Thursday night I went to listen to the lecture by Dr, Abunbola. When I walked into the lecture I heard the Doctor singing. He was talking about the pilgrimage to the Meca, in Islam religion. He then explained there are six parts of Africa with “bad people”. Then he started talking about Brazil. He explains about 95 million people in Brazil are black. Up until 1962, black people made up about 3/4 of the people. Then, the government came in and took over. Dr. Abunbola went to Brazil and met only three people who were able to speak his natural tongue. He explained that when american woman go to Africa they are treated with power. Even with this, there was no society were women were free. Then he spoke on Cuba. He stated that Cuba had control of the whole world at one point under Castro. He then went to saying that African Americans are looked at as white people in Africa because of lack of language.In 1991 the Doctor founded a congress. He has held congresses all over Africa and even in San Francisco. They started with 12 delegates from twelve countries and now, they have branches from all countries in the world. 5,000 people attended the congress in Cuba, held in the convention palace.
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