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President Kagame delivers keynote address at YPO summit in Denver(0)
On Friday Rwandan President Paul Kagame delivered the keynote address at the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) Global Leadership summit in Denver. Below is video and transcript of his speech, along with a question and answer session that followed. Transcript: Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to speak about our experience of leadership in Rwanda. [...]
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Denver’s Sudanese Community Celebrates US referendum results
For what was half religious service and half political rally, members of Denver’s Sudanese community gathered on Sunday to celebrate and give thanks for the US results of referendum voting. Of the 8791 Sudanese who registered to vote in the US, 8504 made it to one of eight polling centers to vote. 8412 voted for [...]
African women help new arrivals navigate American womanhood
By Isabella Muturi Sauve When Valerie Kalala immigrated to the US she had no idea how being a woman in her new country would differ from the notion of womanhood in her native Congo. She quickly learned that while in her homeland a confident woman might be perceived as condescending to men, in the US [...]
Sudanese leader in Denver returns to Sudan to work on referendum negotiations
It has been almost two years since we first interviewed Mangar Amerdid, the founder of the Leadership Institute of New Sudan (LIONS). And almost a year since we met the inaugural LIONS class. A lot has happened since then. In February Amerdid left Denver to return to Sudan to serve in a temporary position as [...]
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars ‘Rise and Shine’ at Boulder Theater
Live Show Review by Andrew Britton Photos by Daniel Sauve Just in case you hadn’t heard, Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars (SLRAS) were in Boulder in early August and did they come to show Colorado a good time once again. For those of you living under a rock for last decade, SLRAS is Sierra Leone’s [...]
Mayors break ground on City of Axum Park renovations
Axum Mayor Ato Hagos Gebrewahid and Denver Mayor Hickenlooper were on hand to break ground on more than $620,000 in improvements to Denver’s City of Axum Park, funded through the Better Denver Bond Program, Capital Improvement Funding and a Park Hill Thriving Communities Grant. The renovations include a new playground, picnic shelter, new basketball court, [...]
