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UVA Goes Live !

May 12, 2010 By in UVA News 14

Unveiling Africa Website Goes Live!

Many of you may have noticed that UVA has been missing in action for a while; this is because we have been working behind the scenes to develop this website and to develop strategic relationships for our bright future ahead. Now that we are back, we are here in full force and energy to Unveil Africa with and to you. Welcome!

2010 promises to be another fulfilling year for UVA, we are excited about a lot of things. Firstly, this website. This website will provide a platform for us to continuously deliver on our mission which is to: ”Educate to Empower and Empower to Educate” through the knowledge, information and inspiration that we will be sharing and engaging you with. We will be unveiling and celebrating our continent in more dynamic ways through food, fashion, photography, politics, arts etc. Most importantly, this year will be about forming and building bridges from the past to present to future, from efforts in the Diaspora to ground work on the continent. We are committed to strengthening the platform here for African youths in Canada to channel contribution to the continent while also creating meaningful projects on the ground. On this end, we are proud to be launching in Nigeria this year with our Nigerian Teenager’s Nation Building project, which attempts to “Educate and Engage the Nigerian Teenager”. Be sure to learn more about this project.

Deeply rooted in our passion for a better continent and the determination to deliver a different future for our unborn generation, we believe that the Unveiling Africa is on the right track and that the future is bright for our motherland. We are motivated by the big picture that is full of possibilities and the passion, action and achievements so many young Africans around the world towards the fight for a better continent. I know that we will be the generation to emancipate our continent from its regression. It is a difficult and gruesome task but a necessary one to complete. We must not back down! Our past leaders have brought us this far, we must outrun them; we need to make sure we build our countries and continent on a solid foundation so that the upcoming generation will have a better place to live in. There has never been a better time to make the most out of ourselves as Africans.

Let’s go! Impossible is not African.

Long live Africa and Peace to the people of the world.

Chizoba (Chi-Chi) Imoka.

Founder/Director of Operations.

Mama Africa

May 10, 2010 By in Africa, Arts/Culture 13

Mama Africa,

Like a son watching his mother struggle through the agony of death,
I stand helplessly with tears in my eyes watching your pain.
Raped naked of all your resources it is not right you are left with nothing but a sour name,
you would think the rivers worth of tears from the oppressed weak and poor,
that it would flood our hearts and minds with remembrance while replenishing your soul,
instead it doesn’t and this thought leaves me about as confused as a child representing a statue of skin and bones
searching for milk in breast that sag from malnourishment.

It is funny to mention that women in North America starvethemselves to represent the shape of an hour glass with more than enough to eat,
meanwhile, mothers in Africa watch hour glasses sadly onlooking their kids wondering when they will be able to eat.
In my minds eye, i see the pain and suffering across these man made borders
at mothers with the dwindling hope of ever receiving the cure for man made troubles that is leaving them without ease.
I stand firm on my beliefs that it should change, while they stand loosly on grounds soaked by flood waters carrying disease.

I love you mama, but my love is but a drop of rain in this land dried by years of hate like drought.
I am sorry my brothers sold themselves to the west and weren’t forcefully taken, i apologize for their greed.
Forgive me for thinking that I am anything different than my brothers and sisters that stayed behind that are in dire need
because, no matter where we are, regardless of what we force ourselves to belive, when one gets shot in Africa we all bleed.

They say, “proof is in the pudding” but they have no pudding to prove it.
I promise to be one of the many to take back supplies for them to live and to got o school with
because, your tribe my tribe, this talk can’t last, ties will be broken and wont be healed by cast.
Regardless of our deception and lies, mama Africa, you stayed humble and welcoming with green pastures and blue skies.

I know I have left for Canada, but Africa is where my soul has stayed, and when I return I will bring back educated
people of all colors and shades, to spread our love quicker than that of aids.
And no man shall stop me, or any of you reading this who are destined to lead this crusade.

Long Live Africa!