I-Tanzania ilungiselela i-Leon Sullivan Africa Summit

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (eTN) – Ezinyangeni ezine ezizayo, iTanzania yethule umkhankaso wabezindaba wokuheha abatshalizimali baseMelika baseMelika ukuthi babambe iqhaza eNgqungqutheleni Yesishiyagalombili kaLeon Sullivan ezoba sedolobheni lezivakashi elisenyakatho yeTanzania i-Arusha ngoJuni.

Imikhankaso yemithombo yezindaba kazwelonke neyamazwe ngamazwe ihloselwe ukuheha i-African Diaspora kanye nabanye ababambiqhaza bamabhizinisi abavela e-United States, e-Afrika nakwezinye izingxenye zomhlaba ukuba beze eTanzania futhi bathathe amathuba atholakalayo ekutshalweni kwezimali kwezivakashi nokuthuthukiswa kwengqalasizinda.

Izithunywa ezingaphezu kwezi-4,000 ezakhiwe ngabantu abaqavile okuhlanganisa nabo bonke abaholi bezwe base-Afrika zimenywe ukuba zibambe iqhaza engqungqutheleni yezinsuku ezine, ehlelwe ngokuhlanganyela yi-Leon H. Sullivan Foundation ezinze e-United States kanye nohulumeni waseTanzania.

Umxhumanisi we-Leon Sullivan Summit waseTanzania uNkk. Shamim Nyanduga uthe umkhankaso wabezindaba uhlanganisa imikhankaso yomhlaba wonke ngamafilimu aqoshwe eDelta Airlines, CNN kanye nezithunywa zaseTanzania.

Umongameli waseTanzania uJakaya Kikwete wethula umkhankaso wamazwe ngamazwe womhlangano owawuseNew York ngoSepthemba nyakenye.

Ngendikimba ethi “Ezokuvakasha Nokuthuthukiswa Kwengqalasizinda,” inhloso yale ngqungquthela ukukhuthaza intuthuko kwingqalasizinda nezokuvakasha eTanzania nasezwenikazi lase-Afrika wonkana.

UMongameli Kikwete uthe kunesidingo sokuthi amaTanzania kubantu base-Afrika baqonde ukuthi iLeon Sullivan Summit imayelana nani ukuze bakwazi ukuba nesithombe esicacile. “Esikwenzayo kufeza isifiso sethu sokuthi abantu bakithi bazi ukuthi iNgqungquthela ye-Sullivan imayelana nani, imele ini, nemigomo nemibono ehambisana nayo,” usho kanje.

Umongameli wengeze ngokuthi le ngqungquthela igqugquzele iqhaza elibonakalayo lemibono kamfundisi ongasekho u-Leon Sullivan, ikakhulukazi iphupho lakhe lokwakha ibhuloho phakathi kwe-Afrika neMelika.
"Ngempela izingqungquthela zaseSullivan ziya ngokuya ziphumelela ekusunguleni ibhuloho lapho i-Afrika kanye nama-Afrika aHlakazekile ehlangana khona futhi aphishekele inhlalakahle yawo kanye nezimfuno zawo," kusho u-Kikwete.

Umengameli uvumile ukusingatha ingqungquthela yomlando ezoba ngoJuni 2 kuya ku-6 nonyaka. Wathola ithoshi njengomphathi wengqungquthela ehleliwe evela kowayenguMongameli waseNigeria uMnu. Olusegun Obasanjo ngesikhathi sengqungquthela yokugcina eyayise-Abuja, eNigeria ngo-2006.

Ekhombisa ukuthakasela kakhulu ukuthuthukisa ezokuvakasha ezweni lakhe, uMongameli Kikwete uthe ingqungquthela yesishiyagalombili kaLeon Sullivan izoba se-Arusha, isikhungo sezokuvakasha eTanzania. “Ngiyanamukela ukuthi sihlangane e-Arusha, inkaba yezwekazi lase-Afrika lapho ezokuvakasha zigcwele khona futhi ikuphi ikhaya lezindawo ezikhanga izivakashi eNgorongoro, Serengeti naseMount Kilimanjaro,” kusho uMengameli uKikwete etshela izithunywa e-Abuja ngesikhathi emukela ithoshi lengqungquthela. .

Uthe le ngqungquthela izohlinzeka ngamathuba abanzi kubahlinzeki bezivakashi baseMelika kanye nabadayisi bemikhiqizo yezivakashi base-Afrika ekuhwebeni kwebhizinisi ngaphansi komthetho i-African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) owasungulwa nguhulumeni waseMelika.

I-Leon Sullivan Foundation ibilokhu ikhuthaza ibhizinisi phakathi kwe-Afrika kanye nabacebile base-Afrika baseMelika ngaphesheya kwe-Atlantic ukuze bahlangane futhi baqoqe izinsiza zokuthuthukisa izwekazi lase-Afrika.

Ingqungquthela yalo nyaka ye-Leon Sullivan Foundation izoba umbuthano wesithathu omkhulu we-African Diaspora e-US. I-23rd Africa Travel Association (ATA) yaqala ukuhlangana ngoMeyi 1998 kanti ingqungquthela ye-ATA yamashumi amathathu nantathu kusukela ngoMeyi 19 kuya ku-23 kuzoba umbuthano wesibili walolu hlobo ukuba ubanjelwe endaweni efanayo.

Usihlalo wenhlangano kanye nowayeyinxusa laseMelika ku-United Nations u-Andrew Young, uthe uzosebenzisana kakhulu nomengameli waseTanzania ekuheheni abaphathi bamabhizinisi abaqavile eMelika ukuthi babambe iqhaza engqungqutheleni ehleliwe.

Izingqungquthela ze-Sullivan zihlelwa yi-Leon H. Sullivan Foundation ukuze kugqanyiswe izindaba ezibalulekile nezinqubo ezingcono kakhulu, ukugqugquzela ingxoxo nokuchaza amathuba, ukukhuthaza amabhizinisi azimele kanye nokukhuthaza ubambiswano lwamasu olusezingeni eliphezulu.

Izinyathelo eziqanjiwe neziqanjiwe zivela ezingxoxweni nasezingxoxweni engqungqutheleni, futhi ubudlelwano obusha buyenziwa ukuze kwenziwe lezo zinhlelo zibe ngokoqobo.

Njengoba isendaweni emaphakathi nezwekazi lase-Afrika, i-Arusha manje isizokwamukela izithunywa zase-Afrika yaseMelika emfanekisweni wayo okhula ngokushesha wezokuvakasha ngamahhotela esimanje, izindawo zokulala, izindawo zokudlela kanye nenqwaba yezimoto zezivakashi.

I-Arusha International Conference Centre (AICC) kanye ne-Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge yengezwe nezindawo zomhlangano ukuze kuhlaliswe izithunywa ezinkulu zamazwe ngamazwe.

Ingqungquthela yesishiyagalombili kaLeon Sullivan izoba ngeyokuqala ngqa eMpumalanga Afrika ezoba sezansi neNtaba iKilimanjaro, isiqongo esiphakeme kunazo zonke e-Afrika.