The Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC) held its 13th International Summit in Monrovia, Liberia, over the week of November 8 -13, 2021.  While the annual Summit normally provides SRDC organizers with an opportunity to make reports to each other and share the organization’s progress with invited guests and the general public, this year’s Summit also served a larger purpose — the official launching in Liberia of the SRDC Pan-African Library Project.

The recently-established SRDC office in Liberia is run by The Honorable Ms. Louise W. McMillan-Siaway, who also serves as the founder and president of Sehwah-Liberia, an on-the-ground activist organization operating primarily in Monrovia and the surrounding rural areas.  Among the important projects Sehwah-Liberia has accomplished in the recent past are the Pan-African Virtual Summer Camp in 2020 and a major food distribution project undertaken to assist families who were deprived of adequate food sources as the COVID pandemic was first ravaging the world in early 2020.

The 2021 Summit featured appearances by special guests that included His Excellency George M. Weah Sr., President of the Republic of Liberia, and Mrs. Clar M. Weah, the First Lady; several Liberian government Ministers; as well as SRDC’s International Facilitator, Professor David L. Horne, who brought an SRDC delegation from the United States; and Dr. Barryl Biekman, who serves as the president of Tiye International and the African Union African Diaspora Sixth Region-Europe (AUADS) based in The Netherlands.

The crowning achievement was the signing of an agreement between SRDC and the Government of Liberia that essentially green-lights the Library Project.  The video above, provided by CEO TV Africa, includes statements from Ms. Siaway, Profesor Horne, Dr. Biekman, Baba Kumasi Palmer (SRDC-South Carolina) and several other attendees at the Summit, as well as the signing ceremony.

We will share more detailed information on the 2021 SRDC Summit in the coming weeks.