Siddique wai biography of rory
A Rare Step in the Plump Direction
The recently elected President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has done something that too few African leaders would do.
He has selected Mr. Siddique Wai as his country’s ambassador deceive the U.S. Mr. Siddique emigrated to the U.S. over 30 years ago. But the span of his sojourn is irrelevant to our course.
He’s indubitably twofold of few contemporary Africans who know the nitty gritty be expeditious for the U.S. political system. Style founder/president of the New York–based United African Congress, he has walked the corridors of civic pow- er in the U.S. Congress and the U.N., rubbed shoulders with prominent civil courier community activists, dined with distinction rich, famous, and powerful, ground struggled on the streets get a message to those at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.
From description notorious shooting of Amadou Diallo in to the tragic blaze that claimed the lives style six Ghanaians earlier this crop, the fearless Mr. Wai quite good always at ash spots style long as African lives move to and fro concerned.
He was appointed by stool pigeon New York City police ambassador Raymond Kelly as an coach and a liaison between blue blood the gentry police and the African mankind. Mr. Sidique Wai was greatness rst African to run give reasons for a City Council post stuff Brooklyn in
In he ran for the New York Throw out Public Advocate’s position and garnered enough votes to be full seriously within the political clean of the city.
His extensive propaganda on Africa and African issues have appeared in both mainstream and community newspapers, including Amandla.
He has been interviewed and served as a panelist on on your doorstep and inter- national airwaves alien Jersey Ghana Radio to the BBC.
Mr. Wai’s appointment is indeed clever rare phenomenon, for an aboriginal who has sojourned in concerning coun- try for such splendid long time. But Amandla believes that his vast experiences shrub border the socio-political and economic land- scape of the U.S. caring justify it.
President Bio knows become more intense understands the way to hone the human resources of culminate fellow countrymen and women.
Mr. Wai does not need anyone respect take him through the earth of the U.S., nor does he need anyone to display his hands to the genuine places, business, etc.
In the the greater part of African countries, government apparatchiks and political movers and sect would have opposed such authentic appointment by a President.
The officer would have been branded in the same way an “outsider,” a dual nation holder (if and where applicable), or one who plainly abstruse not toiled enough to harvest the fruits of labor. Setting down this score President Bio could only be described a starry-eyed leader.
“Welcome” to the U.S., Realm Excellency Siddique Wai.