A great program. May I say that I floated this exact idea to the United Nations Volunteer Program. I aske for funding to enable me to work in Nigeria in the summer of 2004. The United Nations established what they called United Nations Volunteers (UNV ) sometime in 2002 or earlier. I applied to do capacity building with Igbo entrepreneurs in Southeast Nigeria whom I had been studying since 1991. I also volunteered to teach graduate students at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) and from there mentor a young academic who might continue with, or modify, extant syllabus on the subject. I also opted to do same in other universities in Nigeria (see attached, my then statement of intent). After waiting for a long time without response from the UN I called the contact person at the UN who told me he saw my application but that he did not have the budget to fund my kind of volunteer project i.e.to go and teach at UNN and at the same time do capacity building of entrepreneurs. I, after that conversation, realized that the UNV was for community development kinds of things unrelated to the project I designed. That same idea I floated to pursue 2004 has now surfaced in the exact form I designed it but from another venue. My proposal and the Diaspora program look exactly the same (see attached). Intriguing indeed.
Chikwendu Christian Ukaegbu
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - African Diaspora Fellowship Initiative Kicks Off
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:03 AM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - African Diaspora Fellowship Initiative Kicks Off
African-born scholars living and working in American and Canadian universities are now able to apply for fellowships to undertake academic projects in African universities under a diaspora initiative supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Some 100 scholarships are up for grabs under the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program which will commence in June 2014 and will run for two years. (Continue reading)
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