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endless flow and ebb of time…”

The books are available at a cost

of $10 from the Department of

Community and Cultural Affairs.

The Board of the African Diaspo-

ra Heritage Trail Bermuda Foun-

dation are proud to announce

that two of our Directors: Dr.

Kim Dismont Robinson and Mrs.

Florenz Maxwell are authors

included in this year’s Bermuda

Anthology of Memoir and Crea-

tive Non-Fiction. The title of this

book is Take This Journey With

Me.

The book was launched by the

Department of Community and

Cultural Affairs at the Bermuda

Society of Arts on Thursday 15th

May.

Of special note is the fact that

the book was edited by award

winning author Ms Rachel Man-

ley. Ms Manley is the daughter of

Michael Manley and Jacqueline

Kamelard-Gill. Michael Manley

was the charismatic leader who

served as Jamaica’s Prime Min-

ister for two terms: from 1972-

1980 and again from 1987-1992.

Ms Manley is an author in her

own right having written a non-

fiction trilogy: Drumblair, Slip-

stream and Horses in her Hair.

Pictured to the right is our own

Mrs. Maxwell, Dr. Dismont

Robinson and Ms Manley.

Mrs. Maxwell’s contribution to

the anthology is titled: As We

Forgive Those; while Dr. Dis-

mont Robinson’s contribution is

titled The Handover.

Of the stories in the anthology,

Ms Manley says “..this is a Caribbe-

an experience—the coming and

going of water and people, the

tendency to migrate and return, the

The first quarter of 2014 was a

busy time for the ADHT.

February— 6th Feb we host-

ed 10 members from the Seniors

Learning Centre from the Ber-

muda College on a tour of North

Hamilton. This tour focuses on

sites of memory that showcase

the entrepreneurial spirit of Afri-

can Bermudians in the late 1700s

to the early 1900s.

On 20 & 21st February we

were waving the ADHT flag in

the Charity Zone at the Caldwell

Banker Home Show. We had

lots of people come by and dis-

cover some of the ADHT sites of

memory on our Name the Sites

game.

Also on 21st February our

ADHT guide, Ms Grace Rawlins,

conducted the Square to Square

tour for 23 member of the Alpha

Kappa Alpha Sorority as a part of

their Black History Month activi-

ties.

March—we hosted our annual

signature event, The Internation-

al Day of Remembrance 23rd—

29th March went very well.

This was a week of activities

starting with the Annual Church

Service at Cobbs Hill Methodist

and ending with the Celebrity

Football Game at Somerset

Cricket Club. Check our website

for further info on this:

www.adht.bm

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ADHT EVENTS!!

ADHT Directors Contribute to Bermuda Anthology

Ya Kijarida* A D H T N E W S L E T T E R M A Y 2 0 1 4

I N T H I S I S S U E :

Square to Square Tour

for CJEI participants

Launch of Take This

Journey With Me An-

thology

ADHT

Sites of

Memory

What’s the name of

this site and in which

parish is it located?

Use the clues below

to guess the name of

this issue’s featured

ADHT site.

I am located in

the City of Hamil-

ton.

I was one of the

first apartment-

style buildings in

Bermuda.

I was built by a

family that was

known for its in-

terest education.

I was built more

than 100 years

ago and I am still

housing families.

Email answer to:

maxine@adht.bm

What’s Happening with the ADHT

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“The forces that unite us are

intrinsic and greater than the

superimposed influences that

keep us apart.”

― Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah was born on

September 21, 1909, in

Nkroful, Gold Coast (now

Ghana), and shepherded the

country in its struggle for

independence from Great

Britain. He went on to be

named life president of both

the nation and his politic

party, until the army and

police in Ghana seized power

in 1966 and he found asylum

in Guinea.

Interesting Facts about Africa

CJEI attendees and the S2S Tour

The above heading refers to

the Square to Square tour

which the ADHT conducted

with the spouses of the at-

tendees at this year’s Com-

monwealth Judicial Educa-

tion Institute held in Ber-

muda.

While the CJEI delegates

were in meetings on Tues-

day 13th May 2014, their

spouses were treated to a

tour of the ADHT sites of

memory in St. George’s.

Ms Grace Rawlins, who is

an official ADHT tour

guide, took the group of 12

on the Square to Square

tour which takes partici-

pants from King’s Square

to Pilot Darrell by explor-

ing some of the sites of

memory that speak to the

African Bermudian experi-

ence in the history of St.

George’s.

Africa is where human beings first appeared on the earth is is the home of the world's first great civilization,

Egypt, which dated back to 3300 BC.P

People of Africa: The African continent has the second largest population in the world, at least one billion

people. Well over 1000 languages are spoken by the people of Africa. Some estimates put this number closer

to 2000. The largest religion in Africa is Islam, followed by Christianity. As of 2009 the African population is

approximately 14.72% of the world’s population. The oldest

human remains ever discovered were found in Ethiopia. They

are approximately 200,000 years old.

Africa’s Landforms: The Nile, the longest river in Africa, is

4,132miles and is also the longest river in the world. Africa has

the world’s largest desert, the Sahara, which is almost the size of

the United States. Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall in Africa is

355 feet high and one mile wide. Mount Kilimanjaro is the larg-

est on the African continent. It is over 19,300 feet high, which

is so tall that glaciers can be found on its summit even though the

mountain is near the equator. Madagascar is the largest island in

Africa and the 4th largest island in the world. It is in the Indian

Ocean off the East coast of Africa.

Africa the Continent: Africa is the 2nd largest continent on

earth, approximately 11.7millions square miles. Africa straddles the equator and is the only continent to ex-

tend from the northern temperate zone to the southern temperate zone. Africa is the hottest continent on

earth.. Sudan is Africa’s largest country—it is 968,000 square miles. Africa covers 6% of the earth’s total sur-

face and 20.4% of the total land area. Cairo, Egypt is the continent’s largest city. Long before humans were

around, Africa was joined to the other continents in a massive continent call Pangaea. Over millions of years

ago this huge continent broke apart shaping the world landscape as we know it today.

Africa’s Animals: The world’s largest land animal is the African elephant. The worlds tallest animal is the

African giraffe. The fastest land animal in the world is the African cheetah. The world’s largest reptile is the

Nile crocodile. The world’s largest primate is the gorilla, found in the jungles of Africa.

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