About the newsletter editor
and staff writers:
Adebisi Akinrimisi, the editor of The
Garifuna Council of Northern California Newsletter, has been active
in the community for the past three years. Ms Akinrimisi’s interest
in the Garifuna people began in her college years when she attended
U.C. Berkeley as an undergraduate student. As a second –generation
person, raised by an Afro- Central American mother, she became
curious about her Afro-Honduran heritage. Her curiosity into her
heritage carried on into her Graduate years at the State University
were she decided to do her final thesis project on Garifuna immigrants
in the U.S.
One of the reasons Ms. Akinrimisi decided
to create this Newsletter, was to bring the Garifuna community
closer together in the Bay Area, by keeping them informed about
what’s going on in the community. The Garifuna population in northern
California has increased in the last two decades. Yet, they are
still very isolated from one another. Most Garifuna people in
Northern California are spread out over different cities across
Northern California and it is difficult for them to locate one
another. When Ms. Akinrimisi was growing up in Oakland,Ca, the
only Afro-Honduran person’s she knew were her mother and her Grandmother.
She and her family lived very isolated from their community. She
hopes that the Garifuna community will use this Newsletter as
a tool to connect with one-another. She invites Garifuna people
of any nationality, via Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala
etc. post information about upcoming events going on in the Garifuna
community, submit articles, as well as. advertise their businesses
in the Newsletter. The Newsletter is one of the ways that the
Garifuna people can learn about each other’s experiences and provide
support to one another.
Mr.Egbert
Higinio a Garifuna originally from Belize, also contributes to
the Newsletter as one of the staff writers periodically. Egbert
is the President for the Garifuna Council of Northern California,
which is stationed in San Jose, California. In the past, Egbert
has been very active in Garifuna organizations in Belize, such
as the National Garifuna Council located in Dangriga, Belize.
Eventually, he would like to return back to his hometown Dangriga,
Belize and try to run for Mayor.
Please submit your articles
or advertisements to:
Garifuna Council of Northern California
PO BOX 13871, Berkeley, Ca 94712
Tel No. (510) 401-3280 Ex.1827,
Or you can also send advertisements
to the editor electronically at email: bisi6@cs.com
|
