directors

Tendai MWARI (Be Thankful Unto God)

My name is Kamau Bussa and I am the new ABDF Membership Secretary. I have been a shareholder with ABDF for over 5 years and in that time have held the role of Regional Coordinator for the South East region. I am currently a member of the Alkebu-lan Revivalist Movement.

My employment C.V. Includes working for Barclays (work experience while study­ing at college), Woolworth’s (my first part-time job), Manos Holidays, Travelscene, Jubilee Holidays, Hamilton Travel, Travel Power and finally USAirtours. Currently I now work for the NHS as well as run a small media house (Mila Media) as well as being involved in a number of start-up ini­tiatives (iNAPP – interim Nation Afrikan Peoples Parliament; AMC – Afrikan Me­dia Collective; to name a couple). For leisure I am into reading, political/social debates, sport (especially Cricket).

My aim for 2012 is to continue the works of the founders of ABDF and help shape our vehicle into one worthy of serving our people.

‘Rise you mighty people, for you can accomplish whatever you will’ – Marcus MOSIAH Garvey

I have been a member of ABDF since 2007 and I have been involved in the finance and business development groups.

I have an accountancy qualification and I currently work for Havering Council in Romford as an Accountant. I have several years accounting experience. I have prepared and monitored budgets for service areas such as Regeneration and Housing. I have prepared financial statements, advised managers about financial matters and prepared cashflow forecasts. I have experience of financial systems such as Oracle and Sage.

I am an independent Financial Planner and Will Writer. I am interested in microfinance and interest free banks. I have attended a conference about the interest free bank in Gottenburg, Sweden last year and I hope to attend the conference this year.

I have been involved in several community groups e.g. I was a Volunteer teacher for a supplementary school and committee member for an African Caribbean business organisation. I have provided financial support and advice about grant funding to community groups in Lambeth where some projects operated with limited funding.

I have worked in a firm of solicitors for 30 years as a legal clerk in the litigation department. My main workload was credit control for an international casino group where my main duties were attending court hearings and managing high volumes of work on behalf of their clients’.

My role will be in the area of compliance with the rules and regulations relating to the companies Act. I will also be assisting in setting procedures to guide the company operations.

My family come from a small town in Ja­maica, called Seaforth, in St Thomas. I have travelled extensively, backpacking around Africa and the Caribbean. My B.A degree has allowed me to study the Arts. I collect oil paintings mostly from the Caribbean and have a small collection from Haiti.

My current work is project work for Team London, Capital Growth with the assist­ance of Women’s Environmental Net­work. This is assisting community growing groups in Tower Hamlets and Hackney to grow food on empty parcels of land. I have an allotment which produces a fair crop each year and am looking to increase my yields this year.

My hobby is being part of The Oware So­ciety, as its membership secretary, alongside Seth Bonti, for sixteen years. We promote the playing of Oware internationally and as President of the World Oware Federa­tion. We have succeeded in promoting the game in several countries.

Greetings, I am husband and the father of three children. My working experience is Engineering and Information technology. I also run a website design business and a keen amateur 3D animator. I have a keen love of music and pod cast music shows when I have the time. I am also interested in politics, economics, technology and current affairs.

I have been with ABDF close to 4yrs I absolutely believe in the ABDF vision and will commit my time and energy to make it realised. In our new team I find a commitment that I know will make significant advancements for ABDF in the coming years.

My experience will enable me to make ABDF more efficient by optimising current processes. Doing this will make ABDF become more productive and lay the foundation for introducing new systems required to achieve our immediate goals.

Partner Directors

 These are Shareholders who have volunteered to work alongside the elected directors in order to:

• Ease the workload of the director

• Provide a complement to the director to encourage the generation of balanced ideas

• To involve the membership more in the decision making processes of ABDF

The role of Partner director is, like all the directors, not remunerated, but is rewarding and challenging alike and enables the person in the role to gain greater insight, not only of the inner workings of ABDF, contributing significantly to these, but also to gain knowledge and experience in what it takes to manage a forward thinking Afrikan organisation in the 21^st century.

We still have vacancies for Partner directors, can you, will you step up to the role?

In Ubuntu,

Donna Alexander

Chair of the board of Directors,

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