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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Smithsonian African Art Museum Hosts Dr. Sanders & Her New Book on Uli, Feb 10, 2015

The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (NMAA) Hosts Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders to discuss the role traditional Uli practitioners have preserved the cultural practice of Uli. During the February 10, 2015 Washington, D.C. Black History Month event on Sanders' book "The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria," NMAA Director Dr. Johnnetta Cole and Ambassador Sanders will hold a conversation segment to highlight the role of women of color in preserving traditional cultural practices. See announcement below:
 

 

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Smithsonian African Art Museum Hosts Dr. Sanders' Washington D.C. Book Launch

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Dear Friends and Colleagues - I have the honor to send this invitation to you regarding the official Washington, D.C. launch of my first book which will be hosted by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (NMAA) on February 10, 2015, 6:30pm - 8:30pm. The book launch is also being featured as a Black History Month activity and there will be a "conversation segment," with Dr. Johnnetta on the role of women of color in preserving cultural practices. I hope you can attend and also share the announcement within your organizations - Sincerely, Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders.
You can rsvp below by clicking on the embedded link in the announcement.

Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Ambassador Robin Sanders discuss The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria February 10, 2015 6:30–8 :30 p.m. Join us to celebrate Black History Month and the official launch of The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria. Following the lives of eight Igbo women from southeastern Nigeria, Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders (Amb. Sanders Bio) pays homage to the endangered African sign and symbol system of uli (oo-lee) and the women who are keeping it alive. Sanders, the former U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of the Congo, examines the intricacies of uli as an important African information system. A short video and conversation with Ambassador Sanders follows museum director Johnnetta Betsch Cole’s opening remarks. Presented in conjunction with Black History Month Kindly RSVP using this Eventbrite invitation link. si.africanart @NMAfA africa.si.edu Our mailing address is: 950 Independence Ave, SW PO Box 37012, MRC 708 Washington, DC 20013 unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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

Save The Date: Ambassador Sanders Book Launch on Nigeria's Uli Women

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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 

 

There is an upcoming event you don't want to miss; a uniquely awesome Author Talk and Book Signing with Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders, a U.S. Diplomat for 20 years. She will highlight key cultural elements of her book which should be important to all of us as global citizens, particularly seeing African signs and symbols like Uli as information systems. She is also available to discuss current events in Africa given her past and current experiences on the ground on the Continent. See below information on her book. Her full bio is also attached. Sanders will be available for special signings of her hardcover full color coffee table book, which comes in a gift set, following the discussion. She has recently been a subject matter expert on Ebola on MSNBC, Al Jazeera, China TV, Armstrong Williams Show, and TVOne News. Her full bio is attached above. Sanders will be available for special signings of her hardcover full color coffee table book, which comes in a gift tote, following the discussion. Photos of Sanders and Book Cover follows below along with book summary.             More on Ambassador (Dr.) Sanders and  why this book is important: Ambassador (Dr.) Sanders is CEO of the FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative and owner of FE3DS, LLC, and 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."   This 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 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.    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.