Dr. Ariel King Speaks on Africa Speaks on Africa’s Future November 3, 2010

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Afrika Speaks with Sister Ekua and co-presenter Bro. Yehoeshahfaht On Voice of Africa Radio (VOAR) 94.3FM 8-10 pm GMT) www.voiceofafricaradio.com Britain’s first licensed Afrikan radio station in the UK 4-6pm Eastern Caribbean Time 3-5pm New York Standard Time 2-4 US Central Time 3-5pm US Eastern Standard Time 3-5 pm Daylight Saving Time 9-11pm Israel Time 8-10pm Ghana Time 3rd November 2010

Reclaiming, building and representing our world - Are we really the ones we have been waiting for?

Today’s show will explore the task of making history happen in your favour. People of African Heritage have had the greatest resource of the inspiring spoken word, the articulated vision of hope, a continent with teeming potential, a history of excellence and in 2010 a climate that is globally recognised as the Rise of Africa or theAfrican Century. Strangely with all these factors speaking of our advantage for positive change we still witness a very sluggish, sometimes passive response in making this transformation a reality.

Elder Statesman Nelson Mandela spoke of our greatest fear in these terms:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

In all aspects of success and excellence it is known that these are made possible where preparation meets opportunity. Also there is no anticipation without preparation. Who is to write the last chapter of our history? What legacy are we to leave the generations that follow us? What historic legacy did we inherit and have we lived bravely to our purpose or has our passivity betrayed where we must be in history and time? Are we the ones we have been waiting for or should we expect some one else? This program’s dialogue seeks to challenge every person of African heritage to look inside themselves and hopefully awaken the collective proactive genius of their existence to make things happen or forever remain slavishly a mind dependent on others to create their reality.

Our Special Guest is:

Dr Ariel King – Founder of the Ariana-Leilani Children’s Foundation International which is dedicated to helping children around the world achieve and protect their human rights. –  on the Madagascar Ambassador’s Advisory Board, (FOMAC) Friends of Madagascar Advisory Committee in USA, is the  Director of the Out of Africa Region and English editor of its quarterly journal  SAHARA: Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance and the President of the Ariel Foundation International

Youth leadership, entrepreneurship and community service projects primarily in Africa (South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Lesotho, Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania).

Dr. King is also an United Nations NGO Representative for

ECOSOC in New York, Vienna, Brussels and Rome.

Dr. Kocra Assoua (from Ivory Coast) Junior Professor, Institute of Africa, University of Bayreuth, German

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Dr. Ariel Rosita King, Caroline Willow, and Ambassador Rapolaki Speak Out On Voice of Africa, October 5, 2010

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The following are segments from the October 5, 2010 radio broadcast of Dr. Ariel Rosita King, Caroline Willow, and Ambassador Rapolaki (former Kingdom of Lesotho Ambassador to the United States).

“Voice of Africa Radio, 93.4 (VOIR) in London, England

Afrika Speaks with Sister Ekua and co-presenters Bro Yehoeshahfaht and Sis Yishibah Voice of Africa Radio (VOAR) 94.3FM 8-10 pm GMT www.voiceofafricaradio.com Britain’s only licensed African Radio Station 4-6pm Eastern Caribbean Time 3-5pm New York Standard Time 2-4 US Central Time 3-5pm US Eastern Standard Time 3-5 pm Daylight Saving Time 10-12pm Israel Time 8-10pm Ghana Time

Wednesday 6th October 2010: How best do we move beyond personal adversity to create social transformation?

“We must act now for the sake of our Children, they are our future. Every child has a right to life.”

– Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Unfortunately in the rush to improve society from its baseness the sanctity and sacredness of life has been left unattended to. Much to the irony of western liberal democracy, the most vulnerable in society i.e. – women and children are ill affected. In the midst of soul wrenching adversity and life draining circumstances individuals worldwide have risen above their personal anguish and given momentum to social justice movements and campaigns which seek to provide hope, justice and quality of life to all who are or may suffer their similar losses, challenges and personal pain.

It is noteworthy to say that some of the great resolute from pain to hope for all stands have been nurtured by those who nature has endowed with that life sacred maternal instinct – women, oftentimes mothers. Social hope from anguish and despair has been energised historically by names or groups like Harriet Tubman, Ida B Wells, the Suffragettes, Rosa Parks, Winnie Mandela, Mothers against Violence, Doreen Lawrence and many others. Each story has been one of anguish, personal triumph and social advancement. Each story’s evolution has provided a basis for stages of progressive social change for others in society.

The ongoing campaign for the right to medical care for the critically ill, little Ambassador, Ariana-Leilani, by Dr Ariel King has provided yet another source of a saga of anguish which is providing an oasis of hope for all children globally. The irony of the continual non co-operation by either the national bodies of both the USA and Germany and the young daughter’s own father to allow Ariana-Leilani to receive life enhancing medical attention defies belief. This is markedly strange when both countries are both bastions of western liberal democracy and have endured brutal histories of the threat or abuse of the sacredness of human life.

Prior to and during the above developments Ariana-Leilani’s mother, Dr King has organised tirelessly to raise both public awareness, seek restitution and change and provide social structures internationally which would work to prevent any child to go through what boils down to a blatant regards for the rights of the child. Her two foundations,Ariana-Leilani Foundation International and Ariel Foundation International are sterling models of the evolving a legacy of the potential of hope and just change from the anguish of personal life’s challenges.

THIS SHOW IS COMPULSORY LISTENING!!!

Ours Guests are:

Dr Ariel King

Founder of the Ariana-Leilani Children’s Foundation International which is dedicated to helping children around the world achieve and protect their human rights.

Dr. Ariel Rosita King Speaks Out on Childrens Rights

Roy Morris, JD

Roy Morris is working in the area of children’s rights and getting the US to adopt the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Morris Speaks on UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Her Excellency Ambassador Molelekeng Ernestina Rapolaki

H.E. Ambassador Molelekeng Ernestina Rapolaki assumed her assignment as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Lesotho to the United States of America in December 2001 until 2008.  Since the end of her term, Ambassador Rapolaki has been the Ambassador-in-Residence at Winston-Salem State University.   She is also accredited to Brazil, Canada and Mexico on a non – residential basis. She sits as the Vice-Chair, Board of Directors of the Ariel Foundation International.

Ambassador Rapolaki Speaks Out on Childrens’ Rights

Carolyne Willow, National Co-ordinator- Child Rights  Alliance for England. (CRAE)

Carolyne has been a children’s rights advocate for over 25 years and became CRAE’s National Co-ordinator in 2000. She started her career as a child protection social worker where she helped children establish the Nottinghamshire branch of NAYPIC (National Association of Young People in Care). Carolyne has contributed to two national inquiries: in 1997, she consulted young disabled people living away from home as part of the Children’s Safeguards Review led by Sir William Utting; and in 2005, Carolyne became Vice-Chair of the Council of Europe’s Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Child and Youth Participation. She has written and edited a wide range of children’s rights publications, including “Children’s right to be heard and effective child protection”, published by Save the Children,Sweden in 2010.

Caroline Willow of UK Speaks on Childrens Rights on Voice of Africa

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Dr. Ariel Rosita King Speaks Out on Voice of Africa Radio, September 15, 2010

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What can we do when there is a failure to protect Afrikan heritage children?

“Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.” President Barack Obama, speech June 23, 2009

This time last year, Afrika Speaks with Sister Ekua presented a show on the theme: Is there a conflict between children’s rights and parents rights? where we covered the issue of child smacking and increasing concerns that the institution and role of the family within the society and vis-à-vis the British  Government have come under unwarranted and often disproportionate state and public intervention. It is therefore, somewhat ironic that we are now we revisiting this theme from the perspective of what happens when a child’s rights to be protected are blatantly flouted.

This week’s Afrika Speaks will therefore explore the situation of when Afrikan heritage children are not protect, despite there being an obvious need for social services intervention. To contextualize our discussion, we will be highlighting the case of Ariana-Leilani, a 7-year old Jewish dual heritage and Afrikan American Jewish girl, also a American and German citizen, known as the ‘Little Ambassador’ who has a rare life-threatening blood disorder called Neutorpenia of which there are only 1300 sufferers worldwide.Neutorpenia can be induced with psychotrophic drugs a condition similar to AIDS that leaves the body with little defence from infection. The ‘Little Ambassador ‘who currently resides with her German father in the US, has not been able to get either the known medicine (GSSF) or a full examination as her custodial parent, is continuing to deny her both.

The father of Ariana-Leilani is suspected of sexually abusing her and has been accused of physical and medical neglect by several medical experts. Despite these serious allegation, no adequate investigation has been done because her father (who has sole custody) refuses to comply with such requests. Her mother, Dr Ariel King, a well respected medical doctor has since been waging an international legal struggle to seek to have the United States Government protect the right of Ariana-Leilani to life, as guaranteed under the 1989 United NationsConvention on the Rights of the Child. The child rights Convention (which has been ratified by one-hundred ninety-three nations of the world), accords to children a wide range of rights including, most centrally, the right to have their ‘best interests’ be ‘a primary consideration’ in all actions concerning them (Article 3), the ‘inherent right to life’ (Article 6), and the right of a child “who is capable of forming his or her own views … to express these views freely in all matters affecting the child” (Article 12) (United Nations 1989).

Yet in the case of Ariana-Leilani, this has not happened. In her case, there has been a widespread failure of the local child protection services agency, the family courts, the school system, the US Government and the city Mayor. However, the international community has now rallied to save this child’s life. Dr King is currently presenting the case of her daughter at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

In light of this situation, we will be exploring the implications of this case for the recognition of the rights of children and their parents or guardians in the UK.

THIS SHOW IS COMPULSORY LISTENING!!!

Ours Guests are:

Dr Ariel King is the founder of the Ariana-Leilani Children’s Foundation International which is dedicated to helping children around the world achieve and protect their human rights.

Hear Dr. Ariel Rosita King Speaks on Africa Speaks on September 15, 2010