From Concord Times (Freetown), posted 13 December 2007 at allAfrica.com
Engineers And Scientists to Visit Africanist Movement
By Ibrahim Seibure
Freetown
A team of African Engineers and Scientists from the United States of America will be arriving in Sierra Leone next week as guests of the Africanist Movement to carryout a field assessment for the implementation of a community agriculture project, health workers programme and water purification.
The visit is part of a joint development programme of the US-based All-African Peoples Development and Empowerment Projects (AAPDEP) and the Africanist Movement.
The team, led by Dr. Aisha Fields, comprises experts in agricultural development, community health and energy resource management.
The Africanist Movement says the delegation is from the African Peoples Socialist Party (APSP) in the United States, which is working for a liberated, United Africa.
"This is part of our efforts to solve the conditions of our people by embarking on meaningful programmes designed to change the immediate material conditions of our people," Africanist Movement Director, Chernoh Alpha M. Bah said.
"This is not the usual western charity type of programme," he said, adding, "it is part of our collective effort as African people to solve our own problems by ourselves." The All-African Peoples Development and Empowerment Projects is an organization that is established by the African Peoples Socialist Party (APSP) in America to organize African skills and resources around the world as part of the strategy for the liberation and unification of Africa.
The aim of AAPDEP's programme in Sierra Leone is to strengthen the capacity and improve on the influence of the Africanist Movement in its struggle for a worker's state in Sierra Leone.
"This will give our people the opportunity of embarking on a practical self-development initiative that is part of a wider programme for a free Africa," Bah said.
The visit will also coincide with the third Africanist leadership conference to be held in Freetown where participants will discuss the development of a national democratic revolutionary programme for the country.
