Dr. Sanders @ World Affairs Council DC, March 19, 2015 Focus: Uli Book, Nigeria Elections

Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders will be part of the World Affairs Council Washington, D.C. Author Series Event March 19, 2015 to be held at the University of California's Washington Center. The event will include conversation segments with the Ambassador about her book, career, and current US-Africa events such as Nigeria's upcoming elections on March 28, 2015.  In addition to the live event on March 19, 2015, her talk at the World Affairs Council, Washington, D.C. will be nationally broadcast on Sunday March 22 at 9 am on MHz Worldview


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Ambassador Sanders and Dr. Johnnetta Cole Discuss Sanders' Uli Book @ Smithsonian African Art Museum BHM Event

Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of African Art Director Dr. Johnnetta Cole and Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders @ February Black History launch of Sanders' book, "The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria."

The recent February 2015 Black History Month program at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (NMAA) which was the official Washington, D.C. launch of Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders first book, "The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria," included a "conversation segment," between the incredible, iconic NMAA Director Dr. Johnnetta Cole and Dr. Sanders on key elements of her Sanders book and also highlighted relevant aspects of the Museum's collection.  The launch, a sold out event, emphasized the main message of Ambassador Sanders' Uli book which stresses the importance of preserving traditional non-written, non-oral cultural practices through the life stories of nine Nigerian women in the December phase of their lives who struggle to keep their beloved Uli practice alive, which is endanger of disappearing.   The book was based on Dr. Sanders' doctoral dissertation which argued that non-text, no oral traditions are just as viable to the global community as written and oral traditions. Sanders calls Uli a "communications expression," and the Uli women "legendary" because they struggle to keep their traditions relevant in an uphill anti-Uli environment and still respect and cherish this matriarchal practice taught to them by their mothers, who in turn learned from their mothers. The launch event also included a video of clips from the villages and the Uli women talking about their beloved practice and showing Sanders how to prepare the practice from the Uli plant from which the Uli ink. The Uli practice, which dates back to the era of the Aro Kingdom, according to Sanders' research, was used in selected Igbo villages  located west of the Nigerian river called "Cross River," and was used on the body during special ceremonies and on the homes of the royal chiefs of Igbo villages in the region.  Click here to see the Sanders video on her Uli Book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JfJ8KwEF2jI

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Ambassador Sanders - Africa Speaking Event @ Washington DC's American University

Ambassador Robin Sanders will be speaking on key Africa and national security issues at American University in Washington, D.C., February 25, 2015.  The event is part of the School of International Studies program that focus on bringing in international affairs professionals to share their analyses and diplomatic experiences with the University's students. Her presentation will also be followed by a signing event of Sanders's book "The Legedary Uli Women of Nigeria."

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Ambassador Sanders with CNN's Isha Sesay on Boko Haram & Chibok Girls

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Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders discussing Boko Haram and missing Chibok girls in a November 12, 2014 interview on CNN International with Isha Sesay.

Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders, during her November 12-14 book tour in Atlanta, Georgia, to launch "The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria," she met with Isha Sesay prominent and internationally recognized for reporting excellence, CNN News Center Host Isha Sesay to discuss Boko Haram and the state of play in finding the still missing Chibok Girls. Both Sanders and Sesay emphasized  the distressing nature of the continuing tragedy. Sanders key points were the role of human intelligence was crucial in finding the girls, and for traditional standing armies like Nigeria's it was difficult to transition to responding well to asymmetrical ware.   

Two Atlanta Book Launches - Author & Diplomat: Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

 

SAVE THE DATE- November 12, 2014, 12:00-1:30 p.m., Atlanta Georgia

                                      Author & Diplomat: Ambassador (Dr.) Robin R. Sanders Discuss Her Book & Her Life in Africa

Dr. Sanders can also address current event issues happening on the African Continent

Host: Georgia Center for International Visitors (GCIV)

Location: Regency Suites, Magnolia Room, Atlanta, Georgia

Cost Includes Lunch: $10 GCIV members; $15 non-GCIV members

RSVP TO: FARAH at farah@gciv.org

 

 

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

 

SAVE THE DATE- November 14 2014, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Atlanta Georgia

          Author & Diplomat: Ambassador (Dr.) Robin R. Sanders Discuss Her Book & Her Life in Africa

Dr. Sanders can also address current event issues happening on the African Continent.

She also currently also serves as a Global Advisor to Operation HOPE Chairman & Founder John Bryant

Host: The HOPE Center - Operation HOPE

Location: HOPE Financial Dignity Center Atlanta @ The Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church
101 Jackson Street, NE - 2nd Floor
Atlanta, Georgia 30312
(404) 228-0155 Office

RSVP TO:  atlantacsa@operationhope.org

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

 

Out Now! Available @ www. Xlibris.com, best price; and on  @ Amazon and Barnes and Noble