Hi, I am David McQueen and welcome to SIMPHANI WORLDWIDE.
Fans of music will know that symphony means “sounding together”. It is an orchestral work of a serious nature and substantial in size - usually in four movements. This gave birth to the idea of SIMPHANI. A sounding together of people of African descent across the four corners of the globe. Substantial in size and a powerful resource for its audience.
SIMPHANI WORLWIDE is a platform for voices of culture, literature, the arts, education and enterprise related to the global black experience. Our aim is to capture the experiences of the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, North America and Canada, and the less reported areas of South America, Asia and Australasia.
The project is the first phase of a larger platform for dialogue and will include profiles, essays, interviews, podcasts, videocasts and links to the richness in the diaspora.
This is great. The time is come to mend the bridges that have been divided by the atrocities that have been afflected upon us. The world wide web offers the global black community a unique opportunity to communicate to all of our brethren and sisters globally. One voice, one sound!
David,
Wonderful site and we need a focused effort to provide a central location for links and news regarding all of the diaspora-related initiatives. Some other sites you might want to consider as links or resources for news:
Pan African Film Festival (PAFF)
http://www.paff.org/html/index.php
Viewpoints and perspectives on African-Americans with some global focus–a Tom Joyner site
http://blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/diaspora/
History of the Early Black Diaspora
http://webhome.idirect.com/~kmaitland/ebhbib.html
Global news
http://www.dogonvillage.com/
Black news from England and Wales
http://www.diasporanews.net/
Daily Caribbean World News Update
http://www.caribvoice.org/diasporanews.html
Regards,
Ice Baldy