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CAN TV Board Chair Running For President Of Sierra Leone"CAN TV's outgoing board chair, Alie Kabba, livened up the December 9th annual meeting of the board with his announcement that he is running for election as President of Sierra Leone." Um, wow? * Besides his work with CAN TV, Kabba also served as co-chair of the Golden Door Coalition and board president of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, according to his LinkedIn page. He was also head of the Chicago-based United African Organization. * In 2012, Kabba was named one of The Grio's top 100 black leaders in America. * Here's a Tribune Q&A with Kabba from 2001, when he was a caseworker for the state Department of Human Services. * Kabba has appeared in a handful of news articles over the years, mostly about immigrants. A couple examples . . . A few months after arriving from Sierra Leone, Alie Kabba learned the dynamics of Chicago immigrant life when he found a pickup soccer game near his Rogers Park apartment. All of the players were Mexicans. Over the past decade, the 700 block of East 79th Street has undergone a transformation that points to another shift in Chicago's ethnic landscape. * Here's his bio from his campaign website. * "The National Officers of the main opposition SLPP yesterday received one of the leading flagbearer aspirants, Alhaji Dr. Alie Kabba at the party's Headquarters in Freetown." * Here's Kabba last January: - Posted on December 21, 2015 |
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