americans you know i have friends and it seems that so many of them are sometimes caught between two worlds they may feel like they're not fully ethiope in the day made not feel like they're really give it up so easily over here and the gentleman who is filming right up behind you net net you can bet capita and ethiopian and they live in the united states and living in seattle washington so they have a program in seattle where they they have ethiopia youth media program they work with a lot of the ethiopian american youth and they teach them how to do television programming and they do interviews and they've been  here trying to capture the story of african americans and ethiopians what history they would we had together so i've been working with them and they've they've been doing amazing things at the end of my presentation i will give them a couple minutes to just explain a little bit about what they're doing but their goal was to bring students from united states and bring them to ethiopia have them study learn a mark study travel the country especially for the ethiopian american youth who have maybe they're a little bit too distant from their home country having trouble getting in touch with their roots so to go be to bring them to ethiopia so i think this will give a solution for the visa problem by the way i mentioned that we have thirty two we have to get it through transit passengers a connecting passenger which is close to thirteen thousand to over them a very attractive program for them to make them decide to stay to spend a night or two again this has been challenged by immigration you will get there so that's why we needed to collaborate you should also have a strong association that will look to artists you know what we know we want to watch if we need to pursue the same objective solve this it is better to have a strong association just like what is happening in other countries it's good that we get the information because as an airline we may have a stronger it depends on the number of travelers that you bring in it depends from where they are you know what they paid on the international route so wherever you have such issues as i say as i mentioned contact us and not attractive enough but besides this what are you guys working to motivate this international travelers of course it's just mentioned that the transit travelers and then what are you telling as to present for them as we are just convincing them to fly you think that it took an airlines internationally this is think  the price there was four years for more than four years there was an automatic of twenty percent discount on airfare for those failing that fare in combination of working on it we continuously work on it and we need to come up with a competitive airfare not only for the tourists but for the travelers otherwise we don't survive in the market in the industry so we're working on that in addition to media people from different countries from italy recently they will come second time they will arrive to morrow accommodating african american tourists and a vicarious cultural exchange and learning opportunities for all of us so the picture this so just a little bit about myself i am a student at howard university in washington d c which is a historically black college university founded eight hundred sixty seven which is two years after the end of the of black band ethnic diversity and so in america we have a lot of immigrants as you people know united states who seems a lot of immigrants one of the largest growing number of immigrants are coming from others as well but especially d c area it opens very very numerous and so this book is talking about how what the politics be like now that you have you have traditional african americans who have been in the country since slavery times we've been there for maybe four hundred years and we've been living in the country for a while but now that we have more immigrants come in come out from the regions and in the diaspora the diaspora is the six region and that includes those africans who left within the last thirty forty fifty years and moved within also includes people like myself who were taken from africa hundreds of years ago we don't know exactly where we come from in africa we know that we come from africa and we want to dedicate ourselves to building africa and africa and he he was he helped black people around the world organize the largest mass movement of black people around the world in the one nine hundred twenty s and was able to help them get rid of  african congress there were numerous groups different people of african descent who were meeting in places like london and manchester and paris and new york  intellectuals even future presidents like wyoming coom from nigeria common criminals from ghana from kenya and different caribbean activists like or from nigeria something common among all of us that we share and a lot of it is especially during this time oppression and discrimination but also could share a culture inspire me to do the research so now we'll get into the background of african american history and presentation came about because there were some african american tours that came to ethiopia and were visiting some of the churches in the north and they had some questions that really they weren't able to get satisfactory answers for and we'll get into that a little bit later but essentially you want to increase the number of people like myself who are coming here so by preparing people what to expect you know a little bit of background about our history and culture and when we come you can even direct us to certain things that may be interesting to us that may be  american and have native american he is the first person who died in american revolution in seven hundred sixty eight this was in boston people were protesting is called the boston tea party this is the thing that kicked off the american revolution they were protesting the unfair taxes that they were being bought by the british so i'm just showing you this is deep our roots brought up this is when crispus attucks became more popular because they were using this as an example to say you know african americans are patriotic and five for the country even when they weren't being cheated right they died so that was project he didn't like they were paying him he had whatever dispute he had he abandoned the project was completed and benjamin banneker is known to have a photographic memory and he out the plans again and slave period in the united states and afterwards this verse for a lot of african americans for them it was a prophecy that basically means one day you will be out of this situation and you will be in it you're in now one day you will get freedom one day you would not be on the bottom one day you will start your hands on to god and you will be redeemed essentially because you have to remember being a  slave a child to say that we are not human beings so we discovered when we started to read the bible also it was banned for us to read the bible they didn't want us to read any books is illegal so those who  free maybe living in the north or some slaves who taught learned by some chance they learned how to read they discover ethiopian the bible and it's mentioned already times this person is the most the one that kept coming up every time important to keep in m she is actually the first african american person to be published to publish and she published a book of poetry late seventeen eighty five when she passed  you how long the tradition of ethiopia has been within the african american community the first published person was already writing about ethiopia and our relationship so  america a lot of the founding fathers were freemasons and but they did not allow people of african descent to join the large so he started his own and what things significant to this story  and other verses in the bible to talk about ethiopia to motivate his congregation so this is just to show at the earliest the earliest stages our earliest riders are of these people who start to freemason large some of our earliest clergy they already were focused on