[ASU] Asu-l Digest, Vol 62, Issue 4

Thu Nov 7 08:55:37 EST 2013

Dear ASU members and the executive body

I am little concerned about the Africa’s Hero’s nominations and I wanted to share my observations:

1.	In the first email sent by ASU president, Jeremiah Asaka, it mentions that we have to consider OU alumni. With the events that followed, and reading between the lines, it gave me the impression that “We decided to award X and we have to unanimously give him/her.”  

2.	I and Lauren made public our nomination and tried to explain why we think the people deserve the award. Through the ASU Facebook page and recent email, I also learned that Aggrey Willis is also nominated.  When we set the solid criteria for an award, I do not see the reasons why we should not clearly state and make public why and how we are nominating the person instead of suddenly listing him/her.

3.	In the email recently sent listing them alphabetically (I am not sure if we refer to the last name or the first name) and Facebook page it mentions the country of the nominees. The African Hero, arguably someone who does significant job in the whole continent instead of individual country, should not be associated with his/her country of origin as far as I think.  And that is the only reason that could differentiate it from Africa’s Cup of Nations!

4.	We have been advised to spread the news of the nomination and possibly campaign for them. I do not have any personal interest and connection with the person I nominated and I do not see campaigning for her as long as I stated clearly how and why I nominated her. I do not think this is a popular contest where you lobby and campaign to win the award.

Sincerely,
Abraham Zere

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Today's Topics:

   1.  Africa's Hero Nomination (Zere, Abraham)
   2.  ASU 2013 Hero/Heroine Nomination (African Student Union at OU)

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:03:36 -0500
From: "Zere, Abraham" <az148810 at ohio.edu>
Subject: [ASU] Africa's Hero Nomination
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Dear ASU members and executive body,

I want to nominate Elsa Chyrum, human right activist, for an African Hero?s Award of 2013. Ms. Chyrum is involved in many community-based activities regarding African refugees and mainly the Eritrean refugees. She has been actively advocating since the Ethio-Eritrean border conflict when Ethiopia forcible and inhumanly deported over 70,000 Eritreans.  Ms. Chyrum is currently doing a tremendous job single-handedly where more than 40 political opposition parties have failed to achieve. In one of the most repressive regimes of the continent, where yearly about 305,000 people are fleeing the country, according to UNHCR reports, from a small population of 3.5 million at most, Chyrum?s role in advocating their rights is crucial.

Our recent case example is the Lampadusa tragedy that we conducted candle vigil that took the lives of 350 people, mostly Eritreans.

I am nominating Ms. Chyrum as a contribution of bringing to spotlight of the most tragic Eritrean situation. I feel honoring her would mean paying attention to the tragic Eritrean current situation. You can read more about her on http://hrc-eritrea.org/elizabeth-elsa-chyrum-human-rights-activist-eritrea/

Sincerely,
Abraham Zere

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 11:07:00 -0500
From: African Student Union at OU <asu.ohio at gmail.com>
Subject: [ASU] ASU 2013 Hero/Heroine Nomination
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Hello members,

The hero/heroine nomination is catching steam. If you have not sent in your
nominee please do so before the deadline (11/18/2013). Unlike has been done
previously this year's deadline is a hard one. So in the spirit of
fairness, nominate now.

Here's a list of the nominee we have so far in alphabetical order:

Aggrey Willis, Community Development and Public Health, Kenya

Elsa Chyrum, Human Rights Activisit, Eriteria.

Julie Church and Tahreni Bwaanali, social and environmental activists,
(Country not specified)

To the nominators, please feel free to pitch for your nominee  to increase
their chance of getting selected for this prestigious award!

We look forward to receiving more nominations.

Jeremiah Asaka
President

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African Student Union
Ohio University
asu.ohio at gmail.com
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