{"250131":{"#nid":"250131","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Last Frontier - Africa Atlanta 2014 Fall Activities are Underway!","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAfrica is the last frontier for enterprise,\u0022 said Haskell Ward, SVP for government relations at Black Rhino Group, during the first of eight fall pre-events for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAfrica Atlanta 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENearly 80 people attended the dialogue with Ward entitled,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EReflections on Africa: Then and Now. \u003C\/em\u003EInterviewed by his wife, Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears (retired, Georgia Supreme Court), Ward used anecdotes and insights from his fifty years of Africa-related work in policy, relations, and enterprise to convey past mistakes and future opportunity in Africa.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The rest of the world is quite happy that the U.S. is not engaged in Africa because they don\u2019t have to compete with us there,\u201d said Ward. He called for change in the U.S. model for interaction with Africa which \u0022is based upon a premise that we know better than they.\u0022 \u0026nbsp;\u0022Listen, rather than lecture,\u0022 said Ward. Another insight was that, despite the vastness and diversity of Africa, a commonality among its people is the \u0022huge premium placed on personal interaction. It\u0027s a fundamental behavior.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe array of fall activities have included the Atlanta premiere of a penetrating film biography of the award-winning author (The Color Purple) and activist, Alice Walker, and a conversation with Walker and the filmmaker; the theatrical production of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMother to Mother\u003C\/em\u003E, an intensely moving, one-woman play by author Sindiwe Magona; screenings of film clips by Chadian film maker Mahamat-Seleh Haroun (Bye By Africa, A Screaming Man) who was interviewed by IAC film scholar Angela Dalle Vacche; a dialogue with award-winning journalist and Civil Right icon Charlayne Hunter-Gault with tastings from her South African vineyard; and the Georgia Tech Africa Student Union\u2019s Taste of Africa.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EComing Up:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDecember 14, 2013\u2014March 9, 2014\u2014Romare Bearden: \u0026nbsp;A Black Odyssey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Arts \u0026amp; Culture).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Rich in symbolism and allegorical content, Bearden\u0027s Odyssey series creates an artistic bridge between classical mythology and African American culture. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrand Opening of Africa Atlanta 2014 and \u0022Mapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper,\u0022 February 13\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Arts \u0026amp; Culture)\u2014Robert C. Williams Paper\u0026nbsp;Museum, Georgia Tech. This exhibition\u0026nbsp;explores how the changing representation and projection of space has shaped our approach to Africa. The exhibition also asks what we learn when we place African artifacts in the cultural space from which they come, rather than simply relocating them in the aestheticized space of museums. The exhibition runs through May 16.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVisit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.africaatlanta.org\u0022\u003Ewww.africaatlanta.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to learn more about this citywide year-long series of events highlighting Atlanta as a nexus for reinventing the cultural and economic bonds among Africa, Europe, and the Americas.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAfrica is the last frontier for enterprise,\u0022 said Haskell Ward, SVP for government relations at Black Rhino Group, during the first of eigh fall pre-events for \u003Cstrong\u003EAfrica Atlanta 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E. Upcoming activities include an Atlanta film premiere, author\/film-maker dialogues, a theatrical production, a special fundraiser, a food festival, and the opening of a major art exhibition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2013-10-31 14:10:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:14","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"250141":{"id":"250141","type":"image","title":"The Last Frontier - Africa Atlanta 2014 Fall Activities are Underway!","body":null,"created":"1449243795","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:15","changed":"1475894929","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:49","alt":"The Last Frontier - Africa Atlanta 2014 Fall Activities are Underway!","file":{"fid":"198079","name":"1_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1_2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1_2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":26875,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/1_2_0.jpg?itok=2WoBBAey"}}},"media_ids":["250141"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"60031","name":"Africa Atlanta 2014"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}