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All About Africa
April 1, 2009
Julia Johnson-White vice president, Southern Center for International Studies
Cedric Suzman programming director, Southern Center for International Studies
Bernadette B. Paolo president, The Africa Society
Gail Ifshin executive director, Discovery Channel Global Education Fund
Amadou Ba ambassador, Senegal
Andrew Young former UN ambassador, former Atlanta mayor

Julia White and Cedric Suzman of the Southern Center for International Studies, Bernadette B. Paolo, president of The Africa Society, Gail Ifshin of the Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership, Ambassador Amadou Ba of Senegal, and former Ambassador Andrew Young address students from metro Atlanta schools on the significance of Africa.

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