African Community Reception Committee
For President Sam Nujoma of the Republic of Namibia
456 Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11216
Phone (718) 398-1766
Fax (718) 623-1855
For Immediate Release
September 13, 2004
Namibian President Sam Nujoma Returns to Harlem!
By Amadi Ajamu
As Heads of State from around the world come to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, President of the Republic of Namibia, Sam Nujoma, will make a special trip uptown to speak to the Harlem community on Friday, September 24, 2004 at 6:00pm. A mass reception will
be held at St. James Presbyterian Church at 141 Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, NYC.
President Sam Nujoma has chosen not to run for another term of office and views this trip to the forthcoming UN General Assembly as the last time that he will visit the United States as Namibia's Head of State. Therefore, besides speaking at the UN, his visit is a special opportunity to once again meet with the African community whom he first visited in 1960 when he came to the UN as a petitioner to the august body concerning the violation of the human rights of the Namibian people by the racist apartheid regime in South Africa.
The African Community Reception Committee, led by Elombe Brath, founding member of the December 12th Movement and the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, will host this historic event. The reception will include a special photographic and poster display relating to President Nujoma from the time he first came to the United States in 1960, and
will also include various representatives from South West Africa Peoples Organization (SWAPO) who spoke at events in New York during the last 44 years, as well as the independence and inauguration ceremonies held in Namibia on March 21, 1990.
Elombe Brath stated, "President Nujoma instructed his ambassador to the UN, H.E. Martin Anjaba, to reach out to some of us who first welcomed him four decades ago and continued to support SWAPO until today, to arrange for a reception that would give him the opportunity to thank the community for all it has done to assist the broad masses of the South West African territory. Given to the racist Union of South Africa (USA) as a "protectorate" under a League of Nations (the UN's predecessor) at the end of World War I by the US and its western allies, the brutal white regime in South Africa forced the Namibian people under a vicious racist system that would later become infamous as apartheid (apart-ness). It would take a
bitter but heroic 22 year long armed struggle waged by SWAPO and the Peoples Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) to finally bring the country its liberation."
Brath continued, "To reflect upon all this, and show President Nujoma our appreciation for all that he has done over the last 45 years of his life, and he in turn to thank us for what little we did to help, we invite all those who have been engaged in the support for the genuine national liberation forces in southern Africa to become a part of the African Community Reception Committee to Welcome President Sam Nujoma of the Republic of Namibia."
For further information contact Kwame Brathwaite at (212) 410-7892 or Sistas' Place at (718) 398-1766.
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