Page 8 Portland Observer, August 29, 1984
African educators strengthen ties with U.S.
by Katbryn H a ll Unyle
O p e ra tio n C rossroads A fric a
I f X A ) annually brings to the United
Slates about 200 visitors from Africa
and the ( arribbcan for personal con
tact with American work and culture.
( X A is a private, non governmental,
n o t-fo r -p r o fit o rg a n iza tio n to
strengthen ties among the people of
A fric a , the U n ited Slates and the
C a rib b e a n It seeks to stim u late
among Americans a greater interest
in the affairs of these regions of the
world.
Through ihe f ) ( A program last
week came six men from T og o on
the west coast of A fric a, a country
nearly the size o f West V irg in ia
T here are about Iff m a jo r ethnic
groups in Tog o 's p op u latio n o f 3
million. Dominant groups are Ewe,
1 wi and Hausa It has been estima
ted that 10% o f Togolese are
M u s lim , 30% are C h ris tia n , and
6 0 % practice their tra d itio n a l
religions.
The six men who were Portland
visitors are all educators and
teachers in Lome, thecapitol city of
I ogo. f rench, the official language
o f T o g o , is heard most o fte n ,
alth o u g h the A fric a n languages,
I we. M in a , D ago m b a, and Kabie
are still in home use The visitors, all
fluent in English, are involved in a
comparatively new Togolese effo rt,
they said, to emphasize English as a
second language in their T og r
schools Before arriving in this city
the visitors had an intensive three
week study of English in an Arizon
college
Bethel A M E. Church Missionary
Society at a church picnic at Penin
sula park. Some o f them saw soft
ball played for the first time when
Ernest H a rtzo g , assistant superin
tendent of Portland Public Schools,
set up games for the crowd attend
ing the picnic.
Transportation for the guests was
p ro vided by the P o rtla n d U rb a n
League as a co o perative c o n
trib u tio n to the O C A program on
behalf of the general community.
O n their A m erican to u r, the
A fric a n visitors were escorted by
Isabelle Houlbreque The party left
P o rtla n d to spend a week in New
York City before returning to Togo.
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In Portland, Badamassi l.aw ani,
3V, L o lo n y o I adch A h lid z a , 46,
A dotc Bah A d o tc v i, 33, Kwasi
D jo n d o , 43, A b d o u laye Im ad a h ,
36, and N ’Sova Assogba, aged 33,
spent a day at the N orthw est
Regional Educational Laboratory
learning something o f local general
c u rric u lu m and the teaching o f
English as a second language under
the direction of Dr Ann Murphy.
O n the second o f their tw o-day
slay in P o rtlan d, the visitors were
m orning guests o f D r. Paul
W illia m s o f P o rtlan d C o m m u n ity
( ollegc and his w ile Barbara, who
showed them places o f interest in
the city, including a special tour of
the Cascade campus of PCC.
D r. I ( Ogboubiri arranged for
the visitors to picnic with some o f
the engineering staff of Bonneville
Power A d m in is tratio n . They met
C y n th ia Rounds, an electrical
engineering student working part-
time at Bonneville Later in the day,
the group tasted barbecued ribs,
A m eric an style, as guests o f the
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