I would like to bring your attention to something I feel is very imparative as well as very timely. The Ghana FM/ Internet broadcast station represents more then a mere viable post to claim a global identity in which the unique voices of Ghana can be broadcast.
For too long continental African voices have been muted and/or filtered through foriegn dialogues. Realities of life throughout the continent need a truthful and unifying voice that not only educates African peoples of the Diaspora but also illuminates those continental Africans that have been disconnected from their neighbour.
Building Our Own Global Communications Infrastruction - GTUC Internet Broadcast
Building Our Own Global Communications Infrastructure - GTUC FM Internet BroadcastPosted by Keidi Awadu on August 1, 2009 at 1:46pm in Black Nationalism and Pan Africanism
This October and November, www.AfricaForTheAfricans.org will once again direct a group of us to journey home to Ghana, Benin and Togo for our annual sojourn. One of the primary goals of this particular tour group is development, business partnership, establishing continental banking accounts and infrastructure investment. We hold business conferences, make donations to schools, support an orphanage, visit banks and make small and large investment in indigenous business.
One of the primary focuses on this upcoming October 2009 / 6250 trip is to install a LIB affiliated broadcast station at the Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC), located in the capital Accra. This will be about the 12th station that we have contributed toward and the first on the African continent, in addition to other stations in London, Washington, Southern California, Baltimore, Florida, and more.
The station will include a 100 watt FM radio transmitter capable of reaching as much as half of the population of the nation's capital. As well, it will include Internet radio and television capability. The station will be a training ground for the next generation of Ghanaian broadcast professionals and technicians, as well as an important communications portal through which communications between the students and the people of Ghana will be more accessible to the world.
The studio installation will be a partnership between the Ghanaian government, who has donated the facility for the new school, private industry with the large services provider Ghana Telecom, the students of the school and we the African Diaspora.
Black Star Media, the parent of Living In Black, will be partnering with a non-profit organization to raise a sum of $10,000 to install this station. The money will purchase extensive broadcast equipment and studio equipment as well as travel fees, a percentage for the non-profit as well as commission to remain in Ghana for an extra 5 days to train the staff of the new station. This will NOT be a profit making venture. This WILL be an infrastructure venture.
This station will be available not only for the students and administration of GTUC to interface with the world, but will link this campus up with other college campuses around the world, will further facilitate remote learning capabilities, will serve as a point of contact on the continent for immediate news access, and will serve as a point of interface for scholars, activists and organizers from the Diaspora who need to speak to the people of Accra and the greater population of ECOWAS states.
We are going to raise this sum of money from August 1st until September 30 and you are being asked to make a donation toward this noble endeavor. For your donation you will receive a DVD about this project, recognizance as one of the contributors, a tax deduction from the non-profit, access to the station when you are traveling to Accra and the satisfaction of knowing that you are a FUNCTIONAL Pan African, not merely a rhetorical revolutionary.
This is an exciting development in the evolution of our global LIB family. We have many great developmental plans in mind over the course of this next decade and the establishment of global communications portals stands at the heart of infrastructure development toward the empowerment of 1 billion Africans on this planet.
Within a few days we will have a link here where you can make your donation. We have already had pledges for almost 1/5 of the necessary $10,000. I am absolutely confident that we members of this LIB family are up to the challenge. This is just the beginning of our true functionality as the champions of our people.
We have now set up a special account for donations to the FM / Internet broadcast station for the Ghana Telecom University College in Accra that we intend on installing in November. You will be able to receive a tax deduction receipt for your contribution. You will also receive a DVD which documents our visit and conversation with the administration and students. Use the link on the front page of Living In Black specifically set up for the donation of the radio and TV station to Ghana. Tags: college, communication, development, diaspora, economics, fm, ghana, investment, journalism, news
A quick pledge of $100 towards this effort! question; is it GTUH or GTUC?
challenge; this is real people! who else is gonna throw in to make this happen? there's 6000 of us on here, we can get this done and more if everyone chips in 2 dollars. if 3000 of us contribute 3.50 cents or if 1000 of us contribute 10 dollars.
hotep,
I do pledge $200 myself toward this effort as well as the technical base to set the station up and train the local staff. I really think that this is one project that will unite us all. No matter what your own particular niche, we have got to support these beautiful youth studying to be the next generation of technical administrators of a rapidly developing African nation. And, yes, the GTUC does also serve students from throughout the continent.
