Which Way, L.A.?
Back to Africa
President Clinton is in the "New" Africa, where, he says, Democracy and Free Markets are taking hold. But he's visiting only six nations and ignoring a lot of leaders. Monday on Which Way, L.A.?, we'll find out if there's substance to this symbolic state visit. Is Africa being opened up or recolonized? What about Nigeria? And what does this trip mean for African Americans?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readJuanita Melender-MacDonald: Congressional Representative, 37th District, (South Central LA, Watts, Long Beach) Philomena Desmond-Ogugua: Nigerian-born Desmond-Ogugua is on the Advisory Committee for the National Summit on Africa (to take place in 1999) and founding member of the Emerging Force, a group that tries to get naturalized Africans in the US to get involved in politics to develop better policy towards Africa; she's also a member of the Executive Council of the Women's Leadership Forum of the Democratic Party John Stremlau: Professor of International Relations at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa; he was Deputy Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department in the Bush and (first) Clinton administration George Ayittey: Associate Professor of Economics at the American University; Associate Professor of Economics at the American University; President of the Free Africa Foundation Bob Benson: Professor of Trade and the Environment at Loyola Marymount University Jarrett Fellows: Editor of the Watts Times Sarah Fisher: Staff writer for the LA Business Journal Charles Reed: Chancellor of Cal State Universities
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