WHO
WE ARE
We are the Ambassadors, welcoming you home through the open door, the Door of Return, to Africa.
Founder & Chairman
Kwadwo "KOJO"
Okyere Awurukuo
Fordjour
The African Diaspora Cultural Center [ADCC] was formed as a Not-For-Profit Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia, USA by Kwadwo Okyere Awurukuo Fordjour, affectionately called KOJO or Konongo Fordjour. KOJO is the President/CEO of ADCC, Founder, and Chairman of the Board.
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Chairman KOJO is an expert in Finance with extensive training and experience in teaching and research in best practices of policy framework in financialization of the USA agricultural farming sector. His PhD dissertation was titled: “Impact of Agricultural Farming Financialization on U.S. Economy.” He has widely traveled across Africa, Europe, and the Americas. He is a teacher, political activist, economist, orator, public speaker, entrepreneur, and a consultant, who has helped Diaspora Africans to seek citizenships in Africa to help propel investment drive and real development there.
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He is the Founder and Chairman of the Africa Diaspora Region Economic Community Foundation [ADRECF], that is continuing from the 1963 Organization of African Unity (OAU) liberation struggle initiated by early African leaders: Ghana President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Dr. Booker T. Washington, Dr. W.E.B. du Bois, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to President Muamar Gaddafi of Libya in 2002. The ADREC Foundation’s public arm is The VOICE!
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The VOICE! petitioned The AU to reinstate the former African Union Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao. He also led the campaign and petitioned to the United Nations to force France to return the more than $67-Trillion France has taken from the 14-French-speaking African countries through the use of force in the PACT for the continuation of colonization.
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Chairman KOJO collaborated and participated in the African Roundtable at Boston University started by Ambassador Charles Stith, former U.S. Envoy to Tanzania under President Bill Clinton, who searched and brought good performing African leaders who had left office willingly at their constitutionally-mandated term of office for residency at Boston University. Chairman KOJO has broad experience in communicating with world leaders and developing collaborative programs to create peace. The ADCC follows the vision of this founder to bring peace among nations and empower humanity with goodness
Board of Directors
Gala Fary
Ambrosia Mondoa
Chief Administrative Executive
ADREC/ADCC
gala.fary@ironcurrencysolutions.com
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Ms. Fary has more than 30 years of experience supporting client relations, project management, change management and quality process management. She has managed projects and solution delivery for several Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, IBM and GE, in aerospace, oil and gas and energy. She worked on the International Space Station in Huntsville, AL and Houston, TX training NASA engineers how to utilize proprietary programs to build out the Space Station. She is currently the CEO of IRON Currency Solutions, a strategic business solution company. and COO of Sankofa Global Trading, an import and export trading company. with a focus on Africa.
As an Operations Leader, it is second nature for Ms. Fary to assess, analyze, and seek the "best in class" solutions to improve and manage people, processes, and systems. As a Program Manager, Ms. Fary understand the value of empowering people to identify and deliver those solutions. This empowerment creates ownership and accountability, which helps to facilitate organizational change.
Ms. Fary has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama and acquired Six Sigma quality training and certification for GE's quality management program. This foundation makes her very process and data driven in solving the problems that impact health plan quality initiatives.
Director of Educational Programs
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​Madame Ambrosia Kweh-Mondoa graduated from Michigan State university with a PhD in Human development and Education. She has a masters in educational counseling and a first degree in educational studies. Ambrosia is a talented, motivational, enthusiastic and lively educationist with over three decades of teaching. A gifted counselor for children with low self esteem and poor academic performance. An idealist and a pan Africanist who organized yearly academic talks and events on the promotion of African culture in the state of Delaware. An international traveler who takes college students to Africa.
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Nana
Osei-Agyemang Bawuah
Royal Protocols and Diplomacy
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Nana Osei-Agyemang Bawuah, Otumfuo Aboafuohene, is the Asante King of Ghana’s External Chief Representative responsible for seeking development and investment from the Diaspora and other sources to Asante.
Nana served as the Chairman of the Charlotte-Kumasi Sister Cities Committee for the City of Charlotte, NC. In 1995, he led a delegation from Charlotte, which included the Mayor of Charlotte and a Congressman from NC, to Kumasi to sign the treaty between the two cities.
Nana is Vice President at Citi Bank supervising the functions of Deposit Risk and Acquisition Strategy. He previously held senior positions in Professional Credit Risk Management at JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, HSBC, T-Mobile, and FICO. Nana's educational background includes MS in Mining Engineering from Columbia University, M.Engr. Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and MBA Finance and Operations from Carnegie Mellon University.
Nana has held several board of directors position including his current one as the Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Opoku Ware School Endowment Fund.
T.M.R Woodford
Director of Investment Infrastructures and Cryptocurrency Designs
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T.M.R is an entrepreneur, consultant and strategist with nearly 3 decades of experience working within various industries including the entertainment, technology, commodities and financial sectors. T.M.R specializes in the creation & development of advanced systems and processes. T.M.R is in his 3rd year as managing partner for Drive Planning, a full-service financial firm in Atlanta, GA.
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He is founder of Woodford Consulting, CryptoSurance & TMRW Solutions an insurance brokerage firm and financial firm. His passion for reigniting the Nubian/African pride and honor in the people of the diaspora is matched by his love and celebration for African culture and heritage.