Date: 21st January, 2012 Venue: American Corner Bauchi
Event: Commemoration of MLK 2012 with Film show (Eyes on the prize No easy walk), book display, speech, Q&A and Group Discussions Audience: Academic Staff, Youth and the general public
In Attendance: 37 Time: 10:00am
The American Corner Bauchi in collaboration with the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria has today the 21st of January 2012 plays host to an audience of 37 with a film show, book display, speech, Question and answers session that was followed by a group discussion all in commemoration of Martin Luther King’s Day 2012. This program provides an avenue for participants to discuss with the need to pursue all disagreements through dialogue and non violence movement.
The film Eyes on the Prize gave the audience an insight to how non violent movements in the United States plays a crucial role in addressing disputes between the Federal Government and the citizen in the 1960 in the area of segregation and other human right issues.
In his speech, Nwele James Obasi sighted and example using the recently call off strikes by labor organization as another non violent movement in which Nigerian’s protest the withdrawal of fuel subsidy by the federal government and was successful in bringing the price down, all these ideas were borrowed from the non violent movements founded by MLK he says.
During the event, some books and other related materials of MLK were displayed for the benefit of the participants. And during the group discussions, participants were very optimistic on the need to pursue justice through non violence and peaceful dialogue. At the end of the program, participants were given copies of MLK Infopack.
Media: the program was covered by the News Agency of Nigeria NAN
The program came to an end @ exactly 12:30pm with light refreshment.
