklin Scott
- See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/black-history-month-special-feature-2012-scientists-and-technicians-manhattan-project#sthash.v0rVCCgK.dpuf
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— The Infinite
— Interesting Numbers
— Polygon Construction
— Prime Numbers
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Subject : THEME FOR THE CONFERENCE :'10 Years Since the AGOA 2003 Private Sector Summit AGOA Successes and Challenges in Target'
The AGOA EU ACP-CADIA Institutes & Academies Invites Speakers at the 3rd AGOA Forum to give their assessments on AGOA and OBAMA I Adminstration's Contribution to the development of the AGOA and to Africa's development in general.
Subject : THEME FOR THE CONFERENCE :'10 Years Since the AGOA 2003 Private Sector Summit AGOA Successes and Challenges in Target'
The AGOA EU ACP-CADIA Institutes & Academies Invites Speakers at the 3rd AGOA Forum to give their assessments on AGOA and OBAMA I Adminstration's Contribution to the development of the AGOA and to Africa's development in general.
DAY 1
7:30 am Registration & Coffee Hour
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria Hotel, Grand Foyer
8:30 am Opening Welcoming Remarks
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria Hotel, Salon III & IV
Proposed Speakers:
Dr. Kim: President Of the World Bank to give Keynote Address:
World Bank's Development Plans Under Obama I and in the 3rd Millennium'-UNCTAD
United Nations Programs: UNDP-UNIDO-UNESCO-International Trdae Centre
Pre recorded or live address to the participants from His Excellency Presdient Barack Obama-(To be Arranged)
Stephen Hayes, President, Corporate Council on Africa
Paul Ryberg, AGOA Steering Committee
Review of the Obama I Administration's Development Programs for Africa:
Topics To be covered in President Obama's Speech)
Millennium Chanllege Account
OPIC-Overseas Private Investment Corporation-EDN Programs
United States Export-Import Bank
African Development Foundation
Agricultural Inistiatives
Green -Climate Change Initiatives
SBA-International Trade Department
United States Department Of Commerce
United States Department Of Agriculture
MBDA
9:00 am Plenary Session I AGOA in the Context of the WTO
& U.S. Free Trade Area Negotiations
Venue: Hotel, Salon III & IV
Moderator:
Lorenzo Bellamy, AGOA Steering Committee
Speakers:
Members Of The Congressional Black Caucus
Honorable Jim McDermott, Member, United States House of Representatives
Honorable Alan Kyerematen, Minister of Trade, Industry and Special Presidential Initiatives, Republic of Ghana
Secretary-General, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Stephen Lande, President, Manchester Trade
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Plenary Session II 10 Years Since the AGOA 203 Private sector Summit AGOA Successes and Challenges in Target
Sectors: Apparel/Textiles; Handicrafts; Agribusiness & Small Business
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon III & IV
Moderator:
Green Africa AGOA Steering Committee
Speakers:
Honorable Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Honorable Manuel A. Rosales, Assistant Administrator for International Trade, U.S. Small Business Administration
Paul Hooker, President, Sferra Bros
Luke Mbewe, President, Zambia Export Growers’ Association
Phillip Sporidis, Sunquest
Mr. Suwareh & Mr. Darboe-NARI-National Agricultural Research Institute-JV with CADIA Institutes & Academies, AGOA EU ACP Association and the No
No Harm Foundation will provide insights into the Green Africa Project's Artemisia, Cashew, Mangoes, Moringa, Honey and Noni Development Projects
12:30 pm Luncheon Reflections on US-African Trade and
Economic Cooperation
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon I & II
Speakers:
Honorable Robert Zoellick, United States Trade Representative
Honorable Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, M.P., Minister of Trade and Industry, Republic of Kenya
2:00 pm Workshop Marketing and Business Opportunities: Non-
Traditional African Agricultural Exports
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon III
Moderator:
K. Alonzo Dority, AGOA Steering Committee/Senior Associate, Schaffer Global Group
Speakers:
Singobile Ntshangase, Thabani Wines (South Africa)
Amer Choudhry, President, American Eagle Food Products, Inc.
Jake Walter, Country Director, TechnoServe Mozambique
Kasasira Mwine, President, Commerce Africa
Roger Rakotomatala, Lemur International Inc.
Workshop Impact of U.S. Security Requirements on AGOA Trade
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria Hotel, Salon IV
Moderator:
Evelyn Suarez, AGOA Steering Committee/Partner, -International Section, Williams Mullen
Speakers:
Bonni Tischler, Product Vice President of Global Transportation and Supply Chain Security, Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations
Nancy Williams, Cotecna
Marc Juhel, Transport and Logistics Adviser, Transport Division, The World Bank
Workshop African Handicrafts and AGOA: An Overview (There is a woman by the name of Dr. Jonetta Cole who we should ask to host this section as they did in 2003)
Venue: Smithsonian Institution S. Dillon Ripley Center Lecture Hall, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, D.C.
(transport provided – see shuttle bus schedule)
Moderator:
Deborah Orsini, Management Systems International, and Member,
Corporate Council on Africa Board of Directors
Welcoming Remarks:
Dr. Sharon Patton, Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Constance Berry Newman, Assistant Administrator for Africa,
United States Agency for International Development
H.E. Narisoa Rajaonarivony, Ambassador of Madagascar to the United States
Opportunities & Challenges:
Speakers:
Clare Brett Smith, President, Aid to Artisans
Mirana Abraham, President, Mirado Silk, Madagascar
Mark Irwing, President, Spice Island Trading, Madagascar
AGOA as a Tool to Promote African Handicrafts:
Moderator:
Molly Williamson, Deputy Assistant Secretary --
Africa, Middle East and South Asia, U.S. Department of Commerce Speakers:
Anna Flaaten, Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA), U.S. Department of Commerce
Brian Fennessy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Philip Mensah, AGOA Desk, Investigations Department, Ghana Customs Service
3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Workshops Marketing and Business Opportunities:
Traditional African Agricultural Exports
Venue: Hotel, Salon III
Moderator:
Van Yeutter, International Business Development Director, Cargill Inc.
Speakers:
David A. Stuart, Director, External Technical Relations, Hershey Food Corporation
William Guyton, President, World Cocoa Foundation
John Lunde, Masterfoods
Karen Coachman, President, Volta Holdings USA
Josephine Okot, Chair, Uganda Seed Trade Association and Managing Director, Victoria Seeds Ltd.
Workshop AGOA & Third Country Fabric Provision: Where Next?
Venue: Hotel, Salon IV
Moderator:
Paul Ryberg, AGOA Steering Committee/President, African Coalition for Trade
Speakers:
Honorable Florizelle Liser, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa,
Office of the United States Trade Representative
Angela Ellard, Staff Director & Trade Counselor, United States House of Representatives
Yves Robert Lamusse, Managing Director, Palmar International
Chris Matonga, Swarp Spinning Mills, Zambia
Julie Hughes, Vice President for International Trade and Government Relations,
United States Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel
Workshop Handicrafts Design, Development and Financing
Venue: Smithsonian Institution S. Dillon Ripley Center Lecture Hall, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, D.C.
(transport provided – see shuttle bus schedule)
Moderator and Keynoter:
Patti Y. Carpenter, President and Creative Director, Continuum Home, Inc.
Speakers:
Marisa Fick-Jordaan, The Bat Shop, South Africa
Bridget Kyerematen, Ghana Aid to Artisans Center
Elaine Bellezza, Mia Mali
Wendy Teleki and Ismail Samji, International Finance Corporation Microenterprise Unit
Eugenie Drakes, Piece Ltd., South Africa
7:00 pm Gala Reception/
Reception Showcase
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria Hotel, Grand Ballroom
Day 2
8:00 am Continued Registration & Coffee Hour
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Grand Foyer
9:00 am Workshop Biotechnology and African Agriculture
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon III
Moderator:
Dr. Val Giddings, Vice President, Food and Agriculture, Biotechnology Organization
Speakers:
Professor Diran Makinde, Africabio
Dr. Mwananyanda Mbikusita-Lewanika, Executive Director,
National Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, Zambia
Dr. Rob Horsch, Vice-President, Product and Technology Cooperation, Monsanto Company
Jane Earley, American Soybean Association
Cyril Broderick, President, International Society of African Scientists
Workshop AGOA and the End of the Multi-Fibre Agreement
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon IV
Moderator:
Paul Ryberg, AGOA Steering Committee/President, African Coalition for Trade
Speakers:
Cass M. Johnson, President, American Textile Manufacturers Institute
Erik Autor, National Retail Federation
David Spooner, Special Textiles Negotiator-General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Eugenia Chang, CEO, CGM Industrial Ltd
Workshop Marketing High Quality African Handicrafts in the U.S.
Venue: Smithsonian Institution S. Dillon Ripley Center Lecture Hall, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, D.C.
(transport provided – see shuttle bus schedule)
Moderator and Keynoter:
Colleen Pendleton, Director of Marketing, Aid to Artisans
Speakers:
Paul Hooker, President, Sferra Bros
Jasperdean Kobes, President, Bamboula Ltd
Lisa Mazzio, Director of Merchandising, Smithsonian Business Ventures Stores (cont’d)
Amber Chand, Senior Buyer, Eziba
Peter Wilson, African Crafts Buyer, TJ Maxx
Carol Ross, George Little Management
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Workshop AGOA Opportunities in Agribusiness: Exploring
Mutual Benefit
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon III
Moderator:
Julie Howard, AGOA Steering Committee/Executive Director, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
Speakers:
Michel Alen, Nationwide Equipment
Cheryl Dobbins, President, BTI TransAg Industries
Souleymane Diaby, Seafood Division, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
T. Marcos Mulugeta, Deputy Commissioner for International Trade, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Jim Hershey, World Initiative for Soy in Human Health, American Soybean Association
Workshop Vertically Integrated Regional Project
Development, A Key Approach In Expanding Export Opportunities for SMEs under AGOA EU ACP International Trade Initiatives
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon IV
Speakers:
Professor Darryl R.O. Prevost-AGOA EU ACP Association/CEO-Chairman, PANTEXPRO-AGOA Enterprises
J.V. Patel-Chairman-African Textile Mill-(Uganda) PANTEXPRO AGOA Enterprises-J.V. Partner
10 Representatives of (Uganda) PANTEXPRO J.V. Partners-Agro Industry-National Chairman-AGOA EU ACP Association
James Njoroge Executive Officer, CISO East African/ JUA Kali Associations
James Bwatuti-Executive Officer, CISO East African JUA KALI Associations
Jill Muriel
Wycliffe Bedi,Visual Artist, Trainer, Partner, PANTEXPRO AGOA ENT-ATM,
Geraldo Ngaruiya, Kivuli Centre, Arts &Crafts Centre Industries for Refugees
Geoffrey Ochanda Nyatwongi, Director, Real African Images/Chairman, Bidji Handicrafts Association
Mr. Syilla-ECOWAS -JUA KALI SME Member AGOA EU ACP Association) (Gambia)
Jeanine Nepa Nepaa, AGOA EU ACP Association Member
Japher Madanda,Co-owner Sir Yeke Tailors and Training Academy
Workshop Enhancing Production and Export Opportunities in Textile and Apparel Business in Kenya
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon F
Speakers:
K. Bedi, Bedi Fabrics
Honorable Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Minister for Trade and Industry, Republic of Kenya
Margaret Rotich, Director of Industries, Republic of Kenya
Yusuf Nzibo, Ambassador, Republic of Kenya
Workshop Next Steps - Promoting African Creativity in Handicrafts
Venue: Smithsonian Institution S. Dillon Ripley Center Lecture Hall,
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, D.C.
(transport provided – see shuttle bus schedule)
Moderator:
Timothy S. McCoy, Director, Policy and Programs, Corporate Council on Africa
Speakers:
Caroline Ramsey, President, The Crafts Center
Margaret Bishop, USAID West Africa Trade Hub
Paul Sszoi, President, Kubira Enterprises (Uganda)
Leslie Mittelberg, President, Swahili Imports
Natalie Fitz-Gerald, Casa Nova
Nnamdi Ezera, U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program
12:30 pm Luncheons AGOA as a Milestone In U.S. –African
Economic Relations
Venues: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salons I & II (for agribusiness and apparel/textiles participants), and Smithsonian Museum Castle (for handicrafts participants)
Speakers at Marriott:
Stephen Hayes, President, Corporate Council on Africa (official release of AGOA: A Comprehensive Business Guide to Trading Under AGOA, published by the Corporate Council on Africa)
Honorable Donald Evans, Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
Honorable Jaya Cuttaree, Minister of Trade & Industry, Republic of Mauritius
Speakers at Smithsonian Castle:
Dr. Sharon Patton, Director, National Museum of African Art
Constance Berry Newman, Assistant Administrator for Africa, USAID
2:00 pm Workshop Policy Constraints & Enabling Conditions in
Agribusiness
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon III
Moderator:
Dr. Judith Chambers, AGOA Steering Committee/President, Emerging Market Solutions
Speakers:
Mary Lisa Madell, Director for Trade Policy Africa/Australia, Trade Support, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Erastus J.O. Mwencha, Secretary-General, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Richard Wilder, Esq., Partner -- Sidley, Austin, Brown and Wood
Guy M’bengue, President, Apex-Côte d’Ivoire
John Richter, Regional Director Africa, Asia, & Middle East, Export-Import Bank of the United States
The Prospects and Challenges Confronting the Growth of the Africa Textile Industry
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon IV
Moderator:
Anthony Carroll, Managing Director, Manchester Trade/CTD America
Speakers:
Patrick Lecoy, Government and Public Affairs Leader, Dow AgroSciences
Dr. Horst Prader, Executive Chairman, BMD Textiles (Pty) Ltd.
Apinder Sodhi, Former Managing Director, Afprint-Nigeria
Patrick Hodges, Africa Marketing Director, Cha Textile
Workshop Handicrafts Question & Answer Session
Venue: Smithsonian Institution Ripley Center, Room 3037
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, D.C.
(transport provided – see shuttle bus schedule)
4:30 pm Plenary Session III Synthesis of Private Sector Session Proceedings
for Presentation to AGOA Ministerial Forum
Venue: Hilton Hotel Alexandria, Salon III and IV
Moderator:
Witney Schneidman, AGOA Steering Committee and President, Schneidman and Associates International
Presenters:
Handicrafts – Deborah Orsini,
2003 AGOA Steering Committee/Management Systems International, and Member, Corporate Council on Africa Board of Directors (cont’d)
Agribusiness – Judith Chambers, 2003 AGOA Steering Committee and President, Emerging Market Solutions
Apparel/Textiles – Anthony Carroll, 2003 AGOA Steering Committee, and Managing Director, Manchester Trade/CTD America
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm African Handicrafts Reception and Pre-Holiday Handicrafts Sale
Venue: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
950 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C.
(transport provided – see shuttle bus schedule)
SECTORAL OVERVIEWS:
Telecoms
Transporation
AgroBusiness
Arts & Crafts-Fashion & Apparels
Education & Publishing Opportunities -Exhibitions
Computer Information Technologies Forums and Mobile Computer seminars and APPS I.T. Telecoms Exhibitions-Invited Co-Sponsors GMIC -Great Wall America-Silicon Valley
Mining & Minerals-Precious Stones and Metals-Invited Participants:
PROSPECTIVE SPONSORS FROM 2003 AGOA FORUM;
The Government of Botswana-New Site In Botswana Project
Martin Rapaports-Fair Trade Diamonds
Environmental Design-Green Villages and Architectural Design Exhibitions
Green Africa Project Special Focus:
Government of Senegal
Plow Shares Foundation-Washington, D.C.
Ecovillages - GENSEN
www.gensenegal.org/ecovillages.htm
They can be newly constructed or as is frequent in Senegal ancient traditional villages. They are communities that strive to protect, restore, create and maintain a ...
Creating “Ecovillages” in Rural Senegal– an Innovative Effort to ...
www.thegef.org/gef/node/4667
6 Jul 2011 – “With the Ecovillages concept we will be testing what we believe to be an innovative effort here in Senegal to help the rural poor develop and ...
EcoEarth Alliance Senegal Project
www.ecovillage.org/ecoearth/senegal.html
In January 1996 a small group of Senegalese and international volunteers at the Third EcoCities and EcoVillages Conference, held in Yoff, Dakar, planted the ...
Senegal Ecovillage Microfinance Fund
Green Africa AGOA Forum Private Sector Session Ends
The Green Africa Project's AGOA Steering Committee
Gratefully Acknowledge the Generosity Demonstrated by the Sponsors of the
Green Africa Project's AGOA Forum Private Sector Session:
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