The Friends of the African Union Big Black Call - 9AM EST on 16 October 2012

The “World’s Largest African-African Diaspora Hangout" [The Big Black Call] will commence on October 16, 2012 driven by the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Urban Tech Fair [OKIUTF], The Friends of the African Union (FAU), H2 Communications, LLC, and Jinises.com to discuss and promote the acceleration of the  integration of Africans on the continent and those living in the African Diaspora to enable the Global African Community to play its rightful role in the global economy while addressing multifaceted social, economic, educational, and political issues.

The Big Black Call will talk about this starting a 9AM EST on 16 October 2012 at Dial-in Number: 213.493.0700 with Participant Access Code: 106132#

The African Union [abbreviated hereafter as AU] is a union consisting of 54 African states. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the Organization of African Unity [OAU]. The AU represents a market of over 950 million Africans on the continent with a annual gross domestic product of over $1.7 trillion of dollars.

The African Union Commission [AUC]defines the African Diaspora as “peoples of African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union”.  The African Union considers the Diaspora to be the “sixth region” of Africa. The estimated population of the African Diaspora is in excess of 450 million and represents annual income of $2.3 trillion with African American market contributing $1.1 trillion of income alone.

This African-African Diaspora Hangout represents a historical and evolving experience where the Global African Community will have the ability for the first time in history using Information technology to discuss and promote South-South Cooperation as a framework for enhancing mutual economic, social, cultural, and educational development as well as Pan-African Solidarity.and the importance of women and youth as pillars of our society that should be mainstreamed in all African-African Diaspora discourses and action.