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Students Participate in the 10th Annual Model African Union

MUASA students represented Benin at the Model African Union.

MUASA students (L-R): Kofi Adutwum, Nsima Umana, president of MUASA; Dr. Hector Posset, minister-counselor, Benin Embassy; Wongel Heramo, Maekenzi Vernat and Bintu Sherif.

Five members of Millersville University’s African Student Association (MUASA) joined their peers from 48 different institutions across the country to participate in the 10th annual Model African Union hosted by Howard University in Washington, D.C., on February 23-26. The Model African Union is a simulation of the Organization of African Unity and its successor, the African Union.

Representing the country of Benin, the delegation from Millersville consisted of Nsima Umana, senior and president of MUASA, Bintu Sherif, freshman, Maekenzi Vernat, senior, Kofi Adutwum, graduate student in psychology, Wongel Heramo, senior, Dr. Doyin Coker-Kolo, faculty advisor and Dr. Onek Adyanga, faculty consultant.

The “Model” provides a unique opportunity for university and college students to study Africa and the African Union through simulation augmented by briefings at African embassies in Washington, D.C. More specifically, the National Model African Union is designed to increase awareness of the role, organization and performance of the African Union; highlight key economic, social and political-security issues facing the African continent and to demonstrate the need for effective diplomatic, economic and military cooperative action in an unfolding crisis situation.

Adutwum won the Committee Leadership Award for the Committee on Union Government. This award is given to the individual who has made the most significant contribution to fostering consensus, capturing the essence of complex issues and leading the respective committees and council toward effective action.

MUASA students were able to participate in this event because of funding from the School of Education, President’s Commission for Cultural Diversity and Inclusiveness, Office of Social Equity and Diversity, Black Student Union, Society on Latino Affairs and the Noonan Endowment Fund grant.

For more information, contact Coker-Kolo, at Doyin.Coker-Kolo@millersville.edu or 717-872-3816.

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