Dear Malinké, Foula, Soussou, Kissi, Gherzé, Toma, etc… I have some feelings that I would like to share with my Guinean brothers and sisters… Here is a simple, yet powerful personal message: Clearly Guinea is in deep trouble at the moment (primarily between Malinké and Foula, but everyone else is involved as well). Hate is [Continue]
Who do you call if you are in the middle of a polling station and tensions are rising? Who do you turn to when something has gone wrong with the mechanics of a monumental election, threatening your ability to vote? How do you get the word out when all has in fact gone well and [Continue]
Thanks to crowd-sourcing technology and the will to make a difference in Guinea’s volatile and decisive presidential elections, citizens from Conakry to California, Siguiri to Spain are right now monitoring the Guinean runoffs from their cell phones and their laptops – and making reports available in real-time for anyone to see at [Continue]
Join Alliance Guinea, Columbia University’s Institute for African Studies and key representatives of the Guinean diaspora in the New York area for an evening of commemoration and reflection about September 28 – the day Guinea declared itself independent from the French in 1958 and the day one year ago when hundreds of peaceful [Continue]
With a huge showing of women in the lead, an estimated 5000 people from at least 11 states across the east coast and Midwest – Guineans and friends of Guinea – marched in front of the White House and to the US State Department today to increase awareness of the atrocities of September 28 and [Continue]
On this Monday, October 26 there will be a march in Washington DC to raise awareness about the atrocities committed on September 28 in Guinea and to garner continued support for justice, an end to military rule and a transition to a democratically elected civil government in the country. Organized in particular as a women’s [Continue]
Guineans said after movements in January and February 2007, nothing would be as before. Millitaire junta then in power in Guinea did not believe in that hope founded by the people of Guinea after losing several son of the nation during these movements in 2007. Today in Guinea, the new millennium has signed a mature [Continue]
Today in Lille they spoke of the importance of having a Guinea for all Guineans and that the merit or the problem with a leader has nothing to do with ethnicity. In New York we are trying to do everything possible to bring together different groups of Guinean activists – traditionally separated by ethnicity – [Continue]
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