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5月29日

AfricaNews - African Millennium celebration kicks off

AfricaNews - African Millennium celebration kicks off - RSS english

Posted on www.africanews.com Sunday 25 May 2008 - Ethiopian News Agency. Photo: Michael Poliza

The celebration of the African Millennium here would further scale up the relation among African countries to a higher level, senior officials and diplomats of various African countries said.

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The African Millennium celebration has been launched in Ethiopia on Saturday.

Representative of the Sudanese Ministry of Culture, Nesredin Shul Game and Head of the Egyptian Information and Press Council told ENA that the celebration of the Ethiopian Millennium as an African Millennium is the pride of all African countries.

They said Ethiopia contributed a lot for the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and African Union (AU).

The African Millennium celebration is unique in that it is celebrated on the same day with the celebration of the 45th founding anniversary of OAU.They noted that Africans should further continue supporting each other in the new millennium.

Director General of the Ethiopian Millennium Festival National Secretariat, Seyoum Bereded said the celebration is special in that it is held in Addis, the hub of Africans.He said as Ethiopia is the symbol of sovereignty for African nations, all Africans have colorfully celebrated the Ethiopian new Millennium.

Renowned artists from Egypt, Sudan and Somalia have staged music concerts as part of the celebration, which was attended by Ambassadors of various countries and Ethiopian senior government officials including Minister of Information, Berhan Hailu. The celebration continued on Sunday.

This article was innitially published at www.ena.gov.et

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5月8日

Spend the Evening with an Ethiopian Author in Seattle this Friday May 9

Heads up if you’re looking for something to do tomorrow night – Seattle library will be hosting an evening with Dinaw Mengestu, author of “The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears”…

Seattle Reads "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears": Main Event: An evening with Dinaw Mengestu at the Central Library

Friday, May 9, 2008, 7 – 8:30pm

Event type	Author Readings/Lectures
Where	*Central Library
Level, Room	Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium
Audience	Adults
Language	English
Summary	Join us for the main event of the 2008 Seattle Reads series: an evening with Dinaw Mengestu. Mengestu will speak on "Exile, Imagination, and the American Dream."
Full Description	The Washington Center for the Book at The Seattle Public Library invites everyone to take part in Seattle Reads “The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears,” a project designed to foster reading and discussion of works by authors of diverse cultures and ethnicities. Set in a poor neighborhood in Washington, D.C., Dinaw Mengestu’s award-winning novel tells a story of the African immigrant experience through three main characters: narrator Sepha Stephanos, an Ethiopian immigrant, who runs a small corner grocery store, and his friends, Joseph, from the Congo, and Kenneth, from Kenya. All share nostalgia for their home countries; none has come close to achieving the American dream. When Judith and Naomi, a white academic and her biracial daughter, move into the neighborhood and befriend Sepha, tensions build and it becomes clear they are not welcome in the gentrifying neighborhood. This program is presented in cooperation with The Elliott Bay Book Co. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
View in Catalog	"The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" by Dinaw Mengestu
Event Notes	Library events and programs are free and open to the public. Tickets and reservations are not required. Limited parking in the Central Library garage will be available for a $5 special event rate. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. NOTE: The Library will close at its regular time of 6 p.m. and will reopen at the Fourth Avenue entrance at 6:30 p.m. for this event.
Contact Info	*Central Library 206-386-4636 or Ask a Librarian

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