Dr Sanders's TEDXTalk VCU Video: Endangered Nigerian Cultural Symbol & Motif Called "Uli"

TEDxTalk VCU Presentation Title: Endangered Cultural Patterns, Symbols & Motifs – The Importance of Their Non-Verbal Communication -  In her first of two TEDX Talks - Ambassador Robin Sanders highlights the importance of protecting endangered sign, symbol and motif systems around the world, noting that what she calls these non-verbal "communication expressions," are just as important as to the global community as written languages. She also notes that endangered communication expressions, should be have a similar world effort to preserve and protect them along the lines of what is done for endangered species and wildlife. Her end points in this TEDxTalk is twofold: there is a need to create a world list/index of endangered sign, symbol, and motif systems in order to ensure more effort is made to preserve and protect them as we lose something as a global community when they disappear, so more awareness and advocacy is needed to ensure their legacies, and, cultural communication expression are in and of themselves information systems just like an written language would be. Her TEDXTalk VCU provided a window on this issue through her presentation on one of Nigeria's disappearing symbol and motif systems called "Uli," on which she also wrote a book called "The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria," as well as shining light on a number of other endangered systems around the world. Ambassador Sanders did extensive research on this issue and Uli, as both issues were the focus of her dissertation in Information System and Communications at Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh.  See below video of her  TEDXTalk at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her second TEDXTalk is on her new second book "The Rise of Africa Small and Medium Size Enterprises," and that video will be posted soon. Both FEEEDS® Series books are available on Amazon.com: The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria, Uli Video Link  ; and "The Rise of Africa's Small and Medium Size Enterprises." Also available for viewing on TEDXTalk VCU YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPWPG-gAazo or on Ambassador Sanders' YouTube FEEEDS Channel: https://youtu.be/h0k9waV3UII.







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Dr. Sanders Release New Book on Endangered Nigerian Sign and Symbol System Uli (oo-lee)

Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders Release New Book on Uli Sign & Symbol System as told by Eight Igbo Women Still Maintaining the Practice

 

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Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders Publishes New Book on Nigeria’s Endangered Cultural Practice – Uli (oo-li)

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Dr. Sanders focuses on African artifacts, sign and symbol systems as a vital form of “communication expressions” important to human cultural communication
 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Africa. The second largest and second most populous Continent in the world. Throughout history, many have been fascinated by the vast array of cultures and cultural practices of this great Continent. Hoping to share valuable insight, appreciation, and awareness of endangered African sign and symbols systems specifically Nigeria’s Uli practice, Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders publishes a new book, titled The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria.

 

Dr. Sanders, 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.” “I truly believe that in order to understand and appreciate someone or another nation, one has to begin to respect and learn about their culture or their system – as everything is a system, and a perspective on life and the world we live in together,” states Sanders. “Hence, human cultural communication (one of lectures that I give on FEEEDS® issues), I believe is how nations and people can better understand each other.”

 

The 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 agrees with others scholars who posit 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. Endangered cultural practices, like Uli, are just as important to protect as endangered languages as a symbiotic relationship exists between the two.

 

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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Dr. Sanders Book: Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria - Available Now in Soft Cover

Dr. Sanders' New Book - The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria -Available Now in Stores & Online!

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Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders New Book The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria

 

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