Africa 101: The Wake-up Call is a book about the “hunters” and the “hunted.” The hunters are Africa’s exploiters, slavers, colonizers, and neo-colonizers, and the hunted are the African people who survived against severe odds. In this book former African Union Ambassador to the United States Her Excellency, Ambassador Arikana Chihombori-Quao, MD. tells the story of Africa in her usual in-your-face style. Although she served as a diplomat, she says that being diplomatic about the real issues facing Africa will do us no good. She warns in this book that the hunt is still ongoing and calls on Africans and people of African descent all over the world to rise up in defense of our beloved continent. Using personal stories, her father’s accounts from the village of Chivu in Zimbabwe, and solid historical references, Her Excellency, Ambassador Arikana Chihombori-Quao, MD. educates, motivates, and challenges the status quo with respect to western countries’ abuse of Africa. This book will challenge you to your core and move you to action.
About The Author
Her Excellency, Ambassador Arikana Chihombori-Quao, MD is a medical doctor and activist. She is an author, public speaker, educator, diplomat, founder of medical clinics, and an entrepreneur. She moved to the United States from Zimbabwe where she grew up. She is the CEO and founder of Bell Family Medical Centers in the United States. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in General Chemistry, a Master’s Degree in Organic Chemistry, and a Doctor of Medicine Degree. In addition, she was a family medicine specialist in Tennessee and practiced medicine for 29 years in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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The African Diaspora Development Institute
The African Diaspora Development Institute (The ADDI) is an entity that was born out of the realization that there is no one-stop-shop for everything African. Business Communities around the world, African Diaspora, or people interested in African tourism have to visit 55 African countries in order to find out information about Africa. There’s definitely a need for a one-stop organization where people can go to get information about Africa.
In addition, realizing that African economic status is what it is today because of the massive exodus of Africa’s manpower through the brain drain that has occurred over the past 400 years starting with slavery followed by the most recent immigrants who left Africa in search of greener pastures with the majority who came out to the United States or Europe or the Asian countries for Education.
Regardless of the reasons for migration, the end result is that Africa does not have the capacity that it needs to build the Africa that we want. More importantly, now that we are in the era of the African Continental Free-Trade Area, it is imperative that the children of Africa in the Diaspora return back home to Africa and join their brothers and sisters on the continent to build the Africa that we want.
In her role as Permanent Representative to the African Union Mission in Washington DC, Her Excellency, Arikana Chihombori Quao, MD worked tirelessly towards fulfilling her mandate which was to undertake, develop and maintain relationships between the African Union and the Executive and Legislative branches of the US Government, the African Diplomatic Corps, the Africans in the Diaspora and the Bretton Woods Institutions. This was specifically in relation to the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and advancing the priority areas of Agenda 2063. In fulfilling this Mandate, she brought renewed energy to the AU Mission as well as new ideas and programs that were implemented since her appointment in 2016 to her departure in 2019. Her efforts at mobilizing the Diaspora as people of African descent and not as citizens of any single African country is unprecedented and exemplifies her ability to unify people around a common goal, speaking with one voice as one Africa and one Continent.